Consisting of an ever-expanding network of thousands of community members around the world.
Existing for the purpose of fostering ecosystem development through grant funding.
NEAR is a development platform build on a sharded, proof-of-stake, layer-one blockchain designed for usability.
Our efficient PoS network was also certified as carbon-neutral in February 2021 by south pole.
1000x lower transaction fees for users and developers earn 30% of transaction fees.
A thriving ecosystem of validators maintains network integrity.
Friendly. Human-readable account names follow a scoped DNS naming pattern.
EVM and Rainbow Bridge were developed for interoperability among chains.
Contracts are written using expressive community-supported, general purpose languages: Rust and AssemblyScript.