DevHub Live 51 - Dev News Recap & RPCs with the Lava Foundation

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   Hey. Hey. Mh. Hey, welcome back to another edition of DevHub Live. I am your host Joe from DevHub. Uh we have an exciting live episode back today. Uh I know we took some time off last week. Uh we are talking a lot about the developer ecosystem. A lot of the news that has come up. Uh the past month has been jam-packed with stuff. So I really wanted to take some time and kind of go

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   over all of this uh with you. Uh one of the announcements that we made recently was actually the change to the RPC providers uh by Pagota which is no longer exists as well as by like uh near.org and kind of some of the changes that have been there. uh we announced that back in May leading into the beginning of June and we have since started to see some deprecation from that um into now needing external services not relying on the you know the

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   free ones from near.org anymore. I thought it'd be really appropriate and a great time to bring back um well actually I don't think Lava was ever on this show. So we've had Lava on actual other shows before. Never DevHub live. Um so I'm really excited. I have Justina uh and she's going to come and talk about uh what's going on there and what does Lava actually offer if you haven't actually checked it out before. Uh I'm definitely think you're going to want to check it out after you see that. But let's let her kind of go through all of

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   that. Uh Justina, thanks for joining the show today. Hello. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. So excited to be part of this live stream. I am personally a really big fan of near developer ecosystem. So to join uh you guys today is is definitely um a great uh great opportunity and um yeah really excited to tell you a little bit more about Lava, what Lava is and also how Lava is supporting Near Builder ecosystem especially as you just mentioned in light of Near uh deprecating the

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   Near.org or um um endpoints and uh what Lava has to offer to um support the near developer ecosystem in terms of providing the RPC. Yeah. No, I'm I'm excited for you to kind of go through this. Um so you yourself are a developer relations engineer over at Lava and so you understand the needs here of developers and that's what we really want to get across. So this is not uh necessarily a sales pitch per se. this is about hey this is what developers can come and use what's available to you to

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   to them so I think that's really uh an exciting piece uh so let's kind of start with really high level just so people can kind of uh get caught up what exactly is Lava and why is it a little bit different than other RPC providers yeah so um Lava is um first of and foremost is a blockchain uh which uh provides any type of web three user um including uh any kind of DAB AI agent um it can be a wallet and indexer or any other uh web3 user that needs access to

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   a blockchain data and it provides a decentralized RPC and API access to every blockchain. So you can think of Lava as a um coordination layer that routes the traffic. So on one hand with Lava you have an RPC provider community multiple providers that are servicing each chain and on the other hand you have all of the developers all of the DAPs agents that need access to that data and the

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   Lava network coordinates the and routes the traffic um so that um users that need access to data get connected to the best uh providers out there. It ensures that um users have always high uptime access to data. Um that RPC doesn't budge under load and if one provider has an issue, if there is something going on, if they go down, there is another provider that Labo will automatically connect uh the application uh to. Um so

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   this is really the core. Um and there are a few additional pieces about uh Lava's underlying um infrastructure that I will just quickly highlight. This is a very simplified view. Of course, there are a lot of details, but um Lava uh supports a number of different chains, test nets, and mainets. And it's actually very easy to add uh a specific blockchain to Lava. Uh all it takes is creating um uh what we call spec or a specification file which is a very

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    simple JSON file that includes all of the specifications um all of the parameters of um uh how to define um an API connection for a specific chain. And um the best part about that is that uh chains themselves they can actually uh sponsor incentivized pools for their chains which then allows them to onboard developers faster and also ensure that those developers are serviced by highquality providers uh at Lava and as

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    a result uh Lava is then able to offer RPC access as a public good. It's free. It's open to everyone and uh also providers that are servicing those u RPC requests they are rewarded uh for their performance and performance is really a very important part of what Lava is focusing on the provider community at Lava um as I mentioned it's not just one provider it's a decentralized network so we have permissionless way for anyone to

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    become uh RPC provider uh at Lava And uh different providers are servicing uh specific chains. And uh as I have mentioned previously, if there is some kind of problem with the with one provider, then the requests are routed to another one. And also how a specific request is paired with a provider um depends on quite a few different parameters, but the key ones are latency, geoloccation, and so on.

