What the Registrar Does

House of Stake’s role in the NEAR Top-Level Account namespace was established through a NEAR Tokenholder vote under HSP-028, which was ratified on September 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC.

Through this decision, House of Stake became the governance authority for the NEAR Top-Level Account namespace root, with the House of Stake Security Council acting as the Registrar.

The Registrar’s role is mainly operational — to securely execute valid Top-Level Account (“TLA”) creation requests and protect the integrity of the namespace root.

Responsibilities

The Registrar is responsible for:

• Creating Top-Level Accounts: Execute valid requests to create new bare TLAs on NEAR.
• Verifying requests: Confirm that creation requests meet the required governance, technical, and security conditions before execution.
• Secure execution: Carry out Registrar Actions through the approved multisig or threshold-signing process.
• Protective actions: Delay or suspend execution when there is a security issue, unauthorized request, vulnerability, or other serious risk.
• Transparency: Ensure Registrar Actions can be publicly reviewed and verified on-chain.

What the Registrar Does Not Do

The Registrar does not decide:

• who receives a namespace;
• pricing or fees;
• marketplace or leasing rules;
• customer policies;
• account recovery; or
• commercial decisions.

These responsibilities belong to the nearaccounts.com team.

The Registrar also does not control TLAs after they are created. House of Stake and the Security Council cannot access users’ accounts, keys, or assets.

Governance and Accountability

The Registrar operates under the authority of NEAR Tokenholders through House of Stake and must follow the applicable House of Stake governance and security requirements set out in the Registrar Charter and the Constitutional Documents.

Its authority is intentionally limited and cannot be expanded through operational decisions alone.

In Simple Terms

• House of Stake governs the namespace root.
• The Security Council operates the Registrar.
• nearaccounts.com manages the product and commercial side.
• Users remain in control of their accounts and assets.