24 Jan 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 points in their interactions.
In this event, we covered the full spectrum of what a designer or product person or developer needs to understand the unique world of creating decentralized applications. We'll start high level and then make our way into more specific case studies of design interactions.
**About the Blockchain Onramp Series**
Blockchain Onramp is a series of events covering the full spectrum of knowledge necessary to operate effectively within the blockchain ecosystem as a designer, developer or product person. After participating in these events, you should be able to take your functional expertise in any of these areas and apply them to blockchain projects.
We are doing this to provide a key -- and currently missing -- plain-English onramp for people of all functional experience who are interested in building real businesses on this new technology.
The format of each event may differ slightly, but they will be a combination of expert talks and discussions with industry practitioners.
The rough Blockchain Onramp Series roadmap is:
+ Product Series: Ecosystem, DApps, and Strategy
+ Design Series: Onboarding UX, Best Practices
+ Development Series: Developer stack, Building on TestNets, Security, Best Practices
+ Startup Series: Marketing, Business Models, and Fundraising
--- ABOUT THE SPEAKER ---
Erik Trautman leads operations at NEAR Protocol, which is a scalable mobile-first blockchain. He has a long history in technical education: he started in market analysis on Wall Street in 2007, created the popular Odin Project in 2012 and ran Viking Education as its CEO until its acquisition in 2017.
Follow the latest from NEAR Protocol on,
Discord: https://near.ai/discord
Medium: https://near.ai/medium
Twitter: https://near.ai/twitter
GitHub: https://near.ai/github
In this event, we covered the full spectrum of what a designer or product person or developer needs to understand the unique world of creating decentralized applications. We'll start high level and then make our way into more specific case studies of design interactions.
**About the Blockchain Onramp Series**
Blockchain Onramp is a series of events covering the full spectrum of knowledge necessary to operate effectively within the blockchain ecosystem as a designer, developer or product person. After participating in these events, you should be able to take your functional expertise in any of these areas and apply them to blockchain projects.
We are doing this to provide a key -- and currently missing -- plain-English onramp for people of all functional experience who are interested in building real businesses on this new technology.
The format of each event may differ slightly, but they will be a combination of expert talks and discussions with industry practitioners.
The rough Blockchain Onramp Series roadmap is:
+ Product Series: Ecosystem, DApps, and Strategy
+ Design Series: Onboarding UX, Best Practices
+ Development Series: Developer stack, Building on TestNets, Security, Best Practices
+ Startup Series: Marketing, Business Models, and Fundraising
--- ABOUT THE SPEAKER ---
Erik Trautman leads operations at NEAR Protocol, which is a scalable mobile-first blockchain. He has a long history in technical education: he started in market analysis on Wall Street in 2007, created the popular Odin Project in 2012 and ran Viking Education as its CEO until its acquisition in 2017.
Follow the latest from NEAR Protocol on,
Discord: https://near.ai/discord
Medium: https://near.ai/medium
Twitter: https://near.ai/twitter
GitHub: https://near.ai/github
- 1 participant
- 50 minutes
5 Jan 2019
An exploration of Developer Experience (DevX).
We know there are many challenges around User Experience (UX) for end-users who are trying to use decentralized applications but what about the developers who build those applications? Their experience is often under-appreciated.
In this meetup, we dug deeper into what developer experience (DevX) really means, the state of it on today's platforms and how we can improve it in the future. We surveyed the landscape and tore down a couple of existing platforms.
Following the talk by Erik Trautman, our Head of Operations, we moved to a panel discussion with developers of apps on multiple different platforms about the pros and cons of development on each platform.
About the Speaker and Host:
Erik Trautman leads operations at NEAR Protocol, which is a scalable mobile-first blockchain. He has a long history in technical education: he started in market analysis on Wall Street in 2007, created the popular Odin Project in 2012 and ran Viking Education as its CEO until its acquisition in 2017.
