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Community Update: July 17th, 2020 Community July 17, 2020 We are consistently working on improving the NEAR developer experience by taking note of queries, jumping on a call with d…

NEAR Infrastructure Committee Announces Chain Abstracted Relayer RFP Winners Infrastructure Infrastructure Committee June 20, 2025 NEAR Infrastructure Committee Announces Chain Abs…

… Veriken to create a novel conference experience — the NCON token, an event experience built on the Blockchain Operating System (B.O.S). In many ways, NCON is the embodiment of the…

NEAR Community Update: March 8, 2019 Community March 8, 2019 It has been enormously gratifying to sit down with some of the top teams from across the ecosystem and watch them get e…

NEAR Foundation Signs Up to the Ethereum Climate Platform NEAR Foundation Ethereum Climate Alliance Ethereum Climate Platform Sustainability July 17, 2023 NEAR Foundation is thrill…

NEAR Foundation and PipeFlare Team Up to Reshape Web3 Gaming NEAR Foundation Gaming Pipeflare Web3 Gaming May 2, 2023 NEAR Foundation and PipeFlare , a trailblazing play-to-earn (P…

NEAR Foundation Transparency Report: Q1 2023 NEAR Foundation Community Ecosystem Transparency April 6, 2023 Hello, NEAR World! Welcome to NEAR Foundation’s newly reformatted “Trans…

… the NEAR Mainnet, native NEAR wallet support, and the NEAR token as a payment option. How Solaire is Changing Fashion with Phygital Solaire establishes a 1:1 connection between a …

…er 1, he leveraged his expertise to advise on the company’s tokenomics and corporate investments. The powe

…ree new whiteboard series released! And, we’re officially a token type with Satoshi Labs. Check out this last tweet from Berlin below. • NEAR is now officially registered coin type…

…founder and CCO of Collab.Land will delve into the power of tokenized communities, from governance to engagement. • Samantha Bohbot: Chief Growth Officer at RockawayX . An expert in…

NEAR in February: ETHDenver, Pagoda Launch, and More NEAR Foundation Ecosystem March 1, 2022 The NEAR community did a lot in February: events, hackathons, launches, and even the Lu…

A Year on NEAR NEAR Foundation Ecosystem September 11, 2022 A little over a year ago, NEAR held its first conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Fast forward to today and NEAR is back in …

… co-founders, funding opportunities beginning at $100k, and token launch support. Applications are open until October 4 for teams interested in joining the accelerator , which begins…

Blink and It’s Final: NEAR Launches 600ms Blocks and 1.2s Finality Blockchain Sharding May 14, 2025 Time matters—whether it’s a single user waiting for a page to load or trillions …

NEAR’s SF Blockchain Week Event Preview Community October 5, 2018 Next week, the crypto community descends on San Francisco in force for the 2018 SF Blockchain Week . For the NEAR …

Korea BUIDL Week Recap: One Account to Rule Them All Community April 3, 2024 Last week, Korea BUIDL Week was the epicenter of cutting-edge thought leadership in Web3. From cross-ch…

NEAR Launches Infrastructure Committee with $4 Million in Funding Community April 9, 2024 NEAR has seen a massive surge in users and transactions over the last few months. It’s imp…

Marieke Flament Appointed CEO of NEAR Foundation To Spearhead Growth NEAR Foundation December 16, 2021 The NEAR Foundation is thrilled to announce it has selected global executive …

Keypom Brings Frictionless Onboarding to Near and Web3 NEAR Foundation Ecosystem NFTs February 23, 2023 A key roadblock to mass Web3 adoption is onboarding. People want to get into…

NEAR Foundation PR Roundup for March NEAR Foundation Community Ecosystem Partners March 31, 2023 The NEAR ecosystem is ending March on several extremely high notes, from partnershi…

…onths of experiments, they discovered NFTs, or non-fungible tokens—a cryptographic asset where each unit represents something unique and indivisible. Intrigued by the potential for…

Chain Signatures Adds EdDSA support: Cross-Chain Signing for Solana, TON, Stellar, Sui & Aptos Chain Signatures Chain Abstraction April 30, 2025 Expanding Chain Abstraction Capabil…

MetaBUIDL Launch Highlights Community September 2, 2021 TL:DR • MetaBUIDL is a global hackathon hosted by NEAR with a $1M prize pool. • NEAR powers a world where people control the…

Women of Web3 Changemakers: Cathy Hackl NEAR Foundation Cathy Hackl Journey Women of Web3 Changemakers October 31, 2023 “I have always said that I’m not the typical face you see re…

Introducing NEAR AI Cloud & Private Chat December 3, 2025 NEAR AI Team Unlock your most valuable data for AI with verifiable, hardware-enforced privacy Today NEAR AI is launching N…

…ld definitely join our ambassador program. We’re allocating tokens to people who want to create a movement . • The IDEO hackathon is in progress. Don’t miss out! • We’ve kicked off…

… Veriken to create an exciting experience for you: the NCON token — an event experience built on B.O.S. NCON embodies the essence of the open web. An open web where we transact with…

NEAR AI Cloud Brings Private Inference to Brave Leo October 15, 2026 NEAR AI Team Brave Leo , the AI assistant built into the Brave browser, now runs on private inference from NEAR…

NEAR Launches 1,000 Teacher Education Program Community December 9, 2021 As part of NEAR Foundation, the NEAR Education team is building a vast and vibrant ecosystem with the missi…