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NEAR at EthCC 2024: Pioneering AI x Web3 Community July 3, 2024 As EthCC 2024 descends upon Brussels, the city's historic charm provides a captivating backdrop for one of the crypt…

NEAR Worldwide | September 24th, 2019 Community September 24, 2019 We’re traveling all over the world to talk to you ! Hopefully we will see you (or have already seen you) at the e…

Token Season on NEAR NEAR Intents July 15, 2025 The 2025 Roadmap for Token Launches and Listings The NEAR Intents-Based Launchpad is Ready for Token Season! Tokens launching on NEA…

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…

…l be rewarding running nodes and test scenarios. Follow the validator and stake-wars-announcement channel on Discord as well as the GitHub repository for further updates. [caption …

NEAR Community Update: February 8, 2019 Community February 8, 2019 The NEAR DevNet is out. In this case, the blockchain is currently running on a single node but you can use the NE…

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…

NEAR 2025: A Monumental Year for Sharded Scaling, Cross-Chain Execution, and Private AI January 2, 2026 In 2025, NEAR expanded far beyond the boundaries of a traditional Layer-1 bl…

Women in Web3 Changemakers: Emily Rose Dallara NEAR Foundation Emily Rose Dallara Web3 and Thrive Podcast Women in Web3 Changemakers September 26, 2023 “A lot of the clients I work…

NEAR Weekly On Chain Data Report: December 9 NEAR Foundation Mass adoption Statistics December 9, 2022 As part of the Foundation’s commitment to transparency, each week it will pub…

Summer of Shipping on NEAR Heats up with Horizon’s HZN3 Cohort NEAR Foundation April 3, 2024 The NEAR Horizon Accelerator (HZN) is continuing to nurture early-stage open founders b…

Soon... | NEAR Update: June 14, 2019 Community June 15, 2019 We’re extremely close to getting our new consensus, Nightshade , deployed to TestNet! Over the last two weeks we’ve bee…

July in Review: 700 Projects Milestone, NEARCON Tickets, and Women in Web3 Community August 1, 2022 Hello, NEAR! There’s been lots of action in July, from new milestones and the NE…

NEAR Tasks Launches AI Marketplace on NEAR to Revolutionize the Future of Work NEAR Foundation November 16, 2023 The convergence of AI and Web3 captured the tech industry’s imagina…

2024 NEAR Year In Review A Post from Illia Polosukhin blockchain for ai Community Ecosystem Year In Review December 20, 2024 2024 was a great year for NEAR – we saw major growth ac…

Regulation Alone Will Not Save Us from Big Tech A Post from Illia Polosukhin User-Owned AI June 28, 2024 Every week, we see new headlines about lawsuits against major AI companies …

NEARCON ‘23 Lifts Off: Start Your Journey into the Open Web NEAR Foundation NEARCON ‘23 November 8, 2023 Lisbon is about to light up as NEARCON ‘23 kicks off in the heart of the ci…

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…

NEAR and The Graph Partnership Community February 18, 2021 NEAR and The Graph partner to bring Indexing and Querying to the NEAR blockchain Developers building applications on NEAR…

…ily progressing in this mission, from the growing number of validators to the flourishing DAO community. But NEAR isn’t alone on this journey. It relies on projects in and around the…

Blockchain Scaling Approaches: NEAR Sharding vs. Layer 2s NEAR Foundation Nightshade Sharding June 14, 2023 Layer-twos (L2s) have become increasingly popular as a scaling solution …

Fork That: NEAR’s Campaign Comes to Life at Permissionless and EthCC Cannes July 15, 2025 This summer, NEAR brought its boldest brand campaign into the real world. Fork That was no…

ICYMI: Scootering Through Web3 at NEAR APAC's Vietnam Showcase Community Blockchain Operating System Ecosystem Events NEAR APAC September 18, 2023 It was an incredible first-ever N…

Introducing Top Level Accounts and Recovery Keys on NEAR September 21, 2026 Introducing Top Level Accounts and Recovery Keys on NEAR Almost every account you rely on is issued by s…

A Developer’s Blockchain Developers May 23, 2019 Progressive Cycles The technology field has always operated in progressive cycles . Cyclical because it seems any new technology fo…

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…

Chain Signatures Now Run Entirely Inside TEEs, Making Every Operation Verifiable Onchain October 23, 2026 Anton Astafiev, CTO at Near One, and Mally Anderson, writer at NEAR Thanks…

NEAR Bringing Chainlink's Leading Oracle Solution to its Open Web Ecosystem Community July 30, 2020 We are excited to announce that Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network is laun…

NEAR Funding Updates: Funding Beyond Grants NEAR Foundation Grants October 6, 2022 Welcome to the Funding Team Series that highlights important updates about NEAR Foundation’s Gran…

Unlocking Web3 Usability with Account Aggregation Developers Account Aggregation February 15, 2024 Since the start, the focus for the NEAR ecosystem has been on advancing Chain Abs…