# NEAR

By [JJJJOUND](https://paragraph.com/@jjjjound) · 2022-01-30

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NEAR is a sharded, developer-friendly, proof-of-stake public blockchain, built by a world-class team that has built some of the world's only sharded databases at scale.

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*Originally published on [JJJJOUND](https://paragraph.com/@jjjjound/near)*