Blockchains are often limited not by ideas, but by speed. If a network can only process a small number of transactions per second (TPS), it will slow down, become expensive, and fail to support real-world apps. NEAR Protocol has just passed a major milestone: a publicly verifiable benchmark of over 1 million TPS using real…

Why AI Needs Better Privacy Artificial Intelligence is moving very fast. But many people and organizations still cannot use their most valuable data with AI. To use most AI tools today, you must send your text, documents, or records to computers that you do not own and cannot inspect. You have to trust company policies,…

The idea in one minute Most crypto apps make you choose a network, switch wallets, bridge tokens, and approve many steps. Chain abstraction hides that work. You say what you want to do. The system figures out the path across chains and does it for you. On NEAR, this is powered by Intents, Chain Signatures,…

NEAR in 2025 feels focused. The network positions itself as an execution layer for apps that use agents. Intents let people and software ask for an outcome and let the system handle the steps across chains. The protocol also raised capacity with more shards and shipped features that make code easier to reuse. This guide…

Why AI Needs Better Privacy Artificial Intelligence is moving very fast. But many people and organizations still cannot use their most valuable data with AI. To use most AI tools today, you must send your text, documents, or records to computers that you do not own and cannot inspect. You have to trust company policies,…

As of June 2025, Aurora’s Rainbow Bridge is no longer active. Еhe project has been archived, deposits are halted, and funds are being moved to a new bridge called “Omnibridge.” This shift officially ends the Rainbow Bridge’s role in enabling trustless transfers between Ethereum, NEAR, and Aurora.

NEAR’s Blockchain Operating System (BOS) debuted in 2023 as a “universal app layer” where on-chain user interfaces and social data could live side by side, giving Web3 a Web2-like user experience. By mid-2024, core development stopped: the BOS web engine struggled with common JavaScript libraries, security hardening proved costly, and the NEAR team formally marked…

Summary Feature Details Shard Increase From 8 to 9 shards Performance Gain Approx. 12.5% throughput improvement Upgrade Type Seamless live resharding upgrade Why It Happened One shard’s state was growing too large for typical chunk producers Future Path Clear roadmap to continue increasing shards and capacity NEAR Protocol Hits 9 Shards On August 19 2025,…

NEAR Protocol offers a comprehensive suite of tools and resources designed to streamline the development of decentralized applications (dApps). Whether you’re building smart contracts, integrating wallets, or analyzing on-chain data, NEAR provides robust solutions to support your development journey. Smart Contract Development NEAR SDKs NEAR supports smart contract development in both Rust and JavaScript through…

Today we are beginning the rollout of the first phase of the ASIMOV platform, a state-of-the-art polyglot development platform for trustworthy, neurosymbolic AI. The platform in this first public release is capable of turning any URL into a semantic knowledge graph for use with large language models—”neurosymbolic” here meaning exactly the combination of neural networks with…