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A Year on NEAR
A little over a year ago, NEAR held its first conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Fast forward to today and NEAR is back in Portugal, for the next chapter of NEARCON. But things have changed quite a bit in that time. To celebrate the second anniversary of NEARCON, the NEAR Foundation looks back at all the […]
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’s Road to Decentralization: Building Bridges
The NEAR community’s big-picture vision has always been straightforward — onboard billions of people into Web3. In this new iteration of the Internet, blockchain platforms and apps will be decentralized, open-source, transparent, and humane. This Open Web will be full of utility, encouraging maximum participation from developers and end-users. Web3 won’t be dependent on central […]
NEAR’s Road to Decentralization: Empowering the Guild Community
The NEAR network is reimagining how decentralized applications and platforms are built, playing a major role in transforming the internet from the centralized Web2 to an open-source, community-driven Web3. Amidst the NEAR community’s growth and continued decentralization, its guild system has emerged as a significant contributor to building more open, interconnected, and collaborative projects within […]
NEAR’s Road to Decentralization: A Deep Dive into Aurora
One of NEAR Foundation’s core missions has been to create a network that empowers users to take control of their data, their finances, and the tools to govern. In the web3 world, this idea can be neatly summed up by one word: decentralization. This is a process whereby control and the tools to create and […]
NEAR’s Road to Decentralization
Since its inception, NEAR Foundation has been committed to not only helping build a fast, secure and scalable blockchain, but to facilitate the decentralization of network to the community. Not only are concrete steps being taken to fast-track the decentralization of NEAR’s underlying technology and infrastructure, but massive contributions are being made towards galvanizing the […]
NEAR in February: ETHDenver, Pagoda Launch, and More
The NEAR community did a lot in February: events, hackathons, launches, and even the Lunar New Year. If you blinked, you might have missed a number of exciting happenings within the NEAR community and throughout the ecosystem. So let’s take a look back at all of the activity across NEAR’s global nodes. A NEAR Hóngbāo […]
NEAR Announces $800 Million in Funding Initiatives To Support Ecosystem Growth
The NEAR ecosystem is announcing a monumental $800 million in funding initiatives targeted at accelerating growth. The announcement, which includes the $350 million in funding announced by Proximity Labs last week – reported in Bloomberg – is designed to build on the momentum in the NEAR ecosystem over the last 12 months. While NEAR is […]