NEAR Mainnet 2.13.0 released, introduced post-quantum signatures and dynamic sharding, and voting began on July 20

Comparatively, according to NEAR Chain Status's official announcement, NEAR mainnet version 2.13.0 has been released, introducing a post-quantum transaction signature scheme and dynamic sharding function.

Voting will begin on July 20 at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time. Vadim, a former NEAR core developer, explained that this upgrade covers most blockchains' features that require a ten-year roadmap: post-quantum signature ML-DSA-65 became the third key type of protocol after ed25519 and secp256k1. Accounts can hold keys that cannot be forged by quantum computers, and only 32 byte hashes are recorded on the chain; dynamic sharding allows the chain to automatically monitor the state size of each shard and split the shards at the epoch boundary without protocol upgrades or manual intervention; gas keys are The agent economy provides key functionality, and a single account can run a batch of agents to send transactions simultaneously without nonce conflicts.