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    because lava network one aims to optimize the performance for all of the users. So to make sure that uh daps AI agents whatever uh user wants to access the data that they get it in a fast and uh and reliable way. So yeah I I want to kind of pause right there. I think this is a really important fact and what's differentiates you guys from other RPC providers. So you are not hosting all of the infrastructure for the actual RPC endpoints. You are the orchestration

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    layer for all of this which is I think is an important piece. And secondarily um I I I'm actually user my my side project actually uses Lava. And what you guys have done really well is if a particular RPC provider is not doing well and not getting enough throughput, um, your orchestration has gotten really good at moving away from that and not having the developer experience any downtime, which I think is huge.

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    Exactly. Yeah. Um the developer experience and high uptime are really the key things that we are trying to um optimize for uh with Lava. And as you can see at number four here um Lava constantly uh monitors the performance of the providers. And the way it's done is that uh data consumers they automatically send back the performance data uh in terms of latency, uptime, availability and all of these metrics are actually

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    recorded on chain and then based on that performance specific provider is either um then matched with uh um is exposed to more traffic if they are performing great or less traffic if it's uh the different situation. So yeah, it's very important for us to make sure that um developers have the best experience.

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    Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Uh you also mentioned here, so there is no cost. So you're essentially providing as a public good. Uh and I don't want to put you too much on the spot here. Um where did this concept come from? because it's very easy to look at other previous providers in just any infrastructure not just in web 3 and look at the SAS model of some kind and say like that is the path forward. Uh where does this come from and why this decision? Yeah. So the RPC endo

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    endpoints that are offered as a public good is um the intention of lava to contribute to web 3 developer community and enable uh blockchains that want to have uh want to provide RPC access for their chains. Uh so basically to open up that those doors make it easier and um um as I mentioned maybe I'll just switch to a different slide now. um incentivized pools is really the key for making all of this happen. Uh because the way it works is that uh blockchains um actually near is one of those chains.

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    Uh they can sponsor the RPC pool. So basically they add uh funds into incentivized pool on lava and uh all of those funds are then distributed to uh providers and uh other network contributors on lava who are providing the RPC access and uh the u RPC itself the access for RPC is then um offered to developers uh completely for free and in a open open manner. I will I will show the endpoints. It's like you don't even have to sign up anywhere to access um access the endpoints.

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    So yeah, that's a that's a pretty neat part of that too. And so uh there's really no commitment on the developer side to get started. It's simply like here's the endpoint. Uh get going. For those who want to maybe try to earn some of those incentives, uh is as simple as if I'm already running a node, I can just now sign up to basically have my node as part of this offering. Exactly. Yes. So to

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    become lava RPC provider, yeah, you you need to run uh for example near uh node. Uh you can run archival node even better. uh and uh then there is a little small process to configure uh lava RPC provider process so that basically all of those metrics that I've mentioned previously that are monitored uh for providers in terms of performance so that they can be written on lava blockchain and uh and from there you you are good to go and you're basically a lava RPC provider. So that's it really is fairly simple. Yeah. Yeah.

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    Straightforward. Great. So how does how do um maybe I'm stepping on your next slide or anything but like so how do people get started? Yeah. So um just quickly uh I will just also mention that of course we have been collaborating with near for a while and as I have mentioned there is incentivized RPC uh on Lava for near uh developer ecosystem already and uh just some stats to show

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    um there are almost 12 billion relays that Lava RPC provider serviced uh for near uh developers and we have 38 uh providers at the moment. So it's actually big number um and they are all servicing near uh RPC uh so it ensures that definitely you have um high uptime and reliable access to RPC uh and uh here are the details about the RPC itself. So it's live it's available um you can access uh near mainet testn net uh with full archival support. Um there is no setup required. You don't

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    have to sign up anywhere. Um it's uh uh no it has no rate limits under 30 requests per second if I remember correctly and correct me if I'm wrong here but I believe compared to the current uh near endpoints it's about like 15 times faster. Um, so I think it's a pretty um um substantial uh offering for developers and hopefully they can continue building their applications in a in a really effective way. Uh completely free, open and also

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    actively maintained by Lava team and also our active community which includes developers, providers, validators. So everyone is looking after u access uh for RPC. So if something happens, we are always uh pretty quick to identify and and um address uh any anything uh that needs to be fixed, but it's it doesn't really happen uh often. Um and uh yeah, to get started and to go ahead and and use Lava RPC for near is really as simple as just grabbing these endpoints

