NEAR Foundation Town Hall - June 28, 2023

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   all right and we're live hey everybody thank you so much for uh coming to another near Foundation town hall I will let you know these keep getting more and more exciting uh we have some awesome folks on today an awesome lineup I'm not going to spoil too much because I'm going to kick it off to Marie for a proper introduction this time I stole ilia's Spotlight last time but what I will say is uh stemming from something that I alluded to in the last Town Hall

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   will have a little bit more of a speak uh sneak peek into this at the end but without going into too much I'll go ahead and kick it over to Marik for an introduction and we'll get started thank you so much Marcus for this intro uh it's really great to be here and to see you all again um I was away two weeks ago when actually I was in an event Empire so great to be here in person okay A lot

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   has been happening actually if I start by looking at Partnerships it's definitely been a very productive couple of weeks Premiere I'm sure most of you have seen some of the super exciting Partnerships that have been announced and most recently on Monday Alibaba cloud in addition to that last week we also shared more about our partnership with orbit and also skodia India both are quite different but equally very exciting recently we also announced a

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   partnership with Vortex gaming which is a web 3 subsidiary of Korea's largest Gaming Community in Ben and this comes on the back of our recent announcement with marble X now I think it's fair to say that the incredible Korea Hub thanks to their help near Esports to become probably the number one player in that market which is very exciting um talking actually about Korea and let's move into events one thing

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   actually that I think is also in full motion around the world are events some excellent recent career events co-hosted by near Korea but also hashed tours in Vietnam quite a lot of things actually happening around Europe in France in Switzerland and now Collision in Canada is in full swing without forgetting of course you mentioned several hackathons that have been happening over the last

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   couple of weeks around the world now next up on events uh if you are around Paris in July ECC is coming up and we'll be hosting a two days side conference there you can find more detail on near.org ECC talking about events I hope you're all getting ready for near con I know it feels like it's far away but actually it's not that far away it's coming and tickets actually selling fast so what to expect for nearcon first in Asia in September there'll be Korea blockchain week where

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   we'll be back September 4 to 7 and we'll have quite a presence and then Vietnam September 8 to 12 go to nearapac.org over a thousand tickets already have been acquired or basically booked already by Future participants so that's going very fast and we'll be also in Singapore token 2049 2049.

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   um near con November 7 to 10 that will be back in Lisbon and so if you want to get your ticket it's fully on chain go to near.org New York and you can also apply to be a speaker quite a lot Partnerships events Community the community continues to grow and gather around the new digital Collective over a thousand humans have been verified in a very few days which is the basis of the upcoming governance if you don't have yet your proof of human Hood go on I am

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   human that have the experience is very slick now as Marcus alluded to we have a great agenda today with some special guests coming from the ecosystem which I'm really looking forward to because I think it's always exciting to hear this person from what's going on so I'll do a brief intro over near foundation's Missions and convictions ddub will give an update on Q2 okrs and then Max from

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    Dev Hub will be sharing the latest on actually Dev Hub and what's happening on that front and will then hear from recent ecosystem projects murder mystery Club Music Feast gen drop indexer and XP Network last but not least the near week team will be joining us to share their latest update and to finish up you'll hear from the new town oh Hub we talked to you about that we said we need a place to gather it all and it's coming

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    up as always if there is topics you want to see or discuss or if you want to present please reach out you know where to find us and I'm sure you all know Marcus now moving on so Mission conviction um and why we are here before getting into that I wanted to spend a few minutes talking about why we're all here and why the work we do matters more than ever and one question I've been actually thinking about a lot with regards to technology is are we creating technology

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    that is in the service of humanity or are we putting Humanity further in the service of technology and the large corporations and financial institutions that control it and that's why the move to wet 3 is very important because it actually offers us the chance to create a change in how we interact with technology and also with each other and that's a true potential of work three to create a more inclusive fair and open world

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    and therefore it's a chance for all of us participating to regain ownership of data privacy rather than having to surrender it to gain access to some sort of product or platform and that's what I think of when I think of the open web and what's possible with the technology and that's what's at the core and the Heart of mere foundation's mission to Foster the adoption of the open web by supporting the self-sustainable growth

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    of the near ecosystem with with each and every one of you actually playing a very important role into that now the environment where n isn't easy but we're very well positioned and we have the beginning of something very special with the evolution of near from a layer 1 to the blockchain operating system the next few years as I see it are most probably about enduring to thrive and so it's

