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Evolving NEAR Foundation’s Funding Strategy NEAR Foundation Governance Grants November 21, 2022 NEAR Foundation is publishing a series of blogs on the state of funding, including updates…

Community Update: April 24th, 2020 Community April 24, 2020 The past two weeks have been quite eventful. We have been busy preparing for Ready Layer One while hosting community eve…

A personal message from Marieke Flament NEAR Foundation September 21, 2023 All good things come to an end - and after a wild (very wild!) two years as CEO of NEAR Foundation, I hav…

NEAR AI Joins NVIDIA Inception Program to Accelerate Enterprise-Grade, Verifiable AI January 13, 2026 NEAR AI Team We’re excited to announce that NEAR AI has joined NVIDIA’s Incept…

NEAR Community Update: Nov 29, 2018 Community November 29, 2018 It’s official: as promised, we’re now open source. As Illia announced in the accompanying post , this is the first m…

Aurora launches on NEAR Protocol Community May 12, 2021 Aurora Provides an Ethereum Layer-2 Experience The explosive growth of DeFi and NFTs frequently causes surges in Ethereum ga…

… Members are able to vote on what the DAO will do—often via governance tokens. With some DAOs, those who hold the most tokens will call the bigger shots. What’s NEAR’s role in the …

…ganised around 3 core areas of focus awareness, support and governance. Below the Foundation shares details of how it allocated funding in Q4 2021 and Q1 + Q2 of 2022. This will include…

NEAR Enhances Decentralization with Validator Upgrade Developers Core protocol January 7, 2022 Since the NEAR Mainnet launch in October 2020, the network has seen a steady increase…

… all people to control their own data, assets, and power of governance––as its most important shared goal. In light of recent regulatory developments concerning the cryptocurrency …

…re 3 main prize pools from Aurora, Proximity, and Developer Governance (DevGov). Congratulations to all Near winners. who received over 30k in USDC! Let’s have a look at the winning…

July in Review: 700 Projects Milestone, NEARCON Tickets, and Women in Web3 Community August 1, 2022 Hello, NEAR! There’s been lots of action in July, from new milestones and the NE…

Stake Wars Episode II Developers May 19, 2020 Return of the Validators NEAR’s MainNet recently launched into its first phase, called “POA” ( see full roadmap ). This means that a s…

NEAR Blockchain Operating System is Now Live on Near.org NEAR Foundation Blockchain Operating System BOS April 25, 2023 Earlier this year, NEAR announced the Blockchain Operating S…

…y known as a “DAO”, is a blockchain-based organization with governance managed transparently by its community. Fans interested in owning a part of the SailGP team will be able to purchase…

…powers a world where people control their money, power, and governance. • MetaBUIDL ushers in an era of “zero finance” where distributed computing invisibly powers all of our activities.…

… how his group is implementing a DAO for team ownership and governance for SailGP boat racing, by leveraging the power of NEAR. Blockchain Scaling Approaches: NEAR Sharding vs. Layer…

…tors who, over time, become the key voices in the technical governance of NEAR Protocol. We are glad to announce the following members of NEAR Validator’s Advisory Board (NVAB), leading…

… Hacks This category was for projects related to utilities, governance, DeFi, and other business applications. In third place was Alevoro , an NFT project that allows holders to borrow…

…l business matters such as intellectual property, taxation, governance, regulatory rulings, outsourcing, cross-border transactions, and consumer/data protection. Expertise in Anti-Money…

NEAR Foundation and Eigen Labs Partner to Enable Faster, Cheaper Web3 Transactions for Ethereum Rollups via EigenLayer NEAR Foundation Eigen Labs EigenLayer November 10, 2023 Eigen…

NEAR 2025: A Monumental Year for Sharded Scaling, Cross-Chain Execution, and Private AI January 2, 2026 In 2025, NEAR expanded far beyond the boundaries of a traditional Layer-1 bl…

Arbitrum Integrates NEAR DA for Developers Building Ethereum Rollups NEAR Foundation Arbitrum Ethereum Rollups December 21, 2023 The NEAR Data Availability layer (NEAR DA) was one …

… investment and funds focused on environmental, social, and governance factors (ESG) are thriving on NEAR and across the Web3 world. Growing to over $500B in 2021, ESG funds are making…

August in Review: Javascript SDK, NEAR Digital Collective Launch, and NEARCON Updates Community August 30, 2022 The summer is drawing to a close but things are really ramping up al…

NEAR Strategic Update and Outlook for 2023 NEAR Foundation Core protocol DAOs Ecosystem NFTs Partnerships December 15, 2022 The recent stream of news clearly demonstrates that the …

NEAR at ETHDenver 2022 Highlights Community February 24, 2022 Couldn’t make it to the NEAR Lounge for # BUIDL Week at this year’s ETHDenver ? This post has you covered with highlig…

…n Web3 since its launch. AI on NEAR: The Future of Work and Governance by Illia Polosukhin Illia Polosukhin, another NEAR co-founder and head of Pagoda, will bring his deep roots in…

Transitioning NEAR MainNet to the Next Phase: It is Time to Stake, Delegate and Vote Community September 15, 2020 As announced in April by this roadmap blog post , NEAR is entering…

Open sourcing NEAR client Developers November 29, 2018 Today we are open sourcing the main code base of the NEAR Protocol client. You can start exploring code on GitHub right now .…