Awesome NEAR Ecosystem

A curated collection of repositories and tools for building on the NEAR Protocol blockchain.

NOTE: If you are looking for the products built on NEAR, check out NEAR Catalog.

Contents

• Skills
• Testnet Faucets
• NEAR Protocol SDKs
• Wallet and Authentication
• CLI Tools
• Starter Templates
• Data Infrastructure
• AI and Cloud Services
• Near Intents
• Shade Agent
• Chain Signatures
• Explorers
• Additional Resources

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Skills

Package	Description
agent-skills	AI agent skills for NEAR Protocol blockchain development

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Testnet Faucets

Faucet	Description
Circle Faucet	20 USDC to be sent to NEAR Testnet (claimable every 2 hours)
NEAR Faucet	2 NEAR on Testnet (always claimable, but rate limited)

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NEAR Protocol SDKs

Wasm

Smart contracts in NEAR Protocol as that simple that you may write them in plain Wasm. Yet, we still recommend you use high-level programming languages to make your code ergonimic.

JavaScript / TypeScript

Package	Description
near-api-js	High-level JavaScript off-chain client for NEAR Protocol to get accounts, block, transactions, FT/NFT tokens information, and prepare & submit transactions, function calls
near-api-ts	High-level TypeScript off-chain client for NEAR Protocol with type-safe API to get accounts, block, transactions, FT/NFT tokens information, and prepare & submit transactions, function calls
near-kit	Modern TypeScript High-level TypeScript off-chain client with intuitive fetch-like API for NEAR Protocol to get accounts, block, transactions, FT/NFT tokens information, and prepare & submit transactions, function calls
near-jsonrpc-client-ts	Auto-generated TypeScript JSON-RPC client for NEAR Protocol (used under the hood by near-api-js, near-api-ts, near-kit)

Rust

Package	Description
near-api-rs	High-level Rust off-chain client library for NEAR Protocol to get accounts, block, transactions, FT/NFT tokens information, and prepare & submit transactions, function calls
near-openapi-client-rs	Auto-generated Rust JSON-RPC client for NEAR Protocol
near-jsonrpc-client-rs	Rust JSON-RPC client for NEAR Protocol (legacy)
near-sdk-rs	Rust library for writing NEAR smart contracts
nesdie	Rust no-std library for writing NEAR smart contracts
near-abi-rs	NEAR smart contract ABI primitives and models for Rust

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 for NEAR Protocol with Pydantic models
near-sdk-py	Python SDK for writing NEAR smart contracts (great for onboarding Python devs to blockchain, but not recommended for production)
nearc	Minimal Python SDK for writing NEAR smart contracts (foundation for near-sdk-py)
monty-near-cli	MontyPython-based proof-of-concept implementation of Minimal Python SDK for writing NEAR smart contracts (experimental)

Swift

Package	Description
near-jsonrpc-client-swift	Type-safe Swift JSON-RPC client with async/await support
near-sdk-swift	Proof-of-concept Swift SDK for writing NEAR smart contracts

Kotlin

Package	Description
near-jsonrpc-client-kotlin	Type-safe Kotlin Multiplatform client for NEAR JSON-RPC API with coroutines

Go

Package	Description
near-sdk-go	Go library for writing NEAR smart contracts (experimental)
near-api-go	High-level Go off-chain client library for NEAR Protocol to get accounts, block, transactions, FT/NFT tokens information, and prepare & submit transactions, function calls

Zig

Package	Description
near-sdk-zig	Zig SDK for writing NEAR smart contracts

C# (.NET)

Package	Description
near-sdk-c-sharp	Proof-of-concept C# library for writing NEAR smart contracts

Elixir

Package	Description
near-sdk-elixir	Proof-of-concept Elixir library for writing NEAR smart contracts

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Wallet and Authentication

Package	Description
@hot-labs/near-connect	Secure, lightweight wallet connector with sandboxed execution environment for JavaScript/TypeScript
near-connect-ios	Secure, lightweight wallet connector with sandboxed execution environment for iOS native apps (Swift)
near-connect-android	Secure, lightweight wallet connector with sandboxed execution environment for Android native apps (Kotlin)
near-connect-hooks	React hooks for NEAR wallet integration using @hot-labs/near-connect
near-sign-verify	Create and validate NEP-413 signed messages for API authentication
better-near-auth	Sign in with NEAR (SIWN) plugin for Better Auth framework
Privy Social Login	Social login integration for NEAR apps via Privy

