A wallet kept alive by its community.
Near Wallet forked the original near/near-wallet codebase in 2022 and has shipped continuously since. The mission: keep a non-custodial, web-based Near Wallet free, open, and accessible.
Self-custody should be the default, not the upgrade.
Open-source forever
MIT license. Every commit, every release on GitHub.
Local keys, always
Your private keys live in your browser, encrypted with your password.
Free to use
No subscriptions, no premium tiers, no hidden cuts on swaps.
Six years of NEAR & the wallet.
- 2018NEAR founded
NEAR Inc. founded by Illia Polosukhin & Alex Skidanov, originally as an AI project.
- Apr 2020Testnet & wallet preview
First version of the original near/near-wallet repo published.
- Oct 2020NEAR Mainnet launch
Phase 0 mainnet — the wallet shipped at wallet.near as the canonical entry point.
- May 2022Near Wallet org created
Community organization formed on GitHub to keep the web wallet maintained.
- 2022–2023Migration
wallet.near users migrated to Near Wallet.com after the foundation deprecated the original site.
- 2024Nightshade 2.0
Stateless validation goes live on NEAR mainnet — wallet supports the new state model.
- 2025+Continuous shipping
Active commits, 100+ contributors, 27 forks. Latest release tracked on GitHub.
- TodayYou
Reading this. Maybe about to download it.
An independent contributor team.
Near Wallet is built by a small core team plus 100+ open-source contributors. It is not operated by NEAR Foundation or NEAR Inc.
JavaScript (70%) + TypeScript (29%). MIT licensed. Active development since 2022.
Co-founded by Illia Polosukhin (co-author of "Attention Is All You Need") and Alex Skidanov.