It is considered one of the best in the industry, the development team of the most developer-friendly platform NEAR, in the field of decentralized applications. Near is a research and development team solely responsible for the development and evolution of the protocol. In order to advance it to the perfect solution for the coming generation of dApps, the team around NEAR focuses on user-friendliness from the perspective of the programmers as well as the end users, and in the end it should be the basis for applications based on blockchain technology that are suitable for the masses.

The development team has already been able to assert itself in the blockchain industry in the past; on the one hand, they were able to prove that database systems work on a global scale with the help of sharding technology. For another, many of the members are known from numerous programming championships.

In the eyes of the developers, NEAR is an opportunity to create a cornerstone for a better Internet, where users themselves have complete control over their money, data, and identity.