Layer 2 Stage | Near Pitch Competition and Award Ceremony

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   thank you so much these people want to win the heckadon this is why they're applauding so hard my name is Maria I'm with near death Hub and I do heatons and including this one uh I think we didn't a pretty good job with 800 registrations almost 800 and dozens of submissions so devhub team and me we spent the last night selecting 11 most interest pitches so today at the pitching competition we will present you top 11 and we will

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   select one of the winners of this heckadon the winner of the nomination pitch competition right so the rest of the winners we will announce online on November 17 so don't get too excited this won't be the winner of the second this just one of the winners still really great so let me introduce the judges of the pishing competition please meet Laura from near Horizon please meet Eric from pagot o from sweat coin sweat economy sorry Alex from Aurora and L from mint

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   base so this is how it's going to work um they call me Maria the timer because during the pitch competition when the team goes over three minutes I just cut them I just cut them off so they only have three minutes to pitch and the judges will have three minutes to answer the question so probably two questions for each team if we're lucky maybe three um and then after 11 pitches uh the judges and me we will go backstage to

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   select our favorite team so let's introduce our first team Obrigado hello everyone um we're orado and we're here to talk to you about uh enabling compute on the near ecosystem by utilizing idle computing power So currently uh the N ecosystem facilitates front end um decentralized front end using boss decentralized backend through smart contracts executing transactions but we believe heavy computes should be should be part

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   of the near ecosystem so what's the problem so this graph um shows the um market share Trends between Cloud providers and as you can see the market share trend is going up for the big providers meaning their their their market share is actually increasing and it's becoming less and less decentralized over time and to compound that there are also data as you can see that um the data here shows that the demand is increasing more and more over time for cloud computing resources so

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   this is orado so orado can execute heavy compute tasks including training large neural networks um genomic data processing and Drug Discovery and this is done through task nodes enabling their idle compute power to be used and this will be executed through the near blockchain and we believe with orado heavy compute is near so our road map so during this hackathon we launched our smart contracts on the near test net and they're functional we launched our front end on boss and it's

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   functional and our future road map we want to improve security and privacy for our users we want to improve the workflow and the user experience and we also want to support more languages currently supports python but we want to be able to reach as many different providers uh languages as possible so our team we met just a few few days ago at the hackathon and it's been amazing um we come from a variety of

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   backgrounds including technical experience in the centralized cloud computing space so here's a quick demo so as you can see we have two worker nodes and we have a task submitter so the worker nodes are currently searching for new tasks that are added to the near blockchain and as you can see the task submitter submits their task with a bounty of 10 near the worker nodes are now receiving this task they found it they're processing

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   the transaction and just focus on the um the account balance of these worker nodes so the account balance has been added to um their account they've shared the Bounty equally for completing this task so this is what it looks like with two nodes I'm sorry time's up thank you so much te obado now don't hide behind me go to the center of the stage in Cas in case our judges have some questions so we have a mic here there is a whole team to

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    be I'm G to scream my question um can you talk a little bit more about what your go to market strategy is who who would you Target first as like the end user of this application or this so um yeah it would be basically um any kind of research institutions or um uh think of somebody who wants to to train large scale neural networks um um microbiome research institutions DNA processing facilities and things like that so anybody who would use um traditional cloud and centralized Cloud could opt in

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    as this um for this alternative is there any is there any verification of the results of the compute um do you do it multiple times or how this it working yes basically uh every job has um um an infinite amount of can be taken by any amount of nodes and once results are submitted they are uploaded to ipfs or any kind of external storage and the onchain data Stores Only the location of that result and the hash so at the moment of of the result submission the

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    hashes are compared and um at that moment if there is at least one different hash then the job goes into a challenged mode and then uh there could be a way of having a wh listed or trusted nodes that are going to perform only like validator nodes that are going to validate only those challenged jobs and in that case if the um challenged results matches this um so the reward or the Bounty is going to be distributed only to the nodes which submitted the

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    correct result after validated trusted result comes in then are you going to be price competitive or what's going to be the you know your differentiation why would these institutions so of use you so we believe that depends on the Dynamics of of nodes joining the network um there's going to be an alternative Market is going to dictate the price and it can easily happen that the price um to compute something on on aado is U higher than on um on on the traditional nodes

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    um but you will have always this kind of resistance and there could be Market could be dictating the low price so for for instance if there is um if there's a lot of idle compute gpus sitting at um at consumers houses they might just decide to run one node and forget about it and get passive income that's going to We Believe lower the price of the compute thank you judges thank you team

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    abrigado thank you so let's let me introduce to the stage a team called proof of reputation welcome there you go this is your clicker so you can go front and back you can see your presentation here the microphone okay welcome everyone I'm Alan I'm Mexican and I want to talk to you about a very common problem that is faed on the regions around in America thinking this you are an small or medium business you have to

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    pay your employees but by many of the factors that happen during the week maybe your ER your customer didn't pay you or maybe you got any other situation you don't have enough money to pay so this is what we are talking about and this is a problem that represent one of every three uh one of every three fails in Mexico companies so so uh we are right now presenting our project that is called proof of reputation we are a a

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    score and Loan protocol that allows you to request a loan based on your activity on chain in our research we discovered that almost all the businesses on Mexico are smbs and also that hundreds of thousands of people lives on their banket on the Rion in latan our prototype is ready we work at 48 hours during this hackaton to develop an a smart contract that currently is deployed on mainnet and can create an score for H some Quest that are already ready on near protocol and also we

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    develop an U and Ur interface that is deployed on both components we have regulatory advantages as it is a depth mechanism so there is no profit and you can take this as a dep we we have kyc and AML alignment as we can do Quest that that recognizes your proof of uh of personhood or your proof of citizenship we also aims to have love to non bureaucracy in case that you ask for a loan on a bank on Latin America H

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    you can count the time that it takes for yet one we have a plan reach under banket regions partners with local empresarial organization and to about crypto payments and start seing the fs loans our current status is the fs we have a defined clear problem we have an score smart contract that is deployed on mainnet and we have a UI UI that is ready and you can test it on near.

