NEAR Foundation Town Hall - October 25, 2023

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   all right I think we're ready to start um good morning good evening good afternoon to everyone wherever you guys are this is the last Town Hall before the wildly anticipated nearon 2023 where I hope to see every one of you live in person in Lisbon we have a jam-packed agenda today where you'll hear first from Jack um with an introduction we'll hear from David on kpis you'll hear from me regarding some ecosystem highlights

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   and then we'll be hearing from The Amazing teams chard do smart token labs and sweat and we'll round this out by hearing everything you need to know about the upcoming near Con in Lisbon by the events team so on to you jack thanks a lot Clemens um hi everyone for those of you who don't know me I'm I'm Jack I head at marketing at the near Foundation now first of all I don't know about you all um but it certainly has

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   felt like the good old days this week in crypto uh lots of love across the ecosystem which is awesome so long may that continue um now before I dive into the agenda um or into the open web rather I do have a quick announcement to make which Clemens uh has kindly teed up um in two weeks time we have uh our Flagship event happening in Lisbon from the 7th to 10th of November that is

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   nearon as we know last year was epic uh it was coining the crypto event of the Year by many um and as uh as we've been saying over the last few months this year is going to be even bigger and it's going to be even more iconic we've got four whole days of fun you get to meet everybody across uh the near community and Beyond we've got over 150 top speakers three awesome venues that all

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   have rofs that won't collapse uh we we know we've stress tested them uh we've got a whole host of side events uh including an awesome uh opening party and closing party there are always uh very notable lots of stories um and then obviously um we have absolute one metric ton of alpha to drop at ncon so if you're not there you're not going to know um tickets only 99 bucks we want it

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   to be open and accessible for everyone and what I can say is they are selling like hotcakes they're selling fast uh and as always in the last week we've seen a huge spike in ticket sales uh as we get close to the event so make sure you get yours now uh before they uh sell out um and don't forget if you're a hacker you get in for free and that's it for free right um and there's over

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   $100,000 uh dollars in prizes um so if you're a hacker please go to n.org now and uh put your application in and uh if you're not go to nion do.org and uh and buy your ticket right so let's move on to the agenda so um obviously at near we we care a lot about the open web that's why we're here that's our purpose um and at the foundation our mission is to really support the ecosystem in growing to one billion users and that's to do

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   that we do that by uh supporting uh in increasing the awareness accessibility and Adoption of an open web through the sustainable growth of an autonomous near ecosystem um many people ask well what is an open web Jack and I always say well good question um an open web it's the web without influence of Corporations or Gatekeepers any centralized body where everyone has an equal chance to create participate and be fairly rewarded for their data ideas and effort so it really is a web uh that

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   isn't closed that isn't unfair it's a web where people are put at the heart of everything and uh and that is what drives us all forward and so at near we really want to make uh the near ecosystem the best place for Founders uh in particular to build the open web um and I really love like opening the town hall with that really reminds us all why we're here and the greater purposes as to what we're trying to do um and so

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    with that I think I'm handing over to DW for some metrics awesome Jack thank you so much all right so we have a few slides here and all of this is also now available uh at near Atlas so you can check it out on your own uh near atlas.com and we're definitely uh looking for feedback and continuing to update this more and more to better represent what's happening in the ecosystem so the homepage here it's showing monthly active accounts just over three

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    million and total accounts as of today at 31 million in terms of active accounts you have you can see the trend here which is looking nice over the past uh past week or so so we're back above three million monthly active accounts and then taking a deeper look you can see new accounts which would be someone's first time ever transacting uh on the prot versus returning uh active accounts and one thing that we're calling out here is that if you look to see the number of

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    new accounts historically versus where we are today with new accounts uh you see that we're actually growing both new accounts so there's around 700,000 new monthly accounts uh over the past uh several weeks versus before the cosmos bump was closer to like 400,000 new monthly active accounts and so it's nice to see that the even the new growth is continuing to to to grow and then one New View here is looking at the the depth of of use of these accounts so this view is breaking

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    out our monthly active accounts by how many transactions they actually perform on chain and the the four categories are just one transaction two transactions uh three to five transactions or greater than five transactions and what's super exciting with the launch of of kaai Ching about a month and a half ago is that not only are we increasing the number of active accounts accounts in the ecosystem but those accounts are

