NEAR Protocol is a highly scalable Layer 1 blockchain powered by Nightshade 2.0 sharding, enabling 8 active shards and 600ms block time.
Chain Abstraction allows users, developers, and AI agents to move assets and interact across multiple blockchains using a single NEAR account.
NEAR Intents simplify complex blockchain actions by letting users and agents express what they want to do, while solvers handle how it gets done.
NEAR is building an open agentic internet, giving AI agents real wallets, verifiable actions, private data handling, and multichain access.
The NEAR token (NEAR) is used for transaction fees, storage, staking rewards, and ecosystem governance