Welcome to NEAR

Imagine a place were you can build Web3 apps with the simplicity of Web2. Imagine a place were you can empower communities, supercharge AI and easily integrate your app with other chains. Welcome to NEAR, you're gonna like it here.

NEAR Protocol

Learn what NEAR is and how it works

What is NEAR?

Named Accounts

Access Keys

Transactions

Chain Abstraction

Forget about the chain, focus on usability

What is Chain Abstraction?

Chain Signatures ✨

Meta-transactions

FastAuth (Email login)

Web3 Applications

Supercharge your App using NEAR

What are Web3 Applications?

Quickstart ✨

Create an AI Assistant 🤖✨

Use a Contract in Your Frontend

Social Components (BOS)

Smart Contracts

NEAR accounts can host small programs

What is a Contract?

Quickstart ✨

Contract's Anatomy

Sandbox Testing

Primitives

FTs, NFTs, and everything your app needs

What are Primitives?

Fungible Tokens (FT)

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)

Autonomous Organizations

Decentralized Exchanges

Linkdrops

Data Infrastructure

Easily extract and analyze on-chain data

What is Data Infrastructure?

BigQuery

Data APIs

Lake Framework

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External Resources

Here are more sources from our ecosystem that can help you to learn more about NEAR.

Discover

Discover awesome apps in the Near ecosystem

NEAR Core

Learn the official protocol documentation

Running a Node

Become a validator, help keeping the blockchain safe

Templates

Templates for creating web3 applications