SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 | NEAR TEAM NEAR is launching phase 0 of its roadmap towards a fully sharded blockchain. …

The web browser’s hundreds of millions of users will be able to easily access and transact on the NEAR blockchain and with NEAR tokens within Opera. Sept 30, 2021 — Opera, the world’s first browser with Web 3 capabilities and a built-in crypto wallet, today announced plans to support NEAR…

JULY 1, 2022 — NEAR Team Endlesss, the creation, marketing, and community building platform built for musicians, has just launched on NEAR mainnet. As music production software with social media features, Endlesss is a virtual space for musicians, fans, and collectors alike. With the app, musicians of all skill levels…

Stake Wars is back to help decentralize the NEAR network and help the community with cool new challenges and rewards to members who want to become validators. In Stake Wars: Episode III, NEAR is focusing on Chunk-Only Producers — NEAR’s next step toward a fully-sharded protocol. By introducing this new…

June has been a groundbreaking month for the NEAR ecosystem, with major announcements and platform enhancements coming at breakneck speed. NEAR’s June Town Hall encapsulated much of that excitement. It was also the first-ever live Town Hall from Coindesk’s Consensus conference in Austin, Texas. NEAR’s June Town Hall was one…

NEAR Foundation is excited to announce that its Smart Contract Audit Program is live. This is an important step in expanding smart contract audits and enhancing ecosystem security. Many new projects request smart contract audits, necessitating an expansion of the number of auditors the Foundation has on retainer. This effort…

Across the NEAR ecosystem and beyond its digital borders, there is frequent talk of NEAR’s infinite scalability. But leveraging scalability, fast transactions, and low costs to reimagine the future ultimately requires a vibrant NEAR community. This is where NEAR Regional Hubs come in. As portals into a multi-faceted, ever-evolving ecosystem…

The NEAR community was busy connecting at the Consensus conference this weekend in Austin, Texas. The NEAR Foundation made its presence felt in a variety of ways, from hosting educational developer workshops to panel discussions and speeches from key members of the ecosystem and Foundation. From NEAR’s roadmap to raising…

When Matt Aaron, project lead at DeFi and NFT analytics app UniWhales, saw the explosion of interest in the NEAR protocol, he also saw a gap in the market: an app that monitored its blockchain. The idea was to create a platform that provided real-time data for NEAR wallet activity…