About
NEAR Protocol is a climate-neutral, high-speed & low transaction fee layer-1 blockchain powering the open web. NEAR’s flexible account model and human-readable addresses allow for the most optimal developer and end-user experience and its WASM-based execution provides optionality for developers to write secure smart contracts in multiple languages.NEAR Protocol is a climate-neutral, high-speed & low transaction fee layer-1 blockchain powering the open web. NEAR’s flexible account model and human-readable addresses allow for the most optimal developer and end-user experience and its WASM-based execution provides optionality for developers to write secure smart contracts in multiple languages.
Prizes
We are looking for the most imaginative and exciting builds using NEAR Protocol’s new JavaScript SDK. JavaScript is the most popular programming language, used by nearly 14 million developers worldwide. With the NEAR JS SDK you can write smart-contracts in JavaScript or Typescript, and our SDK will pack them with a lightweight runtime. This can then be compiled into a single WASM file that can be deployed into the NEAR network.
- 🥇 1st Prize: $5k in $USDC
- 🥈 2nd Prize: $3k in $USDC
- 🥉 3rd Prize: $2k in $USDC
Here are some suggested hackathon projects: https://www.nearhacks.com/bounty-ideas
You must explicitly apply for this prize during the submission process to be eligible to win
Getting Started
- New to NEAR: https://docs.near.org/concepts/welcome
- JS SDK: https://www.pagoda.co/jssdk
- “Hello NEAR” Example App: https://github.com/near-examples/hello-near-js
- Guest Book Example App: https://github.com/near-examples/guest-book-tutorial
- Video Tutorial on Building dApps with JS SDK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYNyC6__pw8
- Protocol Spec: https://nomicon.io/DataStructures
- NEAR’s Blockchain Concepts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9tzQn_TEuFWJwvBg5V6EVa2DtYL_-2lJ
