✉️ 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.

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🔖 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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One site. One journey.

We’ve consolidated developer resources:
⚪️ BOS components → NEAR Social
⚪️ Docs and guides → docs.near.org

🔥 No more split references. Just one clean path for developers building on NEAR.

Many possibilities. Check it out 😁

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🌟 NEAR Town Hall: October Edition

Join us for the next NEAR Town Hall featuring:
• Illia Polosukhin
• Calyx
• Templar Protocol
• Allora Labs
• Near Intents

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

🗓 October 2 | 3 PM UTC

➡️ Set Reminder on YouTube | RSVP on Luma

Free infra credits? Yes, that’s real 💸

Infra Credit Programs Q4 = easy mode for builders:
🟢 1-week approval
🟢 RPC, APIs, nodes subsidized
🟢 Less invoices, more shipping
👉 Details & Submission

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Build it, or watch someone else claim it

If you can build an FT Claiming Service that handles 100 transfers per second, there’s 1,000 $NEAR waiting for you 🚀

What do you need?
⚪️ Build an API (Rust or TypeScript)
⚪️ Hit 100 transfers/sec for 10 minutes
⚪️ Benchmark, document, and open-source it
⚪️ Read the moderator's comments

⏳ 7 days left. Make it fly 🚀
👉 Don’t close this tab. Go submit your build.

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Rust Smart Contracts on NEAR — NEAR SDK 2 🦀

Welcome to Part 2 (Payable, Private, PanicOnDefault) of the NEAR SDK series for Rust smart contracts! ☕️

💥 What you’ll learn:
🔴 #[payable] allows your functions to safely accept NEAR payments
🔴 #[private] restricts access to contract-only calls
🔴 #[derive(PanicOnDefault)] prevents uninitialized contract disasters

By the end of this tutorial, you’ll know how to initialize contracts safely, handle deposits correctly, and build proper access control for production-ready NEAR contracts 💯

📺 Watch the lesson here
👨‍💻 Code examples

🔖 Second episode in the NEAR SDK series. More coming soon.

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Swift RPC Client built for NEAR

One of the contenders for the 6,000 USDC bounty on NEARN has submitted their work: near-jsonrpc-client-swift

This release could help iOS and macOS applications connect to NEAR directly, without middleware. The winner of this bounty has not yet been announced, this post is for informational purposes only 🔎

Also, if you’d like to share feedback or suggest improvements to NEAR infrastructure, visit the Infrastructure Ecosystem Feedback Page 📝

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Payments Rule Everything Around Me — by Illia Polosukhin

Why new payment-focused blockchains miss the point and why the real future lies in Intents + Agentic Payments 💵

In this new newsletter, Illia explains how NEAR Intents and AI agents can redefine payments:
🟢 Why blockchains failed to reinvent payments
🟢 How intents can connect crypto, fiat, and real-world assets
🟢 Why stablecoins become fully interchangeable with intents
🟢 How AI agents enable instant, low-fee, autonomous payments

The next generation of payments is not on new chains. It’s powered by intents and agents that work across all of them 👍

🔖Read the full piece & subscribe

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The slime couldn’t resist adding one more layer to the cake

Intear Wallet just got sweeter. You can now create and deploy tokens directly ✔️

🗯 Supported launchpads:
🟢 meme.cooking (mainnet)
🟢 aidols.bot (mainnet)
🟢 Global Contracts feature (mainnet / testnet / localnet sandbox)

Same cake, better taste. Wanna try? 🍰

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