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…ework that ensures inclusivity, transparency, and community governance. Innovations in AI, Account Abstraction, and NFTs Today Nate Geier, CEO of Mintbase, took attendees on a deep…

Building Next-Gen NEAR AI Infrastructure with TEEs January 19, 2025 NEAR AI Team Enabling Fully Private, Verifiable AI Agents with Phala Network TLDR: • The first open source priva…

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 at ETHDenver: Building a Multi-Chain Future Community Ecosystem February 9, 2022 It’s that time of the year when Open Web builders head to the Web3 castle in Denver, Colorado.…

… swaps. In December 2020, 1inch distributed over 90 million governance tokens to their users, liquidity providers, and community, making the application even more decentralized. SnowSwap…

From the Desert to Decentralized AI: NEAR at TOKEN2049 Dubai Events May 7, 2025 From the main stage to private roundtables and packed side events, NEAR showed up with clarity, conv…

NEAR AI Cloud on SayGm: The Verifiable Confidential Inference Stack September 18, 2026 NEAR AI Team NEAR AI Cloud's confidential inference is now available through SayGm, an AI gat…

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…

How Unrealistic is Bribing Frequently Rotated Validators? Developers October 25, 2018 Many proposed blockchain protocols today use some sorts of committees to propose and validate …

NEAR & Social Good: Bringing Web3 to the Fringes Community July 21, 2022 Web3 is sometimes labeled niche and even elitist. Blockchain products can be costly, difficult to understan…

ETHDenver 2025: Denver’s Crypto Beat Community March 7, 2025 Denver, the Mile High City, played host to ETHDenver 2025 from February 23 to March 2, turning the National Western Com…

…d for a release. Through House of Stake, today is that day. Governance in crypto usually means voting and not much else; House of Stake is expanding that mandate to include shipping…

Introducing the Mindshare Index AI Agent: Autonomous Trading Powered by Shade Agents Developers April 9, 2025 Imagine a trading system that never sleeps, tirelessly scanning the cr…

NEAR Q4 Protocol Roadmap Update Developers Uncategorized Core protocol Nightshade Protocol Roadmap Sharding January 12, 2024 By Bowen Wang, Director of Protocol In this post, the N…

NEAR in May: 10m Wallets Surpassed, SailGP Hits the Waves, and More Community May 27, 2022 May marked a month of milestones for the NEAR Foundation and ecosystem. While there was t…

Highlights from NEAR at Davos: Crypto Goes Mainstream Community June 2, 2022 Hello, NEAR world. From May 22-26th, the global Web3 community assembled at Davos, Switzerland for the …

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…

The NEAR Token Sale and Unforkable Community Community August 14, 2020 The NEAR community utterly humbled us this week. The NEAR token sale, which occurred on CoinList and was avai…

NFTs on NEAR: Why NFT? Community May 23, 2022 Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have been around for years but really blew up in 2020. Inspired by Beeple’s $69 million NFT artwork auct…

NEAR APAC Day One: Scaling Local Adoption, Regional Regulation, and AI in Web3 Community NEAR Foundation BOS Developer relations Ecosystem Events Gaming NEAR APAC September 9, 2023…

Introducing IronClaw 1.0: The Leader Across PinchBench, ClawBench, and OfficeQA Agent Benchmarks July 27, 2026 NEAR AI Team The best version of an assistant is the one you stop thi…

NEAR Community in Focus: Decentralized Community Building on NEAR Community DAOs June 16, 2022 When Matt Aaron, project lead at DeFi and NFT analytics app UniWhales , saw the explo…

…munity, for example large resource allocations or technical governance, are done with proper community input. NEAR needs to have the best onboarding . Within seconds of first hearing…

NEAR is in the Top 50 - Crypto Valley VC Report Community March 3, 2021 NEAR is happy to announce that it has been listed as one of the Top 50 Blockchain Technology firms in Crypto…

Balancer’s DeFi Protocol is bringing Programmable Liquidity to NEAR Community October 26, 2020 With the unrestricted MainNet launch just over a week ago, the NEAR community is hard…

Music and Blockchain: Building a Record Label on the Blockchain NEAR Foundation April 14, 2022 Blockchain technology and Web3 are on their way to transform everything—particularly …

NEAR Foundation and Delphi Labs Partner to Launch New AI Accelerator Community Developers NEAR Foundation User-Owned AI October 15, 2024 The NEAR Foundation and Delphi Labs are ple…

NEAR Community in Focus: Web3 vs Web2 Communities Community June 13, 2022 Each new wave of cultural and technological change brings with it a redefinition of community. As the worl…

NEAR 2021: A Year in Review NEAR Foundation Aurora DAOs NFTs December 28, 2021 Welcome to the NEAR Retrospective! It’s been quite a year for NEAR Foundation, Near Inc., and, of cou…

NEAR in March: Unchain Fund, SailGP, and DAOs NEAR Foundation April 1, 2022 The NEAR community’s extraordinary momentum continued into March, with a number of exciting launches, pa…