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    requiring all of us to focus on Essentials and fundamentals and to prioritize what matter most and most importantly to work well together no better ecosystem to build this with now moving on our convictions remain completely unchanged and unshattered the ease of developing ease of user experience and being a unifying course within web 3 are core pillars for near and therefore why the positioning near

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    is the bus not leaving away the layer one it's a fundamental pillar of the blockchain operating system but just our evolution in how we can do more are very important for that the way we attract millions and billions of users um has been consist has been consistent and we think is actually their foot uh top down actually thinking top-down strategic partnership whether small or large but partnership that enable us to actually attract developers and users

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    and prove use cases and bottom up incredible work done by each and every one of you the entire community and also for Builders we've evolved as you know our grand program into Horizon for having and the ability to Foster better relationships among participants but also for example with backers for access to fractionalized work and all of that culminating into access and Primitives

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    of near technology and next up I believe DW it's over to you for okrs awesome thank you so much all right so we are just about finished up with Q2 we have one more week or so um so where are we so the North Star we had a goal of 1.2 million monthly active accounts we are just under that at around 1.1 million monthly actives so close uh to that goal in terms of the the main objectives the first one near

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    is the blockchain operating system uh so we did quite well uh so neo.org was one of the major Milestones which we successfully migrated um and then in terms of of driving uh members to near social we are just at around 16.5 000 uh as of today and in terms of Twitter we are just under 2 million followers on the main Twitter handle um and then most impressive impressively uh we had a goal of increasing our share

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    of Voice by 50 um to start the quarter we were at around like five percent or so so the goal was to just increase that to around seven or eight percent um but we actually offered three exited uh and have been around 17 over the past few weeks so this has uh grown tremendously um basically upon the launch of neo.org on the boss uh and it's it's sustained since then which is amazing to see in terms of near becoming a thriving decentralized ecosystem uh two of the

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    major things here were all things NDC um and getting to to V1 which is just about uh to be rolled out um as Marie mentioned uh we we have a thousand or more than a thousand verified humans so amazing job to to all of us in the community uh to blaze a particular but the whole the whole hand you see um and then the other major thing was Horizon getting Horizon launched um so incredible job there uh we had one

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    goal of getting just 10 projects onboarded but we we currently have over 100 projects with profiles um as part of horizon uh the one red mark in this entire uh page is external Capital being raised by native projects um no fundraises this quarter uh so that's the one the one red mark we have in Q2 um and then last near is where web2 goes to become web three um again as as Marie mentioned we we've

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    seen a ton of amazing Partnerships being announced some of which have have already gone live on mainnet but a lot more to come later this year um so incredible job uh to to the BD team but also to to all of us and all the hubs around the world and that is it for me Max over to you thanks David um hey everyone my name is Max I'm currently working in Pagoda but um basically treat me just like any

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    other Community member um and I'm here to tell you about Dev hub um yeah so I I get I'm just gonna start with what Dev Hub is what you probably know it uh uh about it because we are doing so many things but there are four categories of things that you probably know us the best is uh developer events so we're taking care of all kind of small and even large developer events like high cut on sometimes associated with like brand focused events

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    um for near or sometimes it's a small scale like uh garage style um hacking events we also get near people into third-party events so it's like local representation is important and today we have one on multiple events every week run by the developer Hub which I'm very happy that is happening and our Ambitions are way larger than that actually um we also heard that we've been doing a technical proposals for quite a while so if you are coming from let's say

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    ethereum ecosystem right now the blockchain ecosystem you know that this is like an important heartbeat of the community the technical proposal discussions sometimes they take half a year at a time to review but at near it's uh six weeks and at most and we've been working through dozens or maybe even pushing closer to hunger's proposals right now um depends on actually how you count

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    them so um like definitely several dozen of proposals but maybe even more than that and it's been all over the tech stack from the standards like contract standards to protocol to doing all kind of like research things like zero knowledge and something more um immediately applicable like to an infrastructure we cover it all and will help like a system to to discuss debate those things and arrive to some solutions very quickly so that actually makes us very reliable for

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    the businesses building in a near because they know that there is some time box for those discussions and this is what actually differentiates us let's say from other blockchains um decentralized develop is something that we are just speaking up right now uh the idea here is that we get uh community members to basically do all the things that you expect from the Corey you typically do which is support and channels managing all kind of communities uh fixing documentation

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    repositories you know you don't want to have still issues support requests and so on so we are not at full capacity there but we are taking uh care of quite a lot of things already today and finally you probably heard that we took care of several large project transitions we're actually doing more things than that uh they're just more private right now we are doing some things on demand and this is because

