Dragonfly partner pushes back on DFINITY's NEAR Intents patent claim
- —The threshold ECDSA patent was granted only in late July 2026
- —NEAR Intents changed its algorithm in September, a gap of about a month
- —The algorithm was first published in an academic paper under a CC BY license
- —NEAR cited that paper in its implementation
Why it matters: The dispute highlights how patents on cryptographic primitives can affect open blockchain projects and their interoperability.
Source: PANews