NEAR Foundation (NF) is a Switzerland-based nonprofit foundation (Stiftung) whose mission is to enable community driven innovation to benefit people around the world. One of its core areas of focus is the NEAR ecosystem, which includes a fully operational decentralised blockchain-based platform for building decentralized applications.
NF carries out its mission primarily through the allocation of support and resources to other nodes in the NEAR ecosystem, rather than via direct intervention or operations. Unlike many organizations of its type, NF’s ultimate goal is to minimize its own scope and footprint by continuing to devolve functions and resources to the ecosystem; and support the development of decentralised infrastructure necessary for those ecosystem functions to operate in a self-sufficient manner.
