# CalimeroNetwork

By [cryptogangster](https://paragraph.com/@cryptogangster-2) · 2022-10-20

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Calimero has all the benefits of

[@NEARProtocol](https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol)

: scalability, security, developer-friendly, sharding and more. With a note that Calimero’s private shards don’t use NEAR’s validators, execution and state storage. Which additional benefits does Calimero bring?

1\. Even greater scalability & cost efficiency - The transactions within your private shard are FREE and fast. With throughput of 200.000 transactions per second. Bridging the assets or calling data is fast (5-10sec) and cheap (it costs a couple of cents).

2\. Making part (or all) of your transactions private, with only people/entities with the access to the shard being able to view the data.

3\. Customizable - Choose the amount of validators and nodes, as well as the type of data/assets you want to work with, define the block times, gas limits, relayer speed, permissions, contract sizes and much more!

4\. EVM compatibility - You can use

[@auroraisnear](https://twitter.com/auroraisnear)

to move your DApp already built on Ethereum to NEAR (instead of building them from scratch).

5\. Interoperability - Shards can communicate with the

[@NEARProtocol](https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol)

mainnet, and between themselves (each shard can represent a different company or parts of the same company), and thanks to the bridge, multiple different types of assets can be transferred.

1.  WASM compatibility - The standard used in most browsers.
    
2.  Javascript support for easy onboarding to web3.

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*Originally published on [cryptogangster](https://paragraph.com/@cryptogangster-2/calimeronetwork)*