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    also transacting more and more uh so over roughly half of all of the 3 million active accounts happening yeah active accounts happening today uh more than half of them are engaging with five or more transactions so we'll we're seeing both an increase in active usage um but also an increase in transactions uh through the blockchain cool and Clemens back over to you awesome yeah thanks so much um I think we have some very exciting highlights that we would like to present to you um first starting off with L Cafe

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    cartel um from launching multiple nft collections with an active Community around them to Pega Marketplace the first Trad spased Marketplace for swapping nft trades the Al Al cafei cartel team has been actively building on near for quite a while now and they don't seem to be slowing down either as a matter of fact um just a month ago or two months ago now at near APAC we actually had a member from the cafe cartel um that was literally standing behind a coffee Booth um for more than 8 hours

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    serving 1300 coffees and signing up an equal amount of people to near and they have just Rec recently launched their first um on onchain coffee marketplace where you can now buy um coffee using near um and to celebrate this launch they're giving away one bag of their Ultra special ncon limited edition espresso blend details in that tweet linked next up we have the um dapdap announcement so if you've guys been following defi you guys have been reading the news the biggest wave that's been made within defi is that uh Unis

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    swap Labs has decided to introduce a 15 basis point um fee to the front end and I think this is exactly an area where you know the boss can shine and where it's really exciting to see projects like dapdap present the value that the boss can bring bring dap has launched uh a front interface for the Unis swap protocol that is permission permissionless um open source um launched and stored on the near blockchain operating system so it's all stored on chain for users to now effectively bypass that fee and interact

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    with the unisar protocol um just as as they did before next up we have the pagod prod um product road map um 2023 so Pagoda has made it made its product road map public last week via GitHub right now this ro road map covers the rest of 2023 and the team of pagota have committed to quarterly updates of their technical road map as well as ensuring that everything that can be shared publicly is shared with the entirety of the open web

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    Community what we have go um starting tomorrow is hacken it is um an exciting event that's been been put together by Liberty da in New York City in collaboration with the near New York City Community um steered by the banding Collective and they've organized a 3-day hackathon where you can win over $10,000 in prizes um the action starts tomorrow and really looking forward to seeing exciting products and services coming out of this

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    initiative next we have the near dap Library l launch so yesterday we saw the exciting launch of the near dap Library your new playground for exploring a diverse range of experiences through hundreds of applications powered by near with over 200 applications built on boss with clear categorical breakdown the app library is now live and ready for you to dive in a.org applications next up we will be hearing

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    from a familiar face in the ecosystem Shard dog hey how's it going everyone Joe are you here too I'm here too nice let's jump in all right uh so I'm Joe I'm one half I'm the co-founder of Shard dog and and I'm Jared I'm the other half of Shard dog all right and today we're gonna do just three points updates that we're really excited about one is gonna be the EM M collab which Joe will talk about two is our self-service beta which is pretty

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    cool and then three is the engage Aon at nearon so Joe if you want to jump in and we can go to the next slide yeah we're excited to announce that we're partnering with uh meem which is meem Tech which they uh are kind of been around the ecosystem a little bit here and there but what we're using them for is something that we think is really cool and unique here is uh encrypted encrypted content gating what that means

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    is that uh when you claim A Shard dog link and you get that nft uh behind that nft we actually are able to to have additional content that is only unlocked by the nft so you can't just go on chain and look and see what the content is you actually can only decrypt it with the nftd uh and me is making this all happen for us we are going to start releasing that this uh this quarter here where we'll be able to actually do this with different content creators in uh Brands

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    and the chat of the dev chat on that is amazing I don't know if people are in that but that is a a telegram chat that don't understand but it is it is awesome so next slide uh the next thing we're introducing is self-service and we're doing self- service a little bit different uh than typical where not just anybody can come sign up but once you are within The Shard dog ecosystem and you have your own link you can actually

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    go back and edit it yourself and so you can continue to add in new nfts and new links and new drops all the way through the idea around this is that your link now becomes a channel and so once you have that Shard doog Channel as you start to build your audience you can see that progression over time of who's continuing to come back uh we're doing this on purpose where we're not just opening up fully because we're obviously

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    trying to manage spam and issues like that and so this is very controllable we're starting with near week and a few other partners uh to get started with this yeah and this is really cool because I just like to think of like centralized world big bubble we all get to go in and they control the bubble this you are your own channel bunch of little bubbles flying around the world doing cool stuff I prefer the

