> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.near.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Blog

> Latest posts from the NEAR docs team

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  <Card title="Shade Agent Framework 2.0" href="/blog/2026-02-23-shade-agent-framework-2.0">
    The biggest update to the Shade Agent Framework has been released since launch. It aims to enable more production-ready builds, a more flexible…

    *2026-02-23 · Owen Hassall*
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  <Card title="Deep Dive into NEAR Intents" href="/blog/2026-01-24-near-intents-2026">
    Let's take a deep dive into the architecture of cross-chain swaps on NEAR Protocol, exploring how NEAR Intents and the PoA Bridge work together to…

    *2026-01-24 · denbite*
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  <Card title="Rust Tooling: Status and Evolution on 2025" href="/blog/2026-01-06-near-rust-devtools-2025">
    Some important changes are coming to the Rust tooling ecosystem, learn more in this blogpost!

    *2026-01-06 · Vlad Frolov*
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  <Card title="Benchmarking Blockchain" href="/blog/2025-12-11-blockchain-finality-benchmark">
    While each blockchain has its own theoretical finality and transaction price, we wanted to know: how long does my app actually need to wait for a…

    *2025-12-11 · Matias Benary*
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  <Card title="NEAR for Backend Devs: A Familiar Frontier" href="/blog/2025-06-21-near-for-backend-devs">
    As an backend developer you are adept at building robust services, managing databases, and ensuring system reliability. When you hear "blockchain" it…

    *2025-06-21 · Vlad Frolov*
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  <Card title="Benefits of Function-Call Keys" href="/blog/2025-03-14-benefits-of-multiple-keys">
    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…

    *2025-03-14 · Guille*
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  <Card title="A Year in Docs" href="/blog/2025-01-01-a-year-in-docs">
    2024 was a great year for NEAR Docs! Let's take a look at what we achieved together

    *2025-01-01 · Guille*
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  <Card title="Hello Ethereum Wallets!" href="/blog/2024-11-07-hello-ethereum-wallets">
    You can now login using MetaMask, WalletConnect and +400 Ethereum Wallets on Near!

    *2024-11-07 · Guille, Slava Karkunov*
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  <Card title="New Tutorial - Master Applications on NEAR" href="/blog/2024-10-24-new-tutorial">
    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;…

    *2024-10-24 · Owen Hassall*
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  <Card title="Future of Pagoda Services" href="/blog/2024-08-13-pagoda-services">
    As the NEAR ecosystem continues to decentralize, Pagoda will cease operations within the next six months and decentralize its functions into NEAR…

    *2024-08-13 · Eric Winer*
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  <Card title="An update on the near.org / RPC outage on July 11, 2024" href="/blog/2024-07-18-near-org-outage">
    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…

    *2024-07-18 · Eric Winer*
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  <Card title="Pagoda Pauses the B.O.S. Web Engine R&D Project" href="/blog/2024-07-01-bos-web-engine-sunset">
    After careful consideration, Pagoda has decided to discontinue its active efforts to improve the B.O.S. Web Engine

    *2024-07-01 · Josh Ford*
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  <Card title="One place for all Smart Contracts Docs" href="/blog/2024-06-28-sdks-unified">
    We have consolidated all our documentation in a single section, so you don't need to go searching around for it

    *2024-06-28 · Guille*
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  <Card title="Getting Started on NEAR Using Windows" href="/blog/2024-06-05-getting-started-on-windows">
    In this article, we will cover how to install WSL and setup a NEAR development environment on Windows.

    *2024-06-05 · Lyudmil*
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  <Card title="It's gonna be Legen... wait for it..." href="/blog/2024-05-30-yield-resume">
    dary! Legendary! NEAR protocol is getting updated with the ability to yield and resume computations

    *2024-05-30 · Guille*
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  <Card title="Use cases for Chain Signatures" href="/blog/2024-05-15-chain-signatures-use-cases">
    Chain signatures enable you to implement multichain and cross-chain workflows in a simple way. Let's take a look at a few possible use cases

    *2024-05-15 · Damian*
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  <Card title="Reorganizing our docs" href="/blog/2024-04-24-reorganizing-docs">
    We released a mayor reorganization of our repository, so we can improve docs for everyone... including us

    *2024-04-24 · Guille*
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  <Card title="We have a blog now!" href="/blog/2024-04-23-we-have-a-blog">
    Check check check. Is this thing on? Hello, world!

    *2024-04-23 · Guille*
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