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There are lots of blockchains and scalability solutions, and it is hard to decide which one to use when we are building a product, especially when it means…

The NEAR community utterly humbled us this week. The NEAR token sale, which occurred on CoinList and was available to many non-US participants, sold out…

With MainNet Restricted quickly approaching, NEAR is onboarding additional validators to its Advisory Board. This board is run by a selected group of…

Hello citizens of NEARverse! This is NiMA coming to you from a NEARby planet in the Milky Chain ... This week marks the beginning of a series of…

We are excited to announce that Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network is launching on NEAR. You can view the TestNet repository and instructions, and in…

We are consistently working on improving the NEAR developer experience by taking note of queries, jumping on a call with developers in the community and…

A huge thank you to all 7k+ of you that read our bi-weekly ecosystem updates. It means a lot to us that so many people from different geographies…

As important as scalability is (just take a look at ETH Gas Station to see how important), there is more to a quality user experience than…

Last updated: 20201016 (see change log section at the end) NEAR exists to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world. The…

Summer is knocking on the door and we are getting NEAR ready for the next steps of decentralizing MainNet and our community efforts. We have already…

This week in America, millions have taken to the streets to protest the murder of George Floyd and a system that pushes down minorities and perpetuates…

At the beginning of the year, we started our Contributor Program to directly work with community members on NEAR initiatives. Since we began, people around…

NEAR has done various hackathons over the years: online and offline, web2 and web3, self-hosted and working with partners, high school students hacks…

In the backdrop of a global pandemic, economic shutdowns, work from home mandates, uncertainty and anxiety, crashing markets, tens of millions of…

Our community is taking roots! The past two weeks have been as exciting as ever. After Ready Layer One we received lots of community input, ideas, and…

NEAR participated in the Future of Blockchain Hackathon hosted by StakeZero Ventures . The hackathon started in December 2019 and continued until March…

Return of the Validators NEAR’s MainNet recently launched into its first phase, called “POA” ( see full roadmap ). This means that a small handful of…

The Why of NEAR When Alex, Illia and the rest of the early team came together in 2018 to explore the ideas that would eventually become the NEAR Protocol…

It’s only halfway through the week and it’s been busy at NEAR -- the just-announced MainNet has now produced over 1.5 million blocks since genesis and…

Update 20200806: See the end of this post for an update on project status. NEAR's mission is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around…

We are excited to be organizing and participating in one of the hottest blockchain events of the year. Ready Layer One has brought together some of the…

Following Ready Layer One , the most anticipated upcoming conference in the blockchain space with speakers from Ethereum Foundation, NEAR, Polkadot and…

Developers have been pitched Blockchain technology for many years based on a hand-wavy set of “use cases” which are tied to unclear definitions of how the…

The past two weeks have been quite eventful. We have been busy preparing for Ready Layer One while hosting community events and sharing our engineering…

Art existed since the dawn of time, but the majority of people don’t own art due to prohibitively expensive cost of it. It’s viewed as a luxury. Private…

Intro to NEAR Protocol's Economics NEAR is a developer platform for the Open Web. This means that NEAR has a set of protocols and tools that enable people…

Last week, we announced a collaboration with ZeroPool that will add support for private transactions to the NEAR Protocol. In NEAR today, all transactions…

Update 2: See the MainNet Genesis post for an update on network status as of August 2020. Update: MainNet launched as planned on April 22. Learn more about…

Depending on who you ask, the drop-off rate of blockchain applications is somewhere between 95% and 97%. This means that no more than five users actually…

NEAR has discovered a fantastic tool called Gitpod that gives new developers a kick-start, improves the efficacy of community code reviews, and saves…