Videos

We're back from the New York Blockchain Week where we interviewed over 5 new whiteboard sessions.

We had Alexander Demidko ( / xdralex ) from Fluence ( / fluence_one ) speaking with Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) on the 17th Episode of the Whiteboard Series.

This talk by Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) was a part of our recently concluded a DevNet and Mainnet Demo Night II at Hacker Dojo in Santa Clara, CA on April 11th, 2019, where we had our friends from Cosmos (https://cosmos.network + https://www.tendermint.com/) and Fluence (https://fluence.network/) join us.

This talk by Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) was a part of our recently concluded a DevNet and Mainnet Demo Night at Starfish Mission where we had our friends from Cosmos (https://cosmos.network/ https://www.tendermint.com/) and Fluence (https://fluence.network/) join us.

Join us for the expert panel discussion on multi-chain Protocols — Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos and NEAR.

We recently concluded a DevNet and Mainnet Demo Night at Starfish Mission where we had our friends from Cosmos (https://cosmos.network/ https://www.tendermint.com/) and Fluence (https://fluence.network/) join us.

We had Qi Zhou ( / qc_qizhou ) from Quarkchain ( / quark_chain ) join our co-founders Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) and Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon ) for a technical deep dive session in the 16th Episode of our Whiteboard Series.

We had Izaak Meckler ( / izmeckler ) from Coda Protocol ( / codaprotocol ) speaking with our Co-founders Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon ) and Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) in the 15th Episode of our Whiteboard Series.

Our Co-founder Alex Skidanov recently spoke at Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley on the state of the current Blockchain Applications, usability in the space and how NEAR is solving the problem.

NEAR Protocol makes it easy to build decentralized applications that are secure, scalable and easy to use for your customers.

We had Alistair Stewart, Researcher at Web3 Foundation ( / web3foundation ) and one of the Engineers at Polkadot Network ( / polkadotnetwork ) join us for the Whiteboard Series on Episode 14 with our co-founder Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov )

We had Tom Close ( / tomclse ) from Magmo ( / magmohq ) speak about State Channels with our Co-Founder, Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov )

We had James Prestwich ( / _prestwich ) from Summa ( / summa_one ) join us for the Episode # 12 of our Whiteboard Series hosted by our Co-Founders Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) & Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon )

We got Dr. Guang Yang, who is a Research Director at Conflux Chain ( / confluxchain ) on Episode # 11 of our Whiteboard Series. He is in conversation with our Co-Founder, Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon ) in Beijing

In this Episode, we got David Utrobin ( / davidutrobin7777 ) from MakerDAO ( / makerdao ) for the Whiteboard Series speaking about the governance model and scalability in Blockchains with our Co-Founder, Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon )

We got Stan Kladko ( / stan_kladko ) CTO at SKALE Labs ( / skalelabs ) for the Whiteboard Series speaking about how SKALE works and enables high-speed, low-cost smart contracts in Layer 2 along with our Co-Founder, Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon )

This was our first online workshop on building a decentralized application hosted by our Head of Operations, Erik Trautman ( / eriktrautman ) and Senior Software Developer, Evgeny Kuzyakov ( / ekuzyakov )

We got Ben Jones ( / ben_chain ) from Plasma Group ( / plasma_group ) for the Whiteboard Series this time speaking about the layer 2 technology built on top of Ethereum along with our Co-Founder, Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov )

In the 7th Episode of our 'Whiteboard Series with NEAR' we had Daniel Robinson ( / danrobinson ) from Paradigm ( / paradigm ) speaking with our Co-Founder Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov )

This is the 6th Episode of our 'Whiteboard Series with NEAR' where we had Rongjian Lan ( / rongjianlan ) from Harmony ( / harmonyprotocol ) speaking with our Co-Founder Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov )

In the fifth episode of our Whiteboard Series with NEAR, we had Justin Drake ( / drakefjustin ) from the Ethereum Foundation speaking with our Co-Founder, Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov )

In the fourth episode of our Whiteboard Series with NEAR, we had Georgios Konstantopoulos ( / gakonst ) from Loom Network speaking with our Founders Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) and Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon )

Our Co-Founder Alex Skidanov ( / alexskidanov ) spoke on the topic - 'The frontier of sharding research' at Graph Day on January 25th, 2019.

Decentralized apps are still apps but there are key differences as well which any app designer needs to understand. Onboarding into a token-based ecosystem. Requesting permission for transactions. Handling wait times and confirmation finality. All of these are unexpected for users and, thus, represent key friction…