About $166,000 passed through the swap system, while Bitget says NEAR Intents waived its recovery-bounty share.

The NRR product plans to stake its NEAR holdings, with a 0.75% annual management fee and a separate charge on staking rewards.

near.com began offering Ondo Finance’s tokenized U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Tuesday, letting users buy them with crypto held across more than 30 networks. The companies said the trades are not broadcast publicly. The tokens are not available to U.S. persons or in Canada. NEAR rose 7.1% over 24 hours.

NEAR's on-chain governance body, House of Stake, passed proposal HSP-027 to eliminate the protocol's developer gas rebate, a change that will send all network gas fees to be burned rather than partly rebated to smart-contract owners. NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin confirmed the outcome Monday,…

NEAR Protocol has launched confidential payments on its Intents platform, enabling private cross-chain swaps between NEAR and ETH.

Nearly 60 million fewer NEAR tokens will be minted this year if a validator supermajority adopts the upgrade, while an earlier community vote failed to pass.

The platform is the dedicated virtual chain of TURBO, an AI memecoin.

The blockchain ecosystem has long grappled with a critical challenge: interoperability. Bitcoin, as the first and most renowned cryptocurrency, has remained largely isolated from the innovations flourishing on other blockchains. NEAR's introduction of Chain Signatures represents not just a technical evolution but a strategic pivot towards a unified blockchain future. Here's an in-depth exploration into why this technology is pivotal.

Near estimates the upgrade will speed up transaction execution by 400%.

“There’s a lot of untapped value in the Bitcoin ecosystem,” said Alex Shevchenko, the CEO of Aurora Labs.