NEAR's purpose is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world.
To achieve this purpose, NEAR provides a developer platform where developers and entrepreneurs can create apps that put users back in control of their data an AB44 d assets, which is the foundation of "Open Web" movement.
One of the components of NEAR is the NEAR Protocol, an infrastructure for server-less applications and smart contracts powered by a blockchain. NEAR Protocol is built to deliver usability and scalability of modern PaaS like Firebase at fraction of the prices that blockchains like Ethereum charge.
Overall, NEAR provides a wide range of tools for developers to easily build applications:
- JS Client library to connect to NEAR Protocol from your applications.
- Rust and JavaScript/TypeScript SDKs to write smart contracts and stateful server-less functions.
- Several essential repositories to guide you in building across Near's Open Web Platform.
- Numerous examples with links to hack on them right inside your browser.
- Lots of documentation, with Tutorials and API docs.
The easiest way to join the network, is by using the nearup command, which you can install as follows:
pip3 install --user nearupYou can join all the active networks:
- mainnet:
nearup run mainnet - testnet:
nearup run testnet - betanet:
nearup run betanet
Check the nearup repository for more details on how to run with or without docker.
To learn how to become a validator, checkout documentation.
The workflow and details of setup to contribute are described in CONTRIBUTING.md, and security policy is described in SECURITY.md. To propose new protocol changes or standards use Specification & Standards repository.
We use Zulip for semi-synchronous technical discussion, feel free to chime in:
For non-technical discussion and overall direction of the project, see our Discourse forum: