{"id":30064,"date":"2020-10-13T23:50:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30064"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:21:57","slug":"near-protocol-mainnet-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/near-protocol-mainnet-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"NEAR Protocol mainnet launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Validators on NEAR Protocol voted to launch the mainnet, ForkLog representatives said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEAR has reached a big new milestone!<\/p>\n<p>We are thrilled to announce that the validator vote is complete and NEAR is now fully permissionless, decentralized and community-governed.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CsJZydRiMO\">https:\/\/t.co\/CsJZydRiMO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEAR (@NEARProtocol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NEARProtocol\/status\/1316140954605191168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The voting aimed to lift the ban on token transfers and to activate inflation. The inflation mechanism will take effect after the next update, and transactions can already be executed.<\/p>\n<p>Developers had expected the community to vote for a later launch, but the validators decided otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>The protocol runs on its own Proof-of-Stake algorithm and aims to address scalability by enabling resource-intensive decentralized applications (dapps).<\/p>\n<p>Back in May, NEAR raised $21.6 million from major venture firms, including Andreessen Horowitz.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with ForkLog, NEAR cofounder Alexander Skidanov spoke about NEAR&#8217;s mission to build the Open Web \u2014 the Internet of the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ftNKNOWljD\">\n<p>NEAR cofounder: Bitcoin security is not needed for most blockchain use cases<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cNEAR cofounder: Bitcoin security is not needed for most blockchain use cases\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/exclusive\/soosnovatel-near-bezopasnost-bitkoina-ne-nuzhna-dlya-bolshinstva-yuzkejsov-na-blokchejne\/embed#?secret=RgrG6gif6Z#?secret=ftNKNOWljD\" data-secret=\"ftNKNOWljD\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog News on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Validators on NEAR Protocol voted to launch the mainnet, ForkLog representatives said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1216],"class_list":["post-30064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-near-cryptocurrency"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30066,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30064\/revisions\/30066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}