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NEAR Launches Nightshade Sharding, Paving the Way for Mass Adoption DEVELOPERS November 15, 2021 Today is a momentous day for the NEAR blockchain and the NEAR ecosystem: The launch of Simple Nightshade, the first step toward a fully sharded and secure blockchain. Since NEAR released the design for the protocol back i...
NEAR in March: Unchain Fund, SailGP, and DAOs NEAR FOUNDATION April 1, 2022 The NEAR community’s extraordinary momentum continued into March, with a number of exciting launches, partnerships, hackathons, and more happening across the ecosystem. While the events unfolding in Ukraine had a profound effect on many of th...
NEAR Developer Research: Validating the NEAR DevX Tech Stack – Round 2 DEVELOPERS October 29, 2020 Update: We’ve quickly filled up the available sessions for this round of research, and will not be taking on any more participants. The post will remain on the blog for those interested in getting a peek at what we’re up ...
NEAR Wallet’s Evolution in 2023 NEAR FOUNDATION January 11, 2023 NEAR Foundation and Pagoda, along with the Wallets Working Group, have conducted extensive community discussions over the last several months about the evolution of wallets in the NEAR ecosystem. In keeping with the Foundation’s goal to empower the commun...
The Creator Economy in Practice: Arroz Estúdios CASE STUDIES April 12, 2021 Arroz Estúdios is a Lisbon based Art Studio that has been open for more than two and a half years. With more than eight thousand members, the studio space boasts a physical area of fourteen Estúdios, two galleries, a co-working space, an outdoo...
--- id: predeployed-contract title: Pre-deployed Contract sidebar_label: Pre-deployed Contract --- > Learn how to easily receive fungible tokens without doing any software development by using a readily-available FT smart contract. ## Prerequisites To complete this tutorial successfully, you'll need: - [A NEAR test...
--- title: Overall BOS description: Overview of the NEAR Blockchain Operating System (BOS) sidebar_position: 1 --- # Blockchain Operating System (BOS) The OS for an open web ### Highlights: * A new OS, built for a more free and open web, that is inherently secure, decentralized, easy to develop on, easy to onbo...
import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem'; <Tabs groupId="nft-contract-tabs" className="file-tabs"> <TabItem value="NFT Primitive" label="Reference" default> ```js import { Wallet } from './near-wallet'; const CONTRACT_ADDRESS = "nft.primitives.near"; const wallet = new Wallet({ createAcce...
--- id: debug-rpc-and-debug-pages title: Debug RPC and Debug Pages sidebar_label: Debug RPC and Debug Pages sidebar_position: 9 --- Recently, we’ve added a set of debug pages, that allow you to see more details about how your node works. ## Enabling debug page Debug support must be enabled in the `config.json` (auto...
NEAR After NEARCON In Numbers COMMUNITY September 30, 2022 Anyone who made the trip to Lisbon for NEARCON 2022, or tuned in via the YouTube livestream or Twitter, knew NEARCON was a smashing success. The vibe was something to behold. From devs and builders to other visionaries and champions of NEAR, NEARCON showcased t...
--- NEP: 181 Title: Non Fungible Token Enumeration Author: Chad Ostrowski <@chadoh>, Thor <@thor314> DiscussionsTo: https://github.com/near/NEPs/discussions/181 Status: Final Type: Standards Track Category: Contract Created: 03-Mar-2022 Requires: 171 --- ## Summary Standard interfaces for counting & fetching tokens, ...
Chain Signatures Launch to Enable Transactions on Any Blockchain from a NEAR Account DEVELOPERS March 26, 2024 Today at BUIDL Asia in Seoul, Korea, NEAR Co-Founder and NEAR Foundation CEO Illia Polosukhin announced the launch of Chain Signatures on NEAR. Chain Signatures enable NEAR accounts, including smart contracts,...
NEAR Validator Upgrade Allows Hundreds To Help Secure The Network DEVELOPERS November 29, 2021 Since the NEAR Mainnet launch in October 2020, we have seen steady growth in the number of validators. Today, NEAR has roughly 60 validators on mainnet, with many more wanting to join. Nevertheless, the extremely high thresho...
--- id: nft title: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) hide_table_of_contents: false --- import {FeatureList, Column, Feature} from "@site/src/components/featurelist" import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem'; import BOSMintNFT from "./nft/bos/mint.md" import BOSBuyNFT from "./nft/bos/buy.md" import...
