Everybody is talking about NEAR.
+ price is going up, which is great
+ NEAR is building amazing stuff in privacy and AI
But not everybody is talking about what I believe is one of the most exciting developments in blockchain infrastructure → DYNAMIC RESHARDING.
Here’s what is happening and why it matters ↓
A blockchain network is only useful if it can be used at scale
Price going up and influential crypto people talking about near is cool, but if all the new users and investors that will come from that can’t use it flawlessly -- it becomes meaningless.
NEAR needs to be able to continue working under high load (and it has, with no downtime since mainnet launch in 2020).
However, NEAR is building to become the place were millions of agents will transact, make payments, call smart contracts, and do other onchain operations.
So, it needs to improve how it scales.
Right now, new shards are added mannually (as was done in April 2025, adding the 9th shard after splitting shard 0).
Manual resharding takes a lot of time, coordination efforts, and solid code writing and reviewing to prevent bugs.
By the end of Q2 2026, NEAR will start to do all that automatically.
demand increased?
near has more users?
needs one more shard?
done. automatically. at the protocol level. securely.
No other chain can do that (yet).
This is why it matters.
