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# The NEAR Protocol Specification

Near Protocol is the scalable blockchain protocol.

For the overview of the NEAR Protocol, read the following documents in numerical order.
1. [Terminology](Terminology.md)
2. [Data structures](DataStructures/)
3. [Architecture](Architecture.md)
4. [Chain specification](ChainSpec/)
5. [Runtime specification](RuntimeSpec/)
6. [Network specification](NetworkSpec/NetworkSpec.md)  
7. [Economics](Economics/Economic.md)

## Standards

Standards such as Fungible Token Standard can be found in [Standards](Standards/README.md) page.
