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NEAR Weekly On-Chain Data Report: December 16 NEAR Foundation Mass adoption Statistics December 16, 2022 As part of the Foundation’s commitment to transparency, each week it will p…

…12 selected Stake Wars participants and members of the NEAR Validator Advisory B

… join us on Discord ; you will find more information in the validator channel. So far we have received lots of feedback that allowed us to improve the testnet, fix bugs, and make the…

NEAR Foundation Signs Up to the Ethereum Climate Platform NEAR Foundation Ethereum Climate Alliance Ethereum Climate Platform Sustainability July 17, 2023 NEAR Foundation is thrill…

Guild Program Launch Community June 4, 2020 At the beginning of the year, we started our Contributor Program to directly work with community members on NEAR initiatives. Since we b…

NEAR at Consensus Highlights NEAR Foundation BOS Consensus NEAR NEAR Horizon April 27, 2023 NEAR has a monolithic mega-booth at Consensus 2023, where there have been a number of aw…

NEAR Foundation’s Response to Tornado Cash, Ownership and Regulation NEAR Foundation August 19, 2022 NEAR as an ecosystem identifies ownership––the ability for all people to contro…

…Lunar New Year to the NEAR community! An Update On the NEAR Validator Upgrade NEAR at ETHDenver: Building a Multi-Chain Future

NEAR Protocol Rewards: What It Means to Graduate from a Hackathon June 19, 2025 For many builders, a hackathon is the first real step into the world of Web3. It’s where curiosity m…

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…

NEAR Foundation PR Roundup for June NEAR Foundation Community Ecosystem Gaming Partnerships Press July 4, 2023 As June comes to a close, summer in the NEAR ecosystem is heating up …

Like, totally random? | August 12, 2019 Community August 13, 2019 We’ve been up to a lot recently! Still pushing as hard as we can towards MainNet launch. In the last couple weeks,…

NEAR CLI 3.0.0 Released Developers Developer relations December 2, 2021 Our command-line interface tool just got a new major version release that introduced some big changes. NEAR’…

NEAR Community Update: May 17th, 2019 Community May 17, 2019 We had a blast in NYC, kicking off Consensus week on Monday with a DeFi panel in a completely packed room. We followed …

Chain Signatures Mainnet Launches: Smart Contracts Can Sign Transactions on Any Blockchain Developers Chain Abstraction Chain Signatures DeFi Multichain August 8, 2024 Today marks …

2023: NEAR In Review NEAR Foundation NEAR 2023 NEAR in Review December 20, 2023 by Illia Polosukhin While this was a tough year in the market, we’re closing 2023 on a higher note f…

NEAR Joins Multichain To Bring More Cross-Chain Capabilities to the Ecosystem Community Ecosystem June 10, 2022 NEAR Foundation is excited to announce the NEAR blockchain will be i…

…Cossio, who guided attendees through the process of running validator nodes on NEAR. The session featured the launch of a new product collaboration between Openmesh Network and DappNode,…

…elf. There is no authority outside Ethereum miners and NEAR validators. Specifically, to trust the bridge, you need to: • Trust that Ethereum blocks are final after X confirmations.…

NEAR and Alibaba Cloud Team Up to Grow the Open Web NEAR Foundation Alibaba Cloud June 26, 2023 NEAR Foundation is excited to announce a major new partnership with Alibaba Cloud, t…

The Future of Consumer Empowerment is AI-Powered (and It's Personal) AI August 6, 2025 The digital world isn’t what it used to be. Consumer empowerment is shifting, driven forward …

…tion efforts. The team of over 30 forest project operators, validators, and community members is working to scale forest-based climate solutions. To do this, the OFP network uses NFTs…

NEAR at ETHCC: Step into the Open Web on the BOS NEAR Foundation ETHCC Ethereum June 13, 2023 NEAR Foundation is excited to announce that NEAR will be returning to ETHCC 2023. The …

NEARCON ‘23 Day 2 Roundup: Web3's Women Shine and Innovations Unfold NEAR Foundation NEARCON 23 November 9, 2023 As the Lisbon sun dipped below the horizon, NEARCON ‘23's second da…

Meta Pool Launches Enterprise Node Operators Program NEAR Foundation February 7, 2024 TL;DR: • The Enterprise Node Operators program aims to onboard top-tier Institutions and compa…

Quantum-Safe NEAR: The Roadmap to Post-Quantum Security August 24, 2026 Anton Astafiev, CTO at Near One, and Mally Anderson, writer at NEAR NEAR began its post-quantum security upg…

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…

…se join us in our new Telegram channels for development and validators . Engineering 108 PRs across 31 repos by 28 authors. Featured repos: nearcore , near-bindgen-as , near-explorer…

…tion fees burned. 90% of the 5% annual inflation is sent to Validators to be paid out as staking rewards, with the

NEAR Foundation Unlocks Web3 B2B Solutions with SK Inc. C C Strategic Partnership NEAR Foundation SK Inc. C C Web3 B2B September 21, 2023 The NEAR Foundation is joining forces with…