Near Earth LLC is a key entity associated with the development and operation of the NEAR Protocol, a high-performance, carbon-neutral, layer-one blockchain. The project's mission is to empower a global community to build a more open and accessible web by providing a scalable, secure, and user-friendly platform for decentralized applications (dApps). Co-founded by Alexander Skidanov and Illia Polosukhin, the NEAR project began in 2018 and launched its mainnet in 2020. Near Earth LLC, along with the Swiss-based NEAR Foundation, drives the core development, research, and ecosystem growth for the protocol.

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