[REDACTED] online Hackathon AMA with Aurora

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   change anywhere to blow up it's time to testify CH signatures launched we reaching for the sky ch ch anywh

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   on n g m g a g n g whatever the hell you want to put at the end of that suffix Alex Joe how are you doing before you answer that question I just need to say one thing that fucking hackathon video right love it it's brilliant it's amazing but after you've heard it like the fifth time it becomes very very obvious that there's somebody going

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   for the entire song and it's like what the fuck is going on uh anyway how you doing guys great observation I appreciate I'm doing great I'm doing great excited to here to talk to Alex about Aurora here yeah g everybody uh I heard that David you said good Aurora right so hello hello everybody 100% 100% um look here we're here today with some brilliant news uh you saw at the very very start of the uh live stream that the redacted hackathon

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   has been extended until when Joe tell him a October 31st so you got the end of the month to get all your stuff in spooky times is spooky times indeed uh yes so put away your slutty Halloween outfits uh because you still have an extra day to uh drop the best and greatest projects that the Nia ecosystem has ever seen but I could regil you with tales about that uh for the rest of my life but today we are here with Alex shevchenko he is the CEO and founder of Aurora Labs the wonderful team uh behind

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   Aurora which is uh the evm layer of Nia so Alex how you doing how's it going it's a shame we can't see you pretty face I mean but you can see my pretty recent picture um so uh yeah everything is is pretty good be super busy day I'm like already like eight hours on different calls trying to juggle many different things uh but super positive despite disastrous weather in Lisbon uh yeah no I mean at life of a CEO I'm I'm sure you're busy and you guys have

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   so much going on at Aurora I I don't even know where's the best place to start so I'll I'll leave it to you maybe just kind of like the 30 second overview of like what is Aurora and then what is Aurora working on today yeah so Aurora is a um kind of L2 stack that is on top of near uh with a difference that we are allowing with our stack of Technologies we're allowing to launch not l2s but rather a thing that

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   we call a virtual chain uh and the big difference in between virtual chains and l2s is that l2s are launched absolutely blank you need to set up all of the infrastructure but with virtual chain you're actually getting everything that is developed already in the new Anor ecosystem and also everything that is going to be developed in the future so uh virtual chains are solving the

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   network effect and the interoperability in between the l2s so uh what we're working currently on this is that we are refining our stack uh of different this addons right we already have uh official can official integration with stable coins from near and uh the table coins are listed on binance and other exchanges so people can easily move the stable coins directly to the virtual chains um um so we are refining these

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   addons we're working on multiple new ones um and uh obviously there are more and more people who are coming and launching their virtual chains using this stack uh and we are supporting them and helping them out uh currently we have five different networks that already work and uh more and more are coming so just trying to support everybody on this front um we are also investing quite a lot of time into the uh various

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    decentralization initiatives um governance around Aurora and uh you know grants and things around there so uh keep an eye on this and also we have several internal projects that I'm not able to share uh at the moment but there is also another big project that that we are developing right now that is called diffuse and this is a multi-chain DEX that is working on top of near based on the Chain abstraction stch that is available on near

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    yep it sounds like Joe if we beg and plead enough that maybe Alex will drop us some Alpha during this uh during this live stream let's let's see what happens or Alex if if you have any like hard alcohol nearby maybe just just get a little bit so then you can tell us everything uh because I know that there are thousands of people out there uh who who definitely want to know um but Joe

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    Alex I I think that we just we dive straight into it right so redacted hackthon happening right now A absolute fat stack of prizes up for grabs we're talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars and auroraa is contributing to Part of That So what do people need to do uh to get involved and how can they build uh with Aurora's Tech stack to usher in that future of chain

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    abstraction is this a question to me anybody who wants to take it can take it uh I know Joe uh if you want to dive into a little bit more about the hackathon feel free and then we'll pass the ball over to Alex and Alex can drop the uh the wisdom on uh Aurora at I'll I'll I'll make it easy on you Al I'll I'll kind of summarize what the Bounty is and then you can kind of get a little more detail here but basically Aurora is doing a really great one because it's a little bit more generalized so you have some opportunity to really be creative and build yourself

