NEAR Protocol (@NEARProtocol) — Twitter Score 462 out of 1000

NEAR Protocol is a sharded Layer-1 blockchain and agent-economy infrastructure project co-founded by Illia Polosukhin and Alexander Skidanov in 2018. NEAR Protocol's Twitter Score is 463 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #400 (top 0.1%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.

NEAR Protocol originated from an effort to build AI models capable of writing code from natural-language descriptions, before blockchain payment and scalability challenges led its founders toward building a general-purpose blockchain. Its mainnet launched in April 2020, and its native cryptocurrency is NEAR. The protocol is built around a sharded architecture with a 600ms block time, 1.2-second finality, 9 shards, and scalability targeting 1 million TPS. NEAR Protocol describes itself as open infrastructure powering the agent economy, unifying liquidity across 35+ chains through intent-based execution, and running confidential AI inference inside Trusted Execution Environments.

NEAR Protocol is affiliated with the NEAR Foundation, NEAR AI, and NEAR One. NEAR Intents, its universal transaction layer connecting any chain, any asset, and any agent, has reached $19B in volume to date and is integrated by partners including Ledger, Brave Wallet, Infinex, ThorSwap, and HOT Wallet. Rainbow Bridge enabled trustless asset transfers between NEAR and Ethereum, while Aurora brought EVM compatibility natively to the protocol. House of Stake, NEAR's stake-based governance system, is live on mainnet for protocol upgrades, economic parameters, and treasury decisions through onchain ratification.

NEAR Protocol has attracted significant institutional backing. In April 2022, it secured a $350 million investment led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Hashed, Dragonfly, ParaFi, and others. A private token sale reported at $150 million was led by Three Arrows Capital, which has since ceased operations, with participation from Mechanism Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Jump Capital, Circle Ventures, and Alameda Research, which also no longer operates. Earlier backers include Metastable Capital, Accomplice, Pantera Capital, Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain.com, Baidu Ventures, and Digital Currency Group. In 2021, NEAR Protocol also announced an $800 million fund to support applications built on the protocol, with a focus on DeFi.

NEAR Protocol's portfolio includes Token Engineering Academy, Rust In Blockchain, Niftmint, reBaked - BUIDL mode on, Distributed Global, Solace, Orange DAO and Dream DAO. NEAR Protocol's account has accumulated 1,828,211 followers as of July 2026 and has published 13,468 posts. NEAR Protocol has been mentioned by 2,516 accounts, with 14,400 total mentions.

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The accounts that follow NEAR Protocol include 1,958 founders, 371 angel investors, 1,214 influencers and 173 VCs. Among them are Chris Dixon, Solana, Toly, Ansem, Laura Shin and Mert.