Why choose NEAR to implement DA?
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Why choose NEAR to implement DA?
With an easy-to-implement, continuously improving simple architecture and the lowest transaction fees, NEAR DA is quite fast and cost-effective.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: altan tutar
Translation: 1912212.eth, Foresight News
It's a mistake to think of NEAR as just another blockchain.
Before we begin, let me explain why NEAR is best positioned to solve Ethereum’s scalability and fragmentation issues:
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100% uptime across 4 shards since mainnet launch in October 2020
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Over 100 million registered accounts, with monthly active accounts (MAA) reaching 16 million
Supporting such high activity and scalability demands high data availability (DA) at low data costs, enabling applications to scale toward mainstream adoption.
NEAR DA offers a solution to this scalability challenge. With its simple architecture that’s easy to implement, continuously improving efficiency, and the lowest transaction fees, NEAR DA is fast and cost-effective.
Data availability and NEAR DA also play a critical role in chain abstraction. As zero-knowledge technology enables unified cross-chain security through state proofs, settlement data will become easier to access from different networks.
One might ask—what comes next for NEAR DA?
This is where data availability sharding comes in.
It represents a new approach to data availability within sharded blockchains.
The NEAR engineering team recently announced a shift toward stateless validation—the next phase in sharding—which will further reduce hardware requirements for certain types of validators (block validators) by moving state into memory.
This means the number of shards can increase significantly, greatly boosting NEAR’s overall throughput.
While NEAR is already fast—each of its 4 shards capable of 4 MB/s—scaling to n shards means Rollups using NEAR won’t have to compete for block space.
As the NEAR protocol scales the number of shards to n, the amount of data each individual shard must store decreases. Ultimately, it becomes theoretically possible for every account on the NEAR protocol to become its own shard.
Although data availability sharding is still in research and development, it highlights the foundational advantages NEAR offers to builders and the broader ecosystem.
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