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    here so uh the Aurora boun is around on consumer daps and so there's uh 65k uh up for grabs here with four different winners uh the here I'll read the actual description create a consumer Centric chain abstracted daap that is easy to understand and engaging for users uh any categor so gaming social Finance or lifestyle uh be designed with the average user in mind the goal is to something that could be a little bit more mainstream it's the idea of leveraging blockchain without having

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    blockchain in your face um there's some great suggested ideas if you go onto to the redacted website and uh at Dev post and see some different ideas things like um defi fitness apps uh game f whatever you can think of but the prizes here are really great because not only is there first second and third place but there's also a wild card pool which is allowed that if you're not quite in the maybe the top three so maybe it's not maybe as polished but there is something there um they're kind of reserving that as an

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    opportunity to look at that and give some additional prizes as well so uh this is a really great Bounty that is really open for people to to Leverage yeah and I would like to add there that a portion of the bounty is in the services around virtual chains so if you have been thinking of uh if you would like to participate in the redacted hackathon and you have been thinking of maybe to launch your own chain for your

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    own specific use case uh uh this also something that we can do uh we can easily launch chains with uh with roora cloud in literally days so you're neon project can be your own evm compatible chain with some specifics in it obviously it's just not a plain evm compartible chain with all of the stable coins available with bridging available with access to chain abstraction stack that is available on this chain but also with your own particular use case and

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    the cool one for example of one of our um Partners uh trpr Network they are uh making Toom as uh kind of well kind of tokens or like as as entities on blockchain and this tokenomics can interact with each other right this project is already launched but this is just an like a crazy idea for everyone there that there are many many different use cases that you can Implement on blockchain uh and

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    together with rora Cloud especially for Consumer dabs you can have your own kind of um you know sandboxes where you can test and on board users too so uh again uh as Joe said uh we are super wide we see lots of adapt adoption on consumer depths everywhere but especially on near protocol projects like hot sweat ago Quest that is working on top of Aurora and and many others kaien obviously uh they are this contri kind of

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    contributing into the consumer deps and we want to see more of this we want blockchain to become closer to ordinary users um and ordinary people out there so let's build it together uh and we're happy to to sponsor this part of the reducted heon amazing I love that so let's let's pretend for a moment that the hackathon is finished today I just submitted my project and it's going to win first

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    place on the Aurora track what does that project look like to you guys what is it it sounds amazing I mean the fact that you're pumping out top projects here I'm I'm so excited about that it's a part-time hobby really yeah I mean I I know Alex has probably has a lot of thoughts I mean just from a developer standpoint look anytime you go into a hackathon you know there's pressure to try to you know maybe be be

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    perfect but uh I think most of the time most judges will always say it's more important to make sure that there is functionality and concept there you can always polish it later it's really about making sure that the mechanisms of whatever you're trying to do so if you're building a game and you want to incorporate some gamei that those mechanisms are in place even if they're a little bit rough uh that you can understand from a judging standpoint what is supposed to happen how is this

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    going to work how are users going to get onboarded all of those pieces more so than like the flashy stuff of like oh these Graphics are amazing like that's great and all but really you don't always have the time for that it can always come later really focus on uh the the nuts and boths of the functionality of it what do you think Alex yeah in general yes um for Consumer deps it just the idea just needs to make

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    sense I can give you an example of a tool that I I would beg somebody to create and I would buy it uh like at the moment when I see it I want to see uh so for me like if somebody will create this um during the hackathon for sure somebody like this this person or this team is is going to get something from me personally I'm not sure whether they're going to win the Aurora track but they're going to get something for

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    me personally so here's the application uh I want to see the AI bot that is going to help me and draft my tweets and actually going to nudge me to do this twit because for me it is pretty complicated you know to maintain regular activity uh in social media but I need to do it uh as the CEO for oral apps so if this if this bot is able to take uh into it uh some kind of you know uh

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    history of my tweets the the style of how I'm how I'm writing things and maybe also can take the inputs from uh the people that I really admire uh and their style of communications and is going to help me to do this and if this application is going to have well even you know some kind of simple connection to the blockchain like just paying for this service on the blockchain well that will be uh more than enough I really really

