[SOLVED] How do you send or transfer an NFT to another account on NEAR protocol?

How do you send or transfer an NFT to another account on NEAR protocol?

The goal is to send another user's account the NFT from an account I control. The NFT follows the standard, but it appears that wallets do not support this feature in their UIs now so we have to execute a shell command to effect the transfer. How is this done?

Solution

If the contract adheres to the NEP-171 standard, then you can use the near-cli and call nft_transfer. You also need to use the mainnet, and login to the wallet. Caller of the method must attach a deposit of 1 yoctoNear for security purposes (see requirements for more details)

export NEAR_ENV=mainnet
near login
near call contractName nft_transfer '{"receiver_id": "someNearAccount", "token_id": "someTokenId"}' --accountId yourAccountId --depositYocto 1

Now, if the call returns without any errors, the NFT should have been transferred. In the terminal, you also get a link to the explorer to see the transaction. You can also call another method nft_token, to see the updated information:

near view contractName nft_token '{"tokenId": "someTokenId"}'

You'll see that the owner_id has changed.