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NEAR Foundation

NEAR Foundation

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Overview

The NEAR Foundation is a Switzerland-based nonprofit foundation (Stiftung) whose mission is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world . It supports the NEAR ecosystem, a decentralized blockchain-based platform for building decentralized applications, by allocating support and resources to other nodes in the ecosystem . The Foundation aims to minimize its own scope by devolving functions and resources to the ecosystem and supporting the development of decentralized infrastructure .

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2018

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HeadquartersZug, Zug
Year Founded2018

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