NEAR announced that Phase 1 of Nightshade is live on NEAR's mainnet. Stake requirement to become a validator drops to below 100k $NEAR.
2022 Aug
The NEAR Foundation announced the formation of a new entity called the NEAR Digital Collective (NDC) designed to help accelerate the decentralization of the NEAR ecosystem. The purpose of the NDC is to further decentralize NEAR’s ecosystem governance and move decision-making on-chain in order to make our community more resilient, transparent, and fair.
The Rainbow Bridge launched. It is a bridge developed by the NEAR Foundation to connect the Ethereum and NEAR blockchains.
2020 Oct
Near portocol mainnet going live with 160 million $NEAR tokens being staked within the first 24 hours.
Phase 2 was the last planned stage of Near's gradual mainnet rollout. In this second phase, Near protocol governance responsibilities were handed over to the community as decided by an on-chain governance vote. This stage also unlocked token transfers and protocol rewards.
2020 Sep
The NEAR Foundation has spun down its nodes, making the NEAR Protocol MainNet fully community run.
Phase 1 was the second stage of Near's mainnet rollout. In contrast to the centralized first phase, this phase marked when Near started onboarding third-party validators. In the first mainnet stage, validators were managed only by the Near Foundation.
2020 Apr
The first phase of Near's multi-stage mainnet rollout arrived on Apr. 22, 2020. The network featured a Proof of Authority (PoA) consensus system in which the NEAR Foundation, the non-profit organization supporting protocol development, operates the only nodes.