NEAR Community Update: April 5, 2019 COMMUNITY April 5, 2019 We’ve already open sourced our code on Github so developers can follow along as the blockchain and its tooling comes together. Frankly, open-sourcing the protocol development is table stakes and every credible next-generation protocol has already done this. ...
--- sidebar_position: 2 --- # Reproducible Builds Reproducible builds let different people build the same program and get the exact same outputs as one another. It helps users trust that deployed contracts are built correctly and correspond to the source code. To verify your contract user can build it themselves and c...
Future of Blockchain Hackathon: NEAR Recap COMMUNITY May 21, 2020 NEAR participated in the Future of Blockchain Hackathon hosted by StakeZero Ventures. The hackathon started in December 2019 and continued until March 2020. We would like to thank StakeZero Ventures for hosting the event, and all those amazing participa...
NEAR Strategic Update and Outlook for 2023 NEAR FOUNDATION December 15, 2022 The recent stream of news clearly demonstrates that the world needs Web3. Trust in legacy institutions is breaking down, individual privacy and individual freedom are equally at risk, and the major Web2 platforms we use every day have become m...
With MeshFlux, Multimedia Art and Gaming Explore Blockchain Technology COMMUNITY August 10, 2023 The worlds of art and blockchain are no strangers. On NEAR, art can be found on apps like Mintbase, Paras, and many other ecosystem projects. With the MeshFlux project, however, Turkish artist and designer Ufuk Barış Mutlu...
--- id: onboarding-checklist title: Project Onboarding Checklist sidebar_label: Project Onboarding Checklist sidebar_position: 4 --- # NEAR Project Onboarding Checklist :::info on this page * Communities to join when you start * Support networks while you are building * Networking and Marketing support once your proj...
LiNEAR Protocol Introduces Omnichain Liquid Restaking to Advance NEAR’s Chain Abstraction COMMUNITY March 27, 2024 LiNEAR, the leading DeFi protocol on NEAR with the highest TVL, is planning to enhance the security of NEAR’s Chain Abstracted network through restaking, ensuring a secure future for a chain-agnostic and c...
Case Study: OnMachina’s Jonathan Bryce on Building Decentralized Storage for an Open Web NEAR FOUNDATION June 5, 2023 NEAR is a home to a number of amazing apps and projects. These developers, founders, and entrepreneurs are using NEAR to effortlessly create and distribute innovative decentralized apps, while helping b...
NEAR Token Supply and Distribution COMMUNITY June 19, 2020 Last updated: 20201016 (see change log section at the end) NEAR exists to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world. The platform and its surrounding ecosystem rely on the efforts of a broad community of participants, builders, vali...
--- id: what-is title: What is a Smart Contract? sidebar_label: What is a Contract? --- Smart contracts are pieces of **executable code** that live in a NEAR account. They can **store data**, **perform transactions** in the account’s name, and **expose methods** so other accounts can interact with them. ![img](/docs/...
--- description: This is a guide to DAO Governance with Astro on NEAR. title: DAO Governance --- # DAO Governance :::info on this page * This guide provides information on the different features available to DAOs built with Astro on NEAR, such as custom tokens, NFTs, and bounties. * To create a voting token, a DAO ca...
Infura Brings its Leading ETH Dev Platform to NEAR Protocol COMMUNITY May 25, 2022 ConsenSys, the Ethereum incubator and enterprise company, has announced a partnership between the NEAR Protocol and Infura, the leading Ethereum development platform. This agreement paves the way for over 430,000 Infura developers to acc...
Our Last Update | December 13th, 2019 COMMUNITY December 13, 2019 Friday the 13th, our last community update… Until next year! This is going to be our last community update in 2019. Our next update, on Friday the 27th, is going to be an end of the year special. Mark the date in your calendar! Now that we got that out...
# Components Here is the high-level diagram of various runtime components, including some blockchain layer components. <img src="/images/runtime_architecture.svg" />
# Royalties and Payouts ## [NEP-199](https://github.com/near/NEPs/blob/master/neps/nep-0199.md) Version `2.0.0`. This standard assumes the NFT contract has implemented [NEP-171](https://github.com/near/NEPs/blob/master/specs/Standards/Tokens/NonFungibleToken/Core.md) (Core) and [NEP-178](https://github.com/near/NEPs...
