Reference implementation of NEAR Protocol

master	beta	stable

About NEAR

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 and assets, which is the foundation of "Open Web" movement.

One of the components of NEAR is NEAR Protocol, an infrastructure for server-less applications and smart contracts powered by blockchain. NEAR Protocol is built to deliver usability and scalability of modern PaaS like Firebase at fraction of prices that blockchains like Ethereum charge.

NEAR overall provides wide range of tools for developers to easily build applications:

• JS Client library to connect to NEAR Protocol from your applications.
• Rust and AssemblyScript SDKs to write smart contracts and stateful server-less functions.
• Numerous examples with links to hack on them right inside your browser.
• Lots of documentation, with Tutorials and API docs.

Join the Network

The easiest way to join the network, is by using nearup command, which you can install:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSfL https://up.near.dev | python3

You can join all the active networks:

• TestNet: nearup testnet
• BetaNet: nearup betanet
• DevNet: nearup devnet

Check nearup repository for more details how to run with or without docker.

To learn how to become validator, checkout documentation.

Development Status

This project is currently under heavy development toward MainNet launch.

We are using ZenHub to manage the development process. You can either login on their website or install ZenHub extension to see additional information right on Github.

For the high-level roadmap, checkout Chain&Middleware's roadmap.

Contributing

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 change or standard use Specification & Standards repository.