Introduction to NEAR Protocol’s Economics
Intro to NEAR Protocol’s Economics NEAR is a developer platform for the Open Web. This means that NEAR has a…
Category: Engineering
A Deep Dive into Private Transactions on NEAR
Last week, we announced a collaboration with ZeroPool that will add support for private transactions to the NEAR Protocol. In…
The Road to MainNet and Beyond
Update 2: See the MainNet Genesis post for an update on network status as of August 2020. Update: MainNet launched…
Zero-commitment onboarding to NEAR using Gitpod
NEAR has discovered a fantastic tool called Gitpod that gives new developers a kick-start, improves the efficacy of community code…
NEAR Lunch & Learn Ep. 03: Light clients in Proof-of-Stake systems
In this video we discuss the challenges of implementing light clients in Proof-of-Stake systems that either do not use BFT…
The Future of Blockchain Hackathon – Applications still open!
Get started building on NEAR Berlin, Oxford, Cambridge and London – 4 cities, one goal; build an amazing application (on…
Stake Wars Registration is Now Open
Stake, you must! Please share this with your fellow validators: https://near.ai/stakewars We invite you to participate in Stake Wars, NEAR…
Long Range Attacks, and a new Fork Choice Rule
In this blog post we briefly discuss the concept of long range attacks, which is considered to be one of…
Randomness in blockchain protocols
We have published today a short paper that describes the randomness beacon that is used in NEAR Protocol. In this…
Overview of Layer 2 approaches: Plasma, State Channels, Side Chains, Roll Ups
With the increasing adoption of blockchains, and still very limited capacity of modern protocols, many so-called Layer 2 protocols emerged,…
