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NEAR Protocol
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) is a sharded proof-of-stake Layer 1 using Nightshade for sharding, with mainnet genesis on April 22, 2020 and Doomslug providing rapid block finality within its consensus design. Smart contracts compile to WebAssembly, commonly from Rust or JavaScript, while nodes execute transactions and receipts and maintain account-based balances, access keys, contract code, and contract state. This account-and-receipt model is shared across NEAR’s shards, making accounts, blocks, chunks, receipts, and contract state the core application-facing primitives.
NEAR Protocol API Methods and Endpoints
NOWNodes exposes NEAR Protocol's interface, plus a few others, depending on what your integration needs: JSON-RPC for reading chain state and broadcasting transactions.
Browse the interfaces below for endpoint details, request parameters, response formats, and integration examples. Create an API key, select Mainnet or Testnet, choose the required interface, and start sending requests from your application.
Weighing NEAR Protocol RPC providers against each other? Read the comparison guide on our blog — this page stays focused on integration reference.
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