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    org next steps is complete loan liquidity pool Alpha Testing with O's and look for extra use cases of a score on chain our team we are based in Mexico we know very well what is this about and we can invite any of you anytime you want to live what we are living alone can save the life of ANB on latam who want to be part of this much thank you so much any questions from the judges what's the motivation for a lender to be on this

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    protocol okay we think about the interest rate that you can get for this loan protocol according to your score you can get a bigger or an smaller interest rate that can represent a higher apy than the average AP the average interest rate that you get from the bank you go to Mexico and you get pay like 2% for your money so let's loan this for your region and you start earn more thank you if you don't have any oh

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    one more question from l are using nfts and if so uh can you explain a bit a bit about it yeah we are using Soul bone tokens specifically so every time that you complete the quest you get an NFD that you can see on your wallet and you have a main NFD that represents your score and is updating accordingly to the activity that you are completing the quests thank you so much te impr proove

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    of reputation thank you very much thank you very much thank you and let's welcome our next team b4b for near social welcome on stage hi I'm Anna our project b4b influencer marketing protocol on near social after launch udson near need tell about their project and attract new users but we don't know how reach Target users on near Community NE native influencers and creators are the best way to amplify new

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    dabs that's why we create b4b influencer marketing protocol with b4b dabs can choose B best influencers based on where on chain statistic and made promotional collaboration with them creators can monetize their channels grow on chain portfolio and moreover creators have more motivation to active grow on near socials during near con our team collect all onchain data from near social graph

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    support add placement on near and add verification using near profile let's see see how it work in influencer create account by connected wet and verified ownership of his near social Channel also influencer put price for different ad placements Advertiser choose best influencer based on where on chain statistic from near social graph at make at looking for this he choose best at placement format date and send content to The

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    influencer Advertiser uh Advertiser make pay payment via BB protal smart contract on aora in usdc influencer receive at order if influencer like the order he accept it and after this on planed date he download content and make publishing on his near social Channel and send link to the advertiser Advertiser check what everything okay with at placement and approve what at done after this influencer receive payment on his wallet from our smart contract in usdc on aora network

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    let's bring 1 billion users to web three by collaborating with creators and influencers thank you team b4b judges do we have any questions can you talk a little bit about what you think is your total addressable market like how big do you think this space is who are you going after are you planning to bring more people into near social is it sort of a recruitment or is it really more to

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    sort of spur you know um the the the work that's already happening with the people that are on your social yes we integrated the near social graph and it's possible to place in near social on and collaborate with different cers here and it's also possible on our platform to collaborate with other socials like we two socials Twitter Telegram and other with influencers there uh collaborate Place uh content and attract in their protocols new users

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    um when the advertiser creates the advertisements or schedules um is it public uh contract yes when advertisers create new it it's uh public in smart contract the all statistic store in band but the main payment information and other on chain statistic public on on Smart contract on aora can we use b4b to bring more users to near social yes it's possible of course uh to collaborate with other influencers from

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    telegram Twitter and other socials uh make a placement and bring to near social to and collaborate new users here so recommendation to New Foundation to start using the services of Bobb bring more people to new thanks guys yeah thank you so much thank you judges thank you team f forb can I please have my quicker back let's welcome on stage the next team party go I promise this is going to be fun there you

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    go you can see it here hello everyone I'm Olivier Smith and I'm part part of Paro two weeks ago I was here in the exact same room and I was listening to elia's talk about the near end the BOS and herbit integration a bit later me and my team attended e Lisbon where we built chipper and we were like why not why not do a backto back heaphone and we felt like what can we do for near well we wanted to help bring the messes to near by

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    building baringo per this is the yeah this is the one no it's this is not the one this one no it's a link in the picture click from here sorry for the hicup the time is taking no no time is not ticking that's unfortunate just which slide you need to switch from M OS to BOS just click on it okay present to you well either way doesn't matter you can go to part. NGO and actually check out the UI um basically part thingo is a

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    game that you can play whenever you're with a party of friends hackers or colleagues and about to go to an event um on Paro there's a lot of presets for for example a heaphone or a road trip with scenarios and you can select which friend you think is most likely to end up in a certain scenario so for example you go out on a club night and someone gets too drunk someone loses his phone someone gets kicked out by the bouncer you can actually predict which friend will be in this

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    scenario there is a point system to it but eventually the event log of this game gets thrown into an llm and makes a recap of the night creating a beautiful memory so this is how we will bring near to the messes how are we getting Paro to the messes well through user generated marketing campaigns on Tik Tok for example and so we will Market it as like a party drinking game so it will go viral right but under the hood it's it's actually an awareness game to make

