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…nced three new ways for the community to stay involved with Validators and earn rewards from the NEAR Foundation to promote ecosystem growth. New Governance Forum With the official…

USDC Launches Natively on the NEAR Protocol NEAR Foundation Circle USDC September 14, 2023 USDC , the open-source, permissionless protocol and stablecoin that enables any app to se…

Getting Started with Chain Signatures Developers Chain Abstraction Chain Signatures Multichain August 7, 2024 What is Chain Signatures? Chain Signatures is a groundbreaking technol…

Near at ETHDenver Highlights NEAR Foundation ETHDenver Few and Far NEAR Day March 2, 2023 Near will see a number of partnership and project announcements at Near Day and ETHDenver.…

…n. For reference, 90% of the 5% annual inflation is sent to Validators to be paid out as staking rewards, with the residual 10% returned to the NEAR Foundation Treasury. The total …

Community Update: June 19th, 2020 Community June 19, 2020 Summer is knocking on the door and we are getting NEAR ready for the next steps of decentralizing MainNet and our communit…

Flux’s Prediction Market Could Be The Key To Decentralized Insurance Markets Case Studies February 23, 2021 Flux is a decentralized, open-source prediction market engine launched i…

NEAR Wallet Rockets to Over 20 Million Users With SWEAT Partnership Community Mass adoption Partnerships November 3, 2022 It’s almost hard to believe that the NEAR Wallet had only …

NEAR Foundation and Eigen Labs Partner to Enable Faster, Cheaper Web3 Transactions for Ethereum Rollups via EigenLayer NEAR Foundation Eigen Labs EigenLayer November 10, 2023 Eigen…

Sweatcoin Partners with NEAR Foundation to Create a New Movement Economy Community Ecosystem April 12, 2022 Sweatcoin , the London-based tech company on a mission to inspire a heal…

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…

Confidential Intents: Confidential Execution for Cross-Chain Transactions February 24, 2026 In DeFi today, every action, position, and order is public onchain. Your order size, the…

NEAR Integrates Wormhole to Launch ZK-Enabled Cross-Chain Communication with Ethereum NEAR Foundation Wormhole Zero-Knowledge ZK Proofs May 16, 2023 Driving the evolution of Web3 t…

NEAR and Press Start Team to Level Up Web3 Gaming Community Gaming Press Start December 9, 2022 NEAR Foundation is excited to announce a new partnership with Press Start Capital , …

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…

So what exactly is Vlad's Sharding PoC doing? Developers October 9, 2018 I had a chance to work with Vlad Zamfir and Aditya Asgaonkar on the continuation of Vlad’s Berlin hack this…

Announcing Proof of Response February 17, 2025 NEAR AI Team Today Illia and I published a preprint of “Proof of Response,” a paper introducing a novel primitive for decentralized s…

The Intent-Driven Future of Travel: NEAR and ADI Chain Power Agentic Commerce with TravAI December 5, 2025 Today, in a landmark partnership with the ADI Chain team and Datrics , NE…

The First NEAR Community Town Hall (Monday September 28th) Community September 24, 2020 The NEAR Foundation would like to cordially invite you to our first community Town Hall on M…

NEAR & Social Good: The Future of Social Good and Crypto Community July 28, 2022 Since their inception, blockchains and cryptocurrencies have been about much more than novel techno…

Community Update: July 3rd, 2020 Community July 3, 2020 A huge thank you to all 7k+ of you that read our bi-weekly ecosystem updates. It means a lot to us that so many people from …

Why NEAR’s Ecosystem Remains Primed for Growth in 2022 Community May 20, 2022 For many, 2022 has been a time of uncertainty. Volatility in global markets and the crypto sector has …

Filecoin Launches Collaboration with NEAR to Accelerate the Growth of the Web3 Stack Community August 10, 2021 In July 2021, Textile launched the Filecoin-NEAR bridge, taking the f…

OpenMind Integrates NEAR AI Cloud to Bring Verifiable Privacy to Home Robotics December 17, 2025 NEAR AI Team Today, we are thrilled to announce a partnership that significantly mo…

Long Range Attacks, and a new Fork Choice Rule Developers September 10, 2019 In this blog post we briefly discuss the concept of long range attacks, which is considered to be one o…

NEAR Infrastructure Committee Announces Chain Abstracted Relayer RFP Winners Infrastructure Infrastructure Committee June 20, 2025 NEAR Infrastructure Committee Announces Chain Abs…

NEAR Transparency Report: December 2 NEAR Foundation Transparency report December 2, 2022 As part of the Foundation’s commitment to transparency, each week it will publish data to …

How NEAR Protocol's Chain Signatures Power MoreMarkets and Cross-Chain Liquidity Community Chain Signatures Cross-Chain Liquidity Decentralized Finance DeFi Security EigenLayer Mor…

Ecosystem Update: Announcing Near One, Chain Abstraction Spinouts Community Decentralization Ecosystem August 13, 2024 The NEAR Foundation announces today the formation of two new …

Software Eating Financial Contracts Case Studies September 25, 2018 Summary: Programmable Money is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity for blockchain enabled businesses. The first …