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…s without publicly exposing who you pay, how much, or when. Governance stays verifiable. Your members, roles, and votes live onchain, so anyone can check that a request was approved…

NEAR Foundation Transparency Report: Q2 2023 NEAR Foundation Transparency report July 10, 2023 Hello, NEAR World! Welcome to NEAR Foundation’s Transparency Report. Published quarte…

…entralized apps (dapps). With this regulatory foundation—or governance, as it is referred to in crypto—humanity can evolve into a new era of borderless economic opportunity for all.…

…to pursue their passions and make an impact. Through shared governance, every community member will have a toolkit to protect the integrity of their ecosystem. The culture, throughout…

$12.1 million fundraise and opening the beta program Community July 10, 2019 Life is busy at Near HQ. • We've just closed our seed round for $12.1 million with lead investors like …

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…

…h of the NEAR Community Treasury has been championed by the Governance Working Group (‘ GWG ’), a group focussing on ecosystem governance initiatives as part of the NEAR Digital Collective…

NEAR Foundation Transparency Report: Q1 2023 NEAR Foundation Community Ecosystem Transparency April 6, 2023 Hello, NEAR World! Welcome to NEAR Foundation’s newly reformatted “Trans…

NEAR Tasks Launches AI Marketplace on NEAR to Revolutionize the Future of Work NEAR Foundation November 16, 2023 The convergence of AI and Web3 captured the tech industry’s imagina…

Unveiling new partnerships at the International Tech Summit in Bermuda Community May 3, 2024 The NEAR Foundation announced a slew of partnerships and developments at this year’s In…

NEAR AI Cloud Integrates Intel® Trust Authority: Independent Attestation for Confidential Inference August 12, 2026 NEAR AI Team Confidential computing has a verification gap. Prov…

Chain Signatures Adds EdDSA support: Cross-Chain Signing for Solana, TON, Stellar, Sui & Aptos Chain Signatures Chain Abstraction April 30, 2025 Expanding Chain Abstraction Capabil…

…erformed its first on-chain vote, indicating that community governance is operational and effective

Use Case Spotlight: Nuclo Case Studies October 19, 2018 We are starting a new blog series that shows use cases that will be enabled via scalable decentralized blockchain very soon.…

Refer-and-Earn Guidelines Update: Q3 2022 NEAR Foundation Uncategorized Grants Refer-and-Earn December 9, 2022 NEAR’s ever-growing and engaged community is one of the ecosystem’s g…

…ocks a new era of permissionless innovation and free-market governance by reducing the complexity associated with developers bootstrapping these networks from scratch. Allstake is …

Refer-and-Earn 2022 Q2 Report NEAR Foundation Statistics October 12, 2022 NEAR’s ever-growing and engaged community is one of the ecosystem’s greatest strengths. Remember the NEAR …

Open Call for NEAR Accelerator Partners NEAR Foundation Accelerator Ecosystem February 8, 2023 The NEAR blockchain is an open-source, decentralized blockchain protocol designed to …

…oices are heard and involved in the process, members of the Governance Working Group (GWG) have collaborated with NEAR Foundation to define the criteria needed to receive financial…

ICC Launches ‘Captain's Call’ Game on NEAR to Level Up Cricket Fandom During World Cup NEAR Foundation Captain's Call Cricket World Cup 2023 ICC October 26, 2023 Cricket fans are g…

…he NDC (NEAR Digital Collective) is helping to decentralize governance to the NEAR community. • Regulation & Policy — Get updated on the latest Web3 regulatory developments. Your Web3…

…ity, private inference, confidential execution, settlement, governance, and economics as a single system. • This integrated stack is what makes NEAR the foundation for its "AI money"…

The Road to MainNet and Beyond Community April 21, 2020 Update 2: See the MainNet Genesis post for an update on network status as of August 2020. Update: MainNet launched as planne…

…ll people full control of their data, privacy, and power of governance. In 2023, the NEAR ecosystem saw remarkable progress towards this vision, with the NEAR Protocol now home to …

BUIDL Asia 2025: Builders Stay Building Events April 24, 2025 Even in a quieter market, BUIDL Asia 2025 proved that momentum never really stops. It simply becomes more intentional.…

NEAR MainNet is now Community-Operated Community September 24, 2020 As of today, the NEAR Foundation has spun down its nodes, making the NEAR Protocol MainNet fully community run. …

2020 NEAR In Review & Ecosystem Tour Community December 23, 2020 Most of us won’t be sorry to say goodbye to 2020, but this year was a big one for NEAR. From Ready Layer One to ann…

NEARCON Highlights NEAR Foundation NEARCON September 12, 2022 NEARCON 2022 is at full tilt here in the gorgeous city of Lisbon, where the NEAR ecosystem is on full display, with ov…

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…

A Deep Dive into DAOs: How DAOs Are Changing Everything NEAR Foundation DAOs Ecosystem March 17, 2022 The global community is being heard. Web3 continues to surge in popularity as …