New RFP from the NEAR Infrastructure Committee ✨

TEE-secured Price Oracle
⏳ Deadline: 24 days left

The goal: build and maintain a Price Oracle on NEAR powered by TEEs rather than crypto-economic security.

Beyond serving as critical infra for the ecosystem, this oracle will also be a real-world product leveraging the Shade Agent Framework 👍

✍️ Full TEE-secured Oracle RFP

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Token launches should feel like Verstappen 🏎

TU TU TU DU and claimed ✔️

That’s why we’re funding a Fungible Tokens Claiming Service that can hit 100 tx/s, survive heavy load, and be ready for any launch.

Stack: Rust or TypeScript
Deliverables: API + benchmarks + docs
Reward: 1,000 $NEAR

⏳ 32 days left — claim it before someone else does!
🔗 Details & Submission

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Kotlin builders, this one’s for you 😁

We’re looking for someone to ship an automated Kotlin RPC client for NEAR — a missing piece for mobile development 📱

🏆 Bounty: 6,000 USDC
⏳ Deadline: 27 days left
🔗 Details & Submission

Expect codegen, packages, automation, and docs — open-sourced for the community 📖

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Break the NEAR Intents, get paid 🪙

Targets: theft/loss, unauthorized/manipulated tx, price/fee/balance bugs, execution-flow or crypto flaws in the NEAR Intents Verifier 🗯

⚪️ Rewards up to $500k
⚪️ Test on private testnet only
⚪️ Report via HackenProof within 24h of discovery
⚪️ Payouts may be in $NEAR (1y vest)

🔗 Docs: Intents + cargo
🔗 Details & Submission

Good hunting 👨‍💻

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Swift builders, this one’s for you 😁

We’re funding the automation of a type-safe Swift RPC client for NEAR — a missing piece for native iOS development 📱

🏆 Bounty: 6,000 USDC
⏳ Deadline: 25 days left
🔗 Details & Submission

Expect codegen, Swift packages, CI/CD automation, and docs — fully open-sourced for the community 📖

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✉️ NEAR Dev News #78 is out!

📌 THIS WEEK’S FOCUS: Memecoin Season
Markets run on attention — and right now, memes run the show 🪙🐸

🖥 Also inside:
🔴 NEARN hits $1.28M earned — 21 open bounties live
🔴 25 $NEAR bounty — make a TikTok about NEAR
🔴 NEAR Treasury — faster payments UX
🔴 Rust lessons: HashMap & Vector wrap up Intro track
🔴 HOT Connect + NEAR Intents
🔴 Call for NEP reviewers
🔴 DeFAI — Fraction AI launches agent prediction markets
🔴 TRON x NEAR — one-confirm checkout via Intents

💥 Attention is the fuel. NEAR is the engine.

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

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Your next 20 minutes, well spent ☕️

Ship a NEAR + Next.js dApp with MetaMask & NEAR Wallet — step by step. Try it 👇

📺 dApp in 20 minutes
👨‍💻 Code examples

Stuck anywhere? Ask in chat — builders help builders 🤝

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✉️ NEAR Dev News #79 is out!

📌 THIS WEEK’S FOCUS: Learn NEAR Club
Onboarding as action. Quests, nLEARN reputation, dev badges & guides — education that ships.

🖥 Also inside:
🟢 NEARN — $1.68M+ earned, 20 gigs open
🟢 $6K bounties: Swift & Kotlin RPC clients
🟢 1K $NEAR bounty: FT Claiming Service
🟢 Core accounts = contracts
🟢 Digital safe rooms — new LNC guide
🟢 NEAR Time Machine
🟢 Chain Signatures deep dive
🟢 TEE-secured Price Oracle
🟢 Nearcore 2.8.0

🗯 Education isn’t passive. On NEAR, it’s quests, proofs, and code that sticks.

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

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Iron Security for Oracles 👨‍💻

Become the next Iron Man of NEAR infra — the NEAR Infrastructure Committee is funding a TEE-secured Price Oracle.

Not just crypto-econ tricks: this is real hardware-grade armor for your oracle, built to integrate with the Shade Agent Framework. Suit up, build it, and get funded 🪙

✍️ Full TEE-secured Oracle RFP
🔗 Details & Submission

⏳ 17 days left — step in, take the challenge, and become the Iron Dev NEAR needs.

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Your app. Your chain. Your rules. ✳️

With Aurora Cloud you don’t just deploy a dApp — you launch a virtual blockchain built for it.

