Jul. 20, 2026
Aurora mainnet down since early morning UTC, remains unavailable
The NEAR Protocol-based Ethereum-compatible layer has been offline for hours with no official explanation, though the broader market barely noticed Aurora, the Ethereum-compatible blockchain layer built on NEAR Protocol, went dark at 02:16 UTC on... Read more.
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