NEAR House of Stake is Officially Live on Mainnet

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The Near Protocol announced via X on Monday that NEAR House of Stake is officially live on mainnet.

NEAR House of Stake is Officially Live on Mainnet

The Near Protocol announced via X on Monday that NEAR House of Stake is officially live on mainnet. This allows users to lock their NEAR to gain governance over the NEAR Protocol and receive incentives.

House of Stake is a novel experiment in on-chain governance that incorporates lessons from NDC and other previous governance experiments. It replaces “one person, one vote” with a flexible, token-locked voting mechanism called veNEAR (vote-escrowed NEAR), which strengthens governance influence based on time-locked commitment.

Phase one, now underway, is about bootstrapping: building foundational infrastructure, establishing legitimacy, and delivering a functional and accountable system of stake-weighted governance.

In phase two, House of Stake will take on broader responsibilities across the NEAR ecosystem, including technical and economic governance of NEAR infrastructure such as Chain Signatures, NEAR Intents, and NEAR AI Cloud. Finally, in phase three, AI becomes a first-class participant in governance—supporting decision-making, managing workflows, and eventually unlocking new models like “swarm governance.”

NEAR Protocol is a decentralized application platform designed to make apps similarly usable to those on today’s web. The network runs on a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism called Nightshade, which aims to provide dynamic scalability and stabilize fees.NEAR is trading at $2.40, down by 2.50% in the last 24 hours.

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Hassan Maishera

Hassan is a Nigeria-based financial content creator that has invested in many different blockchain projects, including Bitcoin, Ether, Stellar Lumens, Cardano, VeChain and Solana. He currently works as a financial markets and cryptocurrency writer and has contributed to a large number of the leading FX, stock and cryptocurrency blogs in the world.