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    and and using them. So for mainet simple near.lava.build build for testn net just add a t at the end near t.lava.build. Um you can also uh find all of these details as well on the lava documentation. Um and uh just plug it into your application, your wallet, uh AI agent, whatever you're building and and you're good to go. Really, it's u just as simple as that. Yeah. I mean yeah you've guys have made it really really straightforward and and simple

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    here and um from a even like I think just from a user endpoint uh user standpoint I as a developer do not have to do anything different it is the same RPC setup so whatever my calls I make to any other RPC there is nothing other unique here uh just same and straightforward way exactly and also I' I will mention that this uh it's one endpoint that basically allows you to enter this uh little ecosystem of RPC providers that Lava has. So everything all of that uh routing to specific

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    provider based on performance happens under the hood but then uh the end user only has to have one endpoint and you're you're good to go. Nice. So um one of the things that I think is unique on near here is that uh the chain abstraction chain signatures is really pretty robust. So there are people who are building multi-chain starting from near. You guys support multiple chains.

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    Um so now as a developer I could use lava for all of my calls. Correct. Exactly. Yeah. This is very important point. Um we support I believe uh right now 18 different chains but they all also have uh mainet testn net uh networks as well. So you can use lava for accessing all of them like including Salana, Hyperlquid, Ethereum uh and and uh and other uh chains and uh it's it allows you to build multi-chain applications as well. So it's it's exactly the same just grabbing the endpoint and and building with it.

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    That's awesome. Yeah, I mean I think you know if you are building here on near so if you want to just use the main one the near one that's there. If you are bu building multi-chain the option is here. Uh there are other providers um you know some are different costs whatever else I encourage developers to check out these different options. Um, but this one here, like you know, just been saying, I mean, it's free. Um, the incentives are there for those to contribute, which I

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    think is a really again interesting model. I'm just curious a as a foundation for you getting people involved and getting RPCs on board. Does having that incentive layer seem to benefit, you know, the, like you said, the uptime and the responsiveness of RPC providers because that's where I think sometimes hang-ups come up of like, hey, there's been an update. Um, you know, the protocol updates happened, you know, making sure that everyone is up to date,

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    live, uh, running quickly because there's an incentive for them to do so. Uh, that is tied to how much how many requests they put through. Correct. Yeah, exactly. And um I personally work with our uh RPC provider community very closely. Um we have a telegram chat. We have discord server for that. And uh it's a very engaged community. they have insane amount of knowledge about how to operate the nodes, how to fix issues and and so on because sometimes it's uh uh

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    it can be a bit complicated uh let's be honest to run some of the notes and uh they are super responsive and uh you are completely right. I think uh the fact that they are rewarded for the work that they do and also it's very important to mention that it costs money right to run the servers and operate the nodes. So the fact that they can uh earn rewards to offset the note uh note cost and also

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    maybe even be profitable on on that perspective, it really does contribute to their um willingness and involvement into the uh RPC uh provider community and also be very responsive to all of the updates that we have and so on. Actually, sometimes because Lava supports so many chains, uh providers themselves uh share uh some new releases or upgrades that a specific chain uh made and sometimes I see that information because they share uh those

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    updates. So, it's really great to see how collaborative it is. Yes, I mean sounds like a strong community which is definitely what you want. That's awesome. Exactly. Um so, yeah, really that is uh what I wanted to share. Again, these endpoints are free. It's a public good. Very important to for everyone listening to um take note of that. Um of course, Lava has options to upgrade uh and uh get higher access rates. Uh but today's live stream is

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    really just just about the public good and what you can do today to migrate uh your um uh endpoints if you if you are migrating from near public endpoints. Um yeah. Yeah, I think that that's a great point. I mean, and I would say the majority of people building probably fit within your public um offering. I mean, to to need the next level um you're in a good spot anyways where now you can talk about paying for different things because because you hopefully have so much work and so much uh traffic through

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    your site. Most develop especially if you are in early stages and uh a lot on near like to because of you know near is still pretty cheap they like to actually just ship right to mainet um so sometimes too just being able to kind of jump in you have your RPC already set up you don't have to think about that uh it's a great it's a great opportunity for all that so uh exactly yeah this is exciting and I definitely encourage people to do that uh what's the best way to reach out if they have any questions.