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    would like to see this thing uh helping me notifying me making me more productive and put uh this kind of hurdle of constantly remembering of twitten and helping me to find topics where to tweet or topics to which that I need to react uh in Twitter that will be tremendous so here we go a free idea for for a fresh hackathon project and well potentially successful business in the future there it is and we can we can actually fold the the blockchain in a little bit more so if it tracks anam's

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    wallet on murad's wallet as soon as they sell a big bag of meme coins that you've been bll posting about it then immediately uh posts on Twitter and degrades them and tells them that they have weak paper hands and that they should get out of crypto and they should stop dumping on their followers maybe absolutely absolutely yeah yeah yeah or you can take a look at at the recent project that is called to uh gosh the

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    terminal of truth right the truth terminal um so the AI agent that have launch their own goat token on salana but you can launch tokens on on near too right that will be pretty cool does anybody know what that goat token means like what's it represent I mean this is just memes you know all stuff I I advise not looking further into it oh let's put it that way there there's nothing at the end of that rabbit h

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    fire I I want just say I this is what this is not only a great idea this is why I think this hackathon is so great because right there not only did Alex give everyone a great idea something you could build and submit to the aora take payments whatever there are other projects on near with bounties like Massa that has Twitter data that you can leverage Massa to use for your Twitter data combine it with Aurora you can

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    submit to both tracks you could win prizes at both places you could win a whole bunch of money to get started on your new business venture we can call it the uh the demo bot or whatever and there you go so I it's so many opportunities in this hackathon you do not need to stick to one particular track yes 100% and something to know as well is that it's actually possible to double dip triple dip quadruple dip right so if you are building on the

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    Aurora track and you've absolutely smashed it you've built everything that Alex wants but it also happens to uh overlap in the ven diagram that is your project with another brilliant track that's related to AI or to chain abstraction or to whatever it might be you could stand to win a big fat stack from Alex and Co at Aurora and then you might also win um another big fat stack

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    from taking the top spot in in say the AI track for instance um so that is is super exciting and if I was a developer and I was smart enough to code uh I would be all over that for sure for sure uh Alex I want to talk a little bit you mentioned something called the Aurora Cloud uh we just recently had uh Slava your one of your Devils on devhub live talking about how to build on aora and this came up can you talk a little bit about why the Aurora cloud is unique and how it gets

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    you up and running so quickly yeah the the core difference to what l2s are doing or you know kind of many app chain Stacks like um I don't know Avalanche for example subnets right the core difference here is the architecture right so many of these solutions that we already have in place the the the question that they're answering is is how to scale ethereum or how to scale evm and unfortunately there is no the

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    reason why this question is asked is because well evm is not scalable it is a synchronous uh um process that uh that can be parallelized for sure so some projects are working in the direction of parallelized evm but they are going to face and like the majority of the transactions that we see in for example ethereum blockchain the biggest evm to date uh is that half of these transactions are somehow connected to

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    the Unis vope version to usdt to eth pool like to a particular smart contract which means that and and the connection to this smart contract just from the standpoint of the ordinary evm developer it cannot be parallelized the interaction with the particular smart contract cannot be paralized as a whole so there is this is the problem this is kind of the ground problem with EVMS that they cannot be paralyzed they cannot be sharded you cannot scale it as

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    a single instance so the best thing that you can do is just to launch many EVMS so l2s are the answer how to scale ethereum but the beauty of near protocol is that we don't have this problem near does not need to have the answer to the question how to scale near it is already scaled it is sharded right it is working like that and uh one thing one bit of alpha though I was not drinking anything uh

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    that we are working right now on the sharded fungible token smart standard for near which is going to make every single token sharded on near right so this is something that ethereum POS cannot can cannot achieve at all right so so near does not need to scale near is already scalable the approach is proper the approach can work uh with you know with support in lots of interactions uh on top of near so the question that we need to answer here is okay near is scalable so we don't need

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    to have l2s on top of near but what we can have there uh we can have your own or they own ecosystems smaller ecosystems smaller playgrounds for people and this is the answer to the question how can I launch my own blockchain which many people are asking right now and the answer for them is that oh okay I can use L2 but L2 was not purportedly built for launching blockchains while on the contrary Aurora Cloud was so from the very beginning we have been thinking of this future of

