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.

Transactions have tripled since the beginning of the year, while wallets have doubled to 75 million.

Layer 1 blockchain NEAR has launched an initiative to incubate and invest in native AI infrastructure.

Illia Polosukhin is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, a sharded proof-of-stake Layer 1 blockchain. We discuss NEAR's transition from an AI project to crypto, and later gain deeper insight into NEAR's core principles, underlying technology, the users, builders, as well as anticipated new features in the near future.

Two dApps are fuelling NEAR’s growth over the past three months.