Certification Programs
Sometimes you want an experienced guide to help you navigate this new landscape. Explore certification programs designed to launch your learning. Get certified!
Here at NEAR University you can learn, earn and connect among friends in the NEAR community.
This course is an opportunity for technical and non-technical users alike to learn about the potential of the Open Web and propose meaningful solutions for development.
This course is an opportunity for web developers to earn a Certificate of Completion that represents the ability to design, develop, test and deploy smart contracts on the NEAR platform.
Learn how to develop a blockchain enterprise from scratch
Whether self-paced, online or in-person, we have created learning experiences that transform.
Sometimes you want an experienced guide to help you navigate this new landscape. Explore certification programs designed to launch your learning. Get certified!
Sometimes you want all the control because you know best how you like to learn. Explore courses and tools that will help you learn NEAR at your own pace. Start today!
These learning experiences are sponsored by NEAR Foundation in collaboration with expert industry partners who deliver world-class learning at scale. Explore the ecosystem!
Explore courses and tools designed by members of our ecosystem to provide you with the support you deserve at the level you require for optimal learning. Join us!
Get paid to learn and build as part of our fellowship programs, supplement your income with bounties or fund your dream project with a grant.
Join the fellowship program as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR)or Developer in Residence (DiR) for up to 90 days of paid full / part time work on challenging problems.
This is your chance to join a community of world-class innovators and entrepreneurs that will build the future of the Internet.
We're looking for 1000 talented educators to teach people about NEAR and the future of the Open Web.
Connect with like-minded members of our ecosystem to work on some of our most challenging problems at scale and in public.
Engage with our fast-growing ecosystem of entrepreneurs and developers as we build the future of the Open Web
Find us on Discord and Twitter where we design, organize and host learning experiences that transform.
If you are interested in becoming a NEAR Education partner, we welcome organizations with an audience eager to hear about NEAR.
Meet the graduates of our NEAR Certified programs and engage them as collaborators or co-founders for your next venture.
Make new friends and find cofounders in our thriving ecosystem of ambitious entrepreneurs and developers.
Super nice course. It almost concludes all concept that makes me get into the field fairly quickly.
Instruction is very good, helpful support.
Amazing course that kept me interested throughout. I would highly recommend taking it!
A good intro to the whole NEAR Protocol, crypto and smart contract world.
I enjoyed this course very much!
I enjoyed, loved, and learned from this course.
This course was amazing. I knew nothing about blockchain before starting the course. Now I have a good foundational understanding to take the next step in my blockchain journey.
Videos and tutorial are so informative.
Dedicated instructors
Very well structured course.
We find joy in making complicated things easier for people to understand and believe in empowerment through continued learning. Our team is made up of technical and non-technical users that love solving problems in creative ways.
Our team is made up of devs and data scientists, artists and adventurers, entrepreneurs and dreamers. We believe that by working together we can provide just about anyone a meaningful learning experience.
We love to see our ideas become reality. In addition to our education work, we are also hard at work on our own technical, creative, and nonprofit projects. We know that the whole point of learning is to be able to do stuff.
NEAR is secure enough to manage high value assets like money, assets and identity while being performant and affordable enough to make things useful for everyday people.
Technically speaking, NEAR is a layer 1 smart contract platform (like Ethereum but cheaper and faster) that scales by parallelizing storage and compute using a technique called “sharding”.