NEAR Protocol
A sharded proof-of-stake blockchain built for usability, with human-readable accounts, chain abstraction and AI-native tooling.
A sharded proof-of-stake blockchain built for usability, with human-readable accounts, chain abstraction and AI-native tooling. The market currently treats four of its claims as established or likely.
What the evidence supports
NEAR accounts can have human-readable names such as alice.near . It is very likely that NEAR Protocol's mainnet launched in 2020 . Supporters cite: Mainnet genesis in April 2020; transfers enabled October 2020. Most of the market accepts that NEAR shards its state and execution using a design called Nightshade . The weight of evidence indicates that NEAR Intents settles cross-chain swaps through a verifier smart contract on NEAR . Supporters cite: The intents.near verifier contract settles signed intents.
About this page
Written by the offline writer from the live prices of 4 claim markets. With NEAR AI enabled, the same prices are turned into prose by a model running in a trusted execution environment, and its signed output is stored on-chain with each revision.
The markets behind this page
Every number in the text is the live price of one of these claims. Disagree? Trade it.