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id: address
title: Address Types
description: Learn about the different types of accounts in NEAR Protocol
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## Address Types in NEAR Protocol

Each account in NEAR protocol is identified by a **single and unique** address. While NEAR supports multiple types of addresses, most accounts use one of two: **named address** or **implicit address**.

### Named Addresses
    Named addresses are human-readable addresses that are easy to remember and share, making them ideal for everyday use:

    - <a>`near` / `account.near` / `account.sweat` / `app.finance.tg`</a>

### Implicit Address
    Implicit addresses are derived from cryptographic key pairs and are a long strings of 64 characters

    - <a>`757503837a63ece206449d450ec77ae8d79c88ccda5e62a810f4eeb51db93050`</a>

### Ethereum Address
        NEAR Protocol supports Ethereum-like addresses to allow interoperability with EVM-based applications and tools

        - <a>`0x32Be343B94f860124dC4fEe278FDCBD38C102D88`</a>

### Other Addresses
        NEAR supports more addresses in order to accommodate various use cases, an address is valid if:

        - <a>It has between 2 and 64 chars</a>
        - <a>Uses valid chars (`a-z`, `0-9`, `-`, `_`, `.`)</a>
        - <a>Does not start or finish on a special character (`.`,`-`,`_`)</a>

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