Panelists:
1) Viktor Radchenko, Founder of Trust Wallet (Acquired by Binance).
2) Amhed Herrera is a Software Engineer from the Dominican Republic, where he founded two startups before moving to the US. He's been working as a full-stack software engineer since 2010, and on smart contracts and dApps since 2018. Recently joined the Harbor.com team where they're working on tokenizing securities on the blockchain.
3) Jehan Tremback is CEO of Althea (althea.org), working on a system that makes it easy for communities to set up networks which are faster and cheaper than the existing ISP monopolies, by enabling routers to pay each other for bandwidth, using cryptocurrency. He has years of experience in the Ethereum ecosystem and will be speaking about the ins and outs of building Dapps such as payment channels, voting systems, and DAOs.
4) Chris Li is the founder of Forge Labs, a decentralized blockchain accelerator headquartered in San Francisco. He recently led the team to build a game Dapp on EOS and became No.8 in daily DAU. Before, he was director of engineering at Bodhi Prediction Market, in charge of smart contract and backend development. Before blockchain, he was a serial entrepreneur and senior engineer at Microsoft, where he worked on Exchange, a complex distributed system for 4 years.
**About the Blockchain Onramp Series**
Blockchain Onramp is a series of events covering the full spectrum of knowledge necessary to operate effectively within the blockchain ecosystem as a designer, developer or product person. After participating in these events, you should be able to take your functional expertise in any of these areas and apply them to blockchain projects.
We are doing this to provide a key -- and currently missing -- plain-English onramp for people of all functional experience who are interested in building real businesses on this new technology.
The format of each event may differ slightly, but they will be a combination of expert talks and discussions with industry practitioners.
The rough Blockchain Onramp Series roadmap is:
+ Product Series: Ecosystem, DApps, and Strategy
+ Design Series: Onboarding UX, Best Practices
+ Development Series: Developer stack, Building on TestNets, Security, Best Practices
+ Startup Series: Marketing, Business Models, and Fundraising
Follow the latest from NEAR Protocol on,
Medium: https://medium.com/nearprotocol
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nearprotocol
GitHub: https://github.com/nearprotocol
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/near-protocol/
Telegram: https://t.me/cryptonear
Discord: https://discord.gg/gBtUFKR
#FutureIsNEAR
We know there are many challenges around User Experience (UX) for end-users who are trying to use decentralized applications but what about the developers who build those applications? Their experience is often under-appreciated.
In this meetup, we dug deeper into what developer experience (DevX) really means, the state of it on today's platforms and how we can improve it in the future. We surveyed the landscape and tore down a couple of existing platforms.
Following the talk by Erik Trautman, our Head of Operations, we moved to a panel discussion with developers of apps on multiple different platforms about the pros and cons of development on each platform.
About the Speaker and Host:
Erik Trautman leads operations at NEAR Protocol, which is a scalable mobile-first blockchain. He has a long history in technical education: he started in market analysis on Wall Street in 2007, created the popular Odin Project in 2012 and ran Viking Education as its CEO until its acquisition in 2017.
Panelists:
1) Viktor Radchenko, Founder of Trust Wallet (Acquired by Binance).
2) Amhed Herrera is a Software Engineer from the Dominican Republic, where he founded two startups before moving to the US. He's been working as a full-stack software engineer since 2010, and on smart contracts and dApps since 2018. Recently joined the Harbor.com team where they're working on tokenizing securities on the blockchain.
3) Jehan Tremback is CEO of Althea (althea.org), working on a system that makes it easy for communities to set up networks which are faster and cheaper than the existing ISP monopolies, by enabling routers to pay each other for bandwidth, using cryptocurrency. He has years of experience in the Ethereum ecosystem and will be speaking about the ins and outs of building Dapps such as payment channels, voting systems, and DAOs.
