I remember the first time I used an iPhone; those complicated keyboards, styluses, and handwriting recognition suddenly seemed ridiculous—technology should be this simple.
Today, as I watch my friend make her first gasless transfer on @NEARProtocol, the same confusion and surprise in her eyes made me realize: we are standing at the "iPhone moment" of blockchain.
🍎 The disruptive philosophy of "less is more"
NEAR's ambition is not to create a "better Ethereum," but to redefine what blockchain should look like:
Disappearing gas fees: just as the iPhone hid the file system, @NEARProtocol makes the most anti-human settings of blockchain completely invisible.
Self-healing sharding: automatically scaling during traffic surges, just like iOS doesn’t require users to clear memory.
Developer "true fragrance law": in the past three months, the number of developers switching from Web2 has exceeded that of native Web3 developers.
🌱 The "tropical rainforest effect" of the ecosystem
On the surface, the trees may not be tall, but the species diversity is astonishing:
The "dark line" of chain abstraction: users may not even know that the DApps they are using run on NEAR—this is the real victory.
The "open card" of Asian forces: Line Next chooses NEAR to build an NFT ecosystem, and South Korean gaming giant Netmarble has secretly deployed three blockchain games.
Those "not like Web3" blockbuster apps: a social application with 500,000 daily active users, where users don’t care about the blockchain—this is the essence of mass adoption.
⌛️ The "temporal dislocation" of market perception
While mainstream narratives are still discussing "the next Solana," data reveals a more dramatic truth:
FDV is only 3% of SOL's peak, but:
Sharding technology is at least 18 months ahead of ETH2.0.
Daily active address growth is 800% year-over-year (small base? Look at the early internet growth curve).
The "scissors gap" of institutional holdings: the holdings of the top ten addresses have doubled in the past six months, but social media discussion has actually decreased—typical "smart money" operation.
Remember this feeling:
In 2010, people laughed at "who would need a smartphone."
In 2015, people questioned "cloud computing is fundamentally insecure."
In 2021, people firmly believed "the L1 war is over."
And today, as @NEARProtocol makes the blockchain experience "boring"—no mnemonic phrase panic, no gas fee anxiety, no chain selection difficulties—perhaps this is the ultimate signal of its impending success.
Because all great technologies will eventually disappear into daily life, just like electricity and mobile networks.
#NEARProtocol #Near #KaitoAI
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