Kotlin JSON RPC client for NEAR — bounty winner announced

The “Automate Generation of Kotlin RPC Client for NEAR Protocol” bounty goes to Hossein! 🏆

Congrats and thanks for the solid engineering work and clean Kotlin implementation. This client makes NEAR integration smoother and more native for Android and Kotlin developers 🎉

🔗 Bounty & Repository

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📡 NEAR Stream - Real-time blocks via Server-Sent Events

Just launched a free service that streams NEAR blocks in real-time using SSE (Server-Sent Events).

How it works:
Connect to the stream → get finalized blocks as they're produced → automatic reconnection resumes from your last block

Live on mainnet:
https://live.near.tools

Try it:

curl -N https://live.near.tools

Or in JavaScript:

const es = new EventSource("https://live.near.tools")
es.addEventListener("block", (e) => {
  const block = JSON.parse(e.data)
  console.log(`Block ${e.lastEventId}`, block)
})

What you get:
✅ Real-time finalized blocks via SSE
✅ Resume from any block height (?from_height=N)
✅ Ring buffer for instant catch-up
✅ Automatic retries with exponential backoff
✅ Self-hostable (Docker available)

Use cases:
Block explorers, transaction monitoring, indexers, real-time dashboards, any app that needs live blockchain data

Links:
GitHub: https://github.com/r-near/near-stream
Docker: ghcr.io/r-near/near-stream:latest

Built with Rust + Axum. Powered by neardata.xyz. MIT licensed.
👨‍💻 Author: @rickyisnear

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Data adapters are rolling for the competition ✍️

NEAR Intents is getting its first competitor adapters.
Across, Li.Fi, Axelar, and CCTP are in review.

The bounty remains open while submissions are being tested and verified. Each adapter equals one provider and one reward (100 $NEAR).

Ready to ship yours? Details here 👈

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Builder Board is a new space by NEAR Legion

A place to share what should be added or improved in the NEAR ecosystem. Other members can pick ideas they like and bring them to life 👨‍💻

Right now it’s focused on collecting ideas and feedback about what NEAR is missing. A reward system and new features may appear in the future 🗯

If you’ve got something worth building, your idea belongs here 👈

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Time to explore HOT Connect 🔥

NEAR Wallet Selector has long been the main connector in the NEAR ecosystem, helping hundreds of developers onboard users with a unified interface. As the ecosystem grows, a new alternative has emerged: HOT Connect by the HOT team.

It brings several modern improvements:
➡️ SDK fully compatible with Wallet Selector
➡️ Wallet SDKs run in isolated iframes for better security
➡️ Wallets auto-update without developer actions
➡️ For integration or support, contact @here_pasha

Wallet Selector will continue to be maintained during the transition period, but developers are encouraged to try HOT Connect for new integrations and upcoming upgrades.

👉 Learn more on GitHub: HOT Connect

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🌟 NEAR Town Hall: November Edition

Join us today for the next NEAR Town Hall featuring:
• Illia Polosukhin
• Sovereign AI
• ConsumerFi
• NEAR DevHub

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

🗓 November 6 | 3 PM UTC

➡️ Set Reminder on YouTube

🚨 New standard alert: NEP-621

Tokenized Vaults are coming to NEAR 🗯
Edward, Iker, Alexander and Guille dive into async design, vault logic, and key ideas shaping the new standard.

📺 Watch how standards take shape

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You’re closer to building on NEAR than you think!

Or maybe you're just a future founder who wants to learn more about blockchain integration.

NEAR Quest is a lightweight intro to building on NEAR.

No tokens. No hype.
Start ➡️ https://docs.near.org/quest/introduction

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🚨 Going live in 1 hour

How do builders go cross-ecosystem without the complexity?

Join Shai Perednik, Guille and the Founders Forge cohort as they unpack Intents, Chain Signatures and Shade Agents, technologies reshaping how apps are built.

