NEAR Protocol

Protocolo P2P

A sharded Layer-1 blockchain (Nightshade sharding) designed for usability and developer accessibility, with human-readable account names and a focus on onboarding non-crypto-native users. Governed by the NEAR Foundation.

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Detalles

Licencia MIT/Apache-2.0 dual — confirmed via nearcore's licenses/LICENSE-MIT and licenses/LICENSE-APACHE (the repo keeps its license files in a licenses/ subfolder rather than root).
Estado de Desarrollo 🟢 Activo
Propietario NEAR Foundation, plus a broad open-source nearcore contributor base.
Órgano de Gobierno NEAR Foundation (non-profit).
País Switzerland (NEAR Foundation is Swiss-registered, same jurisdiction pattern as several other L1 foundations in this batch)
Año de Inicio 2020
Stack Rust.
Financiamiento NEAR Foundation grants; also historically raised via token sale.
Última Investigación 23 ago 2026

Dominios de Caso de Uso

Evolución de Plataformas y Soberanía

Protocolo P2P Atributos

Orígenes Sharded, developer/usability-focused L1 (Nightshade sharding), aiming to reduce onboarding friction (human-readable accounts, no seed-phrase-only UX) versus earlier L1s.
Base de Datos N/A conventional DB; JSON-RPC for node queries.
Lenguaje de Consulta JSON-RPC.
Formatos de Datos Borsh binary serialization.
Edición Colaborativa en Vivo N/A
Edición de Texto Enriquecido N/A
Soporte Móvil Via third-party wallets (NEAR Wallet, Meteor, etc.) and dApp frontends.
Soporte Web Via third-party wallets and dApp frontends.
Aplicaciones Nativas Node software ships as binaries.
Términos Free, open-source (MIT/Apache-2.0 dual, confirmed); network gas fees paid to validators.
Fondos NEAR Foundation treasury not independently sized this pass.
Basado En Novel sharding design; not forked from a prior chain's codebase.
Arquitectura P2P Validator/node gossip network; Nightshade shards transaction processing across multiple shard chains coordinated by a beacon-chain-like mechanism.
Red de Superposición Global, permissionless.
Direccionamiento por Contenido No.
Local-First N/A
Cifrado de Extremo a Extremo (E2EE) N/A
Biblioteca de CRDTs N/A
Tolerancia a Fallos Bizantinos Yes — Doomslug (a PoS/BFT-hybrid finality gadget).
Firma Ed25519.
Permisos Permissionless for transacting; validating requires staked NEAR.
Compatibilidad con la Web Semántica No.
Contrato Inteligente Yes — WASM-based runtime, contracts commonly written in Rust or AssemblyScript.
Posición en la Pila del Protocolo Base-layer settlement + execution (Layer 1), sharded.
Incorporación de Activos/Valor Native (NEAR) plus NEP-standard tokens.
Madurez del Protocolo / Estandarización Mature, mainnet since 2020, no formal external standards body.