Smart Contract

A “Smart Contract” is simply a program that runs on the NEAR blockchain. It is a collection of code (its functions) and data (its state) that resides at a specific address on the NEAR blockchain. You can think of a smart contract as an account on the NEAR network, which runs as a program. Users can interact with a smart contract by submitting transactions that execute a function defined on the smart contract. Once deployed on the blockchain the smart contract can not be changed that’s why you need to carefully check your code and test it before deploying it on the blockchain.

NEAR

NEAR is a decentralized development platform that uses a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism and will eventually feature a sharded architecture to scale transaction throughput. Its block generation scheme is called Doomslug and its proposed sharding design is dubbed Nightshade. These technologies will work together to scale the network and minimize congestion. NEAR has also been designed to be developer and user-friendly as it features a few key innovations to accelerate the application development and user-onboarding processes. The NEAR blockchain was created and developed by the NEAR Foundation. Its mainnet went live in April 2020, and network validators voted to unlock token transfers in October 2020. NEAR's bridge to Ethereum (called the Rainbow Bridge) launched in March 2021.

Methodology

in this dashboard, we use the near.core.fact_actions_events table and action_name field.

action_name = ‘DeployContract’ for finding “smart contracts”.