Adding support for NEAR within the Pocket Network improves the experience for developers, allowing them to deploy applications on any and every blockchain network supported by Pocket Network, without concern over single points of failure that are prone to bring down service.

Pocket Network boasts a globally distributed network of more than 47,000 full nodes that service Web3 applications across 46 blockchains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Fuse, Avalanche, and Harmony.

Adding support for NEAR takes Pocket Network’s mission a step further by not only providing abundant bandwidth for the NEAR blockchain network, but also turning on revenue generation.

This gives NEAR and Pocket Network node runners an opportunity to earn $POKT for servicing traffic from applications, tools, services, and protocols.

Michael O’Rourke, Co-Founder and CEO of Pocket Network said, “Supporting NEAR, the fastest-growing non-EVM L1, is a testament to Pocket’s chain-agnostic mission to support 100 blockchain networks by the end of the year. Pocket goes where the developers and users go, and they are going to NEAR in droves."

“Supporting NEAR within Pocket Network provides a more resilient, reliable, and censorship-resistant RPC service for developers to leverage, creates an extra stream of revenue in the form of $POKT incentives for full-node operators, and makes the NEAR blockchain network more robust. It’s a win-win-win scenario for NEAR apps, NEAR nodes, and the Pocket Network protocol," he added.

Pocket Network allocates NEAR network bandwidth and relays NEAR traffic autonomously through its