--- description: A guide to using the Rainbow Bridge. title: Rainbow Bridge sidebar_position: 7 --- --- If you have existing assets on Ethereum, it's possible to transfer them to NEAR and vice-versa. The Rainbow Bridge allows you to move ERC-20 assets between Ethereum, Aurora and NEAR. The bridge was built by Aurora,...
--- id: economics title: Web 3.0 Economics sidebar_label: Economics --- With technological decentralization also came economical decentralization. It stands on 3 pillars - Non-Fungible tokens (NFTs), Fungible tokens (FTs) and Decentralized Finance (DeFi). ## Non-Fungible Tokens At the heart of the new Web 3 economy l...
--- id: kurtosis-localnet title: Creating a Local Development Environment sidebar_label: Local Development description: Using Kurtosis NEAR Package to develop locally --- > [Kurtosis](https://www.kurtosis.com/) has created an easy way to spin up a local NEAR testing environment using a [Docker container](https://www.d...
--- id: upgrade-contract title: Upgrading the Contract sidebar_label: Upgrade a Contract --- import {Github} from "@site/src/components/codetabs" In this tutorial, you'll build off the work you previously did to implement the [minting functionality](/tutorials/nfts/js/minting) on a skeleton smart contract. You got to ...
--- id: circulating-supply title: Creating a Circulating Supply sidebar_label: Circulating Supply --- import {Github} from "@site/src/components/codetabs" In the previous tutorial, you looked at what a fungible token was and how you could define one in your smart contract. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create ...
NEAR Protocol Awarded the Climate Neutral Product Label NEAR FOUNDATION April 16, 2021 Post by Yessin Schiegg Builders on NEAR, join us and offset your carbon footprint! How can a decentralized blockchain that uses energy be climate neutral? – It can, by a commitment to measure, reduce, and offset its carbon footprint...
NEAR and Dropt to Revolutionize Loyalty and Engagement NEAR FOUNDATION January 19, 2023 NEAR Foundation is excited to announce a new partnership with Dropt, focused on embedding Web3 technologies into customer loyalty and engagement programs. With ownership and interoperability being critical components in the next gen...
--- title: Contributing to NEAR sidebar_label: 'Contributing To NEAR' sidebar_position: 1 --- # Contributing to NEAR :::info on this page * NEAR welcomes contributions from interested individuals * There are numerous open issues across repositories, and bounties are regularly posted * For developers, there is a Devel...
An Industry Set For Change: A Future Outlook on Blockchain Adoption, Usability, and Scalability in Modern Times COMMUNITY January 15, 2019 What is Programmable Money? Our current system of monetary exchange has evolved over time to accommodate new marketplace demands and technological advancements, giving financial in...
--- sidebar_position: 2 --- # Contract Mutability Contract state mutability is handled automatically based on how [`self`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/keyword.self.html) is used in the function parameters. Depending on which is used, the [`#[near_bindgen]`](../contract-structure/near-bindgen.md) macro will generate...
--- id: transaction-anatomy title: Anatomy of a Transaction --- A transaction is a request from a user to the network to perform a set of actions. To create a transaction, the user must specify the following fields: - `Signer`: the account that signs the transaction - `Actions`: the set of actions to be performed (se...
--- id: oracles title: Price Oracles --- import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem'; Oracles are smart contracts that enable you to query the current price of an asset. Since smart contracts cannot connect to internet and pull information, Oracles rely on having someone constantly updating ...
--- title: Treasury Playbook description: Current treasury best practices for venture-backed startups --- # Treasury Playbook _This document is intended to be a living playbook for current treasury best practices for venture-backed startups. It draws from [FirstMark’s](https://firstmarkcap.com/) collective experience...
A Deep Dive into DAOs: Life Changing DAOs COMMUNITY March 25, 2022 In 2016, a few members of the Ethereum community came together to create a platform that would allow individuals to pitch project ideas. Community members would vote on these ideas using tokens they bought in exchange for sending Ether to a unique walle...
