{"id":"1Rlm78giS6s","title":"NEAR Inaugural Town Hall September 2020: Introduction to NEAR, Flux Protocol and Mintbase","description":"This inaugural Town Hall for the NEAR Community kicks off with NEAR Foundation CEO Erik Trautman, providing an introduction on what NEAR is, how the NEAR Foundation is supporting NEAR’s development and what the current main goals for NEAR Foundation are.\n\nNEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukihin lays out the three stages in which NEAR Protocol is being rolled out and what the current status of the project is. Lately, the main focus has been around the distribution of the NEAR Token, which will officially start from today. The tokens can be delegated to validators to start securing the network immediately. \n\nHead of DevRel Peter DePaulo continues with an update on the developer relations department and in which way you can start contributing to the development of NEAR Protocol.\n\nMintbase Co-Founders Nate Geier and Carolin Wend showcase the Mintbase NFT Platform and explain what utility can be expected of NTFs in the future.\n\nFlux Protocol Co-Founder Peter Mitchell presents what the Flux application does and why Peter chose NEAR Protocol to develop on.\n\nViktor Bunin shares the work that has been done on the NEAR Validator Advisory Board, a group of professional validators that assist the NEAR development teams with monthly discussions, testing beta releases and new feature suggestions.\n\nThis inaugural NEAR Town Hall is concluded with an AMA between Viktor Bunin, Erik Trautman, Illia Polosukhin and Peter de Paulo.\n\nTimestamps and Twitter Handles\n1:34 - Agenda\n2:42 - Introduction - NEAR Foundation CEO Erik Trautman -   / eriktrautman   \n11:09 - Project Update - NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin -   / ilblackdragon   \n22:18 - Developer’s Studio - Head of DevRel Peter de Paulo\n32:29 - Mintbase - Mintbase Co-Founders Nate Geier and Carolin Wend -   / mintbase      / nategeier     / carolinwend   \n39:48 - Flux Protocol - Flux Founder Peter Mitchell   / fluxprotocol     / peterflux   \n44:48 - NEAR Validator Advisory Board Update - Viktor Bunin   / viktorbunin   \nSignal Boosts and Q&A\n53:15 - AMA with Erik, Illia, Peter and Viktor\n\nRegister for our next Town Hall: https://near.org/townhall \n\nFollow the latest from NEAR Protocol on, \n\nWebsite: https://near.org/\nDiscord: https://near.ai/discord\nMedium: https://near.ai/medium\nTwitter: https://near.ai/twitter\nGitHub: https://near.ai/github\n\n#Blockchain #FutureIsNEAR","channel_name":"NEAR Protocol","published_at":"2020-09-28T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/1Rlm78giS6s/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":null,"transcript_synced_at":null,"segments":[],"youtube_url":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Rlm78giS6s","url":"https://near-pedia.xyz/videos/1Rlm78giS6s"}