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Stake, you must! Please share this with your fellow validators: We invite you to participate in Stake Wars, NEAR Protocol’s incentivized testnet program…

Devcon is here and we hope to meet as many of you as possible! If you did not get a chance to connect with us in Shanghai or Seoul blockchain week, we are…

What do we mean by identity? Throughout our lives, we take on different identities. What we identify ourselves with ranges from the state identity provided…

We’re traveling all over the world to talk to you ! Hopefully we will see you (or have already seen you) at the events we are participating in at Shanghai…

In this blog post we briefly discuss the concept of long range attacks, which is considered to be one of the biggest unsolved problems in Proof-of-Stake…

In the last two weeks we set a new record for pull requests on GitHub with 126 PRs ! We’re really picking up steam towards shipping MainNet. Also, we’ve…

Ich Bin Ein Berliner! | August 23rd We’ve been talking to a lot of you all in Berlin during the Berlin Blockchain week! What a blast, and what a…

We’ve been up to a lot recently! Still pushing as hard as we can towards MainNet launch. In the last couple weeks, Alex published a new paper on…

We have published today a short paper that describes the randomness beacon that is used in NEAR Protocol. In this accompanying blog post we discuss why…

Shots for Shipping! | July 26, 2019 We’re really ramping up here! We’ve set a new two-week record with 89 PRs. If you look at the trends in our output…

We're excited to announce that we're supporting a hackathon hosted by IDEO CoLab ! What this is Coinlist and IDEO are hosting a hackathon with the help of…

We’ve just announced our funding! We had a big press release this week announcing we’ve raised $12.1 million dollars in a round led by Metastable and…

Life is busy at Near HQ. We've just closed our seed round for $12.1 million with lead investors like Metastable and Accomplice We're very close to…

We deployed a test version of Nightshade, our new consensus model, and have been working to integrate it into the rest of our codebase. This all happened…

With the increasing adoption of blockchains, and still very limited capacity of modern protocols, many so-called Layer 2 protocols emerged, such as State…

Watch Illia Polosukhin on NEAR Protocol's Economics Design | Consensus 2019 on the NEAR Blog.

Watch Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 21 Alex Chapman from Augur on the NEAR Blog.

We’re extremely close to getting our new consensus, Nightshade , deployed to TestNet! Over the last two weeks we’ve been merging big blocks of it into…

Watch Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 20 John Pacific from NuCypher on the NEAR Blog.

Watch NEAR Protocol at NuevaHacks 2019 | Hackathon on the NEAR Blog.

Watch Fireside Chat with NEAR | Ep: 1 Devin Finzer from OpenSea on the NEAR Blog.

Watch Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 19 Monica Quaintance from Kadena on the NEAR Blog.

Watch Future of DeFi — Panel | NY Blockchain Week on the NEAR Blog.

Intro IOTA Foundation recently announced a project called Coordicide , and an accompanying paper . The goal of the project is to remove the so-called IOTA…

Watch Blockchain Gaming in 2019 — Panel | NY Blockchain Week on the NEAR Blog.

We kicked things off this week with an epic rap session at Stanford! Last week, we were heads down smashing bugs, crushing code and shipping features. Keep…

Watch Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 18 Tal Moran from Spacemesh on the NEAR Blog.

Progressive Cycles The technology field has always operated in progressive cycles . Cyclical because it seems any new technology follows a pattern similar…

Watch Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 17 Alexander Demidko from Fluence Labs on the NEAR Blog.

We had a blast in NYC, kicking off Consensus week on Monday with a DeFi panel in a completely packed room. We followed it up the next day with a…