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    decentralized way so that's how really excited about this um all right let's jump to the next one all right engage athon at nearon 2023 so this is these are some boards looking there's a main board and there's going to be some side boards what are these boards what is engage Eon let's jump to the next slide all right it's an interactive event where attendees collect Shard dog nfts and projects artist people have Shard dogs it's very simple but should be really fun it's low ask for people

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    and since it's a conference we don't want like we want to keep it as simple as possible as someone who's thrown conferences and gone to a lot of conferences we want simple claim Shard dogs collect Shard dogs and um we've got some boards and some side quests we're going to do some like swag giveaways and just kind of get a bunch of people engaged right now we we've got over 50 people or 50 projects artists and people who have got Shard dog links that are going to be particip ating we just got

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    some really cool like cards on lanyards I'm talking like top level swag I am a I'm a swag snob so this is like the best stuff so QR codes and we'll be connecting with people on that and uh Joe if you want to add a little bit to the yeah the nice thing is that you'll be able to track all this way through so if you are a brand or content creator artist and you want to participate if you have your own link you'll be able to see everyone who claimed it be able to

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    actually you'll be now in The Shard doog ecosystem be able to reach out later on and then we'll also have a big board of all the different ones being claimed in real time and we'll to see which projects are getting the most people to claim across that board and all this actually the boards themselves will be hosted on the boss and the last thing to think about what's really cool with this whole like Shard dog engage thing so after the event you've done your engage

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    ofon you've put time into having people collect your Shard dogs the link is still good it's yours and as now we've got the self-service in the future you'll just be able to swap out that image to a video or something else and go on to your next engagement always building that audience something sort of like a web 3D centralized email is but without an email you know we're talking you start to see this week's updates I think clearly show where we're kind of

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    aiming and um so that's everything and then the last slide here is actually a Shard dog QR code so if you uh you know copy paste that claim it and that's going to give you a uh a proof of this presentation because you can pretty much proof anything so um thank you all Joe any last words uh looking forward oh last words if you're a project brand or person who hasn't already reached out to

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    us please do we're going to be reaching out to more people over the next week and we even have a special board for socials so that's for projects that can't make the event but want to help in the socials which I think will be a really cool test to keep the kind of like social engagement up as well so thank you all that's Shard dog thank you amazing stuff I'm really exciting to excited to see and test this out in person um two weeks from now next up we

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    have Smart token Labs hey can you guys hear me see me great so let's rock and roll so I just do a quick intro on Smart layer smart token labs and kind of kind of what we're talking about so smart layer we really power the next a of web 3 growth with tooling U so really focus on what we call token Centric architecture where tokens become the center of an experience and that really becomes the integration point of the modern web so we hop to the next slide we can dive in

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    a little bit deeper really we're a set of tools for building web3 growth programs to unlock the power of your ecosystem and drive rapid growth so there's a whole Suite of tooling under the hood that we've built um next slide and we've used that tooling and really 1,200 different developers have used that tooling to work with lots of different projects and there's lots of amazing things we can do here but I really want to highlight uh next slide just what we've been able to do with

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    this tooling and kind of what this tooling looks like so first off there's three layers to Smart layers growth tooling there's the identity layer most important part here about the identity layer is that it enables anybody to engage Web Two or web 3 this is not a count abstraction we use an offchain token so it goes directly to email it's stored inside of local storage on a browser it going to be read automatically by any anybody else with a simple piece of JavaScript added to a

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    site so it's decentralized it's offchain which enables a lot of Brands to be able to start to participate because they're very weary about putting their entire customer database on chain as well as then this can pass directly to an Apple or Google wallet so it's fully loss us to open the aperture just beyond web three natives while still providing a completely web three experience of decentralization and individual ownership of data next there's the

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    utility layer and this inside of the utility layer really allows us to take nft and go super Advanced so there's two parts here one is ERC 5169 that we created which allows any token to essentially become executable and point and carry executable script beyond the smart contract and then second is token script which essentially enables any token to have a a graphical user interface or a guey these two things

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    combined allow any token to now become a Dap in and of itself where you can open the token and interface directly through the token you can have token to token messaging where you can message one token to another token so there's a lot of advanced utility inside of that and then last is the experience layer this is where we start to get into Quest tooling and Dev tooling as well as then open loyalty programs when we combine all of these things together we have the

