As an backend developer you are adept at building robust services, managing databases, and ensuring system reliability. When you hear "blockchain" it might sound like a completely different paradigm. However, platforms like NEAR Protocol are designed to be surprisingly accessible, offering a new kind of backend infrastructure that leverages many concepts you are already familiar with.

2024 was a great year for NEAR Docs! Let's take a look at what we achieved together

You can now login using MetaMask, WalletConnect and +400 Ethereum Wallets on Near!

You might have noticed that a new tutorial has been added to the docs! This multi-part series is all about learning to build full applications on NEAR; you will see how to build an on-chain auction from start to finish, including the smart contract, deploying it on-chain, and creating a frontend to interact with it.

As the NEAR ecosystem continues to decentralize, Pagoda will cease operations within the next six months and decentralize its functions into NEAR ecosystem teams and committees. This document describes the transition plan for each of the services, activities, and tools that Pagoda develops or operates.

From Thursday, July 11 to Saturday, July 13, many visitors to near.org and its subdomains (like dev.near.org and docs.near.org) were unable to reach those websites. Also, NEAR applications that rely on RPC services hosted on near.org were affected. This was due to a security incident followed by an outage from one of our vendors, Squarespace. During this period, the NEAR protocol & blockchain was unaffected by this incident, as it does not rely on any centralized services.

After careful consideration, Pagoda has decided to discontinue its active efforts to improve the B.O.S. Web Engine

We have consolidated all our documentation in a single section, so you don't need to go searching around for it

In this article, we will cover how to install WSL and setup a NEAR development environment on Windows.

dary! Legendary! NEAR protocol is getting updated with the ability to yield and resume computations