--- sidebar_position: 4 --- # Further Reading
- Proposal Name: Execution Outcome - Start Date: 2019-09-23 - NEP PR: [nearprotocol/neps#0017](https://github.com/nearprotocol/neps/pull/17) - Issue(s): https://github.com/nearprotocol/nearcore/issues/1307 # Summary [summary]: #summary Refactor current TransactionResult/TransactionLog/FinalTransactionResult to improv...
--- id: guest-book title: Guest Book --- import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem'; import {CodeTabs, Language, Github} from "@site/src/components/codetabs" Our Guest Book example is a simple app composed by two main components: 1. A smart contract that stores messages from users, allowing...
NEAR Protocol Roadmap 2023-4: The Next 2 Years of NEAR COMMUNITY November 9, 2022 This post, written by Pagoda’s Head of Protocol Bowen Wang, originally appeared on the Web3 startup platform and main contributor to the core Protocol Pagoda’s blog. NEAR has evolved tremendously in the two years since the mainnet launch...
--- description: This is a guide to launching DAOs on NEAR with Astro. title: How to Launch a DAO sidebar_position: 1 --- # 🚀 How to Launch a DAO :::info on this page * Astro offers four pre-set DAO types: Foundation, Clubs, Corporation, and Cooperative, which can be customized during the creation process. * To laun...
--- title: Strategic Category Positioning description: NEAR BOS Strategic Category Positioning sidebar_position: 2 --- # Strategic Positioning for NEAR/BOS at Consensus **There needs to be a place to build open software experiences that enable community, commerce, and communication with progressive decentralization**...
--- id: token-custody title: Token Custody Options sidebar_label: Token Custody sidebar_position: 1 --- --- There are several options available to manage your NEAR and NEAR-based assets. As with all blockchains, to claim or receive tokens you will need to generate a keypair which stores your crypto. You can do this...
--- title: 4.5 Future Creator Economy Developments description: The disappearance of NFTs and a new intuition for internet assets. --- # 4.5 Future Creator Economy Developments → The disappearance of NFTs and a new intuition for internet assets. The goal of this module has been to better understand the future of int...
--- id: migrate-from-near-lake title: Migrate from NEAR Lake framework sidebar_label: Migrate from Lake framework --- :::info NEAR QueryAPI is currently under development. Users who want to test-drive this solution need to be added to the allowlist before creating or forking QueryAPI indexers. You can request acces...
--- sidebar_position: 2 sidebar_label: "Store multiple puzzles" title: "Store multiple crossword puzzles using a specialized collection in NEAR called a LookupMap" --- import {Github} from "@site/src/components/codetabs" import bookPagination from '/docs/assets/crosswords/paging-through-hashes-swing--pierced_staggg.ne...
--- description: Easily onboard new users to the NEAR ecosystem title: NEARDROP sidebar_position: 5 --- --- [NEARDROP](https://app.neardrop.io) is an easy way to onboard someone new to the NEAR ecosystem by sending them a linkdrop URL to which will send the receiver to the NEAR wallet. In this guide you will learn ho...
--- sidebar_position: 3 sidebar_label: Setup title: RPC Setup --- :::warning Please be advised that these tools and services will be discontinued soon. ::: In order to use the RPC API you will need to setup the correct RPC endpoints: - `POST` for all RPC methods - `JSON RPC 2.0` - `id: "dontcare"` - Endpoint URL v...
NEAR and Startup Wise Guys Partner on MetaBUILD’s Pre-Accelerator Program NEAR FOUNDATION February 16, 2023 NEAR Foundation is excited to announce a new partnership with Startup Wise Guys — Europe’s biggest startup accelerator, which has empowered over 350 projects across the world. Together with SWG, the Foundation wi...
NFTs on NEAR: Where Will NFTs Go Next? COMMUNITY May 26, 2022 For a relatively new type of digital asset, non-fungible tokens, have permeated the mainstream at an incredibly fast rate. After Christie’s auction of Beeple’s “Everydays – The First 5000 Days” NFT in 2021, other artists like Pak and Roger Kilimanjaro follow...
--- id: skeleton title: Skeleton and JavaScript Architecture sidebar_label: Contract Architecture --- import {Github} from "@site/src/components/codetabs" > In this article, you'll learn about the basic architecture behind the NFT contract that you'll develop while following this _"Zero to Hero"_ series. > You'll disc...