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    elements that we need to create really vast and Rich ecosystems and growth tooling and growth methodologies we can hop to the next slide and what we've been able to do with this with our own Community is over the past 120 days we were given the impossible brief The Impossible brief was we need 500,000 users in the next 120 days we used a combination of these tools to do exactly that we've been able

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    to onboard over 2 million users those users we've created a very special nft and we'll talk more about this later there'll be things inside of this nft that you've never seen ever happen within nft before there's been over 500,000 of those mented since I created these slides there's been another 20,000 so we're almost at 525,000 as of this moment increased our Discord up to 375 and upped our Twitter following to

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    350,00 ,000 the most important part here is it's not just that we got a onetime bump it's the constant re-engagement if we put on a Twitter space we put 5,000 people in that space on a weekly basis and so it's how we use these tools to keep the community engaged not just a typical questing solution let's go to the next Slide part of this also is when we talk about the ecosystem of creating an open loyalty or an omni Channel loyalty program this allows anybody

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    inside of an ecosystem to Now read that pass and create rewards for those people so we have new methods of creating value for our community members that are far beyond just simple points or airdrops but now we can start to activate an entire ecosystem where anybody in the ecosystem can read the past with a simple piece of JavaScript anybody can then start to offer rewards and treat your customers like their customers and we now start to have a really rich

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    ecosystem that plays around we've done this for devcom and for the ethereum foundation what we solve is a 58% engagement rate with that open loyalty program and if we hop to the next slide and the whole reason we're here today talking with you is because we are now taking this technology and this will be ping the perks Marketplace for ncon 23 so everyone that receives a ticket for newcom will also have a link inside of

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    an email that link is a token that token will be stored inside of your local storage that will give you access into the perks Marketplace and when you go to claim a reward you will go directly to that provider site you will then connect with a simple click and then that will allow you to prove that you have a near con ticket that will then unlock the reward for you and allow you to claim the reward so we will be powering the

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    open loyalty program for nearon 23 using smart layers tooling and that's kind of what we're excited about so please make sure you go in there it's about 30 different providers um offering lots of different things up into $15,000 of developer credits there's a lot of really awesome rewards that you can find in there and all you have to have is an earon ticket to access it and then that should wrap us up so last

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    slide and that's it so that's smart layer and growth tooling for web 3 projects and so make sure you guys go check out the perks marketplace with nearon oh and then hit us up if you want to use any of this tech for sure amazing looking forward to seeing that going live um next up let's hear from the newest um from the sweat team who have just recently launched over in the US and multiple other markets hey everyone thanks Clemens yeah my name is Michael Brink I'm one of the

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    product leads that sweat and uh got a bit of a mixed bag of updates really there's been a lot going on the last while and I agree I think Clemen said it at the start it's a it's a fun time to be going to Neon with a slight shift in the market so good time to be alive um H let's start off with the most recent news and that's that on um October 16th um we took the the the daring task of launching a crypto product in the US we've been holding Holding Out for about

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    a year or so um and you can move to the next slide please uh it was actually the us as well as as well as eight other countries but obviously the the US market was the most notable um and uh there was it's been a year building up to that um and part of the the the Journey of launching in the US was actually establishing an unofficial Dow in sweat wallet um I think we had one of the largest votes um in the history of of any Dow proposal that's gone out with

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    over 360,000 uh votes on a one person one vote mechanism that helped sort of Forge the rule sets around our tge event uh for launch in the US so that was really exciting that happened uh June through July and then we launched in October um and if we go to the next slide just to share a couple of stats around what what that's Meant For Us is from the day that we launched we saw an

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    immediate and growing bump of about 30% on our daily onchain active users so going from about 60 to about 880,000 users and it grew to over 100k um so that's and and you can see on that graph I don't know where the cut of point is it's actually a bit small probably probably yesterday or the day before um but that's that's been fantastic to see um so we we had I think just under

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    350,000 of our sweatcoin uh users opt into sweat wallet um specifically for the tge event um and that's with giving eight weeks window for for optin and that and that number is is growing so we currently have 25 million users in the US on sweatcoin and only 1.6% of them are on sweat wallet the other thing that happened is a consistent second position there on that radar um that's with all chains um included and I think it's I think it's