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    many EVMS uh and then we need to have many EVMS so what is the simplest way how to do it well it was not actually the simplest way it was a pretty complicated Journey but we've actually put the whole evm in a single smart contract on near that's probably the most complex smart contract in the world but because we did it like that all of these EVMS Now using the same set of near validat s

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    and chunk producers and all of these different types of noes that are there in the near protocol which by the way makes them validating all of these EVMS so when you deploy your virtual chain you already have decentralized set of validators instead of a single Noe that validating um and ordering transactions So you you're getting these by default and then a a development of a new node

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    of a new kind of network is as simple as just an additional deployment of a smart contract which is just one transaction on the near blockchain which is done in couple of seconds but now also the good thing that we are able to add here is this and this is very specific to Aurora this is not available on any other kind of L2 solution is that we've introduced this thing that is called cross contract call S DEC which literally inside of the

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    evm looks like a custom precompile or custom Smart contract that you can call to schedule calls outside of this environment outside of this evm and through these calls you're able to get the access to ref Finance get the access to diffuse get the access to chain signatures on near or get the access to Oracle Solutions uh or um layer zero that is integrated with Aurora Main which is just another Network like that uh and stuff like that so these connection uh these um easiness of uh

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    interaction with other infrastructure that is available on near and Aurora ecosystems that's that this is really something that that brings additional advantages it completely removes the problem of the cold start of an L2 and for those of you who are listening to this and thinking of launching an L2 I can I can tell you that it is going to cost you tens of millions of US dollars to fix the

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    infrastructure for everything to work on your chain you need to have Bridges you would need to have stable coins you would need to have uh centralized exchanges who are listing your network which is insane cost uh you would need to fix tons of stuff right so so and this is even before you're getting to the particular product that you need to do why why do you want to do this um and so please think two times or please think one step

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    ahead right and uh and I see lots of frustration in in the L2 kind of in the in the among the founders who have launched their l2s uh and uh this is the point where when we are talking with them but obviously it is a little bit complicated um to change this however by the way if you have launched your L2 and you're not very satisfied with this uh you know setup of all of the infrastructure I have good news for you

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    even if you have your own network you're able to migrate to Aurora there is nothing that you need to do uh about this we can help you and for us it is going to be as simple as just take your network State and deploy it on onto the near smart contract how how complicated can it be there are actually some complications with the bridges and stuff like that but this this all can be resolved this all can be can be done and uh things are going to be super simple so if you're frustrated

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    with the launch of the infrastructure you you still can migrate to Aurora Cloud um and well obviously I would recommend you to do this uh but just uh you know think from the standpoint do not trust me always veryify but think just from the standpoint of the architecture and that is that this is a proper way this is a proper answer to the question how to launch your own blockchain I I think uh great great

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    summary of that can we talk a little bit about for for the developers here especially those on the hackathon of what is the more pragmatic reason of having a my own chain what advantages does it give me versus just building directly on top top of a so and your own chain can give you an opportunity to have your token or some kind of other token as a base token um so that's one thing second thing is

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    that you able to specify kind of custom gas mechanics so for example maybe you're launching a a game or you're a game in studio so what you can do this is is to make sure that um your users are not paying for transactions at all so you actually can in the Aurora Network in the setup of the virtual chain you can state that all of the transactions are free by the way this setup was the setup that aora mayet has been operating for um for months after

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    the launch almost for year here this is possible right so you can do this U you also can um for example customize this customize this network uh to uh accept transactions only from uh some specific nft holders so in order to get access to your network U you need to be you need to purchase at an nft or you need to be a part of a some kind of Guild or something so there are lots of opportunities for customization of the chains and many of them are available

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    out of the box and uh obviously having your own smaller environment it just gives you this feeling this kind of sandbox feeling for everybody uh in your ecosystem and this might be perceived uh you know as a benefit for you sure makes makes s sense all right that was a a whole lot of extreme Alpha actually Alex what what it sounds like to me is he saying that if there is an L2 out there that's uh you know maybe struggling a little bit and I understand it's got to be super super difficult uh that they can just you know

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    pick up pack the bags and and come over to Aurora and by proxy Nia uh I don't know if that would be a hackathon track I don't think so at least not this year but there is a bag Lord of other uh brilliant hackathon tracks and one of the big focuses is of course um chain abstraction so Alex I know you guys are pioneers in this uh space I know you are cooking a lot that is going to enable uh chain abstraction on the scale that the

