The Near Protocol announced via a blog post on Friday that it has launched the NEAR BigQuery Public Dataset for anyone who wants to query blockchain data in an easy and cost-effective way. The NEAR BigQuery Public Dataset provides near real-time blockchain data that can be easily queried with SQL. The team added that the NEAR BigQuery Public Dataset also eliminates the need to store and process bulk NEAR Protocol data.
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 $1.104, down by 1% in the last 24 hours.