# FASTNEAR > The fastest gateway to NEAR Protocol FastNEAR is an infrastructure provider for the NEAR Protocol. It offers RPC nodes, indexed blockchain data, and low-latency APIs for wallets, explorers, and other applications. FastNEAR is an infrastructure company that provides gateway services for the NEAR Protocol. It operates managed RPC nodes, streaming data APIs, and account query services designed for developers who need reliable access to onchain data. Its offerings target wallets, block explorers, and applications that require consistent uptime and quick query responses at scale. The platform addresses the practical challenge of running and maintaining blockchain infrastructure by centralizing node operation, indexing, and data delivery into managed services accessed through a single API key. Users can retrieve transaction history, query token and NFT balances, look up staking pool information, and access streaming block and receipt data through REST based APIs. It also offers an off-chain compute service that runs verifiable computations using trusted execution environment technology. Beyond its core RPC and data APIs, FastNEAR provides an explorer API for transaction and block lookups, a transfers API for filtering incoming and outgoing token movements, and custom indexer solutions built for specific project needs. The service is used by wallet providers, block explorers, and other applications across the NEAR ecosystem that depend on high volume, low latency data access. - Type: Company - Sector: Infrastructure - Status: Active - Founded: 2024-02-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/fastnear ## Products - [FastNEAR](https://thegrid.id/profiles/fastnear): FastNEAR is an RPC and data API infrastructure platform for the NEAR Protocol, built on hosted nodes with archival storage and caching layers. It provides regular and archival RPC endpoints, block and transaction streaming, account and token balance lookups, transaction and transfer history APIs, and custom indexer solutions. Wallets, explorers, and applications use these services for low-latency reads and reliable transaction submission. A subscription dashboard manages API keys and usage across tiered plans. (RPC Provider, Live, Main Product) - [OutLayer](https://thegrid.id/profiles/fastnear): OutLayer is a verifiable off-chain computation service for the NEAR Protocol that executes WebAssembly code inside Intel TDX trusted execution environments. Each execution produces a cryptographic attestation confirming the code, input, and output integrity, removing the need to trust the operator. Smart contracts call OutLayer through NEAR's asynchronous yield and resume mechanism, while web applications call a direct HTTPS API with metered payments. Supported use cases include AI inference, verifiable randomness, and wrapping external APIs with built-in monetization for developers. (Developer Tooling, Live) - [NEAR Rocks](https://thegrid.id/profiles/fastnear): NEAR Rocks is a block explorer for the NEAR Protocol that renders real-time blocks, transactions, accounts, and token transfers through the FastNear transactions API. A smart search feature automatically detects account IDs, block heights, and transaction hashes. The interface provides full receipt execution traces, nested action breakdowns, delegate and relayer detection, and transfer parsing for token standards extracted from event logs, alongside deep-linkable receipt IDs, spam token filtering, and raw unit display toggles. 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