NEAR Infrastructure Ecosystem Feedback ✍️

The NEAR Infrastructure Committee is gathering feedback to identify and address infrastructure issues in the ecosystem. This is an important opportunity for all participants — developers, users, and teams — to share their challenges and suggestions 💬

📌 How it helps:
➡️ Improve NEAR’s infrastructure
➡️ Allocate resources to the most urgent and impactful issues
➡️ Decentralized approach to solving problems

👨‍💻 How you can contribute:
➕ Share the infrastructure challenges you're facing
➕ Explain how it impacts developers, users, and the broader ecosystem
➕ Provide examples, data, or specific instances to support the issue
➕ Suggest potential solutions and the resources needed to make it happen
➕ Point out teams or contributors who could help tackle the issue

This is your chance to directly influence NEAR’s future development! 🛠

🔗 Read and submit feedback

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🍴 Fork That NYC — 24hr Hackathon in NYC

August 9–10 at Station3 — a 24-hour in-person hackathon powered by NEAR 🚀

👨‍💻 Participants will build around themes like:
➡️ AI Agents
➡️ Chain Abstraction
➡️ Intents
➡️ Dev Tooling
Hands-on workshops from NEAR OGs, great food, and $10K+ in prizes await 🏆

💬 Questions? Join the builders chat
🔗 Registration is open!

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Good news for NEAR builders — Deadline Extended! ✔️

The NEAR Foundation x Lava RPC subsidy program now runs until August 31 ⚡️

Apply to get $199/month Lava Starter RPC Plan — for free!
➕ 75 Million Monthly Requests
➕ 150 Requests per Second
➕ Includes Archive, Debug, and Trace APIs
➕ Multi-chain RPC access included (30+ networks)

Now with more clarity:
🎯 Goal: Support early-stage projects & ecosystem growth
👨‍💻 Who can apply?
🟢 Builders in pre-launch or early-stage projects
🟢 Small teams with innovative ideas
🟢 Projects not previously funded by NEAR Foundation or Infra Committee
📆 Support Duration: 6 months, afterwards NEAR Foundation will reconsider additional renewals

Build faster with Lava RPC, supported by NEAR Foundation 🫰

🔣 Deadline: ~33 left
🔣 Submit Now

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✉️ NEAR Dev News #72 — Treasury Power 💰

📌 THIS WEEK’S FOCUS: NEAR Treasury. DAOs shouldn’t run on spreadsheets and shared wallets ✨

🪙 NEAR Treasury — an on-chain, secure treasury system for real orgs:
🗯 Proposals, roles, and token flows
🗯 Stake idle funds
🗯 Swap assets
🗯 Lock up grants
🗯 Full BOS frontend, no-code setup
Built on SputnikDAO v2. Clean infra. No backdoors. Just trustless ops 💎

🖥 Also inside:
🔷 $250 bounty — build a Token Info agent
🔷 $604K+ earned via NEARN
🔷 Shade Agent Framework v1.0 released
🔷 FORK THAT NYC — IRL hackathon, Aug 9–10
🔷 Everclear x NEAR — automating cross-chain finance
🔷 House of Stake launches Aug 7
🔷 RHEA airdrop checker now live

DAOs, agents, airdrops, and more — it’s a big week 🔝

👉 Read + subscribe: http://dev.near.org/newsletter
🔖 Available freelancing opportunities here

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🆕 New Series Launch: Rust Smart Contracts Introduction on NEAR 🦀

Kickstarting a brand-new playlist focused on the Rust basics you need before diving into smart contract development on NEAR! 👨‍💻

✏️ What you’ll get in this lesson:
🔴 How NEAR contract templates work
🔴 What #[near(contract_state)] does
🔴 Key Rust data types: String, bool, u8–u128
🔴 How to choose the right type for efficient storage

💯 Perfect for Rust & Web3 developers getting started!
📺 Watch the lesson here

🔖 Follow the series to build a solid Rust foundation before you start writing smart contracts on NEAR.

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New RPC Support for NEAR Builders 👨‍💻

The FastNear RPC sponsorship is now open — with full support from the NEAR Foundation and Infra Committee. Goal: Supporting Builders 🫰

Apply to get premium RPC access for free:
➕ Dev Plan ($69/mo): 10M requests/month
➕ Pro Plan ($199/mo): 36M requests/month
➕ Business Plan ($499/mo): 100M requests/month
➕ Archival + live RPC on Mainnet & Testnet
➕ Powered by Neardata.xyz (full historical data)
➕ Unlimited RPS, low latency, 100% uptime
🔣 More information about services here

Who can apply?
🟢 Pre-launch or newly launched projects
🟢 Small, innovative builder teams
🟢 Not previously funded by NEAR or Infra Committee
⏳ Support Duration: Up to 6 months

Build faster with FastNear RPC — production-grade access, now free for eligible teams ⚡️

🔣 Deadline: ~60 days left
🔣 Submit Now

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Rust Smart Contracts Introduction on NEAR — Lesson 2 🦀

Read-Only Functions & Public vs Private

Time to dive into smart contract logic! In this episode, we explore how functions work in NEAR contracts — including how to make them read-only, and when to use public vs private visibility 👀

✏️ What you’ll learn:
🔴 What functions do in NEAR smart contracts
🔴 How to write read-only (view) functions
🔴 The difference between pub and private functions
🔴 When and why to limit access to internal logic
🔴 Live demo: calling functions on a deployed contract

📺 Watch the lesson here
👨‍💻 Code examples

🔖 Stay tuned — next up: writing mutable functions that modify contract state!

