* Low fees

* Fast transaction

* Distribution: 30% transaction fees to developers that developed a smart contract, the rest (70%) gets burned

* Certified Climate/Carbon Neutral

* Human Readable Addresses

* UI/UX

* Guilds and their initiative to shift power to the community

* $1.2B Grants for Projects

* A lot of innovative and significant projects are being built every single day

* No theoretical limit to TPS using Nightshade Sharding

Near has multiple Backers, such as A_Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain.info, and many more...

you can find our backers here: https://near.org/backers/

Check out https://awesomenear.org to find out all the projects that are building on NEAR

Visit NEAR University to find out how https://near.university/

Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine created by the team at the NEAR Protocol, delivering a turn-key solution for developers to operate their apps on an Ethereum-compatible, high-throughput, scalable and future-safe platform, with low transaction costs for their users. Find out more https://aurora.dev/

NEAR has a very active NFT marketplace and community, in which you can contribute by collecting or by creating a collection.

• NEAR NFT Specification: https://nomicon.io/Standards/NonFungibleToken/README.html

• Dev Rel team NFT Tutorial: (https://near.org/blog/zero-to-hero-nft-series-happy-holidays-from-devrel/

• TENK (https://tenkbay.com/)— the best help you can get to launch a generative art project on NEAR

• Spearmint (https://spearmint-docs.satori.art/docs/quickstart/create-collection)— a framework for building an NFT collection/series

• Paras (https://paras.id/)—all-in-one social DAC marketplace for creators and collectors

Also, make sure to visit https://awesomenear.com/projects to view all the NFT Based Projects.

Yes. NEAR Protocol is a layer 1, proof of stake blockchain network and is certified carbon-neutral too!

Here is NEAR Protocol Development roadmap https://gov.near.org/t/protocol-development-roadmap/2903

At the launch, the NEAR network will have 1 billion Ⓝ. Each Ⓝ is divisible into 1024yocto Ⓝ.

NEAR Protocol’s issuance of tokens, or inflation, is necessary to pay network operators, also called Validators. There is fixed issuance around 5% of the total supply each year, 90% of which goes to Validators in exchange for computing, storage, and securing the transactions happening on the network.

As mentioned above, all transaction fees collected by the network get burned. Therefore, the issuance of Ⓝ is actually ~5% minus transaction fees. This means that, as the network grows in usage, issuance can become negative, introducing negative inflation in the protocol. Since the smallest unit of account for Ⓝ is yocto Ⓝ, the system can keep its exchange price resolution as small as infinitesimal fractions of the U.S. dollar, even with a reduction of the overall supply by two or three orders of magnitude.

Read more here:

https://near.org/blog/near-token-supply-and-distribution/

or

https://near.org/blog/near-protocol-economics/

$NEAR tokens are unlocked on a daily basis. Please check here for details: https://near.org/blog/near-token-supply-and-distribution/

The contract addresses are the following:

$NEAR contract address on AURORA

"0xC42C30aC6Cc15faC9bD938618BcaA1a1FaE8501d"

$NEAR contract address on ETH "0x85F17Cf997934a597031b2E18a9aB6ebD4B9f6a4"

$NEAR contract address on BSC

"0x1fa4a73a3f0133f0025378af00236f3abdee5d63"

Your Account ID is also your deposit address. (e.g. alex.near)

You can track your transactions on the NEAR Explorer, type your txid/hash by visiting https://explorer.near.org/

Make sure to check the WALLET page that has a couple of solutions for common issues, if you weren't able to find a solution, please visit the wallet support page https://nearhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us