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    people aware of certain social behav uh recurring behaviors in certain social settings this will cause the next user Peak for an year the future for parting go well first of all we'll continue building it and fixing it because they now fix the compiling error and we can actually make it functional so um we've got a lot of ideas for Paro like uh branded preset so it it's actually marketing value is amazing uh we will integrate it with

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    alphabet a prediction Market on herbit so there can be some financials involved and the best thing is we will connect this to the project we built at Eve Lisbon making it possible for us to record contributions and reward them with token or Equity allocation so everyone here can become part of parting go and so on parts of near thank you so much this was the team they're unfortunately already back home um check out part of NGO it's not an NGO but there's always a party thank you very

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    much don't leave maybe the judges will have the questions I'm just looking at your demo and it's pretty slick uh mobile first yeah mobile only at the moment uh well if we want to reach the messes we go for mobile um the U was almost finished but we were struggling with a few things at extra day of building and this will actually be functional can you talk a little bit about your intended Revenue model uh yes so first of all it will be Brands and events like this event that

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    can create presets um this is one way of getting Revenue but there can also be a creators Market that can get very creative with presets for Niche events and occasions and then they yeah we don't want to do advertisements we do want to have branded presets but we don't want to bother the users what parts of this are on the are on the near chain or interacting with near so this is the part that I forgot to say but normally it was in the demo uh whenever you join a game you create a

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    miner wallet and so it doesn't really showcase um the possibilities of near but it's a very easy way to onboard the messes and they get curious and they have fomo to play the game they will be on ear without even knowing it thank you so much thank you so let's invite to the stage our next team which is called B mutation and presenting guy in the T-shirt legendary Pokemon I I mean who could beat that okay there is a clicker so you

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    could click to the right and use your microphone okay hi um I'm the from dlet team and we have implemented BOS mutation proposal uh what problems does it solve um boss component on the website they easy to Fork thanks boss but actually they are hard to be used why assume you would like to insert a button uh into the existing boss website like near social here is uh it is it is a

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    dislike button I am the owner of the change but the website is owned by someone else so what should I do uh at first I have to implement the button no problem but then I have to Fork a container ining the button oops please okay then I have to Fork a container container a containing container with the button okay and then I have to for a container of container of container containing the button and this is up to the up to the top and I will end up in

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    creating the full Fork of the entire website but it goes even worse because this Fork does have no usage so I have to start some marketing campaign to get usage from mop near to uh to the my fork and U it can be tricky because this original website is owned by the owner and why should he allow it he will maybe reject it so our solution is to apply this change on the and change the website uh immediately in

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    permissionless way uh this is how it works uh this is a switcher you can switch between mutations this applied directly into the website uh uh you you see here different mutations for example badges applied uh directly into the near social or pay wall it's another mutation can contain pay wall uh as here here how you can create uh mutations on the Fly uh you can just point out to the um element on uh create replacement elements and you can submit uh this uh

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    mutation to the uh blockchain you can share with an this mutation with another guys or submit as a pool request now uh important to say that um yeah uh important to say this a huge uh it works to web 2 as well and uh it's it's a change for entire web oh okay much sorry it was your time thank you any questions from the jury is there a business model around this sorry is there a business model around this at

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    all uh yes we have ideas for it to get hired by Pagoda yes does boss has um business model around is a manyu business model around the boss it's similar sounds good are there any possible negative consequences to being able to mutate things over and over and over again can you talk about any of the risks that you've thought about in terms of the the tech or are there no risks this is a perfect solution maybe I haven't understood this sorry so I I'm curious if you thought through are there any

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    risks from a technology standpoint or technical standpoint um or user standpoint of having mutations upon mutations upon mutations sort of happening throughout um throughout this Le I'm asking how it will goes distributed how yeah exactly yes the the idea is that this mutation will be maintained by communities uh because um for example for Twitter communities uh um Nia has 1 million users but uh specific

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    communities like NE social has 10,000s and they will be interested uh to engage uh Twitter users into their community and they will uh make specific uh mutations to engage people from the outter Community into the uh into for example NE social Community or learn near Club Community this is how it should work because uh smaller Community are interested to engage people from the other community and mutations is a tool

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    for this thank you so much Team B mutation can I have my microphone back thank you and the clicker so let's invite to the stage next team called uni help just one uh hello everyone so where oh yeah uh so uh we are uh near uniel and today we are proud to present our new solution to destroy the wall between students and the study abroad so yesterday I saw pretty cool presentation of the CEO of near foundation and um is

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    I figure out one more time that actually um yeah our idea is pretty revolutionary so it's AI secretary uh you see uh so uh Market data uh so over 5 million students uh go a study abroad each year and uh they have faced a lot of problems uh for example with uh transtion uh diploma supplements and other documents and today we are going to solve this problem so how we want to do this so here here you see that we have a student

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    which is going to bring documents to the uh University yeah and usually it's some employee who do boring for but today we do absolutely new attitude so we have a AI when University types a correct data into the AI it matched automatically all the subject which needed to match and send information to near blockchain that each product or each University can also send this information and use this information for they own components so

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    uh what we done actually we have a a smart contract uh who creates another smart contracts for each University uh so for example if you are like a Garber who comes to us you ask for a new smart contract and we create exact new smart contract for you uh to work with our application you can use our AI or not our AI it doesn't really matters but our AI will be trained on the information what's stored in the blockchain database