NEAR and Nansen Partner on On-Chain Analytics for Founders and Investors NEAR FOUNDATION April 18, 2023 NEAR Foundation is excited to announce a new partnership with Nansen, a blockchain analytics firm, on advanced tools for dApp developers and investors. Led by the NEAR Balkans Hub, the partnership with Nansen will gi...
```rust // Set of possible action to take #[derive(BorshSerialize, BorshDeserialize, Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)] #[serde(crate = "near_sdk::serde")] pub enum Action { // Action to add proposal. Used internally. AddProposal, // Action to remove given proposal. Used for immediate deletion in special cases. ...
# GenesisConfig ## protocol_version _type: u32_ Protocol version that this genesis works with. ## genesis_time _type: DateTime_ Official time of blockchain start. ## genesis_height _type: u64_ Height of the genesis block. Note that genesis height is not necessarily 0. For example, mainnet genesis height is `9...
--- NEP: 393 Title: Soulbound Token Authors: Robert Zaremba <@robert-zaremba> DiscussionsTo: Status: Approved Type: Standards Track Category: Contract Created: 12-Sep-2022 Requires: --- # NEP: Soulbound Token ## Summary Soulbound Token (SBT) is a form of a non-fungible token which represents an aspect of an account:...
Doomslug vs PBFT, Tendermint, and Hotstuff DEVELOPERS February 5, 2020 In this blog post, we will see how Doomslug, our new block production technique, compares to PBFT, Tendermint, and Hotstuff. We will also dig relatively deep into how PBFT, Tendermint and Hotstuff work, cover view changes, pipelining, responsiveness...
--- id: dev-environment title: Choose your Dev Environment --- The environments in which you can develop `Components` are divided into two categories: - [Web Tools](#web-tools): Online tools that allow you to quickly start building and sharing components. - [Local Tools](#local-tools): Tools that allow you to develop...
Arpit Sharma Joins NEAR as Managing Director for India, Asia, and Middle East Expansion NEAR FOUNDATION March 1, 2023 The NEAR ecosystem is getting a huge boost in the eastern hemisphere today. NEAR Foundation is appointing Arpit Sharma as managing director for India, South East Asia, and the Middle East to help expand...
- Proposal Code Name: access_keys - Start Date: 2019-07-08 - NEP PR: [nearprotocol/neps#0000](https://github.com/near/NEPs/blob/master/nep-0000-template.md) - Issue(s): [nearprotocol/nearcore#687](https://github.com/nearprotocol/nearcore/issues/687) # Summary [summary]: #summary Access keys provide limited access to ...
--- id: near-cli title: NEAR CLI --- The NEAR [Command Line Interface](https://github.com/near/near-cli) (CLI) is a tool that enables to interact with the NEAR network directly from the shell. Among other things, the NEAR CLI enables you to: - Login with a NEAR account - Deploy a contract - Interact and query informa...
```js import { Wallet } from './near-wallet'; const DAO_CONTRACT_ADDRESS = "primitives.sputnik-dao.near"; const wallet = new Wallet({ createAccessKeyFor: DAO_CONTRACT_ADDRESS }); await wallet.callMethod({ method: 'add_proposal', args: { proposal: { description: "My first proposal", kind: { ...
Stake Wars Week 2 Retro DEVELOPERS November 18, 2019 On Nov 11, 4pm PST we had the second Stake Wars call with around 20 people. Due to the issues uncovered last week, we took more caution this time and chose to start the genesis in house and invite external people to join afterwards. The network was started several m...
--- id: epoch title: Epoch --- import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem'; An **epoch** is a unit of time when validators of the network remain constant. It is measured in blocks: - Both `testnet` and `mainnet` have an epoch duration of 43,200 blocks. Ideally epochs last about 12 hours, si...
An Update from the NEAR Foundation NEAR FOUNDATION January 11, 2024 Dear NEAR Community, The NEAR Foundation’s vision has always been to help the world create a truly Open Web, giving all people full control of their data, privacy, and power of governance. In 2023, the NEAR ecosystem saw remarkable progress towards thi...
Embracing Decentralization: What’s Next for the NEAR Wallet DEVELOPERS July 12, 2023 When NEAR Mainnet launched in late 2020, it included a wallet built and hosted by Pagoda’s (then known as Near Inc.) core team on https://wallet.near.org to support NEAR’s unique account model. Nearly three years later, the NEAR wallet...
