INSIDE NEAR PROTOCOL
The settlement layer for the agent economy.
1M+ TPS in a verifiable benchmark. Dynamic resharding live. Post-quantum signing live. 5+ years of mainnet, 100% uptime.
NEAR shipped years ago what much of the industry is still planning 🧵
Sep 19, 2026 · 3:30 PM UTC
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NEAR pioneered sharded proof-of-stake in production.
The protocol is now fully sharded, with dynamic resharding live on mainnet. NEAR splits and merges shards as load changes. Automatic scaling.
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1M+ transactions per second on consumer-grade hardware, across 70 shards, in a benchmark anyone can reproduce.
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Post-quantum signing is live on NEAR mainnet while most chains are still scoping the problem.
NEAR accounts were never bound to one keypair, so rotating to a quantum-safe scheme is routine.
Next: securing consensus and the wider cross-chain ecosystem.
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Next up: SPICE, separation of consensus and execution.
Decoupling the two takes block times from 600ms to 200ms and will accelerate near.com and NEAR Intents.
The biggest protocol change since stateless validation in 2024, in development now.
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NEAR Protocol is running in production what much of the industry is still building toward.
The infrastructure for the agent economy is being decided now. NEAR has been building it since 2017.
Read the full picture: near.org/roadmap-history
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