The chain can carry the usage

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NEAR finalizes blocks within seconds and charges low gas fees, so the NEAR side of a cross-chain trade settles quickly and cheaply. Protocol upgrades ship through nearcore releases.

The chain can carry the usage

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Technology

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Live on NEAR mainnet

Block at 09:01:10 UTC

Block height

224,192,836

Latest final block

Transactions / minute (daily average)

619

Average on 2026-11-11

Chunk gas used

0.6%

Gas used ÷ gas limit, latest final block

Average transactions per minute each day, 2026-10-29 to 2026-11-11

The samples behind the live panel: block height and chunk gas each minute over the 2 hours to the newest sample. Transactions a minute come from the daily transaction counts (chain-activity).

SELECT at, metric, value
FROM live_samples
WHERE at >= strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%fZ', (SELECT MAX(at) FROM live_samples), '-120 minutes')
ORDER BY at DESC, metric

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Protocol upgrades

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Scaling and security facts

NEAR scaling and security facts
Stateless validation	Live since August 2024 (protocol 69)
Lab benchmark	1M TPS on 70 shards, 140 nodes, native transfers
Peak recorded on mainnet	4,135 TPS (100-block window)
Post-quantum keys	ML-DSA-65 keys live since July 2026; in-contract verification added in protocol 87; mainnet runs protocol 88
SPICE (200 ms blocks)	In development