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    I would say um let me just quickly go back to my first slide. So here are all of my socials. I'm available on Telegram, on Twitter as well. So you can reach out to me directly. Um we also have a discord uh server for our community. So if you just go to uh labanet.xyz, XYZ, you will see all of the links to our Discord, uh, Telegram as well, and you can tag me. You will definitely find my name there, Justina, and I will be answering all of the questions, helping out. If you have any

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    issues with running an RPC uh, migrating, just uh, let us know and we will help you out. Or if you would like to become a Lava RPC provider as well, just hit me up and I'll help you with with all of the setup as well. Uh, that that's awesome. Uh I really appreciate you coming on today talking us through that. This is an important shift uh in the ecosystem and this is a great service you guys are providing. So uh thank you very much for coming on today.

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    Thank you so much for having me. Thank you. All right. Take care. Bye. Uh great stuff. Uh really again, you know, we talked about this now for almost two months leading up to uh getting to the point of where in June 1st, you s started to see really strong deprecation of those endpoints that were already public. Uh they're very restricted. By now, if you have not already migrated your current app, uh now is the time to really do it. If you are building something new, if you're

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    working on something new, uh here's a nice opportunity. Even if you are building something that's AI related, um that initial public uh opportunity that the rate limit there really should be enough for you to be able to go out, build something, test, go through all of that before you get into an actual payment thing. Uh the goal here, right, obviously is being able to have as much uh opportunity to do stuff without having to pay for it and, you know, put

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    your money um up right away. Let's talk a little bit about uh news. uh a lot of news this past month and I think is a good time to really jump into that. So, let's kind of go through some of what I feel are some of the top stories from here. So, let me pull this up.

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    All right. Uh look, it one of the things that if you're not following along, I really encourage you to take the time and sign up for a DevHub newsletter. Um all these news stories have been in there. Uh we break some of them down with some editorials sometimes. Uh also too, again, if you just need more information, we have links to everything within those newsletters and you can actually see the archive of them uh as

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    well on dev.neer.org. So we encourage you to do that. Uh one of the big things that have come out in the past month has been global contracts. and global contracts really have opened up a lot of opportunity to one um save resources, save money. But the big change here is it now allows you to actually deploy a single smart contract which is that global contract and any account or shard can actually make a call to it. So now you instead of having multiple copies of the same contract,

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    you can just have one and others can actually then leverage it, which is really uh a great thing. It eliminates some of the extra code and cost of storage, especially if you need to deploy the same contract a lot. Think of those factory contracts, uh maybe for Dows or things like that. Uh it's one time and that's it. It's a little bit more expensive to do the initial deployment, but uh the long-term cost,

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    especially if you're deploying it, you know, using it a lot across multiple accounts, it's really going to save you. Obviously, that logic is versioned. It's in all the same place. Uh and it really reduces also gas overhead, not just storage as well. So, I think that's a good thing. Uh yeah, I mentioned right like this is good for token standards, this is good for Dows, things like that.

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    Uh this is actually in the new near API for JavaScript. Um so if you are using that that is actually available in there. That's another new story that we will get to. Um so it is available in there. Uh we definitely want to hear feedback around this. So if there's still things that you would like to see, things you're sure about, please do uh give us some feedback around it. You can

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    also always jump into and this has been scrolling at the bottom of the screen to the nearev support and ask questions there around that as well. Uh shade agents uh there's been a lot of information around this. Um, so there was a the show last week uh was around again the hackathon uh that involves some shade agents and so we had uh representatives from proximity come on and talk about shade

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    agents. Uh we've had this now brought up multiple different times of how to start really building these out. What exactly though is a shade agent? And I think this is if you haven't caught up with this is that it's a fully onchain AI agent framework and it's a lot enables you to then leverage onchain events and then also invoke the LLM within that and kind of do this all autonomously. So it's kind of just running. There is doesn't have to be additional input. It can just react to different inputs that

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    are happening uh to the bot. So it's an autonomous bot basically. Um it is on chain. It allows for trustless automation. Uh the idea here which I think is really relevant for the long-term near developer ecosystem is it is a great great example of the integration of blockchain and blockchain compute with AI and how that all can kind of work together and be autonomous.

