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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | The NEAR White Paper |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | NEAR's public design paper: a sharded proof-of-stake chain with a single account model, nightshade-style data availability across chunks, and a stated intent that hiding the shards from application authors is part of the product. |
| Who may write | The NEAR team |
| What is settled | Chunk producers handle a portion of a block. Block producers assemble a header over those chunks. |
| Load-bearing assumption | The white paper is not the current protocol specification. NEAR publishes specs separately. |
| What this library says afterwards | Hiding shards from developers does not hide failure domains from operators. |
| Rights | Official external source only |