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NEAR for Backend Devs: A Familiar Frontier

· 19 min read
Vlad Frolov
Tools Maintainer

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.

Benefits of Function-Call Keys

· 3 min read
Guille
Docs Maintainer

NEAR has a unique key management system that allows each account to have multiple access keys. Each of these keys can be one of two types: Full-Access Keys and Function-Call Keys.

Full-Access Keys are the traditional type of key you might be used to, which provide complete control over an account, allowing the holder to perform any action, including transferring funds, deploying contracts, and managing other keys.

On the other hand, Function Call Keys allows you to provide restricted access to third parties. This key type, unique to NEAR, enables several use-cases worth discussing.

Let's explore some of the main benefits of Function-Call Keys.

Future of Pagoda Services

· 4 min read
Eric Winer
CTO & Managing Director, Pagoda

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.

An update on the near.org / RPC outage on July 11, 2024

· 7 min read
Eric Winer
CTO & Managing Director, Pagoda

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.