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…f pioneering node operators from the community and our NEAR Validator Advisory Board (aka NVAB). In parallel we have also been doubling down on growing our builder community non-stop…

…s innovative liquid staking features, notably the Automatic Validator Optimization Algorithm. This algorithm greatly improves the security and decentralization of the NEAR network …

NEAR Developer Research: Validating the NEAR DevX Tech Stack - Round 2 Developers Research October 29, 2020 Update: We've quickly filled up the available sessions for this round of…

A Deep Dive into Private Transactions on NEAR Developers April 22, 2020 Last week, we announced a collaboration with ZeroPool that will add support for private transactions to the …

The NEAR Blockchain is Climate Neutral NEAR Foundation March 10, 2021 - Guest Post by Yessin Schiegg The NEAR Blockchain is Climate Neutral. If you are concerned about climate chan…

NEAR @ ETHDenver Breakdown: We Came, We Saw, We Abstracted! Community March 7, 2024 NEAR's presence at ETHDenver was nothing short of a triumph, demonstrating that collaboration is…

Allstake - Restaking on All Chains with Chain Signatures Case Studies Uncategorized July 24, 2024 It’s fundamental to NEAR’s vision that users, apps, and liquidity shouldn’t be sil…

…The fate of NEAR is now in the hands of the NEAR community. Validators, token holders, users, and builders all play a significant role in what happens next … … which is why we would…

…the efforts of a broad community of participants, builders, validators, delegators and more to succeed. This post will help you understand how the core facilitating component of the…

NEAR Modular Spins Out to Become Nuffle Labs with $13M in Funding Community NEAR Foundation June 13, 2024 The NEAR Foundation announces the launch of Nuffle Labs, a new venture spi…

Aurora Partners With ConsenSys, Bringing MetaMask, Infura and More Ethereum Tools to NEAR Community Aurora Infrastructure Partnerships December 2, 2021 Aurora , the Ethereum scalin…

Community Update: NEAR EDU, Flux Beta Program, and GooGuild Community August 4, 2020 Hello citizens of NEARverse! This is NiMA coming to you from a NEARby planet in the Milky Chain…

MetaBUILD 2 Hackathon Winners Community March 31, 2022 For the last three months, NEAR developers and entrepreneurs from across the globe have been hard at work on the MetaBUILD 2 …

Why NEAR Data Availability? Developers Chain Abstraction Ethereum Rollups Modularity NEAR Data Availability Layer January 26, 2024 NEAR Protocol is built to onboard 1B+ users to We…

NEAR Announces $800 Million in Funding Initiatives To Support Ecosystem Growth NEAR Foundation Ecosystem October 25, 2021 The NEAR ecosystem is announcing a monumental $800 million…

…n: within the next two weeks we’ll be launching our TestNet validator competition. If you’re interested, make sure to keep an eye out for the announcement (and join our discord at …

NEAR Foundation Announces Policy Principles NEAR Foundation NEAR Foundation Policy Priorities April 28, 2023 It’s no surprise that the Web3 industry presents many unique challenges…

How Confidential Intents Works: Privacy Architecture for Cross-Chain DeFi May 27, 2026 Confidential Intents is a confidentiality layer built into NEAR Intents that enables users to…

Nightshade | NEAR Update July 1, 2019 Community July 1, 2019 We deployed a test version of Nightshade, our new consensus model, and have been working to integrate it into the rest …

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…

…g the network. Stake Wars will increase the total number of validators as chunk-only producers for the next phases of sharding. The

NEAR & Social Good: A Deep Dive Into Open Forest Protocol Community NFTs July 25, 2022 Humans are waking up to the ecological and psychological benefits of forests. And if civiliza…

NEAR Community Update: May 3, 2019 Community May 4, 2019 Just about every team we have, whether on the application layer or the blockchain layer, is working towards an upcoming rel…

… milestones to be proud of. So, to every developer, staker, validator, builder, maker, and contributor, thank you for being a part of this community and building the Open Web with …

NEAR Protocol Awarded the Climate Neutral Product Label NEAR Foundation April 16, 2021 Post by Yessin Schiegg Builders on NEAR, join us and offset your carbon footprint! How can a …

Announcing the winners of “Hack the Rainbow” - more than $75,000 USD in Prizes! Community October 27, 2020 As NEAR approached its mainnet launch, we had a dream...that hackers seek…

NEAR Weekly On Chain Data Report: December 23 NEAR Foundation Ecosystem Statistics December 23, 2022 Transparency continues to be a core focus of the NEAR Fondation, so every week …

…asury management and diversification • Protocol operations: validator ecosystem & decentralization • Core development: the protocol and developer ecosystem • Governance and decision-making:…

Get in my Beta Program! | July 12, 2019 Community July 13, 2019 We’ve just announced our funding! We had a big press release this week announcing we’ve raised $12.1 million dollars…

Legends of NEAR: Expansion from 4 to 6 Shards Developers Core protocol Ecosystem May 13, 2024 TLDR: NEAR is growing fast, leading to a need for more capacity, so it increased its s…