NEAR Treasury Firm Buys the Data Behind 3.5B Requests

FastNEAR handles the requests applications make

Most people using a wallet never see the infrastructure behind it. A balance check, an old-transaction search or a payment sent through an application all require a service that can retrieve data from the blockchain or submit information to it. FastNEAR provides those connections for the NEAR ecosystem.

SVRN’s October 8 announcement says FastNEAR operates servers that respond to requests to read from and write to NEAR, maintains archival infrastructure containing its transaction history and provides a developer data feed called NEARDATA. The company says the service handles more than 3.5 billion requests per month a...