NEAR Foundation

NEAR Foundation is a non-profit foundation headquartered in Zug, Switzerland that is responsible for contracting protocol maintainers, funding ecosystem development, and shepherding core governance of the NEAR protocol. It is the guardian of NEAR tokens and was created to help evangelize, raise awareness, support the ecosystem and allocate grants on behalf of the ecosystem.

Its mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to open technologies by growing and enabling a community of developers and creators.

While it shares a mission with the entirety of the NEAR Collective, the Foundation’s role in this is to realize a more specific vision:

…a self-sufficient ecosystem of creators, developers, entrepreneurs, community members and tokenholders whose collaborative efforts make the NEAR ecosystem the best place to build massively impactful projects in the Open Web.