➕ EVM compatible 🟢 run Solidity contracts from day one
➕ Infra included 🟢 validators, bridges, explorers, oracles, gas abstraction
➕ Performance baked in 🟢 1s blocks, ~220 validators, ultra-low fees
➕ User-ready 🟢 fiat on/off-ramps and withdrawals to CEXs

Aurora Cloud provides you with production-grade infrastructure without months of setup. It's a sin to miss out 🗯

Build the product. Let the chain run itself 👍

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Quick reminder: free RPC/API sponsorships are closing soon ⏳

🗯 Clock’s ticking — submit before the windows close:
🟢 NearBlocks API — 7d left (Sep 29)
🟢 FastNear RPC — 8d left (Sep 30)
🟢 Lava RPC — 38d left (Oct 31)

🔖 Don’t pay for infra you can get sponsored. Apply now

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TEE-secured Price Oracle (once more, this is essential) 📣

If you already know TEEs and how to build with them — this RFP is for you:
⏳ 11 days left
🔗 Details & Submission

If you don't know (yet) what a Trusted Execution Environment is, check out the guide from Learn Near Club here 📖

Either way: TEEs are one of the key pieces powering NEAR’s AI + Agent future. Don’t sleep on this one 😁

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Every builder starts somewhere 🧱

On NEAR, that “somewhere” is docs.near.org
🟡 Learn the basics with walkthroughs
🟡 Explore SDKs for Rust, TypeScript, Python, Go
🟡 Test RPC calls instantly with ready-to-use examples
🟡 Get deeper with storage, gas, and sharding

You don’t need to read everything. Just start where you are and keep building 😁

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🌟 Meet NEAR Playground, the fastest way to build smart contracts on NEAR!

Build and deploy NEAR smart contracts instantly! Key Features includes:
- Zero setup, browser-based IDE
- Instant Rust → WASM compilation
- 1-click testnet deploy
- Easy code sharing via public links

➡️ Get started: nearplay.app

Opportunities are open: today NEAR Playground, tomorrow your project 🪙

NEAR Playground was funded by the Infrastructure Committee and has proven its value 👨‍💻

The Infrastructure Committee selects projects that provide real value to the entire ecosystem. NEARN makes this process transparent and accessible to everyone ✨

🔗 Sponsorship on NEARN is still open. You can submit your project and contribute to the development of the ecosystem ✔️

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Rust Smart Contracts on NEAR — NEAR SDK 🦀

Welcome to Part 1 (Deposit, Timestamp) of the NEAR SDK series for Rust smart contracts! ☕️

💥 What you’ll learn:
🔴 NearToken for safe balance handling
🔴 Timestamp for blockchain time
🔴 env::attached_deposit() to read the sent NEAR
🔴 env::block_timestamp() for deterministic time logic

📺 Watch the lesson here
👨‍💻 Code examples

🔖 First episode in the new NEAR SDK playlist, more coming soon.

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✉️ NEAR Dev News #80 — The Last Weekly

80 issues in, and this is our last weekly drop. From here, we’re moving to a monthly format 📆

🗯 THIS WEEK’S FOCUS: NEAR DevHub
Builders first. Tooling, standards, examples, news — the backbone of NEAR’s developer stack.

🖥 Also inside:
🟢 Open Call for Proposals: Public Goods for NEAR Protocol
🟢 NEARN — $2.5M+ earned, 17 gigs open
🟢 NEAR for Backend Devs
🟢 NEAR Treasury goes multichain
🟢 NEAR Time Machine
🟢 Templar mainnet
🟢 Intents = the end of complicated UX

🗯 Thank you for riding along every week. Next stop: monthly, sharper, stronger.

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

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NEAR Keeps Growing: 500 Validators

The Mainnet 2.8.0 expanded validator participation from 300 to 500 chunk validator seats 🪑

As Bowen Wang noted:
“This change dramatically increases decentralization and supports the large number of people eager to become validators. Thanks to sharding, we can scale without sacrificing simplicity or security.”

🔗 Want to join? Learn how to run a NEAR validator using Node Studio with the Learn NEAR Club guide here.

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🚨 Reminder: Kotlin & Swift RPC Bounties

We’re looking for builders to fill the missing pieces of mobile development on NEAR:
🟢 Automate Generation of Kotlin RPC Client for NEAR Protocol
🟢 Automate Generation of Swift RPC Client for NEAR Protocol

Only 7 days left, each Kotlin & Swift RPC bounty comes with a 6,000 USDC reward, don’t miss your chance! 🏆

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