CoinVoice has recently learned that the NEAR Protocol announced that the number of its mainnet shards has increased from 4 to 6. This upgrade has increased the network's transaction processing capacity by 50%.
It is expected that by the end of Q2 2024, NEAR will also launch the "stateless verification" function on the main network, by which time the throughput of each shard is expected to increase by another 5 times. [Original link]