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    or stored on our Cloud it depends on are you working with us or with other uh similar project uh so uh what we have next uh next we have our uh quick video presentation uh so I guess it's started or not uh so yeah it can be started yeah so uh you can input information it's actually how it works so uh you write down to University what you're going to send your data you can write down uh the name of the contract what is the owner of this uh like University storage and

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    also name the disciplines what you're going to add and in this case uh we add a geography or we can add Ms and you can see that it's automatically matched by AI so you can add one more subject on just save and it goes to uh train uh AI on the new data or to give you back a original and good PDF of the diploma uh so next slide so monetization our business model so uh student can pay a pretty low amount of money like 5 it's not that

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    good that much yeah uh for trying to recognition of their um of their diploma of their the time is up so if the judges have any questions about the business model it's a good time to ask yeah could you could you go a little bit deeper into the problem that you're solving uh a little bit okay so so uh firstly uh if you're trying to go study abroad uh you need to uh match your subjects your translated subject or original subject with subject of the

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    University which you're going to study uh so for example in my University I had uh the subject of Informatica but here in the lisabon you you call it objectoriented programming and you need to match these two subjects basically it's done by AI so pretty simple and this works still done by assistant on cathedra manually for every University because we don't have centralized system where is everything

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    match so sorry follow-up question who is the user of this of this app is it the University or is it the student it's a university because they need to match uh documents what student bring to him yeah uh but it's always a fee to uh apply for some project programs so it's also student interest so on the on the business model why would you not swap it so instead of uh taking money from users or from students take the money from University they want to moneti this uh application

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    RS uh offering a service to student to uh upload own diploma supplement and recognize at which university he will get more matching uh courses and where he can uh continue his education why do you need blockchain for this because it's a decentralized uh we use it like a decentralized uh database every University can put data in this uh database let's let's call it and every other university around the globe can access this data without any negotiation with some Central Institution

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    yeah it's pretty big problem because right now even in European Union when all University are connected there are no one database and near it's one database for all universities all over the world thank you judges yeah one more question yeah can you explain a bit of your AI like how how it works it's uh just learning from data what we put it in uh blockchain it's a language model who just try to

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    recognize uh if this description from diploma supplement fit to our description that's all thank you team you need help thank you so we halfway through let's invite our next team is called partage I hope I'm not messing up with the pronunciation B that's it you know I remember looking under my rug at my Airbnb in Lisbon and I couldn't see any key so I dialed up the owner and I asked her well there's a key missing it took her about 3 hours to

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    come to the apartment and as a traveler I had a bunch of luggage so I couldn't really do anything um but sit there and when she finally came she gave me the key and we just started having a nice conversation about Lisbon and the restaurants in the area and this whole experience inspired me to like think about in our team to build a token that users will receive when they book a hotel or Airbnb that will act as a digital key for room access and this

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    token when used and when shown to restaurants and other places it will be used as a verification for the restaurant Partners to the hotel to give people discounts combining these Technologies on near we decided to combine partage and radit to create the solution so rodit is a non fual token that is digital sign and what it does is to bring together three different life cycles that can be complex to manage and that can lead to problems that the ones

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    that they need have so you have the contract the authentication and the payment life cycles in one go by assembling the rodit token in the partage platform we are unlocking shared utilities on near blockchain so basically how it works owners will list properties to share and users will select a utility in the marketplace that will mint a temporary access to it they will use the NFC signal of their

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    smartphone to unlock the utility at door so how it goes uh in terms of ux We Are broading The Marketplace we select the utility we like you can book your access here you have a calendar you you have details about the property and by clicking the mint button you receive a token the rodit on your wallet the new wallet that you then use to open the Smart Lock uh with the NFC signal we conducted a bit of market

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    research uh and have pending Partnerships um so actually we realized that one of the most important things for crypto ecosystems is to grow adopters in real life and we found out that hotels see them as promising Partners also smart log brands are in a quite competitive industry and they seek for Niche markets so we will uh for the next step integrate our solution in existing NFC readers and FL up with the hotels who wanted to try the beta testing thank you you

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    can the code perfect timing thank you so much judges do we have any questions for the team forage could you talk a little bit about your go to market where are you planning to begin with hotels in a certain geography is there yeah any thinking around that yeah in terms of go to market strategy I think that partnering with smart lck Brands is definitely a good uh a good move because they have

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    existing users cataloges uh customers and so we will propose them to we actually got in touch with some of them uh we have the list of 10 that has open API for developers and at least two of them agree on working on integrating our app in their device so then we will appear in that catalog and their actual customers will know that they can uh list their properties on the on the near blockchain using our our app what parts of your solution work

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    today and what sort of future functionality um so what we have today is a market place is a smart contract to Mint this roded token um and we also have a prototype of a Smart Lock that's proving the concept so what we need to do now is follow up with the land in Partnerships uh with the smart Brands to have a better device and a go to market faster than if we build it ourself from scratch any more

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    questions if you try to operate through NFC does it mean that um it's not going to work on Apple because Apple devices are quite tightly controlling that so the RIT works with any device that can use an ear wallet uh the we actually have submitted a standards proposal so this particular type of token can be displayed gracefully on any near wallet so it will work on any operating system no rodit would but opening of the doors and usage of nfc's linked to

