Builders gathering across continents for the NEAR Hackathon. Chicago, Bolivia, Malaysia & NYC meetups this November. Connect, refine ideas, and ship together. Register for an event near you 👇
NEW PROPOSAL PASSED House of Stake, NEAR’s decentralized onchain governance body, has voted to lower NEAR’s maximum annual issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%, phased in over 24 months. This is how NEAR’s economics evolve transparently and programmatically: token holders put a core parameter to a public vote, and the new rate rolls out epoch by epoch on a published schedule. For NEAR’s tokenomics, that means lower long-term issuance and a supply schedule anyone can verify. What happens next: ✦ The House of Stake Security Council reviews the result before ratification ✦ A ~90-day grace period follows ratification ✦ Validators adopt the change through a protocol upgrade, which makes it binding ✦ Token issuance then steps down every epoch, reaching 1.6% at month 24 ✦ Quarterly reports track realized issuance against the schedule Full proposal: https://t.co/qRFaLqqx4x
NEAR Hackathon Track: Privacy & Private AI. ⠀ Confidential compute, private finance and AI that protects sensitive data, build on TEEs and NEAR AI Cloud. ⠀ Intelligence without exposure. ⠀ Full hackathon details:
$QTC lending markets are now live on RHEA Powered by NEAR Intents and Chain Signatures
Humans and AI models share the NEAR hackathon judging panel. @ilblackdragon (NEAR),@Mert (Helius), @eddylazzarin (a16z crypto), @avichal (Electric Capital),@kain (Synthetix & Infinex), @hosseeb (Dragonfly), @cyntro_py (cyber fund). Claude Code and Codex join as AI Judges. https://t.co/0w2bgGFKco
The submission window for the NEAR HACKATHON opens 1 November 2026 at 00:00 UTC. Two weeks to build focused on privacy, cross-chain, and agentic apps aligned with NEAR. No sign-up required to start. The only form is the final submission: project name, team lead, email, team size, NEAR account address, repository link, demo post link and a short description.
New jobs are being added to the NEAR Agent Market. Build a video clipping agent, retain ownership of it, earn every time someone hires it.
INSIDE NEAR: Where NEAR is and where it's going, with @ilblackdragon, @_bendersgreat_, and @_bendersgreat_ on @therollupco.
Attention: 1M+ NEAR is now staked for inference with NEAR AI