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Near Intents

Package	Description
One Click SDK TypeScript	TypeScript SDK for seamless cross-chain token swaps via 1Click API
One Click SDK Rust	Rust API client for One-Click cross-chain swaps
One Click SDK Go	Go API client for One-Click cross-chain swaps
Near Intents AMM Solver	Sample Automated Market Maker (AMM) solver for NEAR Intents protocol
contract-types	TypeScript type definitions for Defuse Protocol contracts
crosschain-assetid	Cross-chain asset ID utilities for multi-chain token identification
intents-sdk	SDK for building intents-based applications on NEAR Intents protocol
internal-utils	Internal utilities for Defuse SDK packages

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CLI Tools

Package	Description
near-cli-rs	Human-friendly interactive CLI for NEAR Protocol interactions
create-near-app	Scaffold NEAR dApps with frontend and contract templates
cargo-near	Cargo extension for building and deploying Rust smart contracts with ABI generation
near-validator-cli-rs	Human-friendly companion that helps to manage native NEAR stake and troubleshoot NEAR network
bos-cli-rs	CLI that simplifies local component development for NEAR BOS

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Starter Templates

Package	Description
near-ai-chat	AI chat agent starter kit for NEAR AI Cloud with verifiably private inference
NEAR Playground	Online IDE for NEAR smart contracts: From zero to deployed NEAR contract in 30 seconds. No downloads. No config. Just ship.
every-plugin	Composable, type-safe plugin runtime framework for remote plugin loading
near-sdk-rs-template	GitHub Workspaces template for instant online IDE launch
near-fast-ft-transfer	High-performance REST API service for batching and distributing NEAR Protocol fungible tokens (FT)
Learn NEAR by Example	Interactive learning platform with 60+ working smart contract examples, AI code assistant, and one-click TestNet deployment

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Data Infrastructure

Package	Description
Goldsky	NEAR Protocol data infrastructure and indexing service
Stream NEAR	Server-Sent Events (SSE) stream for real-time NEAR block data
Explorer API	Transaction-based explorer API for account transfers and block history
Near Lake Indexer	NEAR Lake data indexing service for querying blockchain data
Outlayer	Run any code with cryptographic proof that exactly the code you specified ran with the inputs you provided

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Data APIs

Package	Description
FastNear API	FastNear's low-latency API for wallets and explorers
NearBlocks API	NearBlock's REST APIs for accessing NEAR Protocol blockchain data
Pikespeak API	Pikespeak's API for aggregated analytics on wallets, validators and dApps activity
Allium API	Allium's API focused on wallets and historical transactions
OutLayer Price Oracle	TEE-Secured Price Oracle

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AI and Cloud Services

Package	Description
NEAR AI Cloud	Private inference platform for verifiably private AI inference

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Shade Agent

Package	Description
new-shade	Experimental Shade agent framework with CLI tools, JavaScript SDK, and agent templates for TEE deployment

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Chain Signatures

Package	Description
chainsig.js	TypeScript library for handling multi-chain transactions and signatures using MPC (Multi-Party Computation)
omni-transaction-rs	Rust library to build transactions for all chains

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Explorers

• NEAR Validate
• NearBlocks
• PikeSpeak
• Near Intents Explorer

Additional Resources

• NEAR Documentation
• NEAR Developer Chat
• NEAR Intents Documentation
• NEP Specifications
• NEAR Blog
• NEAR Catalog

Advanced Projects to Learn From

• core-contracts - collection of the early core NEAR Protocol contracts that are still widely used (the SDKs are outdated, but the concepts are still relevant)
• omni-bridge - one of the most advanced collection of NEAR Protocol smart contracts
• Aurora - EVM compiled to Wasm to run Solidity contracts inside a single account on NEAR Protocol
• sputnik-dao - DAO contract implementation for NEAR Protocol
• web4 - HTTP gateway that translates HTTP requests to NEAR Protocol function calls
• near-dns - DNS gatewat that translates DNS queries to NEAR Protocol function calls
• NEAR Social Database Contract + VM + viewer - social profiles, social graph (followers), social posts, and even JS widgets stored on NEAR Protocol blockchain with a tiny bootstrapping core that loads all the code and data from the chain to display it to the users

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To add a tool, submit a PR with: package name, one-line description.