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    rodit oh yeah that's that's uh totally compatible because we are using uh elic cryptography for the signature of the rodit that means that by installing the public key in the smart L we can validate that the nft is authentic and valid even if the smart look is offline and that is quite widespread you know you have libraries for electric P cryptography for any kind of uh Internet of Things device which is one of the most established ones as most trusted

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    also thank you judges thank you c f can I have my clicker back thank you so much and let's welcome to the stage our next contestant Nick with the project assistant oh aister sorry is it a sister a sister there you go clicker thank you hi everyone my name is Nick and I happy to present to a sister which is developer in relationship platform powered by AI we have a huge elephant in the room that no one is talking about there are

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    30 million web software developer worldwide but only 20,000 of them contributing into web3 why so because developer success pyramid it's not only about ideas it's also about ground layer it's about Knowledge Management it's about onboarding and support and web to folks they already have like 20 plus years almost 30 years to build all these so developers in web 2 can succeed but in web 3 we are not there and we have two Sid of this problem on one side

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    developers who struggling to find Tech documentation when they need to keep building what they want and on other side we have deal Engineers who are doing Monkey jobs by simply asking simply replying on the same repeatable questions they don't have any data to improve their processes and it's not scalable it's not attractive it's not automated it's not the way how it should Works in 2023 our team was quite

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    surprised with elas vision about AI agents and there is like second box development relationship agent it's basically what we are working on what we believe it as a team and here we are as sister we connect all sources we deploy aots it could be Discord telegram or web application and we hope that it's improved their experience right now you can scan um QR code it's basically our

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    telegram bot which is already live and but still it's not enough because we need human in a loop and human in a loop we have already collaboration we just discussed it yesterday with Heroes our first boun is are there if our bought are not capable to provide high quality support you can go to Hero submit on stack over FLW issue and community members will uh respond you and we will

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    get Bounty and we will retrain our Bots based on this response the same with updates documentation we can do it with near tasks so we have this assister flywheel where community contribute Community get actively involved Community get rewards and assist your work so it's like very sustainable approach we have a a team who has firsthand experience this problem on both sides as a developers and also as a uh Community managers um if our vision to empower the

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    next million of web stre developers to build the products without spending seconds on searching dogs awaiting on manual support is something that resonates you reach me out would love to hear you uh SS on this need it any questions from the judges thank you so um open AI just released chat assistance this week um how are you going to compete with that yeah like we are not offering one chat

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    that very specific uh it's like a first part second part we offer the whole platform and the whole flow that automates and have two parts in human in a loop like one it's a Deval team who can contribute the experience understanding of ecosystem how everything works understand the priorities and and like the right routs the right way of uh building some specific smart contracts or some

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    specific ecosystem and it's very important because if you will just upload any Tech documentation from near to these Bots it would be mess it would be hallucinating it would be uh not correct answers not correct support and so on and also other side we have Community who actively working so they are doing test features at the beginning but then they also uh get rewards and also they can contribute to the quality

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    of these bots so it's not about like creating a vector database which is one element of our system but it's like the broader automation of DL function on protocol level thank you so how does the system know when and how to involve a human yeah so as soon as like at the beginning we are doing uh pre-training work in collaboration with Deval Engineers it's something that we already have experience to do because we just launched three weeks ago on salana and

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    we already aggregate a lot of feedback from 200 developers who already use our solution for them and right now like over the next three weeks we're going to launch second version based on improvements that we got from deril teams they have 12 devil engineers and also based on uh contribution from community so Community what they doing we launch bounties for them and uh they can like build whatever they build ask

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    questions we provide response if it works it works if not they can submit the bug report on stack overflow stack exchange like hey guys I found that this response doesn't work it's kind of hallucinating or it's low quality response and we um we taking this data from this user it could be through wallet and we can reward that he submit like one two $3 do for submission some bugs but also another person who on

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    stack over floor Stock Exchange provide a response we analyzing that there is like I don't know 5 10 20 likes it means that people found this response wellable and we taken this response to our system retrain our board so the next answer the next question similar question would be respond based on this user provided feedback and in that way we we have very sustainable approach to um to upload

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    information to our uh Vector database to to upscale our Bots but also to involve all the community members to process thanks thank you uh we have time for one more question I think sure um I'm I'm I'm interested in learning or understanding like what sort of loms you plan to support right now we experience with chpt of course like we played with 3.54 um and also with llama um it's all depends on the customer needs like if there is some specific needs like for

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    example someone cares more about privacy sorry the time is up now you got your answer right thank you thank you so much let's invite to the station it um it's three more projects to go so if you're tired just take a Breer I'm going to interch you with the story so we wanted to to create actually an AI track for this heckadon but I didn't expect so many awesome AI submissions so probably

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    we will add the AI nomination like a separate one because at this presentation we we I think we have three project projects that integrated AI in their workflow so let's uh welcome to the stage our next contestant defi Builder hello my name is Daniel and I'm here to present defi Builder the world's first fully no code web3 development platform that will empower the next generation of web3 Builders our goal is to fully democratize defi development the remote is not working um

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    the problems that we encountered when we first joined the web Tre Market is that we had incredibly high cost for development very low security with freelance developers and very long development timelines and moreover it was very skill specific so whenever we needed something very specific to develop it was incredibly hard to find the right developer for our own Quest and this is exactly where def5 Builder succeeds uh our protocol works on a modular structure so essentially it

