Validators process transactions and receive validator rewards (supply-side fees).

NEAR Protocol is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). NEAR Protocol was founded by Alexander Skidanov & Ilya Polosukhin and launched in 2017.

NEAR holders own and govern the protocol. They currently take (burn) all of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). NEAR Protocol's investors include a16z, Pantera Capital, Libertus, etc.

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# Core developers Methodology

## Overview

Core developers measures the number of unique GitHub contributors who made at least one commit to the project’s public repositories over the past 30 days. For fully open source projects, it reflects the size of the project’s active engineering base.

Unique contributors who made at least one public commit over the past 30 days.

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