4) Chris Li is the founder of Forge Labs, a decentralized blockchain accelerator headquartered in San Francisco. He recently led the team to build a game Dapp on EOS and became No.8 in daily DAU. Before, he was director of engineering at Bodhi Prediction Market, in charge of smart contract and backend development. Before blockchain, he was a serial entrepreneur and senior engineer at Microsoft, where he worked on Exchange, a complex distributed system for 4 years.
**About the Blockchain Onramp Series**
Blockchain Onramp is a series of events covering the full spectrum of knowledge necessary to operate effectively within the blockchain ecosystem as a designer, developer or product person. After participating in these events, you should be able to take your functional expertise in any of these areas and apply them to blockchain projects.
We are doing this to provide a key -- and currently missing -- plain-English onramp for people of all functional experience who are interested in building real businesses on this new technology.
The format of each event may differ slightly, but they will be a combination of expert talks and discussions with industry practitioners.
The rough Blockchain Onramp Series roadmap is:
+ Product Series: Ecosystem, DApps, and Strategy
+ Design Series: Onboarding UX, Best Practices
+ Development Series: Developer stack, Building on TestNets, Security, Best Practices
+ Startup Series: Marketing, Business Models, and Fundraising
Follow the latest from NEAR Protocol on,
Medium: https://medium.com/nearprotocol
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nearprotocol
GitHub: https://github.com/nearprotocol
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/near-protocol/
Telegram: https://t.me/cryptonear
Discord: https://discord.gg/gBtUFKR
#FutureIsNEAR
- 7 participants
- 1:28 hours
5 Jan 2019
You're already well familiar with the design, interaction and development patterns of "normal" web and mobile apps. In this meetup, we shifted the focus to describe what a decentralized app (DApp) actually is from the very top to the nuts and bolts below the surface.
This is intended to help the full spectrum of designers, developers and product people to understand why they might create a DApp in the first place and how that is different than working with web 2 applications. We'll cover the high-level user-facing aspects (like interactions and flows) down to the low-level of the stack (the actual blockchain), so you understand what you're getting into.
We assume you know what a blockchain is.
**About the Blockchain Onramp Series**
Blockchain Onramp is a series of events covering the full spectrum of knowledge necessary to operate effectively within the blockchain ecosystem as a designer, developer or product person. After participating in these events, you should be able to take your functional expertise in any of these areas and apply them to blockchain projects.
We are doing this to provide a key -- and currently missing -- plain-English onramp for people of all functional experience who are interested in building real businesses on this new technology.
The format of each event may differ slightly, but they will be a combination of expert talks and discussions with industry practitioners.
The rough Blockchain Onramp Series roadmap is:
+ Product Series: Ecosystem, DApps, and Strategy
+ Design Series: Onboarding UX, Best Practices
+ Development Series: Developer stack, Building on TestNets, Security, Best Practices
+ Startup Series: Marketing, Business Models, and Fundraising
--- ABOUT THE SPEAKER ---
Erik Trautman leads operations at NEAR Protocol, which is a scalable mobile-first blockchain. He has a long history in technical education: he started in market analysis on Wall Street in 2007, created the popular Odin Project in 2012 and ran Viking Education as its CEO until its acquisition in 2017.
Follow the latest from NEAR Protocol on,
Medium: https://medium.com/nearprotocol
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nearprotocol
GitHub: https://github.com/nearprotocol
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/near...
Telegram: https://t.me/cryptonear
Discord: https://discord.gg/gBtUFKR
#FutureIsNEAR
This is intended to help the full spectrum of designers, developers and product people to understand why they might create a DApp in the first place and how that is different than working with web 2 applications. We'll cover the high-level user-facing aspects (like interactions and flows) down to the low-level of the stack (the actual blockchain), so you understand what you're getting into.
We assume you know what a blockchain is.
**About the Blockchain Onramp Series**
Blockchain Onramp is a series of events covering the full spectrum of knowledge necessary to operate effectively within the blockchain ecosystem as a designer, developer or product person. After participating in these events, you should be able to take your functional expertise in any of these areas and apply them to blockchain projects.