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    people at the ne foundation and within the ne EO system and indeed Beyond foree it so what is it that people could build in the realm of Chan abstraction that would float your boat right that would get your uh get the buzz going right it make it feel like you've had a couple of shots at tequila whatever it'll make you happy what do you want to see uh okay there are there are so many

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    different ideas that that you can do with chain abstraction and obviously this is the uh one of the one of the big directions for for the haathon so I easily can can see uh any projects that I that interacting Bitcoin with some other chains you can think of uh for example projects like a Bitcoin backed um stable coin for example yeah we already have seen the examples of you know other um stable coin algorithmic stable coins that are backed by some random assets that were not going very

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    well but uh I do believe that for such a stable asset as Bitcoin with such deep liquidity uh everywhere it is it is really possible to create an algorithmic st stable coin so this might be a a thought you also can think of the products that that can use Bitcoin as a uh Co collateral uh in order to so some kind of lending and borrowing protocols that are you where where you you kind of use

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    using multiple assets from other chains um to to borrow assets on near on maybe on some other chains too right so that's that's one of the things so cross chain borrowing and lending protocols um the thing that I really would like to see is some kind of index tokens so you can think of issuing uh something like S&P 500 Index but on crypto on near right so this would be a token that represents the partial ownership of a joint uh piggy bank of assets on multiple chains

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    you can say okay we have like 50% Bitcoin 30% e and 20% near and this this is a treasury it gets rebalanced based on the smart contract rules every day and anyone is able to trigger this rebalancing right so this is like a permissionless fun fun um and uh uh and there is a token that that is connected to it so I can buy instead of buying and holding these uh these assets individually and thinking of rebalancing

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    and all of these things uh I'm just buying this uh directly in the smart contract on near right so I think this is a cool idea and uh it has lots of potential uh here and uh yeah so uh many of this things that are that are previously were not possible uh in a decentralized manner but were possible on kind of centralized venues like centralized exchanges they are now possible through chain

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    signatures uh on near protocol um so yeah if you ever have seen something that is useful on on on on Texas just take this idea implement it in a decentralized manner and here you go this is your own de centralized product uh that that can be interesting well there you go I think that I think that answers the question right um I have a feeling that I kind of saw FTX do this uh not so long ago well

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    all those years ago but we know how that ended up right they they certainly weren't decentralized they they really uh shut the bed with that one I think for lack of a better word uh so if you do build it and you build it decentralized and you make it um unhittable then that would be absolutely magnificent to see um Joe what about you is there anything that that that's really itching at you that's inside the Noggin of yours that you want to see uh come to

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    life yeah I mean the man I think the liquidity stuff is really what's most interesting and so anyone who like who works or done anything in crypto and you probably are maintaining uh a thousand different wallets and you're jumping between things and the issues around Bridges you know every every bridge minus the Rainbow Bridge um you know has issues all the time right and now you are trying to just even like do basic

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    transactions it becomes challenging so I I think anywhere you are building apps that are consolidating that experience and allowing me to still do what I want to do on other chains and you know especially around defi um bring that together is a net benefit for everyone and it allows users who are not as comfortable with crypto to really start to come in and well as well and see the experience of what that is like

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    because right now trying to onboard someone to say hey you need three different wallets for five different chains is sometimes a bit of a tough sell I love that so so I think at the core it's really about making it accessible and as easy as possible for everybody to do what they want to do regardless of where that dap lies uh on the chin um I'm just going to go through some comments really really quickly this is a wild card we don't normally do this

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    but hey we're doing it anyway Roland Curtis of YouTube said top of the morning well top of the morning to you too Roland um dank Spartan said uh the guy on the top right sold me Fentanyl I think you might have had a mix up there um because only I of the three attendees Here Sell uh fentel and other related drugs of course that is a joke to Two drugs fentel is dangerous uh and Nea devhub of course said are you signed up

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    for reacted. devour.com and the question is are you how many how many hackers have we got so far Joe Let's see we are at let's hit the refresh we are at over 1300 uh at this point right now so still time to go too think that that might be it might be ni's biggest hackathon yet right I would think so I would definitely think so and we're at over $720,000 in prizes I mean wow huge numbers

