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…ace, which runs on the carbon neutral NEAR blockchain, with tokens now on sale. By releasing the song as an NFT, deadmau5 and Portugal. the Man could be the first artists to reach …

Built on NEAR: Celebrating Partners and Innovators at NEARCON '23 NEAR Foundation Community NEARCON NEARCON 2023 October 13, 2023 Partnerships are one of the biggest pillars to exp…

…ogle text to speech • Roguelike game • Solution to do basic token swap between ETH and NEAR The Ready Layer One hackathon winners are: Global Hack: Winner: vbstreetz - 1,000 DAI ( …

…. Currently, there is a substantial pool of 5,000,000 $NEAR tokens earmarked to support the staking activities of these Enterprise Node Operators. Here is a list of som

…es such as a cryptocurrency wallet, decentralized exchange, token staking, and an NFT Marketplace. “We expect NEAR’s core narrative to play a pivotal role in bolstering the overall…

…le art house, or any other business with NFTs (non-fungible tokens), you can use their API to help you leverage blockchain technology in under 10 lines of code. How cool is that? Reach…

…thereum, it’s capable of so much more: from statistics, and token transfers and listing; to smart contract source code verification and ability to issue read and write calls directly…

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…

Join Stake Wars to Become a Chunk-Only Producer Developers June 30, 2022 Stake Wars is back to help decentralize the NEAR network and help the community with cool new challenges an…

NEAR Protocol BigQuery Public Dataset NEAR Foundation BigQuery NEAR Big Query Public Dataset September 22, 2023 NEAR Protocol is a user-friendly, carbon-neutral blockchain, built f…

NEAR Foundation Partners with Absolute Labs to Accelerate How Brands Connect with Customers in Web3 NEAR Foundation Ecosystem Infrastructure Partnerships April 20, 2023 NEAR Founda…

NEAR’s Road to Decentralization: Empowering the Guild Community NEAR Foundation Ecosystem March 11, 2022 The NEAR network is reimagining how decentralized applications and platform…

Guild Program Launch Community June 4, 2020 At the beginning of the year, we started our Contributor Program to directly work with community members on NEAR initiatives. Since we b…

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 …

NEAR in June: Mila Kunis’ Armored Kingdom, Consensus, Multichain, and More Community July 2, 2022 Summer is here. And while the year’s longest day has passed, the best days are ahe…

… can enjoy customisable features (transaction costs, native token, throughput), while still enjoying familiar EVM-compatibility and trustless security. With the latest NEAR DA integration,…

Assume We're Lying: How to Verify Private Inference October 2, 2026 Sergey Astretsov Head of Product In September 2026, OpenAI announced that a fleet of its AI agents solved the Na…

…sing in blockchain – with capital inflows into non-fungible token (NFT) assets rising from 37 million USD to 4.8 billion USD in 2021. It’s why the NEAR Foundation is one of the leading…

Berry Cards: a DeFi NFT Marketplace for Pixel Art Case Studies March 18, 2021 [caption id="attachment_8398" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] A few of the most highly valued Berry …

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.…

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…

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…

…the Smart Contract-based delegation for the staking of NEAR tokens, a unique innovation among Proof-of-Stake blockchain protocols. Delegation via smart contracts—rather than at the…

…compensated with $50 of value in the form of a gift card or tokens depending on location. If interested in participating, fill out this invite form to connect with our team. You do…

… of a wallet like Metamask and converting fiat to a desired token. As a final barrier to entry, the transaction fees may be so high that the benefit of using the app becomes redundant…

… can then be onboarded to NEAR apps without owning any NEAR tokens. Meta transaction development will continue through next year and will be critical to new wallet growth. Stake Wars…

The State of AI on NEAR: 2025 Update User-Owned AI AI August 6, 2025 NEAR is the blockchain for AI. Over the past year and a half the focus and scope of that mission has expanded s…

NEAR & Gaming: Putting Gamers in the Driver’s Seat Community NFTs August 17, 2022 Video games are portals to alternate realities. They are the means of escape for the more than thr…

Open Call for NEAR Accelerator Service Partners NEAR Foundation Accelerator Community Ecosystem April 5, 2023 The NEAR blockchain is an open-source, decentralized blockchain protoc…

…validators. The second step will be to ensure the number of tokens staked is high enough to maintain the security of the network. While 3.5 million $NEAR is very high, we want to avoid…