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…, and Mally Anderson, writer at NEAR NEAR is making a major upgrade towards delivering the world’s most scalable blockchain protocol. By the end of Q2 2026, the Near One team will …

NEAR Q4: Hackathons, Upgrades and Integrations Community December 15, 2021 It's been quite a year here at NEAR, and it's been an even better …

Supporting Community Proposals to Upgrade NEAR Tokenomics: Halving Inflation and Introducing Rewards to Support Small Validators and veNEAR Holders October…

… Execution (SPICE): A Preview of NEAR’s Next Major Protocol Upgrade June 22, 2026 Anton Astafiev, CTO at Near One, and Mally Anderson, writer at NEAR The Near One team recently announced…

…r exciting news, including details of a major NEAR Protocol upgrade. There will also be updates on strategic partnerships, ecosystem funding and education progress, upcoming crypto…

…the validator set with the upcoming 1.23.0 Mainnet protocol upgrade, the NEAR Foundation is pleased to announce the NEAR Foundation Delegation Program . This delegation program is …

NEAR Validator Upgrade Allows Hundreds To Help Secure The Network Developers Core protocol November 29, 2021 Since the NEAR Mainnet launch…

…twork’s development roadmap. Phase 2 introduces fundamental upgrades to NEAR’s core protocol architecture, enabling even greater scalability and decentralization for the network. The…

…shards by the end of 2024. • Advancing towards NEAR vision: Upgrades NEAR’s already high-performance and scalable infrastructure to support the growing number of users and activities…

An Update On the NEAR Validator Upgrade Developers Core protocol January 28, 2022 At NEAR Foundation, our goal has always been to provide the best experience…

…nts event during ETHDenver 2025 , NEAR introduced two major upgrades to NEAR Intents : passkeys for seamless authentication and OTC trading for direct, peer-to-peer exchanges. These…

…ards from 4 to 6 to handle more transactions smoothly. This upgrade boosts the network’s ability by 50% and was done without any disruption to the system, ensuring users continue to…

…ts in Ledger Wallet’s New UI April 11, 2026 Ledger Wallet's upgraded UI is now live, making one of its most useful features easier to reach: cross-chain swaps powered by NEAR Intents…

NEAR Enhances Decentralization with Validator Upgrade Developers Core protocol January 7, 2022 Since the NEAR Mainnet launch in October 2020, the network has seen a steady…

…derson, writer at NEAR NEAR began its post-quantum security upgrades in Q2 2026. Step one was updating NEAR to support its first quantum-safe signature scheme–– ML-DSA , or Dilithium––so…

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…

…mance of mainnet. This is because we intentionally keep the upgrade as simple as possible to avoid adding more complexity into the already humongous upgrade. To fully reap the benefits…

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…

…eton so the smart contract can mint a non-fungible token. • Upgrade a contract: Discover the process to upgrade an existing smart contract. • Enumeration: Explore different enumeration…

… Encode x NEAR Horizon Bootcamp starting July 10th, 2023 to upgrade their building, development, and coding skills. Following the recent partnership between NEAR Horizon and Encode…

…projects and users. The NEAR Protocol was also successfully upgraded to Phase 0 of Simple Nightshade, making the blockchain faster and more robust, while keeping it carbon neutral.…

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…

NEAR Community Update: March 27th, 2020 Community March 27, 2020 Welcome (back) to NEAR community update, This month has been a doozy. We have community and contributors from aroun…

… and the fast-emerging Agentic Economy. With major protocol upgrades, cross-chain innovation, and the launch of verifiably private AI, NEAR’s stack now unifies three critical technologies:…

Community Update - Beyond Launch Community October 27, 2020 Hello citizens of NEARverse! This is NiMA coming to you from a NEARby planet in the Milky Chain … We have collectively v…

…k will simply reach a higher number of block producers. The upgrade to a decentralized, validator-run Phase I will kick off a new wave of opportunities like the Rainbow Bridge , 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…

…Year to the NEAR community! An Update On the NEAR Validator Upgrade NEAR at ETHDenver: Building a Multi-Chain Future

NEAR Launches Nightshade Sharding, Paving the Way for Mass Adoption Developers Core protocol November 15, 2021 Today is a momentous day for the NEAR blockchain and the NEAR ecosyst…

…) laid out a set of proposed processes and criteria for the upgrade to Phase II. A detailed overview of these criteria can be found on Github , but here we will go over some of the…