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Get to Know the BOS: FastAuth for Easy, Web2 Style Onboarding and Account Recovery Uncategorized Blockchain Operating System BOS FastAuth May 30, 2023 With the recent launch of the…

KyberSwap Integrates NEAR Intents for Cross-Chain DeFi Upgrades NEAR Intents DeFi May 28, 2025 NEAR is excited to announce that KyberSwap—a foundational player in the development…

… Phase 2 , NEAR Validators completed a major milestone: the upgrade to enable inflationary rewards. Now all NEAR token holders have the opportunity to earn Staking rewards from the…

NEAR Sharding Rollout and Aurora IDO Postmortems Developers Aurora Core protocol Ecosystem December 3, 2021 Between November 8th and November 19th, multiple incidents related to Ne…

NEAR CLI 3.0.0 Released Developers Developer relations December 2, 2021 Our command-line interface tool just got a new major version release that introduced some big changes. NEAR’…

… some of the highlights from 2021: everything from protocol upgrades, ecosystem funding, community developments, and new projects launching on NEAR mainnet. We’ll also be giving a …

Aurora Partners With ConsenSys, Bringing MetaMask, Infura and More Ethereum Tools to NEAR Community Aurora Infrastructure Partnerships December 2, 2021 Aurora , the Ethereum scalin…

…ts and optimizations. Preparations are underway for a major upgrade to stateless validation, completing Phase 2 of the sharding roadmap in early 2024. What we accomplished in 2023 …

…rsion of USN (v1), which is no longer algorithmic since its upgrade to v2 in June, that was susceptible to undercollateralisation during extreme market conditions. This collateral …

Introducing [email protected]: A Milestone Incentive Program June 11, 2026 If you have been using Confidential Swap on near.com , you are already eligible for Drop 1. Nothing is in your ac…

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…

Chain Signatures Now Run Entirely Inside TEEs, Making Every Operation Verifiable Onchain October 23, 2026 Anton Astafiev, CTO at Near One, and Mally Anderson, writer at NEAR Thanks…

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…

The Graph Expands Subgraph Support to NEAR and 40+ Blockchains Community Developers March 14, 2024 The Graph Foundation recently announced the inclusion of NEAR into its expansive …

The NEAR MainNet is now Unrestricted and Decentralized Community October 13, 2020 NEAR was instantiated to help builders. This means helping them to create meaningful applications …

Deprecation of NEAR.org and Pagoda.co RPC Endpoints Infrastructure Committee May 19, 2025 After careful consideration and approval by the Infrastructure Committee, NEAR will implem…

…ules that determine how tokens on NEAR can operate. It’s an upgrade from the earlier NEP-21 standard by being simpler for users and developers as well as being cheaper and more efficient.…

NEAR Meet: Now Supporting Local and Regional Events Globally Community December 15, 2021 The NEAR ecosystem is rapidly expanding on a truly global scale. Powered by Simple Nightsha…

…admap charting the course for 2023 and beyond. From staking upgrades to new developer tools, the NEAR protocol made huge strides in onboarding new builders and the next 1 billion users.…

…t year. NEAR’s expansion is due in part to some significant upgrades and announcements from its core team. Most recently, NEAR announced its transition to a Blockchain Operating System…

NEAR Blockchain Tech Powers Infinex Access to Bitcoin, DOGE, XRP NEAR Intents June 10, 2025 NEAR Foundation is pleased to congratulate crypto platform Infinex on a successful integ…

The Intent-Driven Future of Travel: NEAR and ADI Chain Power Agentic Commerce with TravAI December 5, 2025 Today, in a landmark partnership with the ADI Chain team and Datrics , NE…

Announcing the Launch of Pagoda, the World’s First Web3 Startup Platform Developers February 19, 2022 At ETHDenver 2022, a top blockchain conference and hackathon, we proudly annou…

…in the world. “Over the past 12 months, the protocol had 19 upgrades on the network without skipping a beat,” Polosukhin continued. “The focus of the team has been on stability and…

…of the biggest companies in the world. On his first day, he upgraded our documentation to a much more user-friendly organizational style and his presence will undoubtedly be felt in…

NEAR Launches Simple Nightshade: The First Step Towards a Sharded Blockchain Community September 23, 2021 NEAR is launching phase 0 of its roadmap towards a fully sharded blockchai…

NEAR Foundation and PipeFlare Team Up to Reshape Web3 Gaming NEAR Foundation Gaming Pipeflare Web3 Gaming May 2, 2023 NEAR Foundation and PipeFlare , a trailblazing play-to-earn (P…

All You Need to Know about the Proposal to Reduce NEAR’s Inflation Rate Infrastructure July 2, 2025 Last week, HOT and LiNEAR Protocol put forward an inflation reduction proposal t…

…ial assistance from the NEAR Foundation. In June 2022 , DCB upgraded the algorithmic USN (v1) to a new non-algorithmic version (v2) due to the potential risks, including undercollateralisation,…

NEAR Community Update: February 22, 2019 Community February 22, 2019 Lately it’s been a blur of events as we talk to developers both in and outside of the blockchain ecosystem and …