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    works with plug- andplay modules that users can Iz to deploy tokens DXs uh launchpads and landing and baring platforms and any other core D5 protocol it has customizable front end so you can consider it somewhat similar to Wordpress for example but for web 3 and we will also have a module Marketplace that will Empower web3 developers to start their own modules on our platform and make earnings from them for nearon

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    uh we also developed a special module that is uh near Ai and it is an AI powered a fully um it's an AI model that was trained by us to generate smart contracts for users but how does it work essentially users can go to our website they can pick their chain in this case we have near or Aurora and then they can connect with their wallet for near they can connect with a near wallet and with Aurora with

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    any web3 wallet of their choice then they can select from various templates and then each template will have certain features that can customize the template a little bit more and then the magic happens with the customization where they can describe exactly what they want for this smart contract and then they can pick between JavaScript and rust and generate their smart contract with no coding knowledge at all afterwards you will have your contract

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    that is ready for deployment for our road map right now we are focusing very heavily on finishing near AI in the next three months uh afterwards we will also have an AI front end generator that will use abis from the smart contract to deploy a front end that is workable and then we will also work on our module Marketplace in the next eight months that will allow developers to join our ecosystem and

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    make modules for us as far as our go to market strategy we're focusing very much on developers and on chains for developers we already have a group of over 700 developers that are working with us in a private group to test our product and we also have various chains at the moment three that are uh fully partnered with us our business model has three different types of uh revenue streams one of them is on deployment fees the

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    next one is on module royalties and the third one is on module Marketplace royalties and our team is a talented team of eight members that have been working with us for the past three years we've reached over $80 million in tvl across various projects on various chains and now my colleague Lorenzo can answer all of the hard questions that are technical that you will give him and for everything else I'm here as well thank you

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    hey I'm here for the technical side and we worked a lot to make this possible so I would really app appreciate like a technical question uh what hasn't worked when you generate a contract here what kind of errors or mistakes do you see in that's a good question I was hoping for a more easy question but it's like a good question in our Rod map basically we want to integrate a unit test so basically as soon as a smart contract is generated we are training a new AI that is able to generate test for the

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    specific smart contract so we want to set up a generative adversarial n Network system where you have two different AI competing between them one is generating the contract and the other one is testing they go forward and back until the contract pass all the check and then is serve it to the user thank you uh where did you get the data for the near smart contracts there are not a lot of them yeah we trained our model by

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    using L chain and Lama index we scraped the data from your GitHub we found a lot of examples and then we look everywhere in the internet to find a lot of new contract and we use it that as well to to train our system uh instead for the Aurora smart contract we use it open zeeline as well and a data set of over 100,000 smart contract that has been verified on ethereum scan yeah this is simple I mean you want to have a simple thing on board to Aurora

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    yeah any other question nope oh I would just say that I very I really hope that in the near future we can give the ability to this amazing crows in front of us to be able to join the defi space and enter in the near protocol in just few clicks that's really what is our project is giving to everybody the ability to join the defi word and the defi space thanks but that's this is how you use your spare time thank you very thank you so muchy

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    Builder and let's invite to the stage our next project which is literally called next um SF or for your startup welcome Sasha hello everybody can you just it's pleasure the CER the to see you here there you go and I'm a founder of uh Financial platform for startups next and now I ready to tell you more about the project so I worked like a Financial Consultant for more than 10 years and previous year I decided to to start uh digitalize the

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    process of business planning so during this year we already like uh collect more than 10 startups which uh which waiting for uh uh for the product so uh yeah it's me uh we already have several Financial experts like uh um a team also uh during the hackaton we uh we decided to work together with Alex who is a blockchain guru and now um I should tell you a little bit more about the product imagine we have a lot of startups that failed this winter and before uh and

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    less than uh 10% of startups stay alive in the year our aim to help startups uh make better Financial Planning and also forecasting of the metrics to uh see more startups uh like a businesses so uh what about near so uh a year ago we tested uh and make a a little prototype based on near wallet and Implement function of uh uh invoicing and da da collection and uh during this year talking to accelerators and incubators and other other people

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     from the industry it was it it become absolutely clear that solution uh which will help U web three startups collect data absolutely necessary so uh it's a our goals for the year for our go goals um this year and plans for for the next so um so Alex uh are you ready to tell more about technology yes so uh of course all the startups not willing to share financial data with any s party especially putting it on the blockchain and here where we can utilize

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     the most Advanced Technologies in crypto space Zer knowledge machine learning basically to allow anyone to share any data they want with this model and it can give Insight without revealing any details of uh of this financial information to even the model itself and of course uh near is a really good fit for as an infrastructure to run this Zer knowledge ma learning uh uh products because of scalability features and Shing so that's pretty much it thank you

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     so much te next yeah and during the Heaton we made a plan how integrate and how to build unfortunately the time is up ah okay thank you very much thank you Tim any questions from the judges uh yeah but I'll softball you this like the thing you're about to say what what works next now what does it do today once again please sure uh what parts of the system are built out today what does it do now that you've finished the hackathon now system works manually I collect best practices from like best

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     incubators from the uh from Europe and the US and now it's like now it looks like a uh like a pool of smart tables to like and work manually and part of of product already made on near and uh like a like a vet with uh with function of uh invoicing to like dmize uh your contractors and your transactions because it's necessary to pass through to to pass through due diligence collect

