NEAR Stake Wars: Episode III

Stake Wars is back to help decentralize the NEAR network and help the community with cool new challenges and rewards to members who want to become validators. In Stake Wars: Episode III, NEAR is focusing on Chunk-Only Producers — NEAR’s next step toward a fully-sharded protocol. By introducing this new type of validator, NEAR plans to increase the total number of validator seats by an additional 200-300 to help decentralize the network further.Chunk-Only Producers help decentralize and secure NEAR

The NEAR Network is currently secured by 100 validators. NEAR’s roadmap will allow the protocol to become fully-sharded. This will help reach the ambitious goal to decentralize NEAR while keeping the network secure. Chunk-Only Producers are an important milestone along this path.