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NEARCON 2022 is Almost Here: Explore the NEAR Ecosystem in Lisbon! Community NEARCON September 1, 2022 Olá amigos! There’s a lot of excitement brewing in the NEAR community for wha…

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 Foundation Funding Team Report: September 2022 NEAR Foundation Grants Statistics November 18, 2022 Welcome to the NEAR Foundation Funding Team Report that captures and highlig…

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’s May Town Hall Highlights Community NFTs June 2, 2022 In the NEAR galaxy, May has been a month for creatives, coders, community, and everything in between. NEAR’s May Town Ha…

NEAR Korea Hub: June 2023 Highlights NEAR Foundation Community NEAR Korea July 4, 2023 Since launching in November of 2022, NEAR Korea Hub has hit a number of major milestones in t…

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…

How blockchain will save the Creator Economy Case Studies July 7, 2021 Why NFTs, DAOs and Open Finance will change the world for artists and their communities. Creators are Innovat…

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…

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…

Music and Blockchain: Introducing the Future of Sound NEAR Foundation April 11, 2022 After more than two years of a global pandemic, following what seemed to be a never-ending sequ…

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…

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 & Social Good: A Deep Dive Into Open Forest Protocol Community NFTs July 25, 2022 Humans are waking up to the ecological and psychological benefits of forests. And if civiliza…

Blockchain Promise for Music Industry (Industry Background) Case Studies November 16, 2018 What will blockchain enable in the long term? From my subjective point of view, blockchai…

Why doesn’t NEAR just replicate Ethereum Serenity design? Developers November 8, 2018 NEAR Protocol builds a sharded public blockchain that executes smart contracts on a WASM virtu…

Randomness in blockchain protocols Developers August 9, 2019 We have published today a short paper that describes the randomness beacon that is used in NEAR Protocol. In this accom…

Understanding Rust Lifetimes Developers January 10, 2019 No, seriously, this time for real Coming to Rust from C++ and learning about lifetimes is very similar to coming to C++ fro…

Unsolved Problems in Blockchain Sharding Developers December 13, 2018 In the first part of the series we provided motivation for blockchain sharding and discussed some core concept…

All You Need to Know about the Proposal to Reduce NEAR’s Inflation Rate Infrastructure July 2, 2025 Last week, HOT and LiNEAR Protocol put forward an inflation reduction proposal t…

The authoritative guide to Blockchain Sharding, part 1 Developers December 6, 2018 This blog post is the first in the series of two on Blockchain Sharding. After reading this blog …

ETH-NEAR Rainbow Bridge Developers August 19, 2020 There are lots of blockchains and scalability solutions, and it is hard to decide which one to use when we are building a product…