@NEARProtocol mainnet & testnet releases, updates, and statuses

Joined May 2021
We released 2.14.0 for Mainnet CODE_COLOR: CODE_YELLOW_MAINNET PROTOCOL_UPGRADE: TRUE DATABASE_UPGRADE: TRUE SECURITY_UPGRADE: FALSE Voting will start on Wednesday, Nov 4th, at 00:00:00 UTC. This release introduces Universal Accounts, Early Validator Kickout, and other reliability & feature improvements. Please refer to the full release notes in Github for more details: github.com/near/nearcore/rel…
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We released 2.13.0 for Mainnet CODE_COLOR: CODE_YELLOW_MAINNET PROTOCOL_UPGRADE: TRUE DATABASE_UPGRADE: TRUE SECURITY_UPGRADE: FALSE Voting will start on Monday, July 20th, at 00:00:00 UTC. This release introduces Post-Quantum transaction signature scheme and Dynamic resharding. Please refer to the full release notes in Github for more details: github.com/near/nearcore/rel…
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NEAR Chain Status retweeted
All-time volume on NEAR Intents just crossed $20 billion. This milestone is the result of a series of technical breakthroughs that removed some of the biggest constraints in cross-chain execution. A deep dive on Intents' rapid momentum 🧵
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We released 2.12.0 for Mainnet . CODE_COLOR: CODE_YELLOW_MAINNET PROTOCOL_UPGRADE: TRUE DATABASE_UPGRADE: TRUE SECURITY_UPGRADE: FALSE Voting will start on Wednesday, June 10th, at 00:00:00 UTC. This release upgrades contract runtime to the new Wasmtime-based runtime. Please refer to the full release notes in Github for more details: github.com/near/nearcore/rel…
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We released 2.11.0 for Mainnet . CODE_COLOR: CODE_YELLOW_MAINNET PROTOCOL_UPGRADE: TRUE DATABASE_UPGRADE: TRUE SECURITY_UPGRADE: FALSE Voting will start on Monday, Apr 13th at 00:00:00 UTC. This release is a regular feature release and includes several protocol/non-protocol changes. Please refer to the full release notes in Github for more details: github.com/near/nearcore/rel…
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NEAR Chain Status retweeted
NEAR Intents is now live in @Rabby_io, powering cross-chain swaps across Ethereum and EVM chains. More volume. More routes. Wider reach for NEAR Intents.
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NEAR Chain Status retweeted
Attention is All You Need
Attention is All You Need
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We released 2.10.3 to MainNet. CODE_COLOR: CODE_GREEN_MAINNET RELEASE_VERSION: 2.10.3 PROTOCOL_UPGRADE: FALSE DATABASE_UPGRADE: FALSE SECURITY_UPGRADE: FALSE This release includes: * Optimize the network traffic * Optimize data copying Please refer to the release note for details: github.com/near/nearcore/rel…
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We released 2.10.0 for Mainnet . CODE_COLOR: CODE_YELLOW_MAINNET RELEASE_VERSION: 2.10.0 PROTOCOL_UPGRADE: TRUE DATABASE_UPGRADE: TRUE SECURITY_UPGRADE: FALSE Voting will start on Tuesday 2025-12-09 03:00:00 UTC This release is a regular feature release and includes several protocol/non-protocol changes. Please refer to the full release notes in Github for more details. * Release: github.com/near/nearcore/rel…
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We released 2.10.0-rc.1 for Testnet. This release includes several protocol changes such as sharded contract. Voting will start on Tuesday, November 25th, 2025, at 00:00:00 UTC. Please refer to the release notes in Github for more details: github.com/near/nearcore/rel…
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We released 2.9.0 for Mainnet. This release proposes reduction of the maximum inflation of Near Protocol from 5% to 2.5%. Voting will start on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025, at 01:00:00 UTC. Please refer to the release notes in Github for more details: github.com/near/nearcore/rel…
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We released 2.8.0 for Mainnet In this release, we increase the number of chunk validator seats from 300 to 500. Voting will start at 01:00:00 UTC, September 23rd, Tuesday. Please refer to the full release notes in Github for more details. * Release: github.com/near/nearcore/rel…
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We released 2.7.0 for Mainnet CODE_COLOR: CODE_YELLOW_MAINNET RELEASE_VERSION: 2.7.0 PROTOCOL_UPGRADE: TRUE DATABASE_UPGRADE: TRUE SECURITY_UPGRADE: FALSE In this release, we increase number of shard from 8 to 9. Voting will start at 01:00:00 UTC, August 18th, Monday. Please refer to the full release notes in Github for more details. * Build: github.com/near/nearcore/act… * Release: github.com/near/nearcore/rel…
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Following the recent MainNet issue that caused a slower block production rate, we've prepared a postmortem to openly share what happened with the community. You can read the full details here: nearone.org/postmortem-07-20…
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We released 2.6.1 for MainNet CODE_COLOR: CODE_YELLOW_MAINNET RELEASE_VERSION: 2.6.1 PROTOCOL_UPGRADE: TRUE DATABASE_UPGRADE: TRUE SECURITY_UPGRADE: FALSE Voting for protocol version 77 will start on 2025-05-07 11:00 UTC. Please read full release notes in Github for more details. Release notes: github.com/near/nearcore/rel… Build: github.com/near/nearcore/act…
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We released 2.5.0 for MainNet CODE_COLOR: CODE_YELLOW_MAINNET RELEASE_VERSION: 2.5.0 PROTOCOL_UPGRADE: TRUE DATABASE_UPGRADE: FALSE SECURITY_UPGRADE: FALSE Please read full release notes in Github for more details. Release note: github.com/near/nearcore/rel… Build: github.com/near/nearcore/act…
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Thank you all for your patience- The team has applied patches for the identified issues, and version 2.5.1 has now been released. We are also adjusting the voting dates by a few days. For further details, please refer to the following links: * Release: github.com/near/nearcore/rel… * Build: github.com/near/nearcore/act…
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Due to some performance issues identified in the new binary, we have decided to postpone the release for the time being. We will provide an update on the forum once we are ready to move forward-
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