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    people see us as a technical uh go to experts and so and like confidence someone that they can come to and we take care of the large technical issues so these are four things that kind of like cover like various patches in developer like a system growth but what we really want to be known for and can you switch the next slide is owning the entire developer ecosystem growth end-to-end so we want to take care of everything when it comes to getting more developers

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    on near and make them stay and make them attract other Developers um going all the way from awareness to how do you get them engaged how do you keep them around how do you get them to refer other developers and like if this is like a very loaded diagram here but one thing that you can take care of take off from it is what we call hangout space which basically means it's in a retention a layer here which basically means this is where if you're running if

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    you're running some project or like Pipeline with the working with developers and you don't know where to put developers in between your stages right but you don't want to lose them bring them to our hangout space this is where developers can engage in meaningful activities uh and you can you know like have them there without potential losing them so yeah I don't think I have time to go in depth into this but you can always

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    press a pause on the recording and go back to this diagram so next foreign so like four qualities that I think make developer Hub unique as a project even in a web 3D centralized World um one of them is that we are very results oriented so if you hear us doing creating some documentation or like video content or having some kind of event then know that we are doing it not for the sake of creating documentation for the sake of documentation creating an event for the sake of event we need

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    it for our funnel we have expectations to what happens to developers after they go through this or we're fixing some kind of a gap in our funnel so we understand exactly how this leads to more developers that stay around and build a near ecosystem so this is what it means for us to be results oriented Financial flexibility this is what it comes from being a decentralized uh like uh about three uh organization which means that we can shrink and expand based on how much uh financial

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    support we get or other kind of support which is not something you can do with the classic corporations but that makes us quite resilient to any kind of Market movements and yeah so the 13 Is We I would call as functional uh bureaucracy what it means is that we have processes but they are here to make things move fast and make sure the expectations are matched which means that you're not gonna we reduce the amount of frustration and drama happening people know exactly why

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    we're doing certain things what is the what is the process as I said businesses can and and projects can rely on this because they know when exactly the review is going to happen when it's going to be done what needs to be what needs to happen for that that creates this kind of a Swiss clock the the heartbeat of the ecosystem that everyone can rely on and finally we want to scale

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    um through our community so the the more things we do the bigger the developer Community is and we use this developer Community to scale further so this is a gross loop it's like a self-supported ecosystem um yeah that's basically our form aspirations so how do you interface with us today you interface through what is called like near devhub.org so that's the landing page that leaves itself on on neo.org or near Discovery as we call it

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    there we have various communities you can create your own uh you can connect GitHub telegram to it you can start you know proposing all kind of things in the and this is the place to brainstorm this is the place to problem solve and get things done and find like-minded people um yep so that's uh us so far we continue developing and improving uh I forgot to see who we are when I say we I mean a group of people actually

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    distributed across multiple organizations and like a system we have a whole bunch of people not hired by any specific company it's just people from the ecosystem uh being paid directly like in crypto and a couple of people in your uh in Pagoda like a couple one or two people in your foundation so it doesn't really matter for us where people are coming from when they work for Dev Hub uh it's a it's a

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    decentralized social structure so yeah thanks everyone engage us through this near Dev hub awesome thank you so much Max uh really good in-depth um kind of overview of what you guys have been working on it's awesome to see the progress um so I'm here to kind of uh open up for these awesome projects that are building on deer I'm not going to take too much time because I'm not the interesting one

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    it's These Guys these folks um so without further Ado uh DW next slide please let's get right into it we have a murder mystery Collective hey everyone I just want to start off by thanking Marcus and the New York foundation for having us in the town hall today we're super excited to be here uh and in the interest of time let's Dive Right In we can go to the next slide So for anybody who doesn't know us we

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    are the murder mystery Collective uh we are bringing our Community Driven murder mystery concept to life in web 3 uh on your protocol of course uh and our concept uh consists of presenting different murder mystery storylines and and cases to our community and interactive ways for them to solve by uncovering Clues solving puzzles Gathering evidence and ultimately using their best detective skills to uh to crack the case and if we go to the next slide our Flagship product is our on chain

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    game that we're developing on your protocol so we're currently deployed on uh on non-nearest test net and uh our game is played in season so each season is going to represent different murder mystery storyline that we present to the community uh it's Gonna Last roughly around six to eight weeks per season and our upcoming season one is going to be based on the case of the mysterious

