NEAR Protocol - scalable and usable blockchain

• ⚖️ NEAR Protocol is a new smart-contract platform that delivers scalability and usability.
• 🛠 Through sharding, it will linearly scale with the number of validation nodes on the network.
• 🗝 Leveraging WebAssembly, TypeScript, more sane contract management, ephemeral accounts and many other advancements, NEAR finally makes using a blockchain protocol easy for both developers and consumers.

Quick start

Check out quick start documentation, specifically:

• Working with Smart Contracts in NEAR Studio

Develop and deploy contracts without any setup required using NEAR Studio:

Status

This project is currently under heavy development. Please see Issues and Milestones to checkout the current progress and work items.

High level milestones:

• DevNet: a tool with fully working State Transition + WebAssembly.
• AlphaNet: Multi-node smart-contract platform.
• BetaNet: Added economics and enhanced security.
• (In progress) Nightshade: Added sharding and staking.
• TestNet: Added governance module, ready to launch as MainNet
• MainNet: Launched full blockchain.

Running

Checkout the Running Locally and Running Remotely sections.

Developing

Checkout the Developing NEARCore section of documentation.