Overview
NEAR Accounts is a marketplace for sub-accounts under new Top Level Accounts on NEAR. Instead of being limited to names that end in .near, you can rent an account such as alice.degen.
How the Names Work
A Top Level Account is the ending shared by a group of account names. For example, .degen is the Top Level Account in alice.degen.
NEAR Accounts can open Top Level Accounts, or TLAs, such as .degen, .art, and .club. People can then rent available sub-accounts under them.
What You Rent
Renting alice.degen gives you control of a real NEAR account at that address for a fixed period, not just the name. The account has its own balance and transaction history.
Rented accounts do not have private keys or seed phrases. You approve their actions through your ownership account.
Ownership Account
Your ownership account is the NEAR account connected to your sign-in method. It controls the rented accounts you own.
One ownership account can control several rented accounts.
You use your ownership account to approve actions from your rented accounts. It also lets you renew rentals, list accounts for sale, or transfer them to someone else.
Rented Accounts
A rented account is a NEAR account that you rent under an open TLA. For example, alice.degen is a rented account under .degen.
Your ownership account controls the rental. You do not need separate sign-in details for each rented account.
Example: If davis.near rents alice.degen and shop.club, then davis.near controls both rented accounts.
The House of Stake pays the network fee for supported actions from rented accounts. Some actions are blocked for safety. Read Accounts & Ownership for the full list.
Start Here
- Get Started explains how to sign in, fund your NEAR account, and rent your first name.
- Marketplace & Portfolio explains how to find or buy names and manage the accounts you rent.
- Accounts & Ownership explains what rented accounts can do and how to list or transfer one.
- Pricing, Renewals & Expiry explains rental prices, renewals, and what happens if a rental expires.
- Opening New TLAs explains how to ask the House of Stake to open a new public TLA.
- Recovery explains how to protect your ownership account and every rented account it controls.