What Is NEAR Protocol (NEAR)?

• NEAR Protocol is a layer-one blockchain that was designed as a community-run cloud computing platform and that eliminates some of the limitations that have been bogging competing blockchains, such as low transaction speeds, low throughput and poor interoperability. This provides the ideal environment for DApps and creates a developer and user-friendly platform. For instance, NEAR uses human-readable account names, unlike the cryptographic wallet addresses common to Ethereum. NEAR also introduces unique solutions to scaling problems and has its own consensus mechanism called “Doomslug.”
• NEAR Protocol is being built by the NEAR Collective, its community that is updating the initial code and releasing updates to the ecosystem. Its declared goal is to build a platform that is “secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people.”
• Flux, a protocol that allows developers to create markets based on assets, commodities, real-world events, and Mintbase, an NFT minting platform are examples of projects being built on NEAR Protocol.

Overview

In this dashboard, I will answer this question from Flipside Crypto:

• Q2. Every city has its monuments, as well as its transit systems.

In the City of NEAR, the legendary Rainbow Bridge is an object of great importance to the people: a wondrous object that enables passage to and from other cities.

Conclusion

• Rainbow Bridge experienced about 3.4 users over last 90 days and had about 11K users since inception.
• Rainbow Bridge experienced about 8K transactions over last 90 days and about 26K transactions since inception.
• BSTN token had most volume that bridge to NEAR Network with about 1B over last 90 days and PLY token had most volume since inception with about 10B volume. USDC had second place in two period.
• USDC had most popularity between bridged tokens also in over 90 days and since inception with about 33% proportion of all transactions.