NEAR is permissionless programmable money. Permissionless means nobody needs permission to own and transfer assets, or deploy contracts on NEAR. It does not mean every application or liquidity provider must process every transaction. SHIELD is how NEAR Intents applies this in practice: shared, real-time risk intelligence that lets participants identify hacks and other incidents and choose not to facilitate stolen funds. Partners can both consume and contribute incident data. In the Bitget hack, SHIELD identified $50M+ in attempted flows through NEAR Intents and helped stop funds during execution. Open financial infrastructure does not require us to make theft easy. Instead of hiding behind "it's permissionless, what can we do" while sitting on pause button, we should be creative in solutions that are addressing underlying problem. We can have permissionless protocols that have intelligent defense. This is what we are building with SHIELD and invite everyone to join to make SHIELD industry-wide.