Curated resources to help you start building quickly, plus the Awesome NEAR directory.
This page brings together practical resources you can use right away when building on NEAR.
Getting started
[card] What is NEAR?
Learn NEAR basics, architecture, and why developers choose it.
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Request NEAR AI Cloud credits for your project.
Core docs
Awesome NEAR
awesome-near is a community-maintained resource directory with tooling, examples, libraries, and integrations.
Skills
| Package |
Description |
| agent-skills |
AI agent skills for NEAR Protocol blockchain development |
Testnet faucets
| Faucet |
Description |
| Circle Faucet |
20 USDC on NEAR Testnet (claimable every 2 hours) |
| NEAR Faucet |
2 NEAR on Testnet (rate limited) |
NEAR protocol SDKs
JavaScript / TypeScript
| Package |
Description |
| near-api-js |
High-level JavaScript client for accounts, blocks, transactions, tokens, and function calls |
| near-api-ts |
High-level type-safe TypeScript client for NEAR Protocol |
| near-kit |
Modern TypeScript client with fetch-like API |
| near-jsonrpc-client-ts |
Auto-generated TypeScript JSON-RPC client |
Rust
| Package |
Description |
| near-api-rs |
High-level Rust off-chain client for NEAR Protocol |
| near-sdk-rs |
Official SDK for writing NEAR smart contracts in Rust |
| near-abi-rs |
ABI primitives and models for Rust contracts |
Python
| Package |
Description |
| py-near |
Async Python client with HOT Protocol and NEAR Intents support |
| near-jsonrpc-client-py |
Type-safe Pythonic JSON-RPC client with Pydantic models |
Wallet and authentication
| Package |
Description |
| near-cli-rs |
Human-friendly interactive CLI for NEAR Protocol |
| create-near-app |
Scaffold NEAR apps with frontend and contract templates |
| cargo-near |
Cargo extension for build and deploy with ABI generation |
| near-validator-cli-rs |
CLI companion for staking operations and validator workflows |
Starter templates
Data infrastructure
| Package |
Description |
| Goldsky |
Data infrastructure and indexing service |
| Stream NEAR |
Server-Sent Events stream for real-time block data |
| Explorer API |
Transaction-based explorer API |
| Neardata |
Block data for custom indexers |
Data APIs
AI and cloud services
| Package |
Description |
| NEAR AI Cloud |
Private inference platform for verifiable AI inference |
Near intents
Chain signatures
| Package |
Description |
| chainsig.js |
TypeScript library for multi-chain transactions and MPC signatures |
| omni-transaction-rs |
Rust library to build transactions for multiple chains |
Explorers
Additional resources
