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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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1,839 videos- NEAR Lunch and Learn Ep. 07: Nightshade: Finality Gadget
In this episode, Alexander Skidanov gives an overview of the Finality Gadget, safety proof and implementation details.
- Early Days in Blockchain App Layer
Early Days in Blockchain App Layer: Projects building on NEAR Discussing Adoption
- NEAR Lunch and Learn Ep. 06: Pricing Model
In this episode, Maksym Zavershynskyi provides an overview of how NEAR assigns costs to different operations in our system, including what hidden and explicit parameters determine these costs, and an explanation of gas vs tokens.
- Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 31 Kevin Davis from Kava Labs
Kava Labs Lead Engineer Kevin Davis ( / @kevinjydavis ) and NEAR Co-Founder, Illia Polosukhin ( / ilblackdragon ) do a deep dive on cross-chain DeFi, stablecoins, and how Kava’s technology works in the 31st episode of the Whiteboard Session. Kava Labs is a developer of the Kava blockchain, the first cross-blockchain…
- NEAR Lunch and Learn Ep. 05: Accounts and Runtime
Here, Evgeny Kuzyakov discusses basic account models at NEAR. Including transactions, receipts, and simple transfer transactions. This video is great for beginners.
- 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.
