Building on NEAR - NEAR Docs

This page brings together practical resources you can use right away when building on NEAR.

Getting started

What is NEAR?

Learn NEAR basics, architecture, and why developers choose it.

Developer support

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Core docs

Awesome NEAR

awesome-near is a community-maintained resource directory with tooling, examples, libraries, and integrations.

Skills
Testnet faucets
NEAR protocol SDKs
Wallet and authentication
CLI tools
Starter templates
Data infrastructure
Data APIs
AI and cloud services
Near intents
Chain signatures
Explorers
Additional resources

Skills

Package	Description
agent-skills	AI agent skills for NEAR Protocol blockchain development

Testnet faucets

Faucet	Description
Circle Faucet	20 USDC on NEAR Testnet (claimable every 2 hours)
NEAR Faucet	2 NEAR on Testnet (rate limited)

NEAR protocol SDKs

JavaScript / TypeScript

Package	Description
near-api-js	High-level JavaScript client for accounts, blocks, transactions, tokens, and function calls
near-api-ts	High-level type-safe TypeScript client for NEAR Protocol
near-kit	Modern TypeScript client with fetch-like API
near-jsonrpc-client-ts	Auto-generated TypeScript JSON-RPC client

Rust

Package	Description
near-api-rs	High-level Rust off-chain client for NEAR Protocol
near-sdk-rs	Rust SDK for writing NEAR smart contracts
near-abi-rs	ABI primitives and models for Rust contracts

Python

Package	Description
py-near	Async Python client with HOT Protocol and NEAR Intents support
near-jsonrpc-client-py	Type-safe Pythonic JSON-RPC client with Pydantic models
near-sdk-py	Python SDK for writing NEAR smart contracts

Wallet and authentication

Package	Description
@hot-labs/near-connect	Secure lightweight wallet connector for JavaScript/TypeScript
near-connect-hooks	React hooks for NEAR wallet integration
near-sign-verify	Create and validate NEP-413 signed messages
better-near-auth	Sign in with NEAR plugin for Better Auth

CLI tools

Package	Description
near-cli-rs	Human-friendly interactive CLI for NEAR Protocol
create-near-app	Scaffold NEAR apps with frontend and contract templates
cargo-near	Cargo extension for build and deploy with ABI generation
near-validator-cli-rs	CLI companion for staking operations and validator workflows

Starter templates

Package	Description
near-ai-chat	AI chat agent starter for NEAR AI Cloud
NEAR Playground	Online IDE to create and deploy NEAR contracts
near-sdk-rs-template	Rust smart contract template
NEAR-fast-ft-transfer	High-performance FT transfer service

Data infrastructure

Package	Description
Goldsky	Data infrastructure and indexing service
Stream NEAR	Server-Sent Events stream for real-time block data
Explorer API	Transaction-based explorer API
Near Lake Indexer	Lake-based indexing service

Data APIs

Package	Description
FastNear API	Low-latency API for wallets and explorers
NearBlocks API	REST APIs for NEAR blockchain data
Pikespeak API	Aggregated analytics APIs
Allium API	Wallet and historical transaction API

AI and cloud services

Package	Description
NEAR AI Cloud	Private inference platform for verifiable AI inference

Near intents

Package	Description
One Click SDK TypeScript	TypeScript SDK for cross-chain swaps via 1Click API
One Click SDK Rust	Rust API client for one-click swaps
One Click SDK Go	Go API client for one-click swaps
intents-sdk	SDK for intents-based applications

Chain signatures

Package	Description
chainsig.js	TypeScript library for multi-chain transactions and MPC signatures
omni-transaction-rs	Rust library to build transactions for multiple chains

​Getting started

What is NEAR?

Developer support

Need NEAR AI credits?

​Core docs

​Awesome NEAR

​Skills

​Testnet faucets

​NEAR protocol SDKs

​JavaScript / TypeScript

​Rust

​Python

​Wallet and authentication

​CLI tools

​Starter templates

​Data infrastructure

​Data APIs

​AI and cloud services

​Near intents

​Chain signatures

​Explorers

​Additional resources