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Talks, tutorials and demos from NEAR Protocol, NEAR DevHub, NEAR AI. 1,791 of them come with a transcript that you can search here, read line by line with the time of each line, or fetch through MCP.
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1,570 videos- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 30 David Vorick from Sia
Sia Co-Founder David Vorick ( / @davidvorick ) and NEAR Co-Founder Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) discuss how Sia's technology works in the 30th episode of the Whiteboard Session. Sia is a decentralized data storage platform powered by blockchain technology.
- Layer 1 Blockchain Architecture (SFBW)
This event featured 15-minute presentations from each project followed by a panel discussion diving into blockchain architecture.
- NEAR Lunch and Learn Ep. 04: Nightshade: Consensus and finality
Here, Alex gives an overview of how Nightshade finalizes blocks.
- NEAR Lunch and Learn Ep. 03: Light clients in Proof-of-Stake systems
In this video, Alex discusses problems with light clients in Proof-of-Stake systems
- NEAR Lunch and Learn Ep. 02: Economics in a Sharded Blockchain
Here, Illia discusses Economics in a sharded Blockchain.
- NEAR Lunch and Learn Ep. 01: Cross Shard Transactions with One Block Delay
Here, Alex discusses cross shard transactions with one block delay.
- Fireside Chat with NEAR | Ep: 3 Benny Giang from Dapper Labs
In the 3rd episode of the Fireside Chat series, we had Benny Giang from Dapper Labs discuss with Sasha and Peter about the history of CryptoKitties, CheezeWizards, and the future of Blockchain. He also goes into detail about how to create cool and creative marketing strategies.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 27 Xiaoshan Zhu from Meter
Xiaohan Zhu ( / xiaohanzhu ) and CTO Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon ) talk about Meter.io in the 27th episode of the Whiteboard Session. Meter provides infrastructure for DeFi.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 28 Jaynti Kanani from Matic
Jaynti Kanani ( / _jdkanani ) and CEO Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) talk about Matic in the 28th episode of the Whiteboard Session. Matic is a layer two solution to help scale Ethereum using PoS side chains.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 29 Taylor Wei from Top Network
Taylor Wei and CTO Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon ) talk about TOP Network in the 29th episode of the Whiteboard Session. TOP Network provides cloud communication services on the blockchain
- Application Chains vs. Dapps
Illia Polosukhin is an ICPC finalist and has more than 10 years of industry experience, including 3 years at Google where he was a major TensorFlow contributor and a manager of the team building question answering capabilities for the core Google search.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 26 Holochain
In this episode Illia from NEAR and Eric from Holochain discuss how Holochain uses scalable DHTs as the foundation of their platform.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 25 Nervos
In this episode Illia from NEAR and Haichao Zhu from Nervos, discuss the "set of protocols" that makes up Nervos.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 24 Pierre Krieger Parity |
In this episode, we had Maksym Zavershynskyi ( / mzavershynskyi ) from our team interviewing Pierre Krieger ( / tomaka17 ) from Parity Technologies about Libp2p library which is a backbone level-0 solution for several blockchains including Substrate/Polkadot.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 23 David Lancashire from Saito |
We got David Lancashire ( / dlancashi ) from Saito, based in Hong Kong speak with our co-founder and CTO Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon ) in the 23rd episode of the Whiteboard Session featuring Saito, a blockchain protocol designed to process terabytes of data.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 22 Ryan King from FOAM Protocol |
Our co-founder Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) in conversation with Ryan King ( / frothcity ) from FOAM ( / foamspace ) during the New York Blockchain Week discussing FOAM's decentralized location services based on proof of location.
- Illia Polosukhin on NEAR Protocol's Economics Design | Consensus 2019
Our co-founder Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon ) spoke on NEAR's economic design at the Validator Economics Meetup in New York City during the NY Blockchain Week.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 21 Alex Chapman from Augur |
In this episode of the Whiteboard Series, our co-founder Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon ) speaks with Alex Chapman ( / iheartsemicolons ) who's a Tech Lead at Augur ( / augurproject )
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 20 John Pacific from NuCypher |
Our co-founder Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon ) is in conversation with John Pacific ( / __tux ) from NuCypher ( / nucypher ) in the 20th Episode our the Whiteboard Series that took place during the NY Blockchain Week.
- NEAR Protocol at NuevaHacks 2019 | Hackathon
We had a bunch of high-school students BUIDLing on NEAR at the NuevaHacks Hackathon in March at the Nueva High School. 🛠 🙌
- Fireside Chat with NEAR | Ep: 1 Devin Finzer from OpenSea
We're introducing a new video series called the Fireside Chat Series where we will be speaking with different blockchain company founders, makers to discuss how they got in the space, what motivates them and their vision in making an impact.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 19 Monica Quaintance from Kadena |
The second Whiteboard Series session that we conducted during the NY Blockchain Week was with Monica Quaintance ( / quaintm ) from Kadena ( / kadena_io , who was interviewed by Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov )
- Future of DeFi — Panel | NY Blockchain Week
The Future of DeFi Panel was conducted during the New York Blockchain Week in New York featuring:
- Blockchain Gaming in 2019 — Panel | NY Blockchain Week
The Blockchain Gaming Panel was conducted during the New York Blockchain Week in New York featuring:























