NEAR Blockchain Gets Major Upgrade to Add ‘Stateless Validation’

“NEAR
validators
no
longer
have
to
maintain
the
state
of
a
shard
locally
and
can
retrieve
all
the
information
they
need
to
validate
state
changes,
or
‘state
witnesses,’
from
the
network,”
according
to
the
press
release.
“This
both
improves
single-shard
performance
as
well
as
adds
capacity
for
more
shards
on
the
network.”