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NEARCON ‘23 Day Three: Governance and Multi-Chain in the Spotlight NEAR Foundation November 10, 2023 As NEARCON '23 drew to a close, the vibrant energy of innovation and unity in t…

…ights into how AI models will evolve and how blockchain and token economies can play key roles. Polosukhin is the only blockchain industry founder to speak at the NVIDIA event. The…

Fork That: NEAR’s Campaign Comes to Life at Permissionless and EthCC Cannes July 15, 2025 This summer, NEAR brought its boldest brand campaign into the real world. Fork That was no…

ICYMI: Scootering Through Web3 at NEAR APAC's Vietnam Showcase Community Blockchain Operating System Ecosystem Events NEAR APAC September 18, 2023 It was an incredible first-ever N…

…cross the world, it has helped realize ideas from streaming tokens to metaverse worlds. In fact, some of these winners will be featured at NEARCON in September , so the community can…

Community Update: NEAR EDU, Flux Beta Program, and GooGuild Community August 4, 2020 Hello citizens of NEARverse! This is NiMA coming to you from a NEARby planet in the Milky Chain…

NEAR After NEARCON In Numbers Community NEARCON Statistics September 30, 2022 Anyone who made the trip to Lisbon for NEARCON 2022, or tuned in via the YouTube livestream or Twitter…

Future of Blockchain Hackathon: NEAR Recap Community May 21, 2020 NEAR participated in the Future of Blockchain Hackathon hosted by StakeZero Ventures . The hackathon started in De…

2020 NEAR In Review & Ecosystem Tour Community December 23, 2020 Most of us won’t be sorry to say goodbye to 2020, but this year was a big one for NEAR. From Ready Layer One to ann…

ETHDenver 2025: Denver’s Crypto Beat Community March 7, 2025 Denver, the Mile High City, played host to ETHDenver 2025 from February 23 to March 2, turning the National Western Com…

Unpacking NEAR Intents: A Deep Dive Developers NEAR Intents February 21, 2025 For the past year-plus, the NEAR ecosystem has worked to advance Chain Abstraction across all of Web3:…

Introducing Top Level Accounts and Recovery Keys on NEAR September 21, 2026 Introducing Top Level Accounts and Recovery Keys on NEAR Almost every account you rely on is issued by s…

NEAR in May: 10m Wallets Surpassed, SailGP Hits the Waves, and More Community May 27, 2022 May marked a month of milestones for the NEAR Foundation and ecosystem. While there was t…

A Developer’s Blockchain Developers May 23, 2019 Progressive Cycles The technology field has always operated in progressive cycles . Cyclical because it seems any new technology fo…

The NEAR Blockchain is Climate Neutral NEAR Foundation March 10, 2021 - Guest Post by Yessin Schiegg The NEAR Blockchain is Climate Neutral. If you are concerned about climate chan…

Announcing Staking for NEAR AI: Put Your NEAR to Work Powering Confidential AI July 30, 2026 NEAR AI Team Key Insights • NEAR AI has launched staking-based payments for confidentia…

Highlights from NEAR at Paris Blockchain Week Summit Community April 20, 2022 Hello, NEAR world. The global Web3 community rolled into France on April 12-14 for the Paris Blockchai…

…the idea that cross-chain UX like bridges, gas, and wrapped tokens put a high burden of complexity and security risk on the user while fragmenting liquidity across a balkanized crypto…

NEAR Foundation Transparency Report: Q2 2023 NEAR Foundation Transparency report July 10, 2023 Hello, NEAR World! Welcome to NEAR Foundation’s Transparency Report. Published quarte…

Introducing IronClaw 1.0: The Leader Across PinchBench, ClawBench, and OfficeQA Agent Benchmarks July 27, 2026 NEAR AI Team The best version of an assistant is the one you stop thi…

Armored Kingdom, Brave, JavaScript: Highlights from NEAR @ Consensus Community JavaScript June 12, 2022 The NEAR community was busy connecting at the Consensus conference this week…

Project Spotlight: TessaB- Blockchain for the Mobile Phone Industry Case Studies March 3, 2021 Hi NEARverse, we'd like to introduce you to the TessaB project solving a real world p…

NEAR Community in Focus: Decentralized Community Building on NEAR Community DAOs June 16, 2022 When Matt Aaron, project lead at DeFi and NFT analytics app UniWhales , saw the explo…

NEAR Hits 1 Million TPS: A Major Milestone for Blockchain Scalability December 8, 2025 TL;DR • 1M TPS achieved: Used real NEAR core code in a realistic, publicly verifiable benchma…

Music and Blockchain: Building a Record Label on the Blockchain NEAR Foundation April 14, 2022 Blockchain technology and Web3 are on their way to transform everything—particularly …

NEAR Launches Nightshade Sharding, Paving the Way for Mass Adoption Developers Core protocol November 15, 2021 Today is a momentous day for the NEAR blockchain and the NEAR ecosyst…

NEAR Community in Focus: Web3 vs Web2 Communities Community June 13, 2022 Each new wave of cultural and technological change brings with it a redefinition of community. As the worl…

NEARCON 2022 is Almost Here: Explore the NEAR Ecosystem in Lisbon! Community NEARCON September 1, 2022 Olá amigos! There’s a lot of excitement brewing in the NEAR community for wha…

Introducing Dynamic Resharding: Automatic Scaling for NEAR Protocol May 20, 2026 Anton Astafiev, CTO at Near One, and Mally Anderson, writer at NEAR NEAR is making a major upgrade …

NEAR Digital Collective Legal Framework Community Ecosystem NDC NEAR Digital Collective March 21, 2023 To help accelerate real-world value creation in the NEAR ecosystem, the NEAR …