NEAR

near.org

NEAR Foundation (NF) is a Switzerland-based nonprofit whose mission is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people worldwide. One of its core focus areas is the NEAR ecosystem, which includes a fully operational decentralised blockchain-based platform for building decentralized applications. NF carries out its mission primarily by allocating support and resources to other nodes in the NEAR ecosystem, rather than via direct intervention or operations. Unlike many organizations of its type, NF’s ultimate goal is to minimize its own scope and footprint by continuing to devolve functions and resources to the ecosystem; and support the development of decentralised infrastructure necessary for those ecosystem functions to operate in a self-sufficient manner.