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    death of John Norris and the Mystery of the FSM Superstore so stay tuned for that and if you go to the next chain you know we really wanted to make sure that while we're developing the game that we were still creating an amazing Community experience and focusing on community building through our Discord so there has been no shortage of activities and and and and fun stuff going on for our community to partake in uh you know if you haven't already I encourage you to hop in our Discord you'll notice that our community is

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    super engaged super friendly I've made so many friends since we've watched it's just been a complete blast in there and our staff is amazing um you know active and and we've got frequent updates you know really eager to help any any newcomers as well we've integrated a ton for our holders into the Discord so we've got our MMC jams Channel which is like a community jukebox Channel where folks hang out

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    with the music together weekly poker nights um we've integrated chat GPT and stable diffusion for folks to be able to actually ask questions of AI we've got a ton of collapse Partnerships going going on and of course some some mini games and events that we have as well and our murder mystery concept has launched uh in our discords we have twice per month these large community murder mystery events with different immersive and interactive ways for folks to uh like I said solve these different

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    cases for presenting them and of course some some puzzle events for our puzzle lovers in the community and everything that we do has this XP earning system in Discord where you can earn this XP for participating in events and redeem some some prizes in our in our Marketplace and then lastly our the last slide here um you know if you're looking at this or you've heard of the murder mystery Collective and you're just thinking how do we get involved you know we think of our mission is completely aligned with

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    near in in really making that onboarding experience as easy as possible and so we come up with this ramped onboarding system where there's really any entry point for anybody who wants to get involved so all of our events are on train game everything is public and free to play uh we also have a we've partnered with Shard Dog for our investigator badge which is a free claimable if you're new to digital

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    assets new to in your wallet uh you can get your badge and start partaking in our cases and then of course we have our two nft collections uh with different roles and responsibilities and and utility offering um in both our event and our on-chain game as well so definitely pop in ask any questions you have we look forward to seeing you around and uh and just thanks again for for having us here today

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    awesome thank you so much and then we still have a few more so let's move on we have a Jenna draw presenting uh what they're building some awesome tools uh and kind of a component on boss and then we also have indexer uh that they are leveraging to kind of provide an overview of what they're offering as well um so yeah without further Ado we'll segue into that yeah it didn't work everybody um and contributed agenda we're a multi-chain

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    minting solution and Marketplace on near Aurora plus four EVMS and algorand and have heavy alignment with Bots as a Gateway but also building multi-chain components and we're actually currently converting our whole stack to boss um if you can go to the next slide um so we've always been open source but a friction point that we had was actually onboarding developers to the team and the time to get acquainted with the code base um so the decision to move our stack to

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    boss is that boss provides the ability for us to have a developer immediately set up their development environment and then approach features in a modular fashion and then for us to integrate that into our gateways UI ux and then other nft platforms and use cases to do so as well um and so these are some some features that we building and also um some features that are on the roadmap but we have a lot of EDM stuff to do in the nft space um as

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    well if you go uh to the next slide you've got things like AI mentioned coming up directly on Boss but another thing that it makes us uh easily able to do is leverage key partners and players in the ecosystem for example uh mid-base leveraging their uh not only Marketplace but their indexer and day right now um and then using indexer as a tool to not only index near nfts but thanks for the sui Aptos um and stacks uh

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    marketplaces directly on Boss um and this is also part of another decision to even like list directly to multiple marketplaces at the same time and provide that feature as well um and yeah so uh that that's basically it we have uh we have the marketplace features coming up in like all the following EVMS and these are what we'll be supporting on Boss um some major call to actions is join

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    the Builder Community there's a bunch of Boss telecasts help us composably build nft components on boss we have a public backlog um secondly there's the nft Builder group where they meet bi-weekly and there's also an nft work group coming out of the NDC so I heavily encourage you to uh join all of that and yeah I think indexer is gonna come on and shout out to them for providing a

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    startup API key that uh we're leveraging on boss so yeah thanks for for showing that it's great to see um folks implementing this on boss and using indexer um and then building some some really cool multi-chain tools um so a great example for folks I wanted to just kind of let the ecosystem know um that we are providing a startup uh program through indexer so we're passionate about helping developers but with at large companies and individual

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    um you know developers be able to innovate and so a lot of the times is one of the big roadblocks for developers so we're providing a startup program for developers they're wanting to get started and build nft applications or integrate nft features into their applications to 10 000 free API calls which from what we've seen is enough for folks to get kind of full featured applications up and running um and uh you know get to kind of

