NEAR Protocol's X account, with 1.9 million followers, has been posting cryptic messages over the past few hours and creating a dark atmosphere in the community. The first encrypted message was published at 18:18 UTC on May 8 and resembles Morse code. When decoded it says "Darkness is coming". 🌑 Yadira Blocker, NEAR Foundation's marketing and events officer, replied to the encrypted voice message, "Something is cooking." NEAR Protocol's X account made several posts in Zalgo text, an error-style text created in 2004 that is often used to indicate hacker activity and breaches. The company did not share any warnings.