With the Chinese year of the dragon coming around the corner, NEAR saw a curious memecoin rise from its ever-evolving tech stack. For those unaware, the symbol of the Black Dragon resonates deeply within the NEAR community, mostly because it pays homage to Ilia Polosukhin (@ilblackdragon)—a key architect of NEAR who champions the concept of chain abstraction.

In this manner, Black Dragon emerges as a playful yet enlightening force in the open-source space. It is designed to be a mass-adoption driver and a building block for the community to achieve the core purpose of supporting the development of the NEAR and its ''Dragon Stack''.