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Introducing NEAR Business: The Confidential Multisig Treasury for Crypto-Native Teams NEAR Intents Multichain MPC October 20, 2026 Make payroll payments, pay vendors, rebalance res…

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’s Road to Decentralization: Building Bridges NEAR Foundation Aurora Ecosystem March 14, 2022 The NEAR community’s big-picture vision has always been straightforward — onboard …

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…

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…

…m research to secure the NEAR Protocol: consensus, signing, validators, epoch sync, and sending transactions will all work differently once quantum computing arrives.

Meet the 2023 NEARCON IRL Hackathon Winners NEAR Foundation NEARCON IRL Hackathon November 22, 2023 The wait is over! After a week of intense, dedicated work from the NEARCON hacka…

…thanks to the NEAR account model, can request that the NEAR validators or MPC nodes sign an arbitrary payload, which could be a transaction for some other blockchain, and get a signed…

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…

NEAR Foundation Funding Team Report: October 2022 NEAR Foundation Transparency report November 23, 2022 Welcome to our Funding Team Report that captures and highlights data for the…

NEAR & Gaming: The Future of Gaming on Web3 Community NFTs August 22, 2022 Most people when asked why they play games will give a simple answer: because games are fun. And though “…

NEAR & Social Good: Change Through Crypto Community July 18, 2022 Harnessing emerging technologies and showing no signs of slowing, social good initiatives focused on bettering soc…

The State of NEAR: Q2 2026 July 8, 2026 TL;DR • The Revenue Engine Is Already Running and Accelerating: Protocol fee capture has scaled from near-zero to over 30% of fees in a matt…

Aurora launches on NEAR Protocol Community May 12, 2021 Aurora Provides an Ethereum Layer-2 Experience The explosive growth of DeFi and NFTs frequently causes surges in Ethereum ga…

Why Chain Abstraction Is the Next Frontier for Web3 A Post from Illia Polosukhin Chain Abstraction Ecosystem Mission vision Multichain January 24, 2024 Most of today’s dapps are no…

NEARCON Highlights NEAR Foundation NEARCON September 12, 2022 NEARCON 2022 is at full tilt here in the gorgeous city of Lisbon, where the NEAR ecosystem is on full display, with ov…

On usability of blockchain applications Developers April 18, 2019 On usability of blockchain applications A scalable blockchain in the modern world is like a stadium in the middle …

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…

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…

NDC V1 Governance Elections FAQ Community NDC NEAR Digital Collective July 20, 2023 The NEAR Digital Collective (NDC), the largest decentralization effort on any layer 1 blockchain…

The Future of DAOs: DAOs at Work and IRL Community DAOs Ecosystem March 31, 2022 In “ DAOs of the Near Future ” Part I, we explored how DAO tooling, coordination, and standards wil…

Evolving NEAR Tokenomics February 24, 2026 TL;DR • NEAR is now primed to capture value from growth and adoption: fully unlocked supply, halved inflation, live onchain governance, 5…

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…

NEARCON 2022: Highlights, Talks and Videos Community Ecosystem NEARCON September 20, 2022 Missed NEARCON 2022? We’ve got you covered with content from the four conference stages, a…

The Agent Economy: Who Owns the Rails AI Runs On July 13, 2026 TL;DR • The agent economy is far bigger than payments. Global commerce runs on outdated rails. From supply chains to …

NEAR Foundation Transparency Report: Q2 2023 NEAR Foundation Transparency report July 10, 2023 Hello, NEAR World! Welcome to NEAR Foundation’s Transparency Report. Published quarte…