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NEAR Launches Infrastructure Committee with $4 Million in Funding Community April 9, 2024 NEAR has seen a massive surge in users and transactions over the last few months. It’s imp…

Marieke Flament Appointed CEO of NEAR Foundation To Spearhead Growth NEAR Foundation December 16, 2021 The NEAR Foundation is thrilled to announce it has selected global executive …

Keypom Brings Frictionless Onboarding to Near and Web3 NEAR Foundation Ecosystem NFTs February 23, 2023 A key roadblock to mass Web3 adoption is onboarding. People want to get into…

…pped Nightshade 2.0 sharding , marking the biggest protocol upgrade since mainnet launched in 2020 and introducing Stateless Validation. • Accelerators: the Foundation ran 3 successful…

Introducing NEAR AI Cloud & Private Chat December 3, 2025 NEAR AI Team Unlock your most valuable data for AI with verifiable, hardware-enforced privacy Today NEAR AI is launching N…

Shade Agents: The First Truly Autonomous AI Agents Developers February 20, 2025 Autonomous AI agents are set to transform software, enabling AI to replace most user interfaces like…

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…

Stake Wars Episode II Developers May 19, 2020 Return of the Validators NEAR’s MainNet recently launched into its first phase, called “POA” ( see full roadmap ). This means that a s…

Announcing Staking for NEAR AI: Put Your NEAR to Work Powering Confidential AI July 30, 2026 NEAR AI Team Key Insights • NEAR AI has launched staking-based payments for confidentia…

A Deep Dive into DAOs: Life Changing DAOs Community DAOs Ecosystem March 25, 2022 In 2016, a few members of the Ethereum community came together to create a platform that would all…

…sions. Last year, NEAR launched the Nightshade 2.0 sharding upgrade on mainnet, introducing stateless validation and grea

NEARCON 2022 is Almost Here: Explore the NEAR Ecosystem in Lisbon! Community NEARCON September 1, 2022 Olá amigos! There’s a lot of excitement brewing in the NEAR community for wha…

NEAR House of Stake Is Now Live on Mainnet Governance October 13, 2025 Lock NEAR into veNEAR We're proud to announce the mainnet launch of House of Stake : a next-generation govern…

The State of NEAR: Q2 2026 July 8, 2026 TL;DR • The Revenue Engine Is Already Running and Accelerating: Protocol fee capture has scaled from near-zero to over 30% of fees in a matt…

The Agent Economy: Who Owns the Rails AI Runs On July 13, 2026 TL;DR • The agent economy is far bigger than payments. Global commerce runs on outdated rails. From supply chains to …

NEAR & Gaming: How Web3 is Disrupting Gaming Community NFTs August 11, 2022 The world of gaming is undergoing a radical shift thanks to cryptocurrency and Web3 technologies. Tradit…

NEAR: The Definitive Guide March 6, 2026 TL;DR • Commerce is becoming agentic. AI systems are moving from assistants to market participants. The question now is what infrastructure…

On usability of blockchain applications Developers April 18, 2019 On usability of blockchain applications A scalable blockchain in the modern world is like a stadium in the middle …

The Future of DAOs: Tooling, Standards, and Management Community DAOs Ecosystem March 28, 2022 When DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations, entered the cultural lexicon in…

公链 2020 ：Near Protocol 驶向Open Web之路 Community February 19, 2020 "Into the Open Web", China Community AMA. Conducted by NEAR Protocol Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin and China Lead Amos…

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…

…e network’s token supply is now fully unlocked. The halving upgrade has reduced maximum annual inflation by 50%. Onchain governance through House of Stake is live and actively passing…

NEARCON 2022: Highlights, Talks and Videos Community Ecosystem NEARCON September 20, 2022 Missed NEARCON 2022? We’ve got you covered with content from the four conference stages, a…

NEAR Token Supply and Distribution Community June 19, 2020 Last updated: 20201016 (see change log section at the end) NEAR exists to enable community-driven innovation to benefit p…

The Beginner’s Guide to the NEAR Blockchain Community January 17, 2019 Welcome! This guide is intended to help anyone interested in understanding what NEAR actually is. That includ…

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…