Protocol Call Reference

Overview of tools and methods for interacting with the NEAR Protocol.

NEAR Protocol provides multiple ways to interact with the network — from low-level JSON-RPC calls to visual explorers and wallets.

Tools

[card] NEAR Explorer

Browse transactions, accounts, blocks, and contracts on mainnet and testnet.

[card] NEAR Wallet

Create and manage NEAR accounts, send tokens, and interact with dApps.

RPC API

NEAR exposes a JSON-RPC 2.0 API for programmatic access to the network. Send requests with POST to the root of a provider endpoint and put the method name in the JSON request body.

[!NOTE]

The endpoint reference in the RPC sidebar is generated from openapi.json and is the source of truth for request and response schemas. The hand-written RPC pages provide guidance, context, and worked examples.

curl -X POST https://rpc.mainnet.near.org/ \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"status","method":"status","params":[]}'

See RPC Providers for the full list of public endpoints. Send one JSON-RPC request object per HTTP request. nearcore does not support JSON-RPC batch requests.

Available Methods

Category	Methods
Transactions	send_tx, tx, tx_status (or EXPERIMENTAL_tx_status before nearcore 2.14.0), EXPERIMENTAL_receipt, EXPERIMENTAL_receipt_to_tx, broadcast_tx_async, broadcast_tx_commit
Query	query — see Accounts / Contracts for every supported request_type
Accounts & access keys	EXPERIMENTAL_view_account, changes, EXPERIMENTAL_changes, EXPERIMENTAL_view_access_key, EXPERIMENTAL_view_access_key_list
Smart contracts	EXPERIMENTAL_view_code, EXPERIMENTAL_view_state, EXPERIMENTAL_call_function
Blocks & chunks	block, chunk, block_effects, EXPERIMENTAL_changes_in_block
Network	status, health, network_info, validators, client_config, EXPERIMENTAL_validators_ordered
Gas & configuration	gas_price, genesis_config, EXPERIMENTAL_genesis_config, EXPERIMENTAL_protocol_config, EXPERIMENTAL_congestion_level
Light client	light_client_proof, next_light_client_block, EXPERIMENTAL_light_client_proof, EXPERIMENTAL_light_client_block_proof
Maintenance & storage	maintenance_windows, EXPERIMENTAL_maintenance_windows, EXPERIMENTAL_split_storage_info

Explore the full interactive reference in the sidebar, or start with RPC Providers to configure your endpoint.