AMBBi pioneered the concept of twin inscriptions. NFT uses recursive inscriptions on BTC, which is more valuable than NFTs on Ethereum.

Within two days, Near officially announced two controversial actions. First, the foundation announced a 40% layoff, and then released a 2024 update roadmap.

On January 11, the Near Foundation announced that it would reduce its team members by 40%, with the main impact being on the marketing, business development and community teams, involving a total of 35 employees. This layoff will reduce the Near Foundation team members from the initial 90 to about 55.

The next day, Near released the 2024 update roadmap, introducing stateless verification, developing zkWASM, improving data availability, etc. to improve the usability, scalability and decentralization of the NEAR protocol.