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    concept with that um so we want to um you know like like um was set for we support at Us near stacks and we'll continue supporting more chains uh continue rolling those out so um startups that use us will be able to leverage all the data and and boss through the index or startup program um so we're excited to see what people build in the ecosystem and they're excited to help kind of support and

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    accelerate and you know developer activity on near awesome thank you so much Sean thank you so much Daniel um really appreciate you coming on uh next up we have music Feast presented by Justin who is actually at Collision right now and he's also representing near at Collision so I really appreciate you taking the time to hop on uh not a problem hopefully you guys can hear me um so I just want to introduce to You music Feast if you want to move on to the next slide please

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    so music piece was designed to revolutionize the music industry by giving artists the tools that they need to to succeed um we basically have a Marketplace that allows an artist to build out their own um Community uh Phantom and and sell access points to that thing if you could move on so more than that within the community and within the fan club they can offer exclusive content so they can sell

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    exclusive video content um limited edition merchandise song ownership which is part publishing distribution sync licensing and auction items if you can move uh it also allows artists to collect key metrics and identify uh key analytics from their community so every single person within that Community is a paid fan um which then the artist thing absolutely cater to it helps read out the noise of social media and and really help identify these supports

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    for the uh fans it needs a more meaningful and direct connection with the artist so everyone eats entertainment is a dow and what we'll do is we will run analytics and pull the top performing artists the Dows can then choose and vote on incubation uh marketing plans and strategies and really start to get involved in the artist's career and have that direct index that's a little bit about music Feast so if you want to check this out you can

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    come into musicbeast.io awesome thank you so much Justin and how busy you are at Collision um keep doing your thing thank you for coming on uh next up and last up on the ecosystem section before we segue into near week we have an awesome nft Bridge solution that is recently integrated near and I wanted to give these folks the spotlight to kind of run through how to leverage it and what it's capable of doing uh so without further Ado Diva uh hand you over the floor is yours yeah hi thank you Marcus and thank you

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    and your foundation for having us here it's a real pleasure to become a part of this community and this family and hopeful our mutual immigration will last for for many years so let me speak a little bit about our product uh so the our main product is the nft bridge and can we please move to the next slide so for most bridges for most famous Bridges um nft bridging is just a nice to have side project while they're mainly busy with bridging fungible tokens well for us

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    it's the main product that we deliver to the market can you click so that yeah more lines appear right so actually there are several problems that bridging nft has in comparison to bridging fungible tokens so basically what is a fungible token is just a number in a contract it's just a number in somebody's account while there's metadata which is usually off chain attached to every nft and

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    handling this metadata is a major issue when bridging nfts for example it happens a lot this metadata is written inside smart contracts and it's this this link to the metadata is immutable while something might happen with the link for example ipfs account is deleted and there's no more metadata and then what are you going to do well for example there's only one computer on the entire planet that holds this information and then it

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    will wait forever for this ipfs to have respond and then it will just time out and you will never get this metadata then some projects just tend to violate the standards of their own ecosystem because some of them just don't know what the standard was and some of them just think that they are being creative and standards are not for Creative people right and then our Bridge adapts to those violations to those latencies and everything so we try

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    to integrate each project with um individual approach like a you know Boutique bridge in comparison to the other Bridges and and try to help solve the problems of each individual collection that wishes to migrate and at least partially which you will never meet in other bridges for whom it's just a side project while for us it's the main product then many bridges boast that they have a lot of value locked in the bridge right they boast I have so many

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    millions of dollars I have so many billions of dollars locked in my smart my smart contracts we boast the opposite we say there is so little value locked in our contracts that hackers won't ever bother to hack them because they it will take them approximately the same amount of effort to hack because we certainly protect our bridges and now that is the way the other fungible token Bridges do but then when you hack a fungible token

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    Bridge your you can loot millions or sometimes billions of dollars it did billions of course I'm exaggerating but anyway millions are at stake right while here you will get a bunch of unique tokens that are like fingerprints on the blockchains that will be very hard to get away so basically bridging with us is more secure than bridging with big fungible token Bridges just because we're less interesting less lucrative from the point of view of a hacker while

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    the effort will be approximately the same and then next is um our cross chain validators implement the frost threshold signature which means they are scalable to any amount without compromising the security or the cost so we can have unlimited a number of validators while you will still pay the same transaction fees for those which makes it very secure very robust and cheap uh can we go to the next slide please

