NEAR AI Cloud integrates Intel-signed attestation token for secure inference

NEAR AI Cloud now issues Intel-signed attestation tokens for confidential inference requests, adding an independent verification layer backed by Intel Trust Authority. The practical upshot: users running AI workloads in secure enclaves can now get a standardized trust signal without needing to manually dissect raw cryptographic evidence. What the attestation token actually does NEAR AI Cloud originally launched on December 3, 2025, offering cryptographic attestations from Intel and NVIDIA for AI inference running inside Intel TDX (Trust Domain Extensions) CPU enclaves. That setup already provided hardware-rooted security, but verifying it required users to perform deep cryptographic analysis of raw quotes. The new Intel-signed attestation token changes that dynamic. Intel Trust Authority, a free zero-trust attestation service, now independently verifies the TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) evidence and issues a JWT-style token. JWT, or JSON Web Token, is a widely used standard for securely transmitting information between parties. For confidential inference requests, the flow works like this: data gets encrypted, and decryption keys are withheld until the attestation token confi...