Get answers to all your questions about NEAR!

NEAR's goal is to onboard 1 billion users to web3 over the next 5 years. To achieve this, we take the unique approach of focusing on the user experience and making that as easy as possible.

WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE?

USERNAME.NEAR

NEAR uses usernames, such as username.near, instead of the usual hexadecimal wallet addresses that are difficult to read.

Communities within the community

NEAR has a large emphasis on creating a large number of strong communities. They accomplish this with guilds and DAOs.

Regional Hubs

Hubs are local communities in different cities to create small and powerful communities that help foster and spread the word of NEAR. They also help the developers building on NEAR.

DAOs

DAOs stand for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. DAO's are a community-led entity with no central authority. They rely on the community to grow and are fully autonomous and transparent. NEAR helps new DAOs by giving them the tools and resources they need to grow.

Simple, fast and Scalable.

NEAR is a sharded proof of stake blockchain. In later modules we explain exactly what this means. This allows for NEAR to be very fast, scalable, cheap, and completely carbon neutral.

That's great, but what's Sharding?

Sharding is a unique technology where a blockchain's entire network is split up, or sharded, into smaller networks. This makes it easier to scale a network and have fast transactions even as a network grows.