NEAR

Blockchain

NEAR uses Doomslug PoS for consensus and features dynamic resharding ("Nightshade") for horizontal scalability. It supports EVM programs via Aurora.

• Consensus algo
  • Doomslug consensus algo spec
  • Comparison to PBFT, Tendermint, and HotStuff
• Sharding
  • Nightshade whitepaper
  • Comparison to Eth beacon chain
• Aurora (NEAR's EVM engine)
  • Aurora docs
  • Aurora examples

Ecosystem

• NEAR analytics
• Twitter thread on NEAR ecosystem metrics (Dec 2021)
• Twitter thread summarizing state of NEAR (Jan 2022)