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    an sort of amazing feather in ne's cap to see that the top two daps there are um k and and sweat um and that that speaks volumes to the the future of where of where the the blockchain is going as well um so yeah that's that's really encouraging uh particularly going into neon uh for entrepreneurs and developers looking to find a scalable piece of tech uh to build to build services for the next billion people right so um moving on from the US launch

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    um I'll just share some four updates on new upcoming features um the one the first one is trade um so some of you I don't know who uses SED wallet but you may have seen that we've launched trade to a select uh group of users using orderly Network and we're about to roll that out next week to 95% of our user base um and it's we've we've seen some good results we've been ABC testing and it's finally ready to go and that's quite a long awaited feature at least

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    from our community and that's going to bring a lot of um hopefully from what we see currently a lot of liquidity for a lot of the other um tokens and and and stable coins and such on there the next one is sweat Euro that's our our defi game although it's not very defi just yet it's more like a a pseudo nft for when you reach a certain level but we basically the work we've done since we

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    were released close beta is sort of for those of you who are kind of into mobile games and have played games like Angry Birds you know that you have like these Progressive stages you have Arenas you have one-on-one battles so we've been expanding um that feature of sweat Euro um sweat Euro for those of you who don't know has anyone ever played that um what's it called ultimate guitar where you have to play on on the tune with with a guitar that's plugged in and you

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    have to sort of strum on the chords it's kind of like that with steps so there's three lanes and um you kind of have to meet the Rhythm by tapping on the on the exact spot so the difficult thing here was getting matchmaking across like um over 19 different countries and time zones and make sure that there's enough um uh sweat Euro uh player liquidity if I can call it that without having to match people with Bots yeah but we've

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    gotten that to to almost a certain match under 60 seconds and and so we can roll that out next week as well which is fantastic um and then the third one is defi Jaws so zi jars are we call basically like a staking product we call them growth jars so you grow your sweat and the way we launched this initially is was pretty rudimentary it was pretty much send your sweat to a Smart contract it gets locked up for the prescribed

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    time with whatever you picked say 12 months with a certain earnings rate and then after a year the the funds and the principle and the interest so to speak gets released and what we've done is in the true sense of what defi ought to be um completely rebuilt that um as a far more sophisticated smart smart contract um where the funds are entirely owned by the smart contract and the users can

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    incrementally accr their earnings in real time and cash out their earnings as often as they like uh We've integrated with near metat transactions relayer so that users can start covering gas fees in sweat in our nep1 for1 token um once a jar unlocks or in conventional language the contract matures um the funds remain in the contract and the user can op to restake or to unstake their their funds um and uh that has been one Improvement on defi Jaws the

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    next thing that's coming is an oracle control jaw called the premium jaw which is also quite exciting and it uses someone's subscription status on our sweatcoin app where we use um the app store or Google play as the Oracle to let us know when a user subscribes or unsubscribes and we programmatically adjust the earnings rate of a job based on their subscription status um so premium user users get a premium earnings rate on their

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    JW um but defi jars Al and then the last one um I think the the last two um teams that spoke would quite enjoy this one from a retail perspective we call it onchain claiming um and basically this is the the the move to decentralize everything we do in our mobile app and the last thing outstanding is there are various ways of earning sweat the most obvious is through physical activity So based on our minting curve your steps convert to sweat currently that's just being

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    checked um several times a day it gets converted and minted to the user's wallet now it's going to start acre in a smart contract alongside sweat that's being earned from several different uh um sources like completing a quest or completing a learn and earn lesson um there sweat that cruise obviously from your defi jaws and as I mentioned from from from your steps from walking and

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    instead of just having these acrw they will uh sorry instead of having these automatically transferred they'll acrew in a single smart contract and a user will be able to cash out all their earnings from many different sources including random air drops by paying a single gas fee um that potentially makes cross contract calls to fetch all that sweat that's been that's been hanging there and finally some of the sweat will

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    also have um sort of like a a a use it or lose it logic to it so if you don't claim your sweat in 30 days it starts burning it uh from a first in first out logic um and that's just to promote a healthy economy um especially given that this is the type of sweat that hasn't been purchased through fiat currency but earned through either physical activity or participating in something um and that's the beginnings