We are doing this to provide a key -- and currently missing -- plain-English onramp for people of all functional experience who are interested in building real businesses on this new technology.
The format of each event may differ slightly, but they will be a combination of expert talks and discussions with industry practitioners.
The rough Blockchain Onramp Series roadmap is:
+ Product Series: Ecosystem, DApps, and Strategy
+ Design Series: Onboarding UX, Best Practices
+ Development Series: Developer stack, Building on TestNets, Security, Best Practices
+ Startup Series: Marketing, Business Models, and Fundraising
--- ABOUT THE SPEAKER ---
Erik Trautman leads operations at NEAR Protocol, which is a scalable mobile-first blockchain. He has a long history in technical education: he started in market analysis on Wall Street in 2007, created the popular Odin Project in 2012 and ran Viking Education as its CEO until its acquisition in 2017.
Follow the latest from NEAR Protocol on,
Medium: https://medium.com/nearprotocol
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nearprotocol
GitHub: https://github.com/nearprotocol
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/near...
Telegram: https://t.me/cryptonear
Discord: https://discord.gg/gBtUFKR
#FutureIsNEAR
- 1 participant
- 58 minutes
14 Dec 2018
This is the first event in our Blockchain Onramp education series.
The ecosystem around the blockchain technology is enormously complex. You might have the most familiarity with trading Bitcoin. Or buying ICOs. Or building DApps. Or perhaps even creating a chain from scratch. All of these are valid -- but very different -- points within this system.
When we're looking ahead at how the technology can be used effectively in the future, the first step is to understand what actually makes up this ecosystem today and where you fit within it.
In this event, we'll take you from the highest level to the practical by examining what makes up the blockchain ecosystem and, ultimately, where the biggest opportunities for product, design and development lie.
**About the Blockchain Onramp Series**
Blockchain Onramp is a series of events covering the full spectrum of knowledge necessary to operate effectively within the blockchain ecosystem as a designer, developer or product person. After participating in these events, you should be able to take your functional expertise in any of these areas and apply them to blockchain projects.
We are doing this to provide a key -- and currently missing -- plain-English onramp for people of all functional experience who are interested in building real businesses on this new technology.
The format of each event may differ slightly but they will be a combination of expert talks and discussions with industry practitioners.
The rough Blockchain Onramp Series roadmap is:
+ Product Series: Ecosystem, DApps and Strategy
+ Design Series: Onboarding UX, Best Practices
+ Development Series: Developer stack, Building on TestNets, Security, Best Practices
+ Startup Series: Marketing, Business Models, and Fundraising
Follow the latest from NEAR Protocol on,
Medium: https://medium.com/nearprotocol
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nearprotocol
GitHub: https://github.com/nearprotocol
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/near-protocol/
Telegram: https://t.me/cryptonear
Discord: https://discord.gg/gBtUFKR
The ecosystem around the blockchain technology is enormously complex. You might have the most familiarity with trading Bitcoin. Or buying ICOs. Or building DApps. Or perhaps even creating a chain from scratch. All of these are valid -- but very different -- points within this system.
When we're looking ahead at how the technology can be used effectively in the future, the first step is to understand what actually makes up this ecosystem today and where you fit within it.
In this event, we'll take you from the highest level to the practical by examining what makes up the blockchain ecosystem and, ultimately, where the biggest opportunities for product, design and development lie.
**About the Blockchain Onramp Series**
Blockchain Onramp is a series of events covering the full spectrum of knowledge necessary to operate effectively within the blockchain ecosystem as a designer, developer or product person. After participating in these events, you should be able to take your functional expertise in any of these areas and apply them to blockchain projects.
We are doing this to provide a key -- and currently missing -- plain-English onramp for people of all functional experience who are interested in building real businesses on this new technology.
The format of each event may differ slightly but they will be a combination of expert talks and discussions with industry practitioners.