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✉️ NEAR Dev News #73 is out!

📌 THIS WEEK’S FOCUS: RHEA Finance
DeFi 2.0 is here — airdrops, swaps, lending, cross-chain bridging, and AI-powered storage. All in one app. Built on NEAR.

🖥 Also inside:
⚪️ Cosmos Relayer goes live — IBC-style bridge from NEAR
⚪️ $886K+ earned via NEARN — 11 freelance bounties open
⚪️ Fork That Bootcamp returns Aug 18 — launch your own chain
⚪️ New Rust tutorials: data types, macros, functions
⚪️ Infra report: $570M+ in volume via Chain Signatures & Intents
⚪️ 320 $NEAR bounty — write beginner tutorials from code examples

🔥 NEAR DeFi isn’t dying. It’s scaling.

🔗 Read + subscribe: http://dev.near.org/newsletter
🔖 Available freelancing opportunities here

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🌟 NEAR Town Hall: August Edition

Join us for the next NEAR Town Hall featuring:
• Illia Polosukhin
• Everclear
• Rhea Finance
• ASIMOV Protocol
• NEAR DevHub

📌 Get foundation updates, ecosystem intel, and live demos from the builders shaping NEAR.

🗓 August 7 | 3 PM UTC

➡️ Set Reminder on YouTube | RSVP on Luma

House of Stake Alpha is LIVE on NEAR Mainnet! 🪙

The first version of House of Stake is here — giving the community hands-on access to governance mechanics and proposal workflows.
🟢 Lock your NEAR, stNEAR, or liNEAR for veNEAR
🟢 Delegate your voting power
🟢 Create and vote on proposals

The Agora team is gathering feedback, fixing bugs, and inviting endorsed delegates to publish their statements 💬
🔗 Try it out
✍️ Share feedback

⚠️ Note: During Alpha, proposals can't pass — it's a testing phase. Full launch planned for August 14 ⚠️

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How to Run Localnet/Devnet on NEAR Protocol 🦀

Want to test smart contracts without touching mainnet? This step-by-step guide shows you how to set up your own localnet/devnet for NEAR — fast, private, and 100% free.

✏️ What you'll learn:
🔴 How NEAR localnet/devnet works
🔴 Tools & dependencies
🔴 How to run a local NEAR node
🔴 Useful commands & troubleshooting tips

💯 Perfect for smart contract + dApp developers.
📺 Watch the lesson here

🔖 Start testing locally today!

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Onboard users to NEAR in seconds 🚀

Forget seed phrases and browser extensions — with NEAR + Privy your users (or AI agents) can sign up via GitHub, Google, Discord & more ✨

AI devs, here’s the edge:
➕ Instant wallets for each user or agent
➕ Linked to familiar logins
➕ Platform credits → USDC

🔖 Special offer: NEAR Foundation & Infra Committee will cover up to 500K accounts (max 50K per project).

🔣 Read the docs
🔣 Apply for credits

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Migrate examples → tutorials ✍️

🏆 Prizes: 8 × 40 $NEAR (total 320 $NEAR)
⏳ Deadline: Aug 31, 2025, 00:00 UTC

How to join:
🟢 Pick an example (donation / coin-flip / factory / near-drop / advanced-xcc / upgrade & migrate / frontend + multiple / relayer)
🟢 Click "Edit this page" → turn it into a focused tutorial (1–2 pages: concept, trade-offs, tests)
🟢 Make a PR and share the link via the submission form

Useful links ➡️ Docs / Repo / Help
🔗 Details & Submission

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DevRel tip: everything starts with the SDKs in the docs → Tap here! 😁

Rust Smart Contracts Introduction on NEAR — Lesson 3 🦀

Mutable Functions

Time to modify your smart contract state! In this episode, we break down what mutability means in Rust and how to use it effectively in NEAR contracts. You’ll learn the difference between read-only and mutable functions — and how to safely update your contract data 💥

✏️ What you’ll learn:
🔴 What mutability means in Rust
🔴 How to use mut and &mut self in NEAR contracts
🔴 Read-only vs mutable functions
🔴 Best practices for safely modifying state

📺 Watch the lesson here
👨‍💻 Code examples

🔖 Stay tuned — more Rust smart contract tips and NEAR development best practices coming soon!

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