NEAR Foundation

What is NEAR?

A Collective

Consisting of an ever-expanding network of thousands of community members around the world.

A Foundation

Existing for the purpose of fostering ecosystem development through grant funding.

A Blockchain

NEAR is a development platform build on a sharded, proof-of-stake, layer-one blockchain designed for usability.

Why build on NEAR?

Sustainable

Our efficient PoS network was also certified as carbon-neutral in February 2021 by south pole.

Cost-effective

1000x lower transaction fees for users and developers earn 30% of transaction fees.

Secure

A thriving ecosystem of validators maintains network integrity.

Friendly

Friendly. Human-readable account names follow a scoped DNS naming pattern.

Harmonious

EVM and Rainbow Bridge were developed for interoperability among chains.

Pragmatic

Contracts are written using expressive community-supported, general purpose languages: Rust and AssemblyScript.