{"id":"fRkCdNk_mC4","title":"How Aurora Lets You Launch a Chain in Minutes (Built on NEAR)","description":"Aurora VP of Growth Declan Hannon explains how Aurora eliminates the complexity of launching a blockchain. Built on NEAR’s horizontally scalable infrastructure, Aurora offers virtual EVM chains that are fast, customizable, and fully integrated. Pick your token, name it, deploy it — no infra required. \n\nWith support for AI, asset tokenization, shared liquidity, and a soon-to-launch virtual chain marketplace, this is how chains scale without limits.\n\nAurora Virtual Chains - https://auroracloud.dev/\n\nNEAR is the Blockchain for AI\nWebsite: https://near.org/\nNEAR AI: https://near.ai/\nIntents: https://near.org/intents\nChain Abstraction: https://www.proximity.dev/\nSharding: https://nearone.org/\n\nFor the devs\nGitHub: https://github.com/near \nDev Docs: https://docs.near.org/\nDevhub: https://devhub.near.page/ @NEARDevHub\n\nConnect with socials\nTwitter:   / nearprotocol  \nBlog: https://near.org/blog/\nMedium:   / nearprotocol  \n#NEAR #nearprotocol #NEARAI","channel_name":"NEAR Protocol","published_at":"2025-06-12T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/fRkCdNk_mC4/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":"My name is Declan Hannon. I'm Aurora Labs vice president of growth. So Aurora is the EVM compatible layer for NIA, the network of virtual blockchains as a super simple, nocost solution for any project that wants to be able to interact on chain. The largest problem it solves is the complexity of actually launching a chain to begin with, being able to enter the blockchain space as a newcomer. Aurora's solution was to say, \"Hey, we will remove all of that need for you.\" And all you will need to do is choose if it's public or permissioned, choose what token that you want, name it, deploy it. Of course, if there's any integrations, it will do that for you as well. Real world asset projects, the strongest growing segment called Optima, leveraging our virtual chain technology, leveraging AI, leveraging our property portfolios, the fractionalized assets, and fractional investments in wind technology. We have a set of tokens that you can deploy instantly. Aurora, Nia, Ethereum, Bitcoin, you do have the ability to deploy your own token. You have to name it, but the token has to exist. You go to any other network, they're going to give you one lane. With near, that problem doesn't exist thanks to the ability to horizontally shard uh and scale. We give you the whole motorway and say, \"Off you go. Let rip as fast as you can. We promise there's no police or speed cameras watching you.\" And that's the power of virtual chain. And that wouldn't be possible without Near's infrastructure. Near Intense itself, the front end is what Aurora owns, allowing people to interact with all sorts of different chains and swap them in any way they want to do. All of the chains are interoperable. There are no silos. You can have several virtual chains that even have shared liquidity pools, which means they can also interact with every single DAP project and ecosystem partner that Nia has to offer as well. We're launching a virtual chain marketplace which is going to allow any virtual chain project to be able to work with partners across all different things whether it's legal tokens GPU storage AI agents. AI is going to play a massive role. Focus on delivering a great product and allow Aurora to manage all of the infrastructure for you. Launch your chain with every integration and partnership that you need quicker than you can make a British tea.","transcript_synced_at":"2026-11-03T04:55:19.931Z","segments":[{"start_seconds":0,"text":"My name is Declan Hannon. I'm Aurora Labs vice president of growth. 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