Dominic Williams, the founder of DFINITY, posted an article accusing that the key enabling component of NEAR Intents misappropriated DFINITY's proprietary technology, a move that involves legal issues. NEAR hired an employee dismissed by DFINITY in 2021, who had been involved in multiple actions that harmed DFINITY. NEAR incorporated DFINITY's inventions into an open-source threshold cryptography library and rapidly deployed ECDSA-related work. This technology, developed by DFINITY for Chain Key Cryptography and Ethereum integration, can enhance signature speed by approximately three times without compromising security. It serves as the foundation for threshold signatures required for Chain Abstraction and Intents. Williams pointed out that the Internet Computer runs this algorithm on highly decentralized canister subnets, whereas NEAR operates it on only about eight servers with opaque related information. NEAR claims externally that its technology is self-developed, decentralized, and secure, but Williams believes these claims are unfounded. GitHub shows that after using this technology for about two and a half years, NEAR is attempting an urgent downgrade to a slower algorithm. Williams stated that if NEAR had sought collaboration on fair terms initially, DFINITY would have shared the technology and only required attribution. Currently, NEAR has not yet made a public response to the relevant accusations.