🚧NEAR Application Architecture

1. NEAR “Core” Protocol

2. Smart Contracts

3. RPCs / Indexers / Nodes (validators)

4. Accounts (via wallets)

5. Frontends and Backends Decentralized applications run on blockchains (1) where developers write, compile and deploy smart contracts (2), providing read access to the data inside smart contracts stored on chain via (3) and write access via (4), and finally presenting data and making future transactions from (5). Resources in these docs cover:

6. Developing and deploying NEAR smart contracts (2)

7. Patterns for NEAR account interactions (4)

8. Developing the NEAR portion of frontend and backend applications (5) New to NEAR or Blockchain