July in Review: 700 Projects Milestone, NEARCON Tickets, and Women in Web3 COMMUNITY August 1, 2022 Hello, NEAR! There’s been lots of action in July, from new milestones and the NEARCON 2022 announcement to a major new initiative aimed at expanding diversity in Web3. Let’s take a look at what’s been happening across t...
--- title: 3.6 Staking description: Defining and understanding liquidity in DeFi --- # 3.6 All Roads Lead to Liquidity, and Liquid Staking The elephant in the room when discussing the principles of decentralized finance, is the practical liquidity needs that an ecosystem as a whole needs, in order to sustain continuo...
Etherscan will Launch on Aurora COMMUNITY September 1, 2021 Aurora, an Ethereum scaling solution that allows projects built on Ethereum to utilise the cutting-edge technology of NEAR has teamed up with Etherscan, the leading block explorer for Ethereum to allow developers to use the same familiar tool. While Aurora u...
Škoda Ventures into NFTs with NEAR to Create the Škodaverse India NEAR FOUNDATION June 20, 2023 Škoda India, in collaboration with NEAR Protocol, announces its foray into the world of NFTs and blockchain technology with Škodaverse India. This new platform forms a part of the global Škodaverse initiative and will bringa...
Post Mortem: NEAR Discord Security Incident NEAR FOUNDATION May 22, 2023 This is a post mortem report regarding the recent security incident that occurred on the NEAR Discord server. The purpose of this report is to provide analysis of the incident, identify the root cause, outline the impact, and propose actions to p...
```js import { Wallet } from './near-wallet'; const DAO_FACTORY_CONTRACT_ADDRESS = "sputnik-dao.near"; const wallet = new Wallet({ createAccessKeyFor: DAO_FACTORY_CONTRACT_ADDRESS }); await wallet.callMethod({ method: 'create', args: { name: "primitives", args: btoa({ config: { name: "Pri...
NEAR and The Graph Partnership COMMUNITY February 18, 2021 NEAR and The Graph partner to bring Indexing and Querying to the NEAR blockchain Developers building applications on NEAR will be able to build subgraphs (open APIs), and index blockchain data more efficiently. The Graph is excited to announce an official int...
--- id: storage-staking title: Storage Staking sidebar_label: Storage Staking --- > When you deploy a smart contract to NEAR, you pay for the storage that this contract requires using a mechanism called storage staking. > > In storage staking (sometimes called _state_ staking), the account that owns a smart contract m...
Evolving NEAR Foundation’s Funding Strategy NEAR FOUNDATION November 21, 2022 NEAR Foundation is publishing a series of blogs on the state of funding, including updates from the Grants Team and an upcoming Transparency Report for Q3. This is part of our continued commitment to transparency, as well as more frequent and...
--- id: overview title: Quick Overview --- Lets start with a quick overview of the different elements that compose the NEAR blockchain. --- ## Accounts NEAR uses human-readable account names such as `alice.near` or `bob.near` instead of a public hash such as`0x71C7656EC7ab88b098defB751B7401B5f6d8976F`. These acco...
```js await wallet.callMethod({ method: 'storage_deposit', args: { account_id: 'alice.near', }, contractId: TOKEN_CONTRACT_ADDRESS, deposit: 1250000000000000000000 }); ``` _The `Wallet` object comes from our [quickstart template](https://github.com/near-examples/hello-near-examples/blob/main/frontend/near...
Shred Spots and NEAR Foundation: Kick-Flipping Into the Future of Social NFTs NEAR FOUNDATION July 12, 2023 Action sports such as skateboarding and snowboarding are gaining momentum, especially among Gen Z, and are quickly outpacing traditional sports. Today, Gen Z is one of the biggest growth populations in skateboard...
--- title: Open Source description: Overview on how NEAR BOS empowers open source projects sidebar_position: 11 --- # Decentralization, Open-Source, and the Blockchain Operating System Decentralization and Open-Source development are cornerstones of a free and open web. They promote transparency and collaboration a...
--- id: intro title: QueryAPI Overview sidebar_label: Introduction --- Near QueryAPI is a fully managed solution to build indexer functions, extract on-chain data, store it in a database, and be able to query it using GraphQL endpoints. ## Indexing complexity Blockchain Indexers are known to be challenging to creat...
