How do you create an account on NEAR?

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In the wallet.near.org you can restore an account but how do you create a brand new named account like foo.near?

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The UI in the wallet doesn't appear ready yet but this can be done via the CLI by calling the contract deployed on the near root account. Here's the command:

near call near create_account '{"new_account_id": "NAME.near", "new_public_key": "YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY"}' --amount 10 --accountId YOUR_MASTER_ACCT [--useLedgerKey] --gas 100000000000000

where:

  • NAME.near is the account you want to create
  • YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY is a public key you've generated with a Ledger Nano S or X following the instructions on docs.near.org
  • YOUR_MASTER_ACCT is an account you control, to which you've given access to near-cli using the near login command or which you control via a Ledger Nano
  • --amount 10 is the initial amount you want to send from YOUR_MASTER_ACCT
  • use --useLedgerKey if you control YOUR_MASTER_ACCT via a Ledger Nano
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UI to create accounts is now fully live at https://wallet.near.org/create

There is one extra step where you have to fund temporary account from exchange.

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