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    here no that's that's that's Mega Money I think for for pretty much anyone unless they caught that X on moodang uh in which case you probably aren't going to join the hackathon anywhere which is totally fine um $65,000 in Aurora and credits to build a consumer Centric dap that simplifies blockchain interaction you can find all of the information that you need to know on redacted.pdf going to be there in person are you going to be there in Bangkok with us um drinking uh Thai tea and

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    eating mango sticky rice or has some unforeseen events mean that you will not be there and break my heart I will not break your heart David nothing on this in this world is going to make me break your heart uh obviously I'm going to be in Thailand uh so I'm not sure whether you want to or not but I'm going to be there and at least you have an opportunity to see me or you have the opportunity to avoid events where I'm going to be and not see

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    me for sure no of course I want to see you I always love seeing you Alex and youj and the entire uh near Community uh we're going to have a fabulous time um if you're tuning in and somehow don't know about redacted just yet it's November 9th to 11th it doesn't matter if you are a hacker or not we could not care less if you are there uh for the future of the internet the user owned internet and you want to make uh the

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    world a better place a brighter place then please do come along tickets are free of charge they will cost you Z and z00 cents however spaces are limited and people are signing up faster than they ever have before so head to redacted bangkok. and you'll be able to see the beautiful new website that we have um click through register cross your fingers that you'll get in I'm sure you

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    absolutely will if you apply now and uh you can sit down and we can watch Edward Snowden talk what do you think about that great guest I mean the guest the speaker lineup from Edward Snowden down is just uh unbelievable we're really great topics and if you are a builder this is a great conference to go to because you can actually go to all the events the hackathons now and then you

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    can actually go to the events and see the talks uh where normally on conferences you're kind of stuck just building you can actually be part of this yeah and you don't have to David go Alex I just wanted to say that uh the next day uh the other day I I run on the the news about App Store the listed like 98 98 VPN applications on a Russian app store and the reason why this can be a little bit relevant because like the rumor has it that Snowden is in Russia so

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    maybe it's it's worth to you know to double check how he's connecting to the internet and maybe his VPN provider is kind of delisted now and um it's better to do this uh before before the actual talk yeah well God damn I'm glad you told me that I didn't know that that's a real shame um for our friends over in Russia but it's just as big a shame for for us if if Edward can't make it I'm sure that's not going to be the case he is a bit of a a hacker man himself I guess um let's see how that goes we will

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    certainly follow up with him about it um Alex are you going to be giving a talk um probably multiple so I'm going to talk what we what are we goingon to hear about diffuse I'm going to talk about diffuse hopefully in case the um the agenda makers of the reducted are going to accept my talk about Aurora I'm really willing to talk about the upcoming features of Aurora and you know kind of Aurora's road map so this is something that I like really eager to

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    share with the community and I think I think I'm going to have one kind of panel for two people or a fireside chat um with a person who invented the term defi I'm not going to tell anything more but let's see how things are going to go and whether you are curious enough to figure out what is the the fireside chat is going to be there all right it sounds like another Alpha alert to me guys you heard it here first someone clip that chat get that

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    out there on Tik Tok on Twitter on Facebook on only fans on LinkedIn wherever you need to put it to get the word out you heard it Alex is sitting down uh with the person who invented the word def uh and I'm sure it'll be spitting even more Alpha there Joe you were going to say something I got too excited I interrupted you please no I just said that I mean uh really excited uh lineup I mean that I I don't know who

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    it is I'll have to do my own research I guess for that too but one of the things that I think people should be really excited about you know hearing Alex talk about some of the road map is that Aurora is not just e you know like a like an L2 contract on top of near they are constantly Building Products uh and it's really exciting to see so I I really I can't wait to have all those announcements uh fill up my inbox as well yes I completely agree every single

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    neon I've been in the past Alex has uh blown us away with his constant Innovation and uh the these guys ship right these are real shippers these are ship posters they Haven stoed shipping since day one uh which is beautiful and it's exactly what we uh what we want to see um Alex you're going to be there in Thailand in person aside from seeing me what are you most excited for about redacted um so redacted in general I

