After a 5 months break from protocol development, I'm back collaborating with the protocol team to solve congestion control in NEAR Protocol. In a first step, we need solid technical foundation that rejects transactions above what the system can handle within the next minute or so. The theory being that it's better to reject a transaction immediately than have it pending for hours. In a later step, we plan to propose adding priority fees to give users and developers the tools to get their transactions executed quickly even during times of high demand. If you want to learn more about the technical details of how we plan to handle floods of transactions, you can follow this tracking issue on GitHub: https://github.com/near/near-one-project-tracking/issues/48