What is the NEAR blockchain?

• built to be simple, secure and scalable.

• Low cost. High speed. Effortless scale.

• <0.01USD Transaction Cost

• 18M+ Active Accounts

• 400K Daily Transactions

• ~2.4s Time to Finality 

• Contracts, DAOs, dapps, funding

• Layer 1 blockchain

  not dependent on other chains.

uses a unique scaling mechanism

• Nightshade sharding

• Scales infinitely

• resists short-term usage spikes

Proof of stake

• More efficient than Bitcoin and Ethereum

web-based wallet

• no need for users to install programs or browser extensions

• makes it especially easy to onboard new users (e.g. through named accounts)

Certified carbon neutral

• consumes in a year the same energy bitcoin consumes in 3 minutes

Interoperable with Ethereum

• using Rainbow Bridge

Your Instructor

Alexandra Kropova is a software developer with extensive experience in smart contract and decentralized app development. She has helped produce courses for Mammoth Interactive since 2016, including many blockchain and Web3 courses.

Mammoth Interactive is a leading online course provider in everything from learning to code to becoming a YouTube star. Mammoth Interactive courses have been featured on Harvard’s edX, Business Insider and more.

Over 11 years, Mammoth Interactive has built a global student community with 1.1 million courses sold. Mammoth Interactive has released over 250 courses and 2,500 hours of video content.

Founder and CEO John Bura has been programming since 1997 and teaching since 2002. John has created top-selling applications for iOS, Xbox and more. John also runs SaaS company Devonian Apps, building efficiency-minded software for technology workers like you.