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NEAR Protocol builds a sharded public blockchain that executes smart contracts on a WASM virtual machine. If this sounds like Ethereum 2.0 (aka Serenity)…

Many proposed blockchain protocols today use some sorts of committees to propose and validate blocks. The committees are at the core of the Delegated Proof…

Many details of how Ethereum 2.0 will work are available today, and multiple teams are already working on implementations of it. One large component for…

We are starting a new blog series that shows use cases that will be enabled via scalable decentralized blockchain very soon. In the first blog in these…

I had a chance to work with Vlad Zamfir and Aditya Asgaonkar on the continuation of Vlad’s Berlin hack this weekend. Now I can shed some light on what his…

Next week, the crypto community descends on San Francisco in force for the 2018 SF Blockchain Week . For the NEAR team, this is our home turf and a great…

Summary: Programmable Money is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity for blockchain enabled businesses. The first original use case of programmable money was…

A central component of any blockchain is the consensus. At its core, Blockchain is a distributed storage system where every member of the network must…

Zilliqa published a blog post on their sharding design today. It is evident that if you don’t have sharding from day 1, your blockchain has no chance of…

A bit more than a year ago Alexander Skidanov and I started NEAR.ai. We strongly believed that program synthesis, the field that studies automated…