NEAR is a simple, scalable, and secure blockchain platform designed to provide the best possible experience for developers and users, which is necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. NEAR's unique nightshade sharding design allows the protocol to scale almost linearly with the number of shards. NEAR uses WebAssembly as its runtime for smart contracts and developers can write smart contracts in mainstream programming languages like JavaScript or Rust.
Started date: 30 Jan 2023Last updated: 17 Dec 2024Submitted reports: 20
NEAR is a simple, scalable, and secure blockchain platform designed to provide the best possible experience for developers and users, which is necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. NEAR's unique nightshade sharding design allows the protocol to scale almost linearly with the number of shards. In addition to high transaction throughput, NEAR also has very fast finality and support for mainstream programming languages for developers to easily build decentralized applications.
Started date: 07 Nov 2022Last updated: 07 Nov 2024Submitted reports: 86