NEAR Blockchain Gets Major Upgrade to Add 'Stateless Validation'
The upgrade, known as "Nightshade 2.0," has been on the NEAR roadmap for years, with the first version introduced in 2022.
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Aug 22, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Aug 22, 2024
NEAR Pushes 'Signatures' on Mainnet, in Growing Trend of Chain Abstraction
The feature was introduced in testnet in March, and allows users with a NEAR account to sign transactions on blockchains it supports, without the need for cross-chain bridges.
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Aug 8, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Aug 8, 2024
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CoinDesk 20 Index Fell More Than 20% During Overall Crypto Market Crash
The overall crypto market crashed as risk-off sentiment permeated global markets. The altcoin-heavy benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index fell more than 20%, with crypto majors Solana a...
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Aug 5, 2024 at 4:18 p.m. UTC
Aug 5, 2024
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Near Protocol's Token Almost Doubles in a Week, Ahead of Nvidia's AI Conference
Near Protocol will be only few crypto-related firm that will be presenting at Nvidia's conference next week.
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Mar 11, 2024 at 3:51 p.m. UTC
Mar 11, 2024
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The Protocol: MetaMask's Secret Weapon and Ethereum's Dencun Debacle
In this issue of CoinDesk's weekly newsletter on blockchain technology, we bring you Sam Kessler's scoop on MetaMask's in-development "intents" feature that could revolutioniz...
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Jan 17, 2024 at 10:20 p.m. UTC
Jan 17, 2024
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Near Foundation Joins Celestia in Race to Provide 'Data Availability' for Ethereum Rollups
The project's new "NEAR DA" aims to provide an alternate venue that could handle data produced by Ethereum's fast-growing network or auxiliary blockchains or "layer-2 networks...
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Nov 8, 2023 at 2:29 p.m. UTC
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NEAR Foundation Partners With Alibaba Cloud to Accelerate Web3 Growth in Asia
The partnership will offer multi-chain indexing to provide data-query API to developers.
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Jun 26, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. UTC
Jun 26, 2023
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NEAR Protocol Says It's Time for Developers to 'Band Together'
NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin discusses at Consensus 2023, why now is the time for collaboration, not only "from people who build new infrastructure solutions," bu...
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Apr 28, 2023 at 10:36 p.m. UTC
Apr 28, 2023
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NEAR Foundation CEO on Protocol Starting ‘Blockchain Operating System’
Layer 1 blockchain network NEAR Protocol has launched a product-first operating system that developers can build into and users can interact on as a single platform. NEAR Foun...
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Mar 8, 2023 at 4:01 p.m. UTC
Mar 8, 2023
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Near Protocol Starts ‘Blockchain Operating System’ to Focus on User Experience
The platform is intended to act as a common layer for browsing and discovering Web 3 products.
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Mar 2, 2023 at 8:15 p.m. UTC
Mar 2, 2023