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Why NEAR What others have built Get involved Change the web

Why NEAR

What others have built

Get involved

Change the web

“Hello NEAR!” is a friendly decentralized App that stores a greeting message. It is one of the simplest smart contracts you can create in NEAR, and the perfect gateway to introduce yourself in the world of smart contracts.

If node is installed, simply type:

> npx create-near-app

Then use interactive menu to complete.

Visit quickstart tutorial

Why build on NEAR?

The easiest way to become a
Web3 developer

Use familiar programming languages

Write your smart contracts in the most used or most loved language. No need to wrestle with Solidity or Vyper.

Start building

with JavaScript

Start building

with Rust

Go to official documentation

Be super productive
with our dev-tools

We have all you need - powerful CLI,
easy-to-use SDKs, and more

Get started with our dev tools

Help yourself with
excellent documentation

Docs that answer almost any question. Loads of tutorials and examples

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Low cost. High speed. Effortless scale.

Nightshade sharding enables seamless scaling with minimal fees.

Learn how it works

<0.01USD

Transaction Cost

24M+

Accounts

434K

Daily Transactions

~1.2S

Time to Finality

Endless earning opportunities
for developers

Earn 30% of all transaction fees

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Work for a project

See open positions

Get a grant for your own idea

Apply for grant

Explore all earning opportunities

Migration from other blockchains is easy as well

Run Solidity contracts on NEAR

Overcome high fees and slow speeds with Aurora – an EVM running directly on NEAR.

Discover Aurora

Coming from Terra or Solana?

With a few tweaks, your Rust contracts will work natively on NEAR.

Read open invitation to Terra community

Run substrate-based app-chains on NEAR

Build your projects using the out-of-the-box cross-chain interoperability, one-stop infrastructure and appchains community.

Discover Octopus Network

“Our investors were recommending NEAR. And we were amazed by engagement from the NEAR Foundation, and the Funding team, in their commitment to making sure our project succeeded. Their support was a huge plus”

Jason Bales, Co-Founder & CSO of Playible

Moved from Terra

Explore what others
have built on NEAR

Get inspired or build on top

Ref Finance

Multi-purpose DeFi Platform

Ref Finance is a community-led, multi-purpose DeFi platform built on NEAR Protocol. Ref Finance takes full advantage of NEAR’s low fees, one-to-two second finality, and WebAssembly-based runtime.

See Ref Finance documentation

SweatCoin

Seamless web2-like user-experience on top of blockchain

The SweatCoin mobile app is easy to start with and rewards you with SWEAT tokens for moving. Storing these tokens on the NEAR blockchain opens up for a move-to-earn economy.

Learn about Sweat Economy

Few and Far

The all-in-one NFT marketplace for collectors and creators.

Capitalizing on NEAR’s fractional minting costs to create a thriving ecosystem of creators and collectors exploring Web3 art in all its forms.

Learn about Few & Far

Explore hundreds of dApps

Visit AwesomeNEAR

Get funding for your idea.
Apply for a grant!

Explore funding options

Join a vibrant community
of developers

Use social media to connect or meet other NEARians at real-life events

Join our Discord

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“The NEAR community is amazing! When I have a question, I can get a reply in the same day, the community is open and helpful.”

Paul Crans

DAOrecords

Help to build a fairer, more transparent world

The current web is broken.

Companies monetize and monopolize user data, disregard user privacy, and obscure their operations.

Learn more

NEAR makes the decentralized web a reality.

As one of a number of emerging decentralized networks connecting the infrastructure of web3, NEAR offers end-users complete control of their data.

Learn to build on NEAR

USE CASE

Scale Forestation with digital transparency and trust

The Open forest Protocol shows how decentralized apps on NEAR can have positive real-world impact: The OFP uses NEAR to create transparency in how reforestation projects are tracked and verified worldwide.

Learn more about the Open Forest Protocol