Overview

NEAR Accounts is the TLA Marketplace for renting, transferring, and recovering human-readable NEAR accounts across custom namespaces.

What Does TLA Mean?

In these docs, TLA means Top Level Account. A TLA such as acme defines the parent namespace. A name rented inside it, such as alice.acme, becomes a real NEAR account.

The account is not a wrapper or a database record. It has its own address, balance, and transaction history. The benefit is a readable account name with a defined lease, transferable ownership, and optional recovery.

You approve actions on the account. The House of Stake carries those approvals to NEAR and sponsors the gas. The current design separates owner approval from transaction submission.

Who Is It For?

• Anyone who wants a NEAR account outside of the default .near namespace
• People who want a human-readable NEAR account without managing transaction gas for supported actions
• Teams that operate accounts within a shared TLA namespace
• Organizations that need transferable names, lease controls, or optional recovery
• Developers integrating account signing, marketplace, or recovery flows

What Can I Do With Rented Names?

Your rented names support standard transfers and contract calls across NEAR. Account-key management, account deletion, native contract deployment, and native validator actions are outside the operated action set.

Continue with Get Started to rent and operate an account, or open Core Concepts for ownership, lifecycle, freeze, and recovery.