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    right so we already Support over 30 blockchains most of them are evm chains they are represented here in in the first two columns can you click once more please yep and the last table on the right those are non-evm chains including here that we support this is the only bridge that supports so many VM to non-evm chains and solutions that you won't find any other bridge that does that for some chains we are still the only nft bridge for example Al

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    Grant is this secret Network ton ICP and for Sammy VM as well for example gate chain V chain even Harmony so basically they say that they have another token bridge but everybody whoever bridged nfts too from Harmony they used ours our Bridge can we go to the next slide please uh right so we have an intuitive UI it's very easy to use first you connect the wallet then you select the destination and the departure

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    chain you select one or several entities that you want to bridge uh you provide the receiver address it has to match the destination chain uh key pair and then you approve it in the in the nft contract and then you transfer so it's very easy the amount of steps yeah I'm out of steps is like around five or so let's go on to the next slide please besides yeah besides the bridge we have a bridge Explorer not all bridges or not

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    many bridges even have an Explorer it's super important for nfts so while you'll find the fungible tokens are just numbers so you don't care whether this number travel to other chains or not but the value of nft is often estimated from the history of whatever happened with the nft or some story behind this nft so in order not to lose this story while we are moving in if it is between chains we

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    have an Explorer and as you can see it gives you extensive information of what happened to this nft you can filter to or from chains you can have a table of transactions to have a general view you can see how many how how much each transaction uh cost to whoever sent it you can also click the original destination has to see the transaction on the Chain explorers or you can open a transaction View and see

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    more details of what happened with this nft in in this bridge transaction next slide please uh besides the UI we have a widget which is easy to set up you can set up this widget within minutes everything is adjustable you can select which chains you want to be your destination or chains of origin which wallets you want your community to use you can every component in this widget is also

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    adjustable you can even set the background to be transparent for example if you want to embed this widget inside a game or inside a fancy front-end page besides you can even add additional fees for hosting this widget and every transaction that you encouraged will bring you some money and it's up to you to decide how much you're getting and and everything can be done like within 10 minutes where video tutorials

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    how to do that so you can embed it on your front pages and you will be able to earn some crypto from uh from the bridge transactions can we go to the next slide please so what are the use cases uh the list is very long but the most common use case is why someone would want to bridge their nfts is the following so for example an nft project has produced let's say 10 000 nfts and they managed to sell let's say half in one ecosystem and then they want to give a second life

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    to the nfts on some other ecosystem and then they can Bridge the second part of the collection to another protocol for example one project could want to expand a a project that is an nft game for example we want to expand the player base so they can migrate part of their nfds sell them in a Marketplace on a foreign chain foreign to the original project and then the users will buy those nfts and in order to use them they will have to go back to the chain of origin or they can even build a layer or several layers of

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    their game like levels um in in different protocols to attract more users for example sometimes something happens with a blockchain and projects want to migrate to another blockchain for example a blockchain could be hacked and project want to go to other more secure blockchains such as Nia for example from from others that have been hacked right and uh for example they they will

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    need a lot of time to to learn the new technology but they want their Community to quickly migrate to a foreign chain and it will be kind of complicated for them to start building a smart contract on the other chain so that it matches the environment in every Marketplace treats those nfts as native as as if they were born here and the bridge is there for you you just send them and if

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    there's no contract the bridge automatically deploys the contract for this collection and you have your own collection contract on the Chain where you have no idea how it works okay all you have to do is just create an account uh destination account that will receive those okay for example another use case is for example on some chains somebody built a solution which involves nfts for example

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    you can use nfts for Lending borrowing you can stake maybe nfds and get some rewards for that or you can use nfts for collateral collateralization in this landing and boring uh of other fungible tokens for example and then you can migrate your nfts there you can stake them you can lend them or you can collateralize them and then when you don't need this money anymore you can return them back to the chain where you originally bought bought this nft also even blockchains can migrate nft

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    collections as a part of the marketing plan of promoting themselves on foreign chains because every time we Bridge an nft to a foreign chain it always says I was born on this chain so for example if near wants other chains to say hey I have a huge nft ecosystem come and come and join it so you can Bridge a lot of nfts to other chains uh sell them in marketplaces and everybody will see that this nft was born a new year protocol so can we go to the next one please basically we were told that we have a

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    very short very little time frame here so it was this was very very brief about our project if you want to know more go to our documentation we add at least one page every week so every time we change something in the bridge we also reflect it in the documentation and please try our Bridge it's very easy very cheap very simple and I hope you will also become part of our ecosystem and we will be part of yours thanks for for having

