Quick reference card: NEAR founder Illia
Illia Polosukhin was an engineering manager at Google Research before co-founding NEAR with Alexander Skidanov.
NEAR uses a sharded architecture that splits the network into multiple shards to process transactions simultaneously. This approach is called Nightshade.
Before transferring tokens to a NEAR account, verify the full account name—a single character difference could mean it belongs to someone else.
$NEAR is NEAR Protocol’s native token, used to pay transaction fees and stake on the network. Current price: 3.897.