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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…

…fective, consumer-grade hardware to support a decentralized validator network. • Massive headroom for growth: Showcases NEAR’s ability to scale horizontally for high-load dApps and…

…dedicated to the ever-evolving world of NFTs. NEAR Protocol Validator Upgrade One of the NEAR Foundation’s major missions is to help decentralize NEAR Protocol’s block validation. …

…all with around 10 people. We again opened registration for validators to the public through our customized form. However, due to insufficient testing of the form, some bugs went unnoticed…

Announcing NEAR Protocol’s MainNet Genesis Community May 4, 2020 Update 20200806: See the end of this post for an update on project status. NEAR's mission is to enable community-dr…

…ment, where overall data reconciliation is improved through validators, and every participant has access to a real-time, shared view of the data. Decentralization really shines through…

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 One Shares Q3 NEAR Protocol Roadmap Update Developers Near One NEAR Protocol Nightshade 2.0 Protocol Roadmap Sharding September 4, 2024 A post from the Near One team The launc…

… network first. As part of this goal, we decided to involve validators early and encourage them to participate in an incentivized TestNet called Stake Wars. As we launched this program…

…ntly had more than 1,500 active nodes participating and 400 validators (chunk + block producers) competing in 11 successful challenges in the shardnet while a few more lined up. The…

…n cost. We also optimized the network communication between validator nodes by introducing the tier1 network , which reduces the latency of network messages between two validator nodes.…

… demonstrated how to join the network and stake to become a validator. The network went down at 14560 blocks at around 9:00pm PST on Monday. All validating nodes crashed almost simultaneously.…

…estnet program. Practice your powers and compete with other validators for points that will be translated into rewards. Test, Bend and Break to gain points and level up. May the block…

Overview of Layer 2 approaches: Plasma, State Channels, Side Chains, Roll Ups Developers June 20, 2019 With the increasing adoption of blockchains, and still very limited capacity …

NEAR Foundation's Response to the UK Crypto Asset Consultation NEAR Foundation UK Crypto Asset Consultation May 4, 2023 • Introduction The NEAR Foundation (the “ Foundation ”) subm…

…ext open blockchain week (if there is one). Take the Survey Validator Telegram Bot Yes, we know what you think “Yet another bot”. BUT HOLD ON -- this Bot is special. It is not only…

…ild, test and deploy as anything on today’s web. Today, the validators who run the NEAR Protocol and the tokenholders who delegated to them voted to advance the network into its final…

…rm that each block has the signature of a super majority of validators, and confirm locally that the validator set transitions were executed properly. Unless the adversary at some …

… getting ramped up on our side for an epic space opera of a validator competition. We hope your excited! Many of you have sent some questions from and wanted to clarify in one place…

…ract on NEAR to provide a foundational infrastructure for a validator marketplace between validators, and appchains launched through Octopus. As a home for developers and entrepreneurs…

…e NEAR infrastructure, developer tooling and documentation, validator and staking resources, open source libraries, public goods projects, research & development, decentralized applications…

…boarded and promoted additional participants to operate the validator nodes which run the network and given them the delegation they need to operate those nodes. At this point, dozens…

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 …

…e initial tokens to contributors and get the initial set of validators onboard. Developers who are ready to deploy their applications to MainNet will be able to apply to the NEAR Foundation…

…r time. What Is a Legion City Node? A Legion City Node is a validator node on the NEAR network, operated by a local Legion team. Each node is delegated 300,000 $NEAR and retains 100%…

Separation of Consensus and Execution (SPICE): A Preview of NEAR’s Next Major Protocol Upgrade June 22, 2026 Anton Astafiev, CTO at Near One, and Mally Anderson, writer at NEAR The…

NEAR's January Town Hall Recap Community Ecosystem January 28, 2022 The last 12 months was an incredible year for the NEAR community. The ecosystem grew at a phenomenal clip, bring…

NEAR Now Integrated into Ledger Live For More Security and Ownership NEAR Foundation Ledger Live January 30, 2023 Wallet security can be intimidating, especially for newcomers. But…

Community Update: June 5th, 2020 Community June 5, 2020 This week in America, millions have taken to the streets to protest the murder of George Floyd and a system that pushes down…

…nown as Proof-of-Stake (PoS), there are no miners. Instead, validators stake a given token amount to allow themselves to take part. PoS blockchains incentivise communities to own and…