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    think it is a little bit more than a conference it's it's like a movement I think there is the the overall concept like the whole concept behind the user owned internet is extremely close to my heart uh I've I'm Ukrainian and I've been living in Ukraine since childhood and uh unfortunately not living in Ukraine right now because of the freaking War but uh like in general in Eastern Europe we were raised with this

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    thinking of that the government is not going to take care of you and uh maybe it is less relevant for the Western world but slowly but surely the message of that corporations are exploiting people they are monetizing your data they are monetizing everything about you they are shaping your uh buy like what you want to buy they are completely shaped in what you what information you see what what what you see in the news right like they are so

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    much controlling you that up until the point that you even don't know that you are not yourself already uh you are somebody else you're somebody who is raised by governments and corporations um as a just an ordinary um you know vegetable that consumes whatever it like whatever they are feeding you in um I was raised with and with the with milk of my mom I got this understanding just because there was so much distrust uh in the government and because of this I'm working in the

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    blockchain vertical and I'm super glad that that near takes another step besides just blockchain besides just taking the control over your funds right and kind of which is mostly the financial use case only in in the blockchain but this is a Next Step let's go and build user owned internet let's go and build user owned AI that is not maximizing the profits for some corporations but rather shielding you from all of these corporations let's build um additional things let's

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    build chain abstraction let's let's build uh great user experience across the whole internet including web 2 and web 3 spaces right this is so so close to my heart I'm happy to contribute to this movement uh and I'm just happy to see all of the people who are thinking alike and thinking the same and accelerating this new bright feature that is for sure uh going to be in place and the more people are going to join this the more people are going to

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    contribute it the faster this future is going to appear in front of our eyes 100% And I think that that's what we've tried to embody with the tagline right so reclaim your sovereignty uh because we're all Sovereign individuals that at the end of the day and I don't mean the crazy type who sit there and say hey I don't have to pay tax on my car uh The Sovereign citizen type I mean uh we are all for uh having full control of our assets our data our right to

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    choose and of course our minds because with the prevalence of AI it is becoming uh more and more difficult uh to air really trust what you are seeing and B understand what the uh what the logic is behind the reason that you're seeing what what you're seeing and uh I think redacted is a big huge uh middle finger to the people at Big Tech to tyrannical governments U and I could I could honestly I could be like this guy here right I could go on a I could go on a huge red and tell you why you've got to

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    go to reacted this year in order to fight big Tech before they put atrazine in the water and they make the freaking frogs gay uh but I'm not going to do that uh I'm Gonna Keep It uh a little bit more timid and just say yeah hey look I'm excited too uh Joe I've heard through the gra Vine that unfortunately you won't be there uh which breaks my heart sorry that's uh it's it's really quite devastating um but Joe I am hearing as well that there is another uh live

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    stream on this evening actually uh can you tell the people what they need to know what's going to happen yeah in a few hours from now about four hours from now uh we have Zeta block uh who is developing an AI platform uh here as uh part of new years uh push towards uh decentralized Ai and they're going to be giving a workshop of how to start building uh with their product and so

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    we're really excited to have uh them on and we're going to spend some time and go through that our continuation of the redacted uh Workshop series that we've been doing all right brilliant I love that Alex we we only have uh 10 minutes left unfortunately I've got to go eat my uh eat my dinner and and I actually I got my track suit for redacted it's arrived I can see it but I'm not going to show

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    anyone uh until we land in Bangkok uh November 9th uh Alex where do people need to go if they want to learn more about Aurora they want to learn more about you they want to learn more about the hackathon prizes tell them where they need to go tell them what they need to do so if you would like to um to come to the redacted uh hackathon or conference I highly encourage you to Google for redacted vancock near blockchain for sure the number first in in your um

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    search engine of preference is going to be the proper website if you want to learn more about Aurora ecosystem Aurora mainnet what are type of the projects that are there and try them out uh I would recommend you to go to aurora.

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    deev this is the ecosystem website if you're searching for a job in a high performance company that is oriented on results and on shipping things or as David said ship posting things uh then you should go and check out Aurora Labs website which is Aurora labs.