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    of of a retail Marketplace so um those were some updates on on features that are uh trade and sweat Euro releasing to 100% next week defi jars are live with a cool jar on the way and onchain claiming coming in in Q4 for this year and um Clemens you must remind me oh the most interesting update of course the hackathon at neon so so we're gonna um we're gonna sponsor a prize and this

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    is a really cool prize right so um we are trying to incentivize Builders and entrepreneurs and designers and such um to jump on board with this mission of bringing fintech to the next billion people and for those of you who know your markets that means a lot of web two people and very few web 3 people um and we have um to a large extent sort of uh paid the school fees of making onboarding into web3 easy for anyone

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    from a kid in school to someone like my mom um who still thinks Bitcoin is a movie or something um and um so in that light um one of our prizes is going to be channeling 20,000 um of our active users to the winning um dep that's that gets built at the hackathon um there's various ways of doing that but we're keen to use nearest oneclick connect me um mechanism of Simply like a Google o or equivalent so that these users have zero barrier to

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    entry but can simply get plugged into the winning teams app which is going to be a fantastic Kickstart and then there's some other prizes as well um so a lot of our team will be there in Lisbon we'll be there on the ground mentoring helping checking things out and and just enjoying the experience and looking I'm going to be there as well I'm dialing in from South Africa now but Keen Keen to get to Lisbon in the next couple

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    weeks awesome thank you Michael all right so nearon we are just two weeks away Jack couldn't have twed up better than myself so thinking about the last several months we've gone from mural sessions at the very beginning of when we started to strategize what this near con was going to be thank you again to all of the ecosystem and community members who participated in those it feels like a

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    lifetime ago but from there we pulled together built the strategy I went on maternity leave came back and the and the team really executed the event there's a lot of great happenings at the event you're going to get a sneak peek at what's in store for you all um but in two weeks there will be over 2,000 of us in Lisbon all web 3 oriented and half of them the majority of them are Builder backgrounds which makes nearon a true Builder conference um and we're almost

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    there so if you are ngmi to ncon we are going to miss you but you can catch a whiff of The Vibes on YouTube where we will be live streaming main stage um onchain tickets will be coming next week There's a lot that's going to be built on the Encon web app thanks again to Jake Jutsu keom all of the web three projects who have been a part of building the Encon experience it's it's

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    an example example of what our ecosystem is and we think everyone's going to love it all right so without further Ado I'm going to let Kiana take it over she's going to give you an Insider view of the logistics plan which is truly the experiential plan Maria will cover the nearon hackathon Stephanie will cover speakers and Olga will go ahead and close it strong with a sneak peek at some of our great sponsors so over to

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    you Kiana thank you Yer next slide please one more so jumping into the logistics and production plan for newcon this year as many of you know we have not one not two but three venues this year um so it's going to be an amazing experience there's a 10-minute walk between the venues but we'll also have buses running every 10 to 15 minutes on a loop in case um walking is not an option so it's going to be really easy to get around and earning and spending Encon will be found in all three venues so there's

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    really incentive to check out all three if you're just a hacker doesn't mean you have to stay in the hacker venue the whole time um there's going to be great experiences and activations across all three so next slide please so jumping into our first venue so newcon HQ here you can find the layer one stage also known as main stage layer two stage also known as featured stage so this is where you'll hear from a lot of our top speakers um with great Keynotes and insights we have a boss experience that's going to be kind of

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    like walking through the boss in real time that's all I'll say I'll leave it as a surprise we have an exclusive swag store an ecosystem showcase same as last year SGP proximity and NDC will all have amazing lounges here you can go get to know their teams um and get to know what you know what they're really about and they'll each all have unique activations as well we have something called The Sandbox which I'm also leaving as a surprise but just know that it'll be

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    really fun and lots of unique activations that you may have you may have not seen before and then of course we'll have a near con grabbing go which will be where you can get coffee tea snacks Etc next slide please great so our second venue the hacker HQ so here you can find the blog zero stage of course also known as a tech technical stage or hacker stage we have the Builder Lounge where everyone working on the hackathon will be hanging out 247 and working we also have a quiet zone so

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    if you want to get away from the noise and really work in a noise proof environment uh we have a zone for that we have our deep Tech booths of course a validator lounge and a nearon market similar to the grab Ando where you can access coffee tea snacks Etc and you can kind of see an aerial view of the floor plan and some very very small sneak peeks and I'll leave the rest to you guys seeing it in person next slide and then last but not least we