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    us awesome thank you so much Dima and uh next we're going to transition to near week to provide an update on all the awesome stuff that they've been working on the boss Integrations uh and kind of how to get involved so without further Ado I'll uh go ahead and hand it over hi everyone thanks Marcus um can you guys hear me yeah perfect perfect okay in that case uh let's see oh I think someone is sharing their screen so it's not letting me share my screen one second there you go okay

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    let's see if it works perfect okay hi everyone everyone pleasure to meet you um I'm heroic uh content uh I handle everything content at near week and I'm here to just give a brief overview of how nerik can um both sort of uh incentivize Community participation and Empower um your favorite projects in the ecosystem and how it can use the bus to sort of Leverage that in an open uh in an open source way so um let me just move this so if you

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    look at the screen right now you'll see um an op-ed by Ilya that he posted like last week um it's about it's actually quite on topic right it's about how um sort of you can use provenance tracking um via cryptographic signatures in order to sort of verify if content is real and um this is like this constantly news coming out like this that's very interesting about the ecosystem and quite often about smaller projects as well about startups and um Quirk that

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    deserves exposure and so how can Network sort of be there to um Empower that while um sort of leveraging the open web to its uh capabilities it's something that we uh Network are very interested to explore so um the way it has sort of been going um as it has recently has been that if this gets posted right a new source then we have this Twitter bot like uh generic Twitter bot and through that you can actually by just doing submit that new

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    reports you can send it to our dad now how can we sort of um enhance enhance this uh by using by using the blockchain operating system well one way is quite simple so um we have now these like um down feeds that are that are there and and through this we can actually uh you you can sort of uh we incentivize Community participation by um you can actually get like 0.5 near um by just submitting news and so um at

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    Newark we have a very strong call to action right which is just um start submitting news to to our down um you get you you get paid for it but also it really helps actually decentralize the whole ecosystem because um we actually go about it in a very transparent process and that's what I really want to highlight today because how can we sort of um use the boss right to um to sort of Leverage traditional web to um entities in order in order to be more accountable and transparent because

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    naric itself right we do the um where we have we have a pleasure to do the official near protocol newsletter every week um in that in that regard where public good um but we're also just um sort of web to Native in our uh in our Tech uh as a concept right so how can we sort of actually use web tree to enhance this so um for that um I want to show that like we so we have these dial widgets now that just show how we've actually really

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    been working on increasing the amount of community participation um and Community aggregation um for this so uh you'll see our our doubt submissions for this is all news coming from the community has actually been on a quite rapid um incline uh let me see I don't know that was blocking the screen um so this is our news contribution dial it's I believe it's also the most active down there but I'm not too sure um so that goes down to the next stage

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    right so this is how we're actually able to aggregate news from the entire community so um it doesn't matter where you're in the world and we're able to aggregate your news and once if it gets approved in her dial then it gets um for example just sent to this feed right now just immediately upon approval um this is a collaborative feed we've been uh making with our friends at Pagoda and um this is even before it goes into

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    the newsletter so we can actually leverage this widget in a lot of different forms and it just actually uh it's high quality news because it meets the criteria it's actually quite um unbiased to a certain degree um but this is sort of shown just how you can actually um get community participation to increase both engagement but also incentivization right because um at America we're quite a small team so we would never be able to do this in a sort of fair transparent manner in like a web 2 way for such a large

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    ecosystem so um together with Pagoda we've been sort of exploring ways to fully merge with the boss so um how does that really look like right so for example this is just a customized uh a bit of a customized feed where we have um our our newsletter widget here and it just shows like okay how can we actually really integrate I use the bus to integrate within the community so how can we really use that to sort of connect all participants in the network

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    and one of these ways is um via just the boss right because now if you were to go to subscribe um it will lead you to our custom shardock link um shout out to the team of Sherlock for sort of building this with us and helping us explore events but also um it's a way that previously we were not really able to really connect all these open web elements and so that's what the boss is really allowing us to do and how can we sort of make that in a transparent way well it's quite easy

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    right because everything is um accountable for um even though the the sort of Croatian part of the news is centralized at near week um we can actually uh we can actually help quite accountable for our decisions and we encourage the community to actually sort of engage with us so you see I just recently in this call I made a post that sort of outlands on their social or um submission criteria for news it's um it's quite a rough draft right does it so could we've been using

