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Watch HackOne NEARathon Winners | From Blockchain Week NYC 2019 on the NEAR Blog.

Alexander Skidanov on NightShade | Santa Clara, CA

Just about every team we have, whether on the application layer or the blockchain layer, is working towards an upcoming release of their respective…

Watch Alexander Skidanov on a new NEAR Sharding Design: NightShade on the NEAR Blog.

Watch Expert Panel on Multi-chain Protocols | LIVE on the NEAR Blog.

Watch HackOne NEARathon Kickoff Livestream with Peter DePaulo (@PotatoDepaulo) #Hackathon on the NEAR Blog.

Watch Fireside Chat between Zaki Manian (Cosmos) & Alex Skidanov (NEAR) | San Francisco, CA on the NEAR Blog.

Watch Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 16 Qi Zhou from Quarkchain on the NEAR Blog.

We started this journey by building the application layer of the platform so developers could make apps even before everything on the blockchain layer was…

Watch HackOne NEARathon — Online Hackathon with NEAR Protocol on the NEAR Blog.

On usability of blockchain applications A scalable blockchain in the modern world is like a stadium in the middle of a desert: it has a lot of seats, but…

Watch Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 15 Izaak Meckler from Coda Protocol on the NEAR Blog.

Watch Alexander Skidanov on UX in Blockchain Applications | UC Berkeley on the NEAR Blog.

We’ve already open sourced our code on Github so developers can follow along as the blockchain and its tooling comes together. Frankly, open-sourcing the…

If you’ve ever observed a duckling gliding across the surface of a pond, you know that what looks like effortless motion above the water is generated…

Rust, being a relatively new language, is still on its path to gaining wide support by IDEs . Most in our team use CLion for Rust development which is…

It has been enormously gratifying to sit down with some of the top teams from across the ecosystem and watch them get excited about what this platform can…

Lately it’s been a blur of events as we talk to developers both in and outside of the blockchain ecosystem and learn more about what they need in a…

The NEAR DevNet is out. In this case, the blockchain is currently running on a single node but you can use the NEAR Studio online IDE to one-click deploy a…

Everybody approaches blockchain from a slightly different entry point. Some are crypto natives who have ridden these waves before while others are still…

Welcome! This guide is intended to help anyone interested in understanding what NEAR actually is. That includes new users, curious community members…

What is Programmable Money? Our current system of monetary exchange has evolved over time to accommodate new marketplace demands and technological…

2019 promises to be a very interesting year. As an industry, we’re in a phase which will separate the projects which actually ship from those who instead…

No, seriously, this time for real Coming to Rust from C++ and learning about lifetimes is very similar to coming to C++ from Java and learning about…

The team continues to grow rapidly. Last week we welcomed three new members: Leo Khan will lead growth. He comes directly from the blockchain-based real…

In the first part of the series we provided motivation for blockchain sharding and discussed some core concepts. In this post we will discuss some more…

This blog post is the first in the series of two on Blockchain Sharding. After reading this blog post you will know why Sharding is the path to the…

It’s official: as promised, we’re now open source. As Illia announced in the accompanying post , this is the first milestone on the path to TestNet and…

Today we are open sourcing the main code base of the NEAR Protocol client. You can start exploring code on GitHub right now . It’s the first milestone in…

What will blockchain enable in the long term? From my subjective point of view, blockchain has the potential to re-imagine many industries in the same way…