This document lists various NEAR ecosystem nodes and workgroups, their responsibilities and a way to contact them.
Contributions: send PR to add your organization with responsibility and contact details.
| Node | Responsibility | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| NEAR Foundation | Coordinating and funding the NEAR ecosystem development | People |
| NEAR Foundation/Horizon | Horizon is an 8 week equity-free accelerator that provides multi-faceted support for early stage Web3 projects | Apply to next cohort |
| Pagoda | Development of various core components of NEAR ecosystem | Contact |
| NEAR One | Protocol development team, maintainers of nearcore | Zulip chat |
| NEAR Dev Hub | Supporting open source development on NEAR from developer education to maintaining core components | Create proposal |
| NEARWEEK | The Official NEAR Newsletter & Community Platform ⋈ Research. Development. Aggregation. Curation. | Request support |
| Proximity | Chain Abstraction go to market team | |
| Learn NEAR Club | Connects NEAR Ecosystem projects to pro-active community members | Join as Project |
| Mintbase | NFT Creator suite, market, and developer templates to build AI + NFT apps fast | Apply for Grants |
| Potlock | Open funding and impact tracking stack on NEAR dedicated to publicgoods | Community Chat |
We also maintain a database of all entities in the NEAR ecosystem; see the Ecosystem Readme for more information.
| Work group | Responsibility | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Protocol Work Group | Responsible for decisions about NEAR blockchain protocol improvements and updates | New issue |
| Infrastructure Work Group | Responsible for funding core infrastructure of NEAR protocol | Telegram |
| Contract Standards Work Group | Responsible for decisions regarding Contract Standards on NEAR, voting on related NEPs, and providing attestations on related funding proposals | Community Telegram |
| Protocol Work Group | Responsible for decisions regarding the NEAR Protocol, voting on related NEPs, and setting the protocol budget | Community Telegram |
| Zero Knowledge Work Group | Responsible for decisions regarding Zero Knowledge related proposals | Community Telegram |
| Hackathon Work Group | Responsible for decisions regarding hackathons and technical event proposals | Community Telegram |
| Validators Work Group | Responsible for decisions regarding validator related proposals and updates | Community Telegram |