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Ecosystem Update: Announcing NEAR Dev, a DevHub spinout Community February 3, 2025 The NEAR Foundation announces the launch of NEAR Dev, a new independent entity dedicated to suppo…

…c resources (e.g. legal playbooks, go-to-market strategies, tokenomics, etc), and access to investment opportunities. NEAR Foundation is looking to partner with existing acceleration…

…FT tickets at a reduced price which can be bought with NEAR Tokens. Grab your NEARCON NFT General Admission ticket before they sell-out! You can also purchase your ticket with fiat…

We're pausing Stake Wars Developers January 13, 2020 The goal for Near is to enable community driven innovation, which requires us to build a community operated network first. As p…

…oS), there are no miners. Instead, validators stake a given token amount to allow themselves to take part. PoS blockchains incentivise communities to own and control the network. Only…

Zero-commitment onboarding to NEAR using Gitpod Community April 14, 2020 NEAR has discovered a fantastic tool called Gitpod that gives new developers a kick-start, improves the eff…

Blockchain Shouldn't Be Seen Just Experienced AI August 5, 2025 Blockchain's greatest challenge isn't technological advancement, it's user complexity. We talk about decentralizatio…

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…

Introducing the NEAR Foundation NEAR Foundation May 13, 2020 The Why of NEAR When Alex, Illia and the rest of the early team came together in 2018 to explore the ideas that would e…

…farming application that allows users to purchase Avocados (tokens) with NEAR at fixed rates. These Avocados can then be “planted” on a public board of colored pixels. In aggregate,…

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 …

From Seoul to Singapore: NEAR’s Asia Marathon Events October 8, 2025 Over two packed weeks, NEAR went on an Asia sprint from Seoul to Singapore, bringing the message of Blockchain …

…life,” Lewis muses. “I also see DAOs using their governance token as a way to fund more projects without really selling or giving away the token through more advanced DeFi opportunities.”…

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…

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…

August in Review: Javascript SDK, NEAR Digital Collective Launch, and NEARCON Updates Community August 30, 2022 The summer is drawing to a close but things are really ramping up al…

NFTs on NEAR: A Deep Dive into Paras Community NFTs May 19, 2022 Paras, an NFT marketplace for digital art cards, is one of the most active communities within the NEAR ecosystem. W…

NEAR Infrastructure Committee: 2025 Year in Review & The Path to 2026 Ecosystem Infrastructure Infrastructure Committee January 16, 2026 NEAR Infrastructure 2025 Review and 2026 Lo…

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 …

…on Programme. This gap is fixed and not linked to the $NEAR token price in any way (and $NEAR has never had a hardcoded burn/mint relationship to USN). Given the issues described above,…

…ng. Users will deposit AURORA and receive a share in $stAUR tokens, which distributes the APY rewards. $stAUR could be immediately converted with a fee or wait for a delayed unstake.…

…22 For a relatively new type of digital asset, non-fungible tokens, have permeated the mainstream at an incredibly fast rate. After Christie’s auction of Beeple’s "Everydays - The …

…teless Validation - Invite Only Research Group • 12:30-1pm: Token Economics - Invite Only Research Group • 1-1:30pm: BOS Vision • 1:30-2pm: BOS for Devs • 2-2:30pm: BOS Tech Breakdown…

…re. Branded marketplaces, where customers can interact with tokens, give users the ability to monetize their engagement with a brand."With Dropt, NFTs can feature different kinds of…

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 auction…

An Industry Set For Change: A Future Outlook on Blockchain Adoption, Usability, and Scalability in Modern Times Community January 16, 2019 What is Programmable Money? Our current s…

… is largely about ownership of various pieces of data (like tokens, NFTs, digital assets or data provided from outside). Expanding to include off-chain data opens up a plethora of …

…ly for this learning experience. These include a custom NFT token contract and an NFT generator. These contracts work together to create an immersive experience for developers learning…

NEAR and Circle Announce USDC Support for Multi-Chain Ecosystem Community Infrastructure Partnerships September 28, 2022 Big news coming out of the Converge22 conference in San Fra…

…ct ideas. Community members would vote on these ideas using tokens they bought in exchange for sending Ether to a unique wallet address. This was how the first DAO, or decentralized…