NEAR Mainnet Runs Stateless Validation and Post-Quantum Signatures
The combination of these technologies represents ongoing development of NEAR’s underlying blockchain infrastructure, with changes spanning network validation, shard architecture and cryptographic security.
Stateless Validation Comes to NEAR
Stateless validation is among the technologies identified by BSCN as being live on NEAR’s mainnet. The approach changes how validators handle blockchain state, allowing validation to be performed without requiring every validator to maintain the full state locally.
For a blockchain network, validation architecture is closely tied to how network resources are managed as transaction activity and application requirements change. NEAR’s implementation places stateless validation alongside other infrastructure changes already operating on its mainnet.
BSCN highlighted the development as part of the network’s ongoing technical progress rather than announcing a new testnet initiative or future upgrade.
Self-Splitting Shards on Mainnet
NEAR’s mainnet also includes self-splitting shards, according to the post.
Sharding divides blockchain activity across multiple segments, or shards, rather than processing all activity through a single execution environment. Self-splitting introduces an architectural mechanism for shards to divide as required by the network’s design.
The inclusion of self-splitting shards alongside stateless validation indicates that the changes involve different parts of NEAR’s infrastructure. However, the BSCN post did not provide specific performance figures, transaction capacity measurements or details about how much network activity has been affected by the implementation.
Post-Quantum Signatures Added to Infrastructure
The third technology highlighted by BSCN is post-quantum cryptography, specifically signatures described in the post as NIST-approved.
Post-quantum cryptographic systems are designed to address security threats associated with sufficiently powerful quantum computers, which could challenge some cryptographic techniques used by current digital systems.
BSCN did not identify a specific signature standard in its post or provide details on how the signatures are being deployed across NEAR’s network. The post instead noted that the technology is already live on NEAR mainnet.
Taken together, the three developments cover network validation, scalability architecture and cryptographic security. The source did not provide additional performance data or a new milestone beyond confirming that these technologies are operating on mainnet.
writer: Ethan Collins
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