The NEAR MainNet is now Unrestricted and Decentralized
NEAR was instantiated to help builders. This means helping them to create meaningful applications with the power to impact real…
Author: Erik Trautman
NEAR MainNet is now Community-Operated
As of today, the NEAR Foundation has spun down its nodes, making the NEAR Protocol MainNet fully community run. This…
The First NEAR Community Town Hall (Monday September 28th)
The NEAR Foundation would like to cordially invite you to our first community Town Hall on Monday, September 28th 2020…
The NEAR Token Sale and Unforkable Community
The NEAR community utterly humbled us this week. The NEAR token sale, which occurred on CoinList and was available to…
NEAR Token Supply and Distribution
Last updated: 20201016 (see change log section at the end) NEAR exists to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around…
Introducing the NEAR Foundation
The Why of NEAR When Alex, Illia and the rest of the early team came together in 2018 to explore…
Announcing NEAR Protocol’s MainNet Genesis
Update 20200806: See the end of this post for an update on project status. NEAR’s mission is to enable community-driven…
The Evolution of the Open Web
Developers have been pitched Blockchain technology for many years based on a hand-wavy set of “use cases” which are tied…
A NEAR Project Update in the Age of COVID
The base of contributors to the NEAR project has increased over the past several months and the global macro picture…
NEAR Community Update: May 3, 2019
Just about every team we have, whether on the application layer or the blockchain layer, is working towards an upcoming…
