NEAR

NEAR is a decentralized, development platform built on a sharded (opens in a new tab), Proof-of-Stake, Layer 1 blockchain designed for ease of use.

NEAR developers can host serverless applications and smart contracts that easily connect to "open finance" networks and benefit from an ecosystem of "open web" components.

NEAR is not compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. All contract code is deployed and run inside a WASM Compatible Virtual Machine.

Connect wallet

The NEAR Protocol has its own wallet — Rainbow Bridge (opens in a new tab). This is an in-browser, web-based wallet for creating and interacting with NEAR accounts.

Rainbow Bridge allows the migration of ETH assets to the NEAR platform.

Ethereum users can onboard to NEAR using the ETH Faucet (opens in a new tab), hosted by Paras, and MetaMask.

Users must login to MetaMask and prove that their account has a balance higher than 0.05 ETH to claim a NEAR account and start using Rainbow Bridge.

Integrate code

Near is non-evm compatible and has its own native RPC methods. Check out the Near RPC docs (opens in a new tab) Below are some examples

Gas price

Returns gas price for a specific block_height or block_hash. Using null will return the most recent block's gas price.

Example request

curl https://rpc.ankr.com/near \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   --data '{"jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "id": "dontcare",
   "method": "gas_price",
   "params": [17824600]}'

Example response

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":{"gas_price":"100000000"},"id":"dontcare"}

Block

Queries network and returns block details for given height or hash. You can also use finality param to return latest block details.

You may choose to search by a specific block or finality, you can not choose both.

Example request

curl https://rpc.ankr.com/near \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   --data '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "dontcare",
  "method": "block",
  "params": {
    "finality": "final"
  }
}'

Example response (Extract)

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":{"author":"moonlet.poolv1.near","header":{"height":61437572,"prev_height":61437571,"epoch_id":"9tqM9PSuQQXjvrAEhvRb45Q7XpDNS8itEcjr8yACDe2C","next_epoch_id":"2Ri3EriB9b5hBHmSPLLfJQhUyqCDx8Q8zsrpVK6aMFCo","hash":"GtGb4NnzLKxNYxWLum3eNhto6oWE1syc6ryrj9xAYqJU","prev_hash":"4LA5n9S72HCBbxwyR38gLZnZtcksc27kmFYZzZ2fQJob","prev_state_root":"AtdLpdibkTxhGu2CJRtgyWF5rGSpMeUEXH1Gb9SrjSQU","chunk_receipts_root":"CkUi6LaNxEeHrWsrm1QVj7vD...

Transaction status

Queries status of a transaction by hash and returns the final transaction result.

method: tx params: transaction hash (see NEAR Explorer for a valid transaction hash) sender account id

Example request

curl https://rpc.ankr.com/near \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   --data '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "dontcare",
  "method": "tx",
  "params": ["6zgh2u9DqHHiXzdy9ouTP7oGky2T4nugqzqt9wJZwNFm", "sender.testnet"]
}'

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