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     this for a few months it is quite unbiased but it could definitely use um Community feedback and improvements and that doesn't stop there right so um if you feel the the main goal right for accountability is if you feel hey my project right or my favorite project that um I like is I'm actually making it to the newsletter but we're doing a lot of um we're submitting to the dial and

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     the for the official new protocol newsletter and it's just not appearing there um you can actually just look at the sputnik.history right and see if the proposals are approved stated and rejected right then um we actually have a reject a rejecting criteria right here so if it doesn't meet this criteria and it's rejected and it's rejected well it's a clear error on our part then vice versa if it gets accepted um it's quite interesting because then it has been either an editorial decision

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     or as in there was too much news that week but regardless um you know if that keeps on going uh like if you're new if your news keeps on not being featured for example you're actually able to really identify the source points to this in a transparent process so um if we now go to the Shadow Link I also shout out so that's sort of how we do it right so then the news gets curated um and by our team this happens in a centralized manner

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     um also shout out um Loma can and it just gets sent to the ecosystem and this is curated by the community so how can we now sort of um yeah so to just wrap this off quickly because I know we're on a time constraint um I'm sure we've all seen sort of the the foundation um slide right that Ilia just keeps on presenting Ad nauseam you're not the one with the widgets and there's like

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     um Bitcoin and Uber and there's like Netflix and refinance and you know and all these like and they create like an open web stack and sure it's it's it it sounds good but I can imagine a lot of us are like okay but what does you know like reference chill sounds good but what does it actually mean in practice um so I thought I just demonstrate that so yesterday I compiled this quick

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     um sort of page and it's like an editorial page right so it collates our medium and where we actually uh cover a lot of the the boss itself but also these other parts of the ecosystem and it's just emerging of these uh of these different widgets so you actually can disengage with the newsletter you can just read it subscribe it you can engage with just the news coming in this is

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     like this is the most recent news it is because asadot approves it it gets added to this widget and again thanks to the uh thanks to the bright people at Pagoda for helping us sort of um come up with these and hopefully we can create more general ones um for the for the whole ecosystem but this is sort of a fork version right just to be very specific but now how does that sort of that's

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     good to know but it's like a website almost right it's like an editorial landing page so how does the bus enable us to really Elevate this well really it's because it allows us to merge web3 with web 2 in a seamless manner because now say you go down right we have this payout proposal widget and you can actually just um submit your news right here in a in this it's because they're all embedded right in the same place where you're just reading your news and

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     it's directly to this um to the to astrodial and previously um someone would have to actually go all the way to the astrodite page right um Locate uh locate the dial itself and make a submission for that to really get incentivized to be part of this process which obviously is not convenient at all and now you can actually seem to integrate it with these web 2 Solutions as medium um and just on a single page right and this is not accessible to anyone and so

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     it's not even um this really creates for some real world Solutions because it's not only generic that can leverage this it's almost sort of any editorial publication that wants to be transparent about you know ecosystem participation and also incentivize them to participate in the aggregation of news and so um yeah just to wrap things off right and please do actually go to the near social let's see if you can find it yeah the social post

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     I made about the guidelines give some feedback um also subscribe to the newsletter if you haven't um with with the shared up link and just get involved in the ecosystem and I think the boss in such a manner really promotes um just more Community participation and and that way and it will eventually bring back value to the ecosystem because now we're able to do things we actually weren't before

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     um so thank you for your time and um I'll speak soon thank you so much hero and uh the last part of the section is what I teased earlier uh so DW if you want to go ahead and take the lead on what people can expect moving forward for town halls sounds great can you stop sharing your screen so I can share mine perfect all right okay cool so the last thing here uh this is a work in progress but it's live now it is a town hall Hub

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     um actually builds its forwards from the dev Hub so it looks quite similar to that bubble this will be and it's living on on your social as well and we'll probably have a URL that goes directly to it at some point soon but basically high level it'll be a repository of all past Town Halls um so you can see here the past couple of them with links to the deck in the recording and then what we're going to be doing

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     now for future Town Halls is I'm putting out the agenda in advance in a in a post um and then have a a form or a place where people can can ask questions that we uh can answer at the Town Hall coming up or if there are any ideas people have for for topics that they would like to hear about um you could definitely use this moving forward to to uh to share those ideas and we'll we'll go back back to you and incorporate more and more of the community's questions and ideas into

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     into future Town Halls and the link is in the deck which we will send out as well and that is it's thank you all so much hopefully you got some value out of this um and we will definitely look forward to seeing you at the next town hall and have more active and engaged conversations on the town hall hub