About Illia, NEAR’s founder
· NEAR uses a sharded architecture that divides the network into multiple shards to process transactions simultaneously. This approach is called Nightshade.
· NEAR accounts can use easy-to-remember names (such as alice.near), rather than just a long string of random addresses.
$NEAR is the native token of the NEAR Protocol, used to pay transaction fees and stake on the network.

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