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     all transactions that you did on in your wallet and also the second function it's a collection of contracts uh in one place when you can see which which uh um which kind of relationship ship you have with your contractors and partners and projects around you and web3 thank you judges any more questions um how do you get your product going so I want to engage you what do you what do

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     I as a startup founder need to give you you know can how do I start working with you now it works like that we collect all data that you have your like uh uh bank account bank bank statement uh information from your Excel files uh uh information about your plans and that also we ask you like 50 questions about the startup and now it take it takes like five days to uh Implement uh like uh modern Accounting in your company for

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     small companies and also to make a business plan based on on your information and uh data we need just collect your plans your statements and the current current data is about the startup thank you so much team next thank you judges thank you and last but not least we present qux please welcome to the stage ABB not yet yeah oh you have mic GM GM the rumors are true I've been recruited by an autonomous AI agent to present to you the future of governance but first why autonomous AI agents

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     because Dows are a disaster we have to stop ly to ourselves it doesn't work for many reasons mostly around human coordination and competence are like thereof but when you introduce AI it's a new world efficiency that don't sleep it performs when you blend it with the blockchain superpowers of course these ideas are not new we had an entire AI day yesterday we had some of the brightest

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     Minds in the space share their View and their vision for the space but today we delivered on mainnet right now you can find our MVP on an interface which is quite familiar with any GPT agent you can trans interact with our grants allocator uh a autonomous AI agent you can go there now and play with it we call it a game because it's not a real Grant but you can interact with the agent to see how efficiently it performs it will ask questions is required it is polite it is f it is fast if you get the

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     message back that you've been funded it automatically executes the near smart contract and you get your funds immediately no need to wait for weeks or months or maybe never he back here is a photo of Steven our grants agent at work so what have we done for this hackathon there are four key repos the first one is a boss front end where you interact with the AI the second one is the backend server third smart contract on and the third one the sgx uh the

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     server to connect with um open AI so the secret Source really is in the bottom right we've taken the approach of trusted Hardware some people may try to do ZK that doesn't work that proves it too big we have cracked the sgx certifier so that without any human intervention we're able to certify that the inputs from the user are what the llm is taking into account and that the input from the llm is what the smart contract is taken into account chared Hardware we can take the private key all the way back to the Intel Factory where

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     the private key is in the trustless execution environment are the funds safe as save as any commercial cryptography out there right now so why is this important is this a toy for your children for Christmas no this is important because first we need something worth governing and right now we have a huge Community treasury that is in Desperate near of that efficiency layer to get funds out there to the community we want to start funding

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     initiatives that matter so that in time we'll have more and more public goods which will also become likely governed by Dows the future belongs to AIS talking to each other and we've enabled the trust layer through near smart contracts smart contracts to make that happen we've gotten fantastic feedback and we'd love to hear some questions uh from the audience or the judges I'm

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     sorry time's up thank you so much for an amazing pitch let's hear from the judges so how is Stephen trained how does he make his decisions yes so stepen is a traditional llm so it will be assessing the input from the user you can customize it based on your custom data but this really goes to show just how dire the state of DS are even basic due diligence like reading the proposal or checking someone's GitHub repo even

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     that core level of performance that you would expect from someone doing their job Steven will perform relentlessly efficiently and instantly going forward we can introduce things such as AI Vision you can have more and more custom data sets because all the inputs are on near smart contracts it can actually learn on itself and yeah hopefully build more custom data sets is there a business model around this yes so if anyone has a doubt and assets worth managing we'd love to talk

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     to you probably a small fee for handling um all the money efficiently we'd like to think about the value generation both in terms of what you save from paying people to do a fraction of the job but also in terms of value creation how much value could we unlock if we have a shared interface for anyone to be able to access funding in a fair way and yeah thank you judges thank you team let's have another round of applause for our

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     hackers now we jury and I will take a 10-minute break to select the pitching competition leader winner so let's go backstage but we'll be back shortly so we have a competition winner but I won't tell you because I have some more people who want to tell you about this so we have Chris and Ilia for the closing remarks and the announcement of the pit pitching Competition winner welcome on

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     stage all right okay thank you for those who survived still here yeah hope it was a really exciting Good event for you it's been an amazing event for us there's been a ton of work put in this but it's amazing to see kind of all the energy all the projects all the community coming together people building people kind of talking finding Partnerships and so yeah really great to be here really excited and you know looking forward to see you

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     obviously still you know throughout today but also in uh next year as well so ncon had over 150 speakers three venues and 3,000 people registered it's been an amazing event as I said kind of uh if you haven't been to a hacker space if you haven't visited other spaces like really cool lots of exciting stuff going on there I mean you obviously see seen exciting projects here and like Adia said none of this would have been possible without many many different people so first of all all of our fantastic

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     sponsors thank you so much means a huge amount to us and to the ecosystem doing some very important work here and of course great Media Partners as well another round of applause thank you very much and last but definitely not least developers Builders Founders but seriously the whole n Community everyone here in this room you know we would not be the ecosystem we are without each and every one of you so thank you so much for traveling all this way taking time out of your busy busy

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     busy schedules um you know to to celebrate neon with us and for people who watching online we'll see you next year yes so one of the other great things we had this this neon was um Horizon's first IRL event with 60 handpicked Founders um hugely impressive group of people some extremely exciting projects as well and this is really just the beginning of Horizon's next chapter uh and we're super excited to see uh what is what is coming next but I think a big congratulations also to the horiz ring

