NEAR Town Hall (July 2021) | Part 1 Intros and Welcome

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   so welcome to the near july town hall uh my name is ozzie mandias i'm founder of ants guild and i'm going to be hosting this town hall as we get to see uh some of the most cutting-edge projects from the near ecosystem before we get into uh what these projects are going to be discussing there's a little bit of housekeeping that we can just go over about where the new ecosystem is at um and also discuss there's a there's going to be a reward

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   uh reward going on for people who drop their near wallet into the chat so first things first uh sponsored from the near official twitter we're going to be giving away 50 donnie breadcrumb nfts and the tweet should be right in the chat so you can see what those look like if you post your near account id in there that will be selected at the end so i would highly highly encourage you to do that beyond that i'm just going to give a little bit of intro of what we're going to be seeing today

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   so a lot of you know who have been falling in your ecosystem that this ecosystem is on fire right now there's a lot of building there's a lot of development in a lot of different areas the creator economy defy app chains scalability of other crypto projects today we have three of the founders or community representatives of these projects who are going to give you the insights on what they're building

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   and why what they're building is uh special particularly in the near ecosystem before we give it off to alex shivchenko from aurora i just want to say there will be two videos from the creator economy side of nir primarily paras and mint base that will be featured after the town hall and i would encourage everyone to look at those videos and uh previously last week there was an ama on the creator economy topic

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   about uh from ed young with his uh nft hip-hop series this launched on year and i'm just gonna read this quote to foreshadow those videos before we get started so ed young said i don't understand how everyone isn't seeing this and how this is not so obvious i feel like again back in 1989 when people thought i was crazy to think that hip-hop is next i'll say that near is going to be the

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   dominant blockchain maybe people think i'm crazy again but i don't think i am so that i think is how we're going to introduce uh these fantastic projects building on near and with that i will hand this off to uh dr alex shawshenko who is going to be discussing aurora and scalability for ethereum projects interested in migrating over to nir welcome alex