Tagged: near protocol

March 22, 2026 @ 11:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The fourth quarter of 2025 emerged as a transformative period for NEAR Protocol, according to Nansen’s latest quarterly analysis. The blockchain achieved several milestones, including a publicly verifiable one million transactions per second (TPS) benchmark, growth in its cross-chain intents framework, and the introduction of… Read More

March 26, 2025 @ 4:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank Crypto, part of Nubank (NYSE: NU), announced that clients will have access to new coins. The tokens Cardano (ADA), NEAR Near Protocol (NEAR), Cosmos (ATOM), and Algorand (ALGO) will “complement Nubank’s crypto investment portfolio, which already includes 16 other options such as Bitcoin, Ether,… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Foundation, the non-profit that supports and funds ecosystem development on NEAR Protocol, an open-source and climate-neutral blockchain, has announced it signed up to the Ethereum Climate Platform. The move demonstrates the foundation’s commitment “to sustainability in Web3 – and to working collaboratively with globally… Read More

May 19, 2023 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wormhole Foundation announced that Wormhole has been selected as the next official bridge for NEAR. Wormhole will launch the first trustless NEAR <> ETH corridor powered by Zero Knowledge (ZK) Proofs. This corridor will enable all major NEAR assets “to be seamlessly bridged to the… Read More

May 15, 2023 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Foundation, the non-profit that supports the on-going growth and development of the Near Protocol, and Outlier Ventures, the global Web3 investor and accelerator, announced the launch of the NEAR Base Camp accelerator program. The first dedicated accelerator program by NEAR Foundation will “take a… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nansen recently announced their partnership with NEAR protocol in order “to provide on-chain insights to their ecosystem.” The team says they are pleased to announce their collaboration with NEAR, “a growing Layer-1 blockchain, to provide advanced analytics for ecosystem developers and investors.” This latest cooperation… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matrixport, which claims to be one of the world’s largest and trusted digital assets financial services ecosystems, announced that its institutional qualified custodian service, Cactus Custody, has integrated with NEAR Protocol, a Layer 1 blockchain ecosystem. The partnership “enables seamless support of the NEAR Protocol… Read More

January 24, 2023 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (CSE: BIGG), owner of Netcoins, the online cryptocurrency brokerage that makes it easy for North Americans to buy, sell, and understand cryptocurrency, and Blockchain Intelligence Group, a developer of blockchain technology search, risk-scoring and data analytics solutions, is pleased “to report… Read More

September 21, 2022 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Fireblocks is pleased to announce support for DeFi on NEAR, “enabling connection to NEAR dApps via their Web3 engine.” Effective immediately, Fireblocks users can “securely access DeFi yields through lending, borrowing, and any Web3 apps built for NEAR that integrate WalletConnect.” Fireblocks… Read More

July 21, 2022 @ 2:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo, which claims to be the leader in digital asset financial services, recently announced a partnership with the NEAR Foundation, which is reportedly among the “fastest growing,” carbon neutral, open source blockchains that “enables developers to easily build, test, and deploy applications.” The partnership “makes… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 9:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marieke Flament, the Chief Executive at NatWest’s virtual bank for businesses, is reportedly getting ready to leave her role after two and a half years. Flament will be joining Switzerland-headquartered blockchain foundation NEAR as the CEO, she confirmed in statements shared with Reuters. The non-profit… Read More

October 20, 2021 @ 8:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Tim Glover, Co-founder of Chronicle, an NFT marketplace, and studio that is committed to delivering eco-friendly NFTs of popular brands’ collectibles to their fans. In this conversation, Tim explored the problems that Chronicle is aiming to solve in the nascent… Read More

August 6, 2021 @ 2:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Digital asset trading platform BitMart has integrated with the NEAR Protocol. The move will  provide opportunities for developers to more easily build applications and grow the overall blockchain ecosystem. NEAR, the native token from NEAR Protocol, listed on BitMart July 22 Built atop a public… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bison Trails, a major blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service firm, revealed on September 24, 2020 that it will be powering ZKValidator, which aims to support privacy and zero-knowledge research by operating community-focused public (transaction) validators on leading proof of stake or PoS protocols such as Cosmos, Polkadot, Kusama,… Read More

September 22, 2020 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO at FTX, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and Alameda Research, has commented on some blockchain projects that he thinks are worth talking about and appear to be making some progress. While confirming that he’s not offering investment advice, Sam said that Solana (SOL)… Read More

August 8, 2020 @ 9:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology (ONT), a “high-performance” or high-throughput blockchain platform for enterprises, has teamed up with the developers of the NEAR Protocol in order to speed up the development and deployment of secure “decentralized” identity solutions. The Ontology team will offer technical support for NEAR’s Decentralized Identifier… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-based Bison Trails, a blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) infrastructure developer, will be adding support for NEAR, a sharded proof of stake (PoS) blockchain and app development platform that can power open finance solutions. NEAR received over $20 million in capital from VC… Read More