Who holds this NEAR account now, and since when

A NEAR account can change hands while its name and history stay the same. Before you pay or trust one, see when the keys that control it today took over.

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Control changed hands

No wallet, no sign-in. Read from NEAR mainnet as you ask.

Example: an account sold on a public marketplace

Record of controlControl changed

ruble.near

New keys took control of ruble.near on 4 July 2023.

0days under today’s keys

0days of history before, under other keys

Point at the timeline to see who held the account on any day

10 Sept 2021
Earlier keys
4 full-access keys, all removed by 2 Nov 2022
2 Nov 2022
No full-access key for 244 days
Nobody could sign for the account
4 Jul 2023Control changed
4 Jul 2023
Keys in control today
3 full-access keys, held for 1,224 days

The previous 4 keys were removed on 2 November 2022, and for 244 days nobody held a full-access key. That is how an account changes hands through a marketplace contract.

Activity before 4 July 2023 was signed by keys that no longer control this account.

The keys themselves

In control today
Key	Added
ed25519:4r1t6xmp…zMoUMS	4 Jul 2023
ed25519:28fyUaiH…Ydhski	4 Jul 2023
ed25519:Fb68Dxok…6LY3Mu	4 Jul 2023

Earlier, now removed
Key	Removed
ed25519:J5Utuqar…aBFryh	2 Nov 2022
ed25519:2JPQ8FbS…6fqZwB	2 Nov 2022
ed25519:BjjXaWYm…E8oAX8	2 Nov 2022
ed25519:7s6jJ4dz…mRZDgq	2 Nov 2022

An old account can be a new stranger

Whoever holds an account’s full-access keys controls it. Replace the keys and the account belongs to someone else, while its name and its past carry on. Accounts are sold this way and taken over the same way.

What the account shows on 8 January 2022ruble.nearSame name, same history, same reputation

Who can sign for itThe first owner’s keysEarlier keys held it, 2 keys

8 Jan 2022Earlier keys held it, 2 keys

Drag along a real account’s history, read from mainnet on 9 November 2026.

49 of 71

accounts sold on near.bet show this handover: old keys removed, a stretch with no key, then new keys. Among 70 long-running projects and people, none do. How this was measured

How it works

Every NEAR key carries the date it was added, hidden in plain sight in its counter. Epoch reads it.

A key on ruble.neared25519:Fb68DxoknuuN…6LY3Mu

Its counter95702651000001

Divide by a millionBlock 95,702,651

That block was made4 July 2023, 18:45 UTC

The last digits count how often the key has signed since. This one has signed once.

1
Today’s keys
Epoch reads the account’s full-access keys from NEAR mainnet.
2
Their dates
NEAR starts each new key’s counter at the block it was added in, times a million. So every key carries its own date, and the oldest of today’s keys is when the current control began.
3
What came before
Epoch finds the keys that ran the account earlier and how they left: kept for a while, swapped at the same moment, or removed first with a gap where nobody held a key.

Epoch says when control changed and how. It does not call anyone a scammer, because owners replace lost keys too. It tells you whose history you are looking at.

For apps and agents

Wallets, payment tools and AI agents can ask before they pay. One request, no key, the same answer the page shows.

A sensible rule: when recent is true, control changed in the last 30 days. Do not pay until a person has confirmed the payee another way.

curl https://epoch-near.onrender.com/api/check/ruble.near

# the answer on 9 November 2026, shortened
{
  "verdict": {
    "kind": "changed",       // missing | locked | unchanged | changed
    "at": { "height": 95702651, "time": 1688496334059 },
    "daysAgo": 1224,
    "recent": false,
    "pattern": "handover",   // overlap | swap | handover
    "keylessDays": 244,
    "previousKeys": 4
  },
  "explanation": {
    "headline": "New keys took control of ruble.near on 4 July 2023."
  }
}

What it cannot tell you

Who holds the keys. Only when they arrived and what happened to the ones before.
Whether a change was a sale or a theft. An owner replacing a lost key looks like a swap. The pattern is evidence, not a verdict.
Dates for keys added before about June 2021. If one still controls an account, Epoch says control goes back at least that far.
Anything about limited keys. They can call specific contracts but cannot change who controls an account.
Instant answers every time. It runs on free public NEAR servers, so a busy moment can mean a short wait.

Who holds this NEAR account now, and since when

ruble.near

An old account can be a new stranger

How it works

Today’s keys

Their dates

What came before

For apps and agents