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    Uh this is again just for developers that is if you are looking at saying hey how can I do a bot? How can I actually again minimize my infrastructure? How can I start to look at some different things going on? These are things that I would absolutely say to check out. Uh you can go right now on uh GitHub. You can go fork these and start building your own shade agents. Uh again, jump into our the main dev chat and we can forward you to the

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    right places as well. Really interested in trying to build all this stuff out. Um there is also some near AI working groups around this as well. So definitely check that out. Uh a big one uh Infinex. So Infinex launched with Near. Um they're leveraging also Near Intense I believe.

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    uh it le leverages you to actually use one near account for all different chains. Infinex is truly a becoming this one-stop shop for all of your DeFi needs. Uh it is think of it almost like a Coinbase but onchain, right? It has all the different things. It is a unified interface that is both an exchange, it is a wallet, it has multi-chain access, it's all these different parts of it. Uh it's a really uh interesting product that we really haven't seen to this

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    extent in the DeFi space. Um they are leveraging near accounts for this. Uh this is helping with bridging. They're going to they're leveraging in near intents which is part of that as well. Um lots of different things going on.

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    There's different benefits. Uh absolutely check it out. But uh it's worth just trying to learn more about different opportunities that are there and what it really is actually all about. Mentioned this a little bit near APIJS 6.1 came out as well as uh the support for Python smart contracts. The Python smart contracts a little bit older news but I thought it was worth bringing in here uh because it is now in the create near app template uh which is now

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    available that can support Python contracts. uh 6.1 again allows for uh the global contract integration. So if you want to leverage global contracts, you can now do that through the API. And we also uh made sure that the near APIJJS is leaner. So the dependencies on it are not so heavy. Uh it's much smaller, reduces that kind of front-end bundle size, which I think is a always a win for for developers. Uh also too if you are interested in the AI

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    piece, if you're interested in, you know, if just working maybe in blockchain and web 3 and you are a Python developer, you now can easily make smart contracts and start to leverage some of the stuff. So now think of like, okay, what we just talked about with the shade agents, being able to interact with a smart contract autonomously and do different actions.

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    Well, now I can write my smart contract in Python. So it's all these different pieces kind of coming together which I think are really relevant for developers out there. Uh and again if you are using the create near app template um python is now supported through there.

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    uh a big one here on on near as a whole uh ner went live uh it's a decentralized free freelance marketplace and why this is important is that it gives an opportunity for anyone not just developers but anyone who is looking to hire uh creatives uh developers uh representatives whatever you can post bounties sponsorships whatever um through Ner uh reach out to again uh both local talent by local I mean like on near but also

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    outside of near and then for those who are already working in near or want want to and who need to find a nice entry way in it's a great way to earn some money u there's tons of bounties kind of going up uh each week right now the big one is the fire h fire fire hose uh contentathon so building different content there uh definitely check it out. Uh, I'm going to actually post a little banner here. Let's see. So, you

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    guys can see this. Uh, because this is here is where we want to go. Uh, let's let's delete this. Okay, there we go. Ner.io. Uh, definitely check that out. U, there's it's really easy to get started. You just need an email. You don't necessarily need a wallet right away.

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    Um, you can certainly add your wallet. you can make a wallet um from wherever they're uh and again if you are a project here on near or you're looking for near talent um going to ner posting bounties posting sponsorships is a great way to get your listing out there is no cost to those who are listing um so it's a free opportunity so it's cheaper than any job board that's out there uh

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    definitely go check that out it's great for different all kinds of different gig work you can pay in crypto So um whatever that might be to that uh if you have more questions um there is a support and everything you can reach out through ner.io IO um I won't just flood the screen with a million other different groups, but you can also always go into again the NearDev support group and ask and we can point you in the right direction uh as always. So that's always a good starting point is going to the uh nearev support group and

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    then we can actually help you go from there. Uh one of the pieces too, so we just were talking about um RPCs with lava. Um, one of the things that is coming up though is some chain abstraction relayers. So, this is a little bit different than um a RPC. Uh, the idea here is to handle uh the actual crosschain calls. So, it is not necessarily um in our PC per se. It is again it is truly just an SDK that actually helps

