NEAR Foundation launched the Infrastructure Committee, a new initiative aimed at strengthening NEAR's critical infrastructure. The program allocates $4 million to support infrastructure projects, with the goal of supporting the success of NEAR's ecosystem projects in an open and transparent manner, and allocating funds and finding projects. It is reported that critical infrastructure includes RPC nodes, relays, indexers, bridging, wallets, load balancers, and oracles. In addition, NEAR should be correctly listed on all available DEX tools; it needs to be able to easily report and fix incidents and interruptions. The committee is composed of ecological leaders and partners from the core NEAR organization. Its goal is to decentralize decision-making, enhance critical infrastructure, simplify work to improve clarity and decentralization.