Help

We are here to help – Welcome to NEAR! This page provides you with an overview of our communication channels and resources to get started.

Quickstart

• New to NEAR?
• Developing with NEAR?
• Validating with NEAR?
• Integrating with NEAR?
• Contributing to NEAR?

Communication

• Discord
• Telegram
  • Developer Telegram Channel
  • Validator Telegram Channel
  • Announcement Telegram Channel
• Twitter
• StackOverflow
• GitHub

Resources

• Beginner’s Guide to the NEAR Blockchain;
• Learn more about NEAR in our Lunch and Learn Series.

and for the techies and researchers out there we have a list of our research papers

• The NEAR Whitepaper
• Economics in a Sharded Blockchain
• Sharding Design: Nightshade
• Fast Finality: Proof of Space-Time
• NEAR Randomness

Contribution

“A contributor is anyone, who takes initiative to provide input, feedback and ideas to improve the project, the community and the ecosystem as a whole.”

Ways you can contribute

• Become a Guild, run a community, organise events, and create educational material for new community members in our Guild Program
• Contribute to our documentation, nearcore, create example applications and tutorials, and help mentor at hackathons with our Contributor Program
• Deploy your application on MainNet through our Developer Program

For those interested in running a start-up or if you need help with your existing company, have a look at the Open Web Collective.

If you have any questions or you would like to contribute please reach out to us : )