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NEAR Protocol Enlists Bison Trails for Validator Support as It Heads Toward Full Mainnet
Bison Trails will help host the NEAR Protocol’s early validator set, currently consisting of over 150 nodes including some 40 of the project’s investors.

The NEAR Mainnet Is Live
Join Illia Polosukhin of NEAR protocol for a brief overview of NEAR, the recent mainnet launch, and future road-map. Following the presentation Aliaksandr [Sasha] Hudzilin hosts an open web collective with Anton Bukov of 1inch Exchange, Tanuj Nigam of TessaB, Canaan Linder of Stardust and Peter Mitchell of Flu.

NEAR Protocol Launches Following $21M Token Sale Led by Andreessen Horowitz
NEAR announced Monday the closing of a $21.6 million token sale involving a16z, Pantera and others. It also revealed the stealth-mode launch of the NEAR mainnet on April 22.

Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team for Virtual Developer Event
A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.