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    abstract away the gas management part of it and then the transaction signing um for chain signatures. Uh there were two different winners, two different approaches from this. Um so we're going to see uh uh Wrath and Hot Labs each put out something related to this and uh something to just keep an eye on. we will make sure that we announce when these are available for people to actually go out and use. Uh and again these are things that

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    uh are are good are just strong things for developers in the ecosystem to start simplifying the process of getting from A to B to C with your product and really leveraging the power of the technology here uh on near number seven. Um so uh Rainey which is a indexer uh it's a near native decentralized indexing engine. Uh and this is again it hasn't really what I say I guess priority is it actually kind

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    of has really started to uh make itself more robust. Uh definitely check it out. It's one of those things where uh the alpha test net is coming in July. Um the focus here about having rainy and I think having more indexing options is again is important because we announced back in again u March that indexing opportunities here have started to not be become uh not the priority of like near as an organization. It's more out

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    to the community out to those who want to build up these things. So I'm using rainy as the example um as an opportunity to see like here these can be built definitely check these type of things out um like hold on uh ray of finance uh released its onchain defy agent and this one is really interesting so we on this show have had bet on quite a few times uh to talk about their different agents and Rya Finance is actually integrating their agent, the

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    bit protocol agent into it to actually have DeFi transactions. Uh this is live. Uh you can see this kind of synergy of these onchain agents along with you know how it would actually work in DeFi. Uh all the stuff that we've talked about in previous episodes with Bitday and how this could all work actually is coming to life and is live in production on here. So definitely uh go to Ray Finance. You can try this out for yourself. and go from there.

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    Uh number nine, uh the wallet selector got a big update and the big piece here I think for developers is one it becomes a headless core. So now uh everything is plug-and driven. Uh and the benefit here obviously is again less front-end load if you don't need all these different parts of it. It gives you some flexibility to really adjust the UX. Uh it should enable those wallet providers to better iterate uh on what they're

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    doing uh as well. And then again, you know, the whole piece here long term is that we want options for developers, but we also want to make it easy. So, you should be able to just drop something in and start building with it. Uh, I think version 9 certainly improves in that.

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    There's going to be another version of another wallet selector out who maybe have different needs. You'll have two different options coming soon of which wallet selector you want to be able to use or you can use none. But I think going to a headless plug-in model really is a nice upgrade and it really fits into the model of technical architecture you're seeing nowadays uh in in in apps.

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    Uh lastly, you know, again, there's so much more news, but this is just some of the stuff that's going on. Um uh so the uh Pel Genesis module words hackathon is going on. Uh there is a uh track that involves near to build crosschain AI powered agents. Uh there's about 10K in prizes. Uh you can check that out. Again, this was in our newsletter. Uh I'll post the link here.

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    I believe this is the right link. Let me just double check it before I post it. And no, that's the right one. See if I can find the right one. But yeah, in the meantime, um you know, this is again these are the opportunities that I really I think are worth checking out if you're interested in building here on near. The reason why I say that is because uh a hackathons give you an opportunity to go out and

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    try some stuff out. If it goes well and you win some money, great. If you don't, you had a good hopefully you had a good experience. Um, but you know, it there really is low risk on on your part and there's so much open and free uh just overall architecture right now that you don't have to build everything yourself. Like we just had lava with the with the RPC which I think is uh

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    important. There is also the here let me pull this up here while we're talking. uh register now. Uh there is a lot of stuff through other services that also can I think allow you to build faster. This is a wild link. Um here I'm just going to make this link a little shorter.

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    Here we go. All right, there it is. um plenesis at devpot.app. Uh you can go and you can check that out. There's again a lot of good prizes here. Uh I really would encourage you to just try some of these things out, see what you can build. Uh you if you need support from it, uh you can always again jump into our developer chats and go from there, which I think is a really great way to kind of just get started with all this stuff.

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    I will say if you are interested at all in any of this type of stuff, uh please join our chat. It's again at the bottom. It's an easy telegram group. You can kind of jump in at any time. Uh we can talk through what you're building. Uh where you might need help. Uh let's kind of get into all that. Also too, as you can see, there has been a lot of changes recently in just our SDKs, our tooling.

