According to ChainCatcher news and the official blog, the NEAR Foundation has announced the launch of *NEAR Name Tokens, a multi-chain, cross-platform digital identity suitable for Web3 and other fields.Users will be able to use these name tokens in various ways, including: as simplified wallet addresses across hundreds of different blockchain networks, as infrastructure identifiers across hundreds of different blockchain networks, as cross-platform usernames spanning various decentralized platforms (including DeFi, GameFi, SocialFi, SportFi, and other related applications), as verifiable credentials (VC) for platforms and services with which users interact, to gain unique benefits and reward programs for participating in the D3 ecosystem, and as an expression of interest in the ultimate .NEAR equivalent domain on the internet.NEAR Name Tokens have an asterisk () between the domain and the extension, for example you*near, instead of a dot (.). Part of the reason is that NEAR accounts already use the .NEAR extension, so they want to avoid confusing users.