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NEAR Protocol Scales Up: 9 Shards Now Live with 12.5% Performance Boost

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Login with NEARSummary Feature Details Shard Increase From 8 to 9 shards Performance Gain Approx. 12.5% throughput improvement Upgrade Type Seamless live resharding upgrade Why It Happened One shard’s state was growing too large for typical chunk producers Future Path Clear roadmap to continue increasing shards and capacity NEAR Protocol Hits 9 Shards On August …

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NEAR Intents Powers Instant Cross‑Chain Swaps on Sui

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Login with NEARJuly 17, 2025 – The Sui Foundation and NEAR Protocol have announced a strategic integration: NEAR Intents now supports the Sui blockchain, enabling instant, intent-driven asset swaps across more than 20 major blockchains directly into Sui—no bridges, no wallets, no gas headaches. 🚀 Key Highlights: One-click cross-chain swaps: Users can seamlessly convert assets …

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Heads-up for NEAR devs – Migrate Your NEAR RPC to Lava

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Login with NEAR NEAR is phasing out its free public RPCs at https://rpc.mainnet.near.org and pagoda.co. All apps that still point there need to migrate before the endpoints go read-only. Why switch to Lava? Official option – Lava’s NEAR mainnet & testnet RPCs are on NEAR’s recommended list. Drop-in replacement – same API, full archival data, …

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BOS on NEAR: From Ambitious OS to Archived Proof-of-Concept

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Login with NEARNEAR’s Blockchain Operating System (BOS) debuted in 2023 as a “universal app layer” where on-chain user interfaces and social data could live side by side, giving Web3 a Web2-like user experience. By mid-2024, core development stopped: the BOS web engine struggled with common JavaScript libraries, security hardening proved costly, and the NEAR team …

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Aurora’s Rainbow Bridge is no longer active

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Login with NEARAs of June 2025, Aurora’s Rainbow Bridge is no longer active. Еhe project has been archived, deposits are halted, and funds are being moved to a new bridge called “Omnibridge.” This shift officially ends the Rainbow Bridge’s role in enabling trustless transfers between Ethereum, NEAR, and Aurora.

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