The rough Blockchain Onramp Series roadmap is:
+ Product Series: Ecosystem, DApps and Strategy
+ Design Series: Onboarding UX, Best Practices
+ Development Series: Developer stack, Building on TestNets, Security, Best Practices
+ Startup Series: Marketing, Business Models, and Fundraising
Follow the latest from NEAR Protocol on,
Medium: https://medium.com/nearprotocol
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nearprotocol
GitHub: https://github.com/nearprotocol
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/near-protocol/
Telegram: https://t.me/cryptonear
Discord: https://discord.gg/gBtUFKR
- 1 participant
- 1:06 hours
3 Dec 2018
This is our official kickoff!
We all know that blockchain is in its earliest stages but has substantial potential. This meetup featured 3 talks which were designed to set the scene for where we are today. What is the state of product in the blockchain? Of design? Of development?
--- Speakers ---
The State of PRODUCT on Blockchain. Speaker: Garrett Kinsman of Nodle
The State of DESIGN on Blockchain. Speaker: Sarah Gregory from Coinbase
The State of DEVELOPMENT on Blockchain. Speaker: Ronald Mannak of Composite
--- About the Speakers ---
Garrett Kinsman is the Co-founder of Nodle.io, making connectivity available everywhere for people and devices. Kinsman comes from a background in hardware, design, and mesh networking. He helped launch FireChat, then moved to India, deploying Ola Play, the largest connected car infrastructure in the world.
Sarah Gregory is the User Research Lead at Coinbase, where her team is helping to build an open financial system for the world. Her portfolio includes Ancestry.com, Marriott, Allstate, Harley-Davidson, and TurboTax, with experience in applying user research to B2B sales and marketing. Sarah's academic background is in cognitive science and linguistics, and she is trained in the communication model that NASA used to screen astronauts.
Ronald Mannak is the founder of Composite, an open source smart contract IDE that simplifies smart contract development. Previously developed various Mac/iOS Swift Ethereum frameworks, and founder of two hardware startups.
Follow the latest from NEAR Protocol on,
Medium: https://medium.com/nearprotocol
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nearprotocol
GitHub: https://github.com/nearprotocol
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/near...
Telegram: https://t.me/cryptonear
Discord: https://discord.gg/gBtUFKR
#FutureIsNEAR
We all know that blockchain is in its earliest stages but has substantial potential. This meetup featured 3 talks which were designed to set the scene for where we are today. What is the state of product in the blockchain? Of design? Of development?
--- Speakers ---
The State of PRODUCT on Blockchain. Speaker: Garrett Kinsman of Nodle
The State of DESIGN on Blockchain. Speaker: Sarah Gregory from Coinbase
The State of DEVELOPMENT on Blockchain. Speaker: Ronald Mannak of Composite
--- About the Speakers ---
Garrett Kinsman is the Co-founder of Nodle.io, making connectivity available everywhere for people and devices. Kinsman comes from a background in hardware, design, and mesh networking. He helped launch FireChat, then moved to India, deploying Ola Play, the largest connected car infrastructure in the world.
Sarah Gregory is the User Research Lead at Coinbase, where her team is helping to build an open financial system for the world. Her portfolio includes Ancestry.com, Marriott, Allstate, Harley-Davidson, and TurboTax, with experience in applying user research to B2B sales and marketing. Sarah's academic background is in cognitive science and linguistics, and she is trained in the communication model that NASA used to screen astronauts.
Ronald Mannak is the founder of Composite, an open source smart contract IDE that simplifies smart contract development. Previously developed various Mac/iOS Swift Ethereum frameworks, and founder of two hardware startups.
Follow the latest from NEAR Protocol on,
Medium: https://medium.com/nearprotocol
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nearprotocol
GitHub: https://github.com/nearprotocol
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/near...
Telegram: https://t.me/cryptonear
Discord: https://discord.gg/gBtUFKR
#FutureIsNEAR
- 8 participants
- 1:18 hours