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    have our community HQ this is something completely new something we haven't done before we really listen to feedback about um the lack of meeting spaces last year for the community and we wanted to make that a reality this year so here you can find our community stage there's going to be a bunch of artists on new installations all throughout the venue so you'll be able to really connect um to our beloved artists on near we have amazing flow programming so if you're a

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    Founder looking to get any advice on finance legal or operations um here you can find members from the NF hosting amazing workshops we also have meeting areas and chill zones so all those out Clos against um you know the right and left sides that's open to absolutely anyone who has a nearon badge and you can sit in there with your team have meetings do anything um that you guys would like and I wanted to give a quick

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    shout out to refraction da who is producing this entire venue so they're making it really artistic really beautiful and it'll be something that you guys absolutely have to check out um as a core piece of the New Year EXP experience or the nearon experience so that's all for production and I will pass it over to Maria who's going to cover the hackathon hi this is Maria from Dev da

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    Dev so I'm here to present the heon we chatted a little bit about the heon on our Twitter spaces yesterday so if you could please put on my first slide that would be amazing yeah thank you so last year we distributed a lot of Trav sens and this year devhub is also supporting that we're supporting Hackers from all around the globe to come to Lisbon to hack with us we already confirmed 50 travel stens from our International Community including the winners from E Global

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    hackaton and uh web three hackfest in Vietnam and also Dev Hub is sending more than 10 mentors 10 is currently confirmed to support the hackers on site uh next slide please uh so Michael here uh spoil the bounties a little bit but we will have not just SWAT economy we will have calero we will have wallet OS and we will have some of our regional hubs they will offer the most exciting challenging bounties for our hackers in in addition to our main track prices and this

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    year and this year we will make sure that we focus on retention so we keep in mind uh what near Horizon has as a focus and we will focus on this particular project as especially the product ones uh to make sure that the projects that emerge during the heck actually stick to the ecosystem and be the next big thing for the web stre next slide please um so yeah uh the first place

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    winner will get 50k to Kickstart the project I think it's a pretty good price and total Bounty pool as hir mentioned already is 140k uh at the moment we have more than 400 registration so we have two more big pushes um so en code X Horizon heon has just ended and this weekend we will be at East London next weekend we will be at East Lisbon so we will Scout and we will find the most um

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    prominent and bright teams and hackers to bring them to nearon and to make sure you get to know them and see what can actually they bring to near ecosystem that's it from me and passing all to Olga to have some closing remarks first Stephanie so sorry forgot about the speakers that's the main things no worries uh can someone move to the next slide please all right awesome all right so um

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    as the rest of the team has uh elucidated we have an amazing lineup and event happening um for we have three days of content across three stages 175 speakers plus we still are onboarding a few folks towards the n in 100 and plus sessions um this year the focus was really not to only bring in um The Usual Suspects from the near ecosystem really try to explore the crypto ecosystem at large and I think we did a great job doing that having speakers from coind Des to Google to Circle to nanson to CV

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    Labs is really showing an Eclectic lineup as well as the the Allure of what near can bring to the table and I think we did a really good job at bringing that uh forward uh the big key themes this year our finance and policy web 3 and of course are very near and dear to our heart Builders um and you know if you guys have more specific questions to the themes and the sessions um feel free to DM me or ping me I'm more than happy

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    to answer uh the schedule is we're still working on it and getting it live um it was up yesterday and we're having a few issues and we have to fix it but um I think we are having we have like I said a really diverse lineup um and we're excited to bring it um to lison thank you Stephanie hello everyone last but not least I'm excited to share that last week we hit a fantastic Milestone the newon 2023 Booth

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    showcase is officially sold out a hardw thank you goes out to all our partners and everyone who played a role in this achievement get ready to engage with Dynamic and Innovative leaders in the field including glass Cosmos I VI go the litts octopus Network proximity absolute lefts fractal play Amber calero Vortex gaming Google Cloud Cafe cartel orbit Foundation mint Bas and many more as you can see on the slide a big thank you again to each and every one of you who

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    contributed to making this a reality next slide please do these faces look familiar absolutely they should they've been tirelessly work work to make nearon an iconic experience this year if you spot them around don't hesitate to say hi we just 12 days to go until near con 2023 let's keep up this incredible enthusiasm and energy get your ticket finalize your travel plans and we can't wait to see everyone at newon thank you very

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    much