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Developers that need an open source platform to accelerate decentralized applications development
About NEAR
The Builder’s fastest path to market, NEAR is an open source platform that accelerates the development of decentralized applications. Building the tools to enable community-driven innovation that benefits people around the world. Near Inc is building NEAR, a new application platform designed to bring blockchain to wide variety of mainstream applications. Focusing on developer and end user experience, NEAR is high performance infrastructure that real people can use. NEAR is a decentralized application platform that is secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of the Open Web in their hands. NEAR’s token economy is built around the NEAR token, a unit of value on the platform that enables token holders to use applications on NEAR, participate in network governance, and earn token rewards by staking to the network.
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NEAR Blockchain
Founded: 2017
United States
near.org
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