NFTs on NEAR: Why NFT? COMMUNITY May 23, 2022 Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have been around for years but really blew up in 2020. Inspired by Beeple’s $69 million NFT artwork auction, other major artists and musicians began minting artworks last year, spurring a cultural frenzy that has carried over into 2022. Everyon...
MetaBUILD 2 Hackathon Winners COMMUNITY March 31, 2022 For the last three months, NEAR developers and entrepreneurs from across the globe have been hard at work on the MetaBUILD 2 hackathon. For the NEAR community, this hybrid virtual-physical event is a hotbed of Web3 ideas, creativity, and innovation. Developing o...
NFTs on NEAR: A Deep Dive into Paras COMMUNITY May 19, 2022 Paras, an NFT marketplace for digital art cards, is one of the most active communities within the NEAR ecosystem. What began as a decentralized social media platform is now a vibrant mecca for crypto art. Everything from one-off artworks to themed series can ...
How blockchain will save the Creator Economy CASE STUDIES July 7, 2021 Why NFTs, DAOs and Open Finance will change the world for artists and their communities. Creators are Innovators Creative industries have always led innovation because they’re fundamentally exploratory and hungry for ways to help create sustainably...
# Consensus ## Definitions and notation For the purpose of maintaining consensus, transactions are grouped into *blocks*. There is a single preconfigured block $G$ called *genesis block*. Every block except $G$ has a link pointing to the *previous block* $\operatorname{prev}(B)$, where $B$ is the block, and $G$ is re...
NEAR Foundation and ARterra Labs Level Up Gaming Fandom for the Open Web NEAR FOUNDATION May 31, 2023 The ever-expanding gaming landscape faces significant challenges such as engagement and identity fragmentation. As fans navigate platforms like Twitch, Discord, and YouTube, brands and creators struggle to monetize the...
--- id: near-lake-state-changes-indexer title: NEAR Lake Indexer Tutorial --- :::note Source code for the tutorial [`near-examples/near-lake-accounts-watcher`](https://github.com/near-examples/near-lake-accounts-watcher/tree/0.2.0): source code for a video tutorial on how to use the NEAR Lake Framework ::: :::info ...
Aurora launches on NEAR Protocol COMMUNITY May 12, 2021 Aurora Provides an Ethereum Layer-2 Experience The explosive growth of DeFi and NFTs frequently causes surges in Ethereum gas prices––a problem that economically limits the participation of many users, and prevents dApp developers from scaling their businesses to ...
Case Study: Satori’s Jeff Bissinger Talks NEAR Tasks for the Gig Economy CASE STUDIES July 31, 2023 NEAR is a home to a number of amazing apps and projects. These developers, founders, and entrepreneurs are using NEAR to effortlessly create and distribute innovative decentralized apps, while helping build a more open w...
--- id: welcome title: Examples & Tutorials sidebar_label: Home hide_table_of_contents: true --- import {FeatureList, Column, Feature} from "@site/src/components/featurelist" Explore our collection of Examples and Tutorials <FeatureList> <Column title="Popular Examples"> <Feature url="/tutorials/examples/guest...
--- id: primitives title: NEAR Lake Primitive Types sidebar_label: Lake Primitive Types --- # NEAR Lake Primitive Types This article contains the primitive types used by the [NEAR Lake Framework package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@near-lake/framework). These types are used to define the data structures used by th...
Case Study: Sweat Economy’s Oleg Fomenko on Reshaping Fitness with Move-to-Earn NEAR FOUNDATION June 12, 2023 NEAR is a home to a number of amazing apps and projects. These developers, founders, and entrepreneurs are using NEAR to effortlessly create and distribute innovative decentralized apps, while helping build a m...
# Fungible Token Metadata ## [NEP-148](https://github.com/near/NEPs/blob/master/neps/nep-0148.md) Version `1.0.0` ## Summary [summary]: #summary An interface for a fungible token's metadata. The goal is to keep the metadata future-proof as well as lightweight. This will be important to dApps needing additional info...
Shemaroo and NEAR Foundation Accelerate Web3 Adoption in Indian Media and Entertainment NEAR FOUNDATION May 2, 2023 Shemaroo Entertainment, a prominent Indian content powerhouse with a diverse library of over 3,700 movie titles, a subscriber userbase of over 200 million people, and a vast global distribution network, i...