What is NEAR?NEAR is a user-friendly and carbon-neutral blockchain, built from the ground up to be performant, secure, and infinitely scalable.
Why Choose NEAR?1. Simple to Use.2. Fast and Environmentally Friendly.3. Great Developer Experience.4. A Technical Marvel.
Simple to Use1. Uses human-readable accounts.2. Leverages a web-based wallet, no need for users to install programs or browser extensions.3. Possess a simple yet rich system of Access Keys to handle account permissions.
Fast and Environmentally Friendly1. Transactions are incredibly fast and cheap.2. The network is certified carbon-neutral.3. NEAR consumes in a year the same energy bitcoin consumes in 3 minutes.
Great Developer Experience1. Enables making smart contracts using Javascript or Rust.2. Simple onboarding, thanks to its complete documentation and a multitude of examples.3. 30% of gas fees goes to the developers.
A Technical Marvel1. Scales infinitely and resists short-term usage spikes thanks to its sharding.2. Interoperable with Ethereum using Rainbow Bridge (first trustless bridge ever created).3. EVM compatible with Project Aurora.
Human-Readable AccountsNEAR leverages human-readable accounts to simplify remembering them. In this way, accounts have addresses such as alice.near instead of long strings of random characters.
Permissions Through Access KeysNEAR accounts can have multiple keys, each with their own set of permissions. This allows to grant specific authorizations to third-parties, while keeping the option to revoke them at any time.