NEAR-pathway

Learn NEAR pathway from https://learn.figment.io/network-documentation/near/near-pathway

1. Connect to a NEAR node using DataHub.
2. Create your first NEAR account.
3. Query the NEAR blockchain.
4. Submit your first transactions
5. Write and deploy your first NEAR smart contract

Extra NEAR Pathway Challenges

Twitter

• Post a lesson learned about the NEAR platform, tools, community, etc.
• Post a screenshot of what you just built with NEAR
• Share a public link to a repository with your code
• Start a debate about the pros / cons of NEAR
• Launch a meme war with NEAR prominently featured

Medium

• Recount your NEAR learning experience
• Share your ideas for improving the NEAR developer experience
• Describe the business case for a DApp that should be built on NEAR
• Write a list of the key features you discovered about NEAR
• Compare NEAR with another technology, blockchain or otherwise

Github

• Build a demo of an interesting feature of NEAR (ie. cross-contract calls)
• Integrate NEAR with a popular framework (ie. Express middleware)
• Adapt a popular, existing system to use NEAR (ie. a simple JS game)
• Extend an existing NEAR sample into something better (see near.dev)
• Contribute to the NEAR codebase (see github.com/near)