Research corpus ConsensusBLC-STUDY-0017

The NEAR White Paper

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.

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Authors: The NEAR team
Date: 2019
Publisher: The NEAR team
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0017
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — NEAR white paper
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Relationships

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Author–date

The NEAR team (2019). The NEAR White Paper. The NEAR team. https://near.org/papers/the-official-near-white-paper/

BibTeX

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  title = {The NEAR White Paper},
  author = {The NEAR team},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {The NEAR team},
  url = {https://near.org/papers/the-official-near-white-paper/},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/near}
}

RIS

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CSL-JSON

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Rights record

Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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