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     team for running such a such a fantastic experience and I know all of the founders um it was great to to get to meet many of them and also they seem to have a an incredible experience so well done Horizon team and of course this year was the very first year for the uh ncon app everyone has been stacking their Encon very well but also not just stacking it but actually spending it using it in

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     this fantastic um conference-based economies we've had over 5,000 transactions through the app we've had over 250,000 Enon has been spent on you know delicious food on on the great swag and of course as we as we mentioned the top three Encon earners are going to be announced next week and they will get a free trip to next year's ncon which is amazing and Jake doesn't qualify all right so with further Ado

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     want to announce the winner of the pitch contest it's a D5 Builder it's really amazing to see you know while I was you know talking about how AI can be helping developers and augmenting our experience people already building this at the hackathon so you know next time we just can you know all move to the heck space just hack instead I think nobody need to listen to me but yeah thanks uh for all the builders who participated in hackathon I mean all the projects are really exciting uh there's ton of other uh kind of nominations as

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     well so this is not the only thing so um but yeah the important part continue building there's tons of stuff uh to build a cross web open web in web 3 we have really kind of exciting stack now to uh Power with apps and I'm really excited for for uh AI kind of applications as well and uh we're going to have some interesting stuff there so just to kind of remind what is the Open Lab right um it's really kind of the vision we aiming for where

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     internet their people own their assets data and power of governance it's really about kind of people being in control and going away from the current state where the middleman the you know or kind of centralized service are turning users turning kind of interactions that you have with others into a product and we want to be the place the ecosystem where the best uh kind of four Founders to build on right not just if you want to use the

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     blockchain not just if you want to use the front end not kind of across a stack anything you build in this Paradigm we want to be there help you and provide tooling provide the ecosystem support provide the connections and connectivity right that's why we've have Horizon which is a Founder kind of uh Network and contributions it has its own programs to uh incubate Founders that's why we continue building more and more

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     tools and instruments Beyond just blockchain to really simplify on boarding that's why we're working with consumer apps that you can actually partner with to bring kind of your application in front of users so some news some the the big announcements we've had this week right so I think the first one which is just about the worst kept secret in the history of our ecosystem we have speaking of bringing Founders back to the center of of of the

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     ecosystem we have Ilia as the found Foundation CEO and we announced near data ility right we're bringing not just as I said if you're building on near but if you're building a Layer Two If You're Building ethereum ecosystem you can leverage near to drop your transaction costs 8,000 times which is a lot for those uh and we have first uh kind of layer twos that they're building with us uh which is really exciting and kind of being an amazing pickup on Twitter as well across web 3 ecosystem and this is amazing kind

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     of in this Broad in the platform that we're building and really showcasing the technology that we build how can it help kind of Beyond just you know the layer one but in this broader modularity uh stack then we announced zero knowledge web assembly partnership with polygon this is really a technology partnership advancing what you can do with their knowledge and allowing to have have succinct proofs for pretty much generic

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     computation to have for scaling blockchains to have better decentralization better bridging as well as more generically you know machine learning computation on edge going Beyond just the blockchain use cases it also means that you can unify liquidity unify access and kind of abstract the blockchain as you kind of implementing this uh technology across the three general and this again brings us closer to etherum system allows to have a lot

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     more interoperability and really sets us up to kind of be the technology stack that is where you can build where you can kind of transact where you can have and own your value and have the security of the whole web 3 ecosystem finally today we announced partnership with zigen layer which is another way to partner with um l2s and this is about leveraging nearest fast finality right near is what blockchain that allows to kind of

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     produce blocks every second finalize them every two seconds and what this means for rollups that they can publish their proofs publish their data and have uh not just data availability but also proof verified and settled by near blockchain this means you can have 4,000 times cheaper settlement in 3 seconds comparing this to hours or days and uh kind of with like standard way that uh protocol is doing this it means you can Bridge again value between their twos

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     and really kind of in this Spirit of open web we unifying the blockchains we're making kind of them faster and cheaper across the board and with blockchain operating system and kind of the stacks we build we're really creating a way to abstract it out and power the user experience now to have all of this experience in one place right if you can use you know any Layer Two any layer one from one kind of sets of applications with one account ID it starts to become less important where

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     exactly things are and it gives developers more flexibility how can they build and that's what we're really going after this allows us to kind of both provide immediate value as well as align us for the future kind of working across the web3 ecosystem and finally I just I mentioned before AI is near uh the core idea that AI is transformative technology for productivity for ways we going to consume and produce information as well

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     as for ways we're going to interact with uh value and future work and we have some chat uh or the update reminder um and so so one day we have open web that doesn't have updates right and so AI is kind of fundamental fundamental vertical for us it's kind of the background of our team we've been already working with uh top AI teams in the space this was really cool hackathon projects doing uh AI

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     already and we're going to continue investing in the space and you know stay tuned for more cool announcements around Ai and near so step into open web yeah welcome to the conference thank you for being here thank you for and thanks to everyone who made this conference so wonderful so seamless particularly Jack Kia the foundation CEO and his fantastic team your dear blocker thank you guys so much for everything um

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     and also final reminder that you know nickon is not quite over yet we still have the incredible closing party tonight night 9:00 p.m. I hope we're going to see all of you there um and we can continue the celebration yeah and thank you for little us to sponsored organizing thank you okay thank you very much good to see you all yeah thanks guys