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Case Study: Bernoulli-Locke-Locke’s David Palmer on the DAO-Owned SailGP Team
NEAR is a home to a number of amazing apps and projects. These developers, founders, and entrepreneurs are using NEAR to effortlessly create and distribute innovative decentralized apps, while helping build a more open web — free from centralized platforms. In recent installments, NEAR Foundation explored the BOS with Pagoda’s Chief Product Officer Alex Chiocchi, heard […]
NEAR Foundation Backs Hydra Ventures to Create Web3’s First ‘Fund of Funds’ Investment DAO
NEAR Foundation is excited to announce that it has joined Hydra Ventures, a “fund of funds” investment DAO. A first in the Web3 space, Hydra Ventures is designed to help other investment DAOs get off the ground. By partnering with NEAR Foundation, Hydra Ventures will open the doors to the eventual launch of the first […]
Update on Near Decentralized Funding, DAOs, and Accelerator
Hello Nearians, We are more than halfway through the first quarter of 2023 and wanted to share a quick update on the progress NEAR Foundation has made on community funding and accelerator strategies. First, if you are a project building on NEAR or interested in building on NEAR and need some immediate support, please fill […]
NEAR 2022: A Year in Review
It’s been a whirlwind year for NEAR – and it’s hard to believe that 2022 is coming to an end. It’s been a year filled with massive milestones and achievements, including the biggest NEARCON ever, record-breaking new wallet creation, and much more. With 2023 around the corner, it’s a great time to reflect and take […]
NEAR Strategic Update and Outlook for 2023
The recent stream of news clearly demonstrates that the world needs Web3. Trust in legacy institutions is breaking down, individual privacy and individual freedom are equally at risk, and the major Web2 platforms we use every day have become monopolies that focus on profit, not people. Yet Web3 also hasn’t fully delivered on its promise […]
A Deep Dive into DAOs: How DAOs Are Changing Everything
The global community is being heard. Web3 continues to surge in popularity as developers and end-users alike instill confidence in decentralized blockchains, where information lives transparently and out in the open, in direct opposition to Big Tech’s private, opaque databases storing massive amounts of data. Just as NFTs went viral in 2021, DAOs are now […]
NEAR 2021: A Year in Review
Welcome to the NEAR Retrospective! It’s been quite a year for NEAR Foundation, Near Inc., and, of course, all the incredible projects and community members that make all of this possible. So we thought it was high time to look back at some of the highlights from 2021: everything from protocol upgrades, ecosystem funding, community […]