Coordination repository for the NEAR Community
The content of this repository, the issue tracker, and the pull requests are used to coordinate the efforts towards making the NEAR Community a great place.
Below, you can find a list of resources to help you get started.
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You can find the list of our community meetings here.
We currently host the following meetings:
- Community Talk -- Bi-weekly events to which we invite founders and researches in the space to introduce their project
- NEAR Middleware Work Group (Wasm, RPC, Bridge, Runtime, Trie, etc) -- Weekly event
- NEAR Bridge Work Group -- Weekly event
- NEAR Engineering Weekly -- Weekly event
- NEAR Blog
- NEAR YouTube Channel
- NEAR Technical Resources
- Bounties repository (formerly "rfp") where grant-worthy projects are listed.
If you just starting to learn about NEAR Protocol then please read our documentation. To get inspiration, have a look at our example projects.
If you have any questions, please head over to our Discord server.
We love contributions!
- Check-out our contribution guide and examples
- Create educational content, contribute to our codebase, documentation or build your own tutorials in our Contributor Program
- No matter if you lead an existing community or you want to start a community around NEAR and the open web, we would love to have you part of our Guild Program
- Look for the starter issues on GitHub
- Take on a bounty
We would love to hear your community ideas!
To submit your ideas on how to make the NEAR Community a better place, provide feedback, or propose initiatives, please file an issue in this community repository.
If you would like to collaborate on events, please submit an issue in our events repository.
Someone from the core team will get back to you within a week.
NEAR would never reach out to you directly and ask you to send funds, share your login credentials, private keys, or other sensitive information.
If you came across vulnerabilities in our code, or you want to flag other security-related concerns, please follow the security protocol detailed here.
Learn more about the NEAR Protocol in the Beginner's Guide. At a high level, NEAR is a permissionless, Proof-of-Stake blockchain protocol that anyone can access, add transactions to, or read from. The public NEAR blockchain is an instantiation of the reference code at https://github.com/near/nearcore, but theoretically, this repo could be forked and deployed as a separate chain, as much as many protocols have done to build upon the core Bitcoin code.
A non-profit foundation headquartered in Switzerland which is responsible for contracting protocol maintainers, funding ecosystem development, and shepherding core governance of the protocol.