NEAR区块链标志

NEAR 协议

一个无权限的、Proof-of-Stake 的区块链协议，任何人都可以访问、添加或读取交易。NEAR 区块链是参考代码的实例化，网址是：http://github.com/nearprotocol/nearcore，但理论上这个 repo 可以被分叉并作为一个独立的链来部署，就像许多协议在核心比特币代码的基础上所做的那样。

Near 公司

一家总部位于美国的软件开发公司，做了协议及其工具的早期开发工作。虽然该公司并不拥有或运营 NEAR Protocol（去中心化的公司），但它作为执行该协议研发工作的多个第三方实体之一，继续对参考代码库提出修改建议。

NEAR简介

NEAR exists to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world. NEAR is a decentralized application platform that secures high value assets like money and identity with the performance necessary to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of Open Finance and the Open Web in their hands. NEAR's unique account model allows developers to build secure apps that consumers can actually use similarly to today's web apps, something which requires multiple second-layer add-ons on other blockchains.

Technically speaking, NEAR Protocol is a brand new public, proof-of-stake blockchain which is built using a novel consensus approach called Doomslug. NEAR Protocol uses a new sharding mechanism called Nightshade which splits the network into multiple pieces so that the computation is done in parallel. Parallelism radically increases throughput and allows the network to scale up as the number of nodes on it increases. With NEAR, there isn’t a theoretical limit on the network’s capacity.