🎙 Tune in https://x.com/i/spaces/1jMJgRZvDebGL

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Private by design, cross chain by NEAR

Zcash privacy expands beyond its own chain through NEAR Intents.
Developers can now enable private automated payments across ecosystems without revealing the sender 🗯

Zcash today. Any token tomorrow 💯

👇 Start building:
Intents 101 & Intents 102

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Ledger now supports NEAR Intents via SwapKit

Through SwapKit, NEAR Intents add intent based execution, gas abstraction, and multi provider routing to Ledger’s swap engine, expanding cross chain coverage to ecosystems like Solana, Base, TRON, and NEAR 🗯

Built on Chain Abstraction and integrated via SwapKit, it turns complex cross chain logic into one clean programmable layer.

👇 Learn how NEAR Intents work:
Docs, Intents 101 & Intents 102.

NEAR is infrastructure that just works 🧠

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✉️ NEAR Dev News #81 — The October Issue

From Halving and AI Treasuries to new SDKs and the next chapter of Open Web development, here’s what’s new in NEAR.

Here’s the rundown:
✅ Halving approved
✅ SovereignAI launches with $120M
✅ Swift & Kotlin SDKs for NEAR JSON RPC
✅ HTTP Fetcher for real-world data
✅ NEAR Docs & Playground updates
✅ NEAR Intents & Calyx bounties
✅ Governance live with House of Stake
…and more inside the full issue.

🔗 Read the full & subscribe: https://docs.near.org/newsletter
🔖 Explore active freelancing opportunities: https://nearn.io/

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🚨 AI DAO Demo

Owen from Proximity Labs showcases a verifiable AI-powered DAO built with NEAR and Shade Agents. It’s autonomous, transparent, and makes on-chain decisions through verifiable AI.

📺 Watch how autonomous governance works in action

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Public Goods for NEAR Protocol — 2025'Q4

We are accepting new proposals for public goods for NEAR Protocol 😁

What we’re looking for:
⚪️ Developer tooling: SDKs, frameworks, debugging and testing tools
⚪️ Documentation: structured, technically deep, easy to navigate
⚪️ Onboarding: guides, starter kits, interactive walkthroughs
⚪️ Integrations: bridges, APIs, middleware, ways to extend NEAR’s capabilities
All proposals must be open and freely accessible 💯

Include objectives, deliverables, timeline, and budget. You’ll get a response within 7 days.

If you’re working on something that benefits developers across NEAR, this is your moment 🔥
👉 Details & submission here

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🖥 A fast way to get up to speed with NEAR

NEAR Quests gives you short lessons followed by quick tests that reinforce what you just learned. Protocol basics, smart contracts, frontend flows. All broken into tiny steps that don’t slow you down.

Read a bit. Answer a few questions. Move to the next challenge.
Start with the intro quest and level up your NEAR knowledge 🚀

👉 It’s easy to start building on NEAR. Start learning here

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🚨 We’re improving NEAR Treasury and testing new design flows

To shape it properly, we need feedback from people who use it OR are interested in tools like it.

It’s a short form and every response helps us improve the new design experience.

👉 Fill it out: https://tripetto.app/run/GF8SYFMRNR

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🚨 Building In Public on NEAR

Elliot, Ester and Jay kick off the NEAR Merch Store project as they walk through early decisions, design sketches and the first practical steps of bringing the idea to life in public.

A quick look behind the scenes at how the team shapes direction, tests assumptions and forms the foundation of the store.

📺 Watch the highlights from Episodes 1-3

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New design. Same Treasury. One more reminder.

Thank you to everyone who has already filled out the form and will fill it out ❤️

Your feedback helps the team understand what feels clear and what could be easier to use 🗯

The team is continuing to collect perspectives from people who use NEAR Treasury or similar tools. Different points of view help them see where the experience can be made more comfortable for everyone.

If you haven’t shared your perspective yet, here is the form 👈

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🚨 OutLayer unlocks a new execution model

Smart contracts can run off-chain compute inside a single on-chain transaction. TEE execution, external APIs and ML models all work natively, without servers or SDK integrations.

👉 Read the full thread

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