We've identified an issue that contributed to temporary invalid responses from neardata. Seems the issue was with the cloudflare caching layer that occasionally served wrong body responses. That resulted in neardata clients receiving bad data when requested an affected block for

NEAR mainnet has upgraded from 6 shards to 8. Congratulations to Bowen Wang and the NEAR One team! Spend some time watching the block visualizer to see real-time interactions across all shards. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

At FastNear🇺🇸 we have been thinking about using NEAR as a network layer for storing and distributing arbitrary data. Previous work called NearFS used IPFS format to send data in transaction arguments to effectively put bytes into the ledger without storing them in the state.

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NEAR Testnet just got faster

NEAR and AI primitives What’s live: ⁃TEE agent attestation using smart contracts. It’s a one way interaction, which proves the TEE code is what is expected. Allows to expand compute beyond smart contracts. The most noticeable example is “shade agents” by Proximity Labs or

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📣 Important update for NEAR node operators: Starting June 1, 2025, the Infrastructure Committee will stop hosting free snapshots of mainnet and testnet nodes. Here’s what’s changing and why 🧵

There is an important protocol change coming for NEAR Protocol community: NEP-536 that gets rid of gas refunds for transactions other than function calls. It was approved a year ago and only recently got implemented. There was an old mechanism called "pessimistic gas price" that

🚢 Weekend shipping alert! NEAR just got FastFS by FastNear🇺🇸 — decentralized file storage with on-chain URLs that just work. No IPFS pinning. No link rot. No BS. Upload it. Serve it. Done. Live now for LNCer NFT 🕺 One more block in NEAR’s mission to be the Protocol of the Web.

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Today I got to ring the bell at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange – founded 1585! – to celebrate the Bitwise NEAR Protocol Staking ETP. We're excited that more investors and institutions now have access to NEAR, powering our work at the intersection of AI & blockchain.

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The first sponsorship for the RPC access was just approved. You may be the next builder or the project who are getting free access to the fastest RPC on NEAR!