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    deev um if you want to know a little bit more about virtual chain Concepts and what aora cloud has in store for you then you can go to orora cloud. deev and unfortunately not a very uh actively managed social media of my preference is X and you can find me there at Alex Aurora Dev super simple everywhere is Dev right um yeah and I hope to see you there in Thailand or in Twitter um and uh we can have a

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    chat Amazing Alex I I actually have one more question um before we before we we leave but before that uh Joe tell the tell the folks what do they need to do where do they need to go uh what do they need to know to either get involved and start hacking right now I know we're only two weeks out but it's not too late right no definitely not too late I mean you still have a couple weeks to get going uh should be plenty of time to to

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    get a project up here uh redacted do devpost do.com is the place to go sign up all the resources has the resource panel you can go through see all the different documentation uh get going get building if you need help um the telegram links that we have available to everyone are in that resources as well come join the chat and we have plenty of devell on all sides to help as well as the community as well so Jump On In amazing I am gonna I'm gonna scroll

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    the the dev Hub telegram uh has popped up there as well t.me neev that is where all of the super smart folks live go talk to them uh see if you can steal our ideas monetize it and uh and uh and then have them crying for the rest of their lives maybe um or you could build a team together that would be a much a much nicer way um Alex there is one final thing I want to ask you I like to ask each and every single person uh whenever we have them on uh whatever it is

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    podcasts conferences Twitter spaces live streams and it's it's not really a question it's more so an opportunity uh if you could just riff for like a minute two minutes as long as you want about absolutely anything in the entire world you can tell us why Aurora is the single greatest piece of technology the globe has ever seen you can tell us why the world is in fact not a globe and

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    it's actually a flat plane surrounded by Ice you can tell us how the best way it is uh to go to sleep at night you can tell us what your favorite type of tea is you can tell us about your dogs your cats your birds absolutely anything you want I just want to pass over the mic to you so people can get to know a little bit more about the Alex behind the picture and behind the tech rather than just being a Mr Alex Aurora Dev as

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    valuable and incredible as that is oh that's interesting um obviously I do not want to show my own project again I it's enough shit I I think that uh and by the way please everybody do your own research I would like to recommend everybody stay safe in crypto please double check what you're doing and uh please always try to understand what kind of transactions you are signing actually yesterday I had a funny

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    experience of breaking my freshly new Ledger Stacks um after I set it up so good thing that I have a backup uh here but sometimes these things are happening even with the best companies uh in the crypto industry right so uh just be on the safe side always have the backups and stuff like that now what I would like to tell to everybody besides this thing is that uh just recently I got a I had a

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     birthday of my kid and uh together with my wife we organized a quest a real world quest when we went out in the park and they were searching for ingredients for birthday cake and stuff like that please do not forget that though we are living in the internet that is soon going to become a user owned internet uh it is still uh humans that are surrounding us and they really love us and they want us to be humans too so

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     it's always good to pay some attention to them and pay some attention to your long long-term goals like your health uh and the relationship uh and other things so uh do not please think of these as also Investments uh and do not forget to invest in these uh long-term projects uh yeah and this will also help you to kind of plug off the blockchain things and then maybe later come on come back into it with fresh uh fresh ideas and fresh point of view on all of this uh stay

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     humans and let's and let's reclaim our identity 100% I I love that Alex that was a brilliant message and regardless of what poker or anybody wants to say the actual zero of blockchain tech and the most important whoa fuck you whoever the hell just did that that whoever the hell just broke in we're coming for you rejected a it's going to be over kid anyway the most important layer of course of blockchain tech is the people so that's me and you and everybody in the near

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     community and Beyond and of course our family and friends uh Joe is there anything else you want to add uh before we wrap this live stream up no no no let's end on that that was great you've been duped duped into thinking anything decentralized was ever going to work but don't worry there's a better way stop wasting your time with all this blockchain and go you've been listen it's the globalists the globalists are coming for us they're

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     hacking our live streams it's over for you all right I don't know who that was or where he's from but we will find him and we will take him down together at redacted November 9th to the 11th in Bangkok if you're a developer head to redacted.pdf register tickets cost you a grand total of 0 and0 but uh spaces are very limited and they are running out and they're filling out pretty pretty quickly so do it while you can but in the meantime everybody lots of love God bless and I will see you November 9th to the 11th

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     Bangkok redacted until next time bye-bye