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Welcome NEAR Community, We hope that everyone is doing well. You spoke, we listened. We've put together a series of interactive online events on topics…

In our Reddit/r/NEARProtocol AMA with Audius's CEO on April 10th, 2020, we will discuss the opportunities for musicians to monetize on blockchain…

Ready Layer One Today we’re excited to announce an unprecedented collaboration between base layer blockchain projects to put on a free virtual summit for…

The base of contributors to the NEAR project has increased over the past several months and the global macro picture is obviously in chaos so I wanted to…

Welcome (back) to NEAR community update, This month has been a doozy. We have community and contributors from around the world: Havana, Russia, Ukraine…

In this community update, we introduce Flux, a prediction market built on NEAR, to show how we’ll make our internal operations public and share the latest…

Welcome to the NEAR community update! In this community update, we want to introduce Stardust, which is one of the projects that is building on NEAR. The…

Introduction Back in 2015, DFinity made the community extremely excited with their design of a randomness beacon that was leveraging BLS threshold…

"Into the Open Web", China Community AMA. Conducted by NEAR Protocol Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin and China Lead Amos Zhang. 1、你是如何进入区块链行业又做了NEAR公链的？ Hi…

The major part of this work was done by James Prestwich and Barbara Liau from . TLDR: Today we are releasing a set of tools to deploy EVM contracts on the…

The event season begins! Starting off, you can find us at ETHDenver and Developer Week in San Francisco. Our team took extra care to create an amazing…

NEAR will be at ETHDenver and we can’t wait to see everyone there. It’s always exciting to see what ideas gain a foothold year after year. ETHDenver is an…

In this blog post, we will see how Doomslug, our new block production technique, compares to PBFT, Tendermint, and Hotstuff. We will also dig relatively…

Welcome to the NEAR Community! (Or welcome back if you've been with us for a while) We are really excited to share with you the latest developments in the…

Welcome to our first Community Update of 2020. This is a weekly summary of our progress and community. As you might realise, we decided to change the…

The goal for Near is to enable community driven innovation, which requires us to build a community operated network first. As part of this goal, we decided…

We are excited to share with you our NEAR 2019 Year in Review. The year has passed at an accelerating speed, filled with events, community programs and…

Friday the 13th, our last community update… Until next year! This is going to be our last community update in 2019. Our next update, on Friday the 27th, is…

In this video, Evgeny Kuzyakov discusses the basics of Accounts, Runtime and Transactions at NEAR Protocol. To explain, we show how a simple token transfer…

If you are celebrating Thanksgiving, we hope that you have an amazing time. Our team has taken the holiday off but there is always time for a community…

Watch the video for an overview of how Nightshade finalizes blocks.

On Nov 18, 8am PST we had the third Stake Wars call with around 10 people. We again opened registration for validators to the public through our customized…

On Nov 11, 4pm PST we had the second Stake Wars call with around 20 people. Due to the issues uncovered last week, we took more caution this time and chose…

We have just opened the registration for the next week of Stake Wars . If you are interested in participating, please join us on Discord ; you will find…

In this video we discuss the challenges of implementing light clients in Proof-of-Stake systems that either do not use BFT consensus at all, or use some…

Summary: Monday Nov 4, 8am PST, we had the first Stake Wars call. 40 people jumped on the call, with most of them filled out genesis form ahead of time. We…

We had an amazing time at San Francisco Blockchain Week (SFBW), hosting events, attending panels, and meeting so many amazing people! Highlights included a…

Get started building on NEAR Berlin, Oxford, Cambridge and London – 4 cities, one goal; build an amazing application (on NEAR). We have been travelling…

Hey Stake Warriors, We’ve been getting ramped up on our side for an epic space opera of a validator competition. We hope your excited! Many of you have…

Stake, you must! We’ve kicked-off Stake Wars , the NEAR Protocol’s incentivized testnet program. Practice your powers and compete with other validators for…