NEAR Accounts Documentation

All of your rentals belong to one ownership account. This lets you manage every account you rent from one place.

Your Ownership Account

Your ownership account is the NEAR account connected to your sign-in method. It controls every rented account you own.

You use the ownership account to:

Approve actions for your rented accounts.
Renew their rental periods.
List or transfer them.
Protect them when you set up recovery on the ownership account.

One ownership account can control several rented accounts.

If you use your own wallet, House of Stake does not receive the private key for your ownership account. Your private key is the secret that lets you control the account. Keep it safe.

Your Rented Accounts

A rented account is a real NEAR account at an address such as alice.degen, not just a domain name. It has its own balance, transaction history, and rental period.

Rented accounts have no access keys, so you do not receive a private key or seed phrase. Instead, you control each account through your ownership account.

When you sell or transfer a rented account, the new owner takes control. Your ownership account and your other rented accounts stay with you. To transfer an account, choose Transfer Ownership in NEAR Accounts. Your access ends when the transfer completes.

See Pricing, Renewals & Expiry for rental periods and what happens when a rental ends.

What Can I Do With a Rented Account?

A rented account is a real NEAR account. It can hold assets and work with NEAR apps and contracts.

Use The Account

You can use a rented account to:

Hold NEAR, tokens, and NFTs (unique digital items).
Receive payments and use the account with NEAR apps.
Send transactions or call contracts when the action is supported.

Use Both Accounts Together

Every action from a rented account needs both accounts. Your ownership account approves the action, and the rented account carries it out. Apps see the rented account as the sender. You can also give the rented account limited permission ahead of time. House of Stake pays the network fee—the cost to process an action on NEAR—for supported actions.

Keep your ownership account's sign-in details safe. If you use a seed phrase, keep it private and store it somewhere safe. Set up recovery while you can still sign in.

Use a Rented Account With Meteor Wallet (Coming Soon)

We’re collaborating with Meteor Wallet to build an integration for rented accounts in the TLA Marketplace. When it launches, you’ll be able to:

View your rented account’s balance.
Receive assets.
Send transactions.
Connect the rented account to NEAR apps.

Your ownership account will remain in control and approve every action, while the rented account appears as the sender in transactions and connected apps. It will not have its own private key, and the account limits below will still apply.

What Is Blocked

While a rental is active, House of Stake cannot transfer the rented name or spend assets from it on its own. It cannot send NEAR or tokens, move NFTs, or use a NEAR contract (a program that runs on NEAR) to spend those assets or your staked assets. These actions need approval from your ownership account, unless you explicitly granted limited permission.

For safety, a rented account cannot:

Add or delete access keys.
Delete itself.
Deploy a contract.
Perform native validator actions.

Recovery Protects the Ownership Account

Set up recovery on your ownership account. One recovery setup protects every rented account that it controls.

You do not need to add recovery to each rented account. If you recover the ownership account, you regain control of every rented account it still owns.

Recovery stays active after you use it. It remains active until you remove it in Settings. Read Recovery for setup and removal instructions.

Fast-auth sign-in is coming soon. We will add setup and account-control instructions here when it is available.

Accounts & Ownership