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    Uh the team at NearDev is doing a lot to really support that. So I do want to pull up one quick thing and just show where everyone should be checking everything out. Okay, so uh in our documentation, this is updated regularly. Um, so you can go through and you can see some different things that are available here as things are getting updated. So even if I go to like what's a contract, you know, I can

80. 40:24

    go see all I want to build a smart contract and I jump into it and you can see here it might be kind of small on the screen but this is JavaScript, there's Rust and there is Python. So as we made those changes, those are all there. Um, you can go through and learn how to build all this type of stuff. You can also see the last date when something was updated in our docs. You can just scroll to the bottom and you

81. 40:48

    can see oh is this up to date and most likely it will be and you'll know that this is the most recent setup. So there's no questions wondering of like oh is this the most recent thing all the tooling is linked here as well. stuff we just talked about like with the wallet selector. Um you know the near API we were just talking about that how this is all structured again like this is all all here nice and easy for you of how to

82. 41:13

    use it how to get it going and again you can see last updated uh actually yeah it looks like today. So I mean that's that's how up to date uh a lot of this stuff is which is I think really uh a great opportunity for developers to to jump in. Oh, I'm not show my screen.

83. 41:31

    Great. Anyways, this is what I was showing you guys. Um, not having anyone else on here doesn't help with that when I mess up mess up something. Uh, so as I was saying, so everything is here. You can jump in. You can see the contract.

84. 41:45

    Well, I was saying the contract anatomy. There's Python, Rust, and JavaScript. And when I was talking about the last updated, it's right here at the bottom. Uh, and you can see that. So, uh, there you go. I I I think this is a great opportunity to keep building. Uh I am excited as someone who's been in the ecosystem for a while of all the different things that are coming and that are being built. Uh and there's a

85. 42:10

    lot of opportunity even if you are not a builder. Uh definitely definitely check out the hackathon that is happening right now. And I will end with this here. Let me pull this back up. Hold on. I want to uh where are we? Here. Okay.

86. 42:31

    Uh on Ner. So this is on Ner here. We don't need to get started. Uh if you go to focus the fire hose right up here at the top, you'll see that there is these are contentbased. These are not developerbased bounties. So if you know how to make content, if you're interested in making content, you can jump right in. uh you can go whether it's about near intents or various near ecosystem projects. You jump in, you can see what the different what they're looking for, you know what what the kind of different setup it is. Uh you can

87. 43:04

    then submit uh right from here. You can see the different prices here, the different prizes here. Uh, and it's a really great opportunity to both contribute to the ecosystem and getting out there as well as a nice opportunity to hopefully earn some money for all the stuff you're doing. So, if you're out there posting anyways, if you're out there, you're interested in doing research on Near anyways, here's a great opportunity to

88. 43:30

    kind of jump in uh and do that. And this is all on on Ner. So, it's ner.io. Let me put that back up here uh one more time for you so that you don't miss it. And this is open to anybody. Uh anyone can come and start to uh get going here.

89. 43:53

    And if I were to sign up, uh it's really easy. I can just sign up with an email or I already have a Google account. Uh I can jump right in. I don't need to set up a whole wallet or anything else like that. Doesn't cost me anything to participate. It does not cost me anything to also become a sponsor. If I wanted to become a sponsor, uh all these opportunities are here as well. Uh and

90. 44:14

    again, we will absolutely help support you if you have any questions. There's also a little helper here in the corner that you can ask questions to as well and get started. So, lots of great opportunities here in your ecosystem. Uh I'm really I really feel excited about what's happening. Uh it's been a nice uh swell of activity hopefully leading into uh the rest of the year. Uh where I I think it's good opportunity to keep building and see what you can do. Uh I

91. 44:47

    will leave it with this. Uh next week we will be back. Actually I take that back. So, looking at the calendar, uh, next week we may have a little bit different episode, uh, as it becomes a holiday weekend here in the United States, and that's where I am from. Um, but I will post all those announcements as well as what we're going to do for next week.

92. 45:08

    Uh, but following that, we will have some more guests on, we will have some more projects on, we will have more things that are being built, we will have more news for you. Um, there is more absolute awesome alpha coming in the near ecosystem for developers. So, just stay tuned um for all of that. But until then, until next week, uh I'm your host Joe and I look forward to seeing you again next week. Bye now.