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From YouTube: CENTER STAGE - DAY 1 - NEAR Foundation & South Pole: NEAR, the Carbon Neutral Protocol
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1st Speaker: Yessin Schiegg
2nd Speaker: Wouter Crul
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A
Well,
welcome
to
day
one
of
near
con,
we're
so
excited
to
have
you
all
here
today,
whether
you're,
a
builder
and
you've,
been
in
the
ecosystem
before
or
you're
totally
new
and
you're
aping
in
hashtag
make
sure
to
go
long.
We're
so
excited
to
have
you
here.
We
have
an
action-packed
schedule
for
you
all
today
is
all
about
our
creators
and
getting
a
deep
dive
into
the
ecosystem.
A
I'm
mildred
edda,
I'm
a
partner
and
founder
of
open
web
collective.
We
are
venture
fund
and
accelerator
started
by
early
near
core
team
members
woohoo
to
owc.
We're
super
excited
to
be
here
and
to
sponsor
the
happy
hour
later
today,
so
hopefully
you'll.
Hopefully
you
will
join
us
and
have
many
drinks
without
further
ado.
I
would
like
to
welcome
up
yesin
shag
and
walter
crow.
Are
you
guys
here
great
to
talk?
First.
B
B
All
right,
when
alex
and
elio
started
to
develop
the
near
protocol,
they
did
a
thorough
assessment
of
what
makes
the
near
blockchain
the
best
blockchain
in
the
world
and
as
as
part
of
that,
and
they
figured
out
it
has
to
be
simple,
secure
and
scalable,
so
that
creators
can
fulfill
their
creative
dreams
and
while
they
do
it,
they
own
their
own
their
data.
Actually,
everyone
involved
should
own
his
own
data,
as
well
as
his
money
and
his
assets
and
then
eventually
here
it
is
a
great
gift
to
human
mankind.
B
The
near
protocol,
however,
for
most
people,
they
don't
know
really
what
it
is
what's
inside,
and
so
I
will
be
unpacking
it
with
you
a
bit,
and
so
there
are
great
features
which
is
like,
as
one
second
block
time,
with
instant
finality
as
a
user.
I
really
love
it
sending
crypto
around
it.
It
arrives
secure
quickly
and
at
literally
almost
no
cost,
it
has
human
readable
names.
I
enjoy
that
very
much
instead
of
a
long
string
when
I
do
transactions
and
then,
above
all,
it's
climate
neutral,
and
so
I
want
to
dive
into
this
topic.
B
The
world
has
a
huge
challenge:
a
climate
warming,
a
global
warming
which
we
need
to
tackle
and
why
not
use
great
technology
to
solve
it,
because,
if
you're
not
tackling
that
top
that
that
problem
eventually,
it
will
all
light
us
up,
because
that
planet
is
heating
up.
Future
generations
will
not
have
as
nice
as
a
home,
and
there
will
be
fire
all
over
the
place,
we're
being
laid
up.
B
Now
the
near
protocol
by
design
has
is
a
proof-of-stake
protocol
and
there
was
another
design
choice
by
alex
andelio
and
the
engineer
the
bunch
of
engineers
helping
out
to
develop
the
protocol,
which
is
use
the
optimal
numbers
of
validators,
not
the
maximal
number,
because
it
doesn't
make
sense
to
maximally
decentralize
and
have
every
device
on
the
planet
validate
transactions.
You
need
to
have
an
optimal
number
that
makes
it
secure.
B
So,
let's
type
the
type
of
energy
efficiency
which
you
get
with
near.
However,
most
people
don't
really
grasp
the
like
the
difference
between
very
polluting
blockchain
and
slightly
polluting
blockchain,
so
that,
therefore
the
idea
came
up
to
make
it
completely
climate
neutral,
and
so
we
reached
out
to
south
pole.
B
Walter
crew
is
the
head
of
innovation
of
south
pole
to
make
near
basically
completely
climate
neutral.
They
did
an
assessment
of
the
near
protocol
that
includes
the
validators,
the
core
collective,
the
near
foundation,
to
establish
the
carbon
footprint
and
to
find
areas
where
that
can
be
like
improved
on
carbon
exhaust
and
eliminate
the
rest,
the
the
excess,
the
full
carbon
footprint
with
three
planting
projects,
and
only
then
we
figured
out
that
the
carbon
footprint
is
so
tiny
of
near
compared
to
everything
else.
So
please
adopt
near
now
with
near
being
carbon
neutral
it.
C
C
I
don't
have
to
slide
okay
good
hey
good
morning,
so
we're
going
to
do
it
impromptu
with
healthhead.
So
it's
like
that
is
fine.
That's
for
the
background.
Good
morning,
my
as
yes
and
introduced
me,
I'm
walter,
I'm
water,
kroll,
I'm
director
of
innovation
at
south
pole.
It's
really
exciting
to
be
to
be
here.
It's
on
behalf
of
my
600
colleagues.
C
C
C
They
said
you
know
we're
flying
there
that
doesn't
really
match
with
the
idea
of
going
to
a
conference,
so
what
they
do
they
put
up
and
found
a
school
in
costa
rica
that
had
an
old
heating
system
and
created
a
project
by
getting
money
together
and
getting
the
equipment
to
that
school.
So,
by
the
time
they
flew
to
the
conference,
they
had
a
project
of
six
months
ahead
of
them
to
put
all
that
plumbing
into
the
school.
But
then,
with
a
with
a
free
heart,
they
could
fly
back
to
turi.
C
The
four
guys
sat
set
setbacks
that
start
working
on
establishing
a
more
thorough
method
on
monitoring
projects
and
from
there
southpole
has
grown
into
being
the
largest
carbon
project
developer
in
the
world.
What
does
that
mean?
We
captured
about
130
million
tons
of
carbon
and
we're
looking
at
doing
another
gigatone
in
the
coming
five
years
directly
and
impacting
about
10
gigaton
indirectly
through
projects
that
were
that
were
launching.
C
So
what
does
that
mean?
What
does
that
mean
from
an
innovation
point
of
point
of
view?
For
me,
that
means
that
I
need
help.
I
need
help
to
kind
of
make
transparent
for
the
thousand
fortune
top
companies
what
their
footprint
is
and
to
monitor
how
they're
using
them.
That's
a
hundred
gigatones
alone
of
being
able
to
monitor
that,
so
I'm
looking
to
commoditize
make
that
much
more
transparent.
C
So
everybody
knows
what
they're
consuming
what
they're
using
but
more
importantly,
what
are
the
things
that
they're
doing
that
work,
so
we
can
all
accelerate
the
ones
that
work,
so
you
can
get
the
ones
that
that
that
accelerate
that
transition.
So
I
need
to
democratize
the
carbon
footprints
of
these
companies.
The
other
thing
that
I
need
to
do
is
130
million
tons
are
being
done
in
nature-based
projects,
they're
being
done
in
direct
air
capture
technologies,
they're
done
in
seas.
C
We've
got
a
lot
of
monitoring
and
a
lot
of
transparency
challenges
that
we
have
ahead
of
us
and
any
technology
that
will
help
us
to
make
one
transparent.
What
the
real
impact
is,
and,
second
that
will
help
us
monitor
the
progress
and
kind
of
see
what
what
the
carbon
household
of
what
we're
doing
is
will
help
us
accelerate
that
change,
because
I'm
convinced
that
transparency
will
drive
us
forward
now.
C
That's
why
it
was
serendipity
that
we
met
and
the
cross
pathways
near
on
this
on
this
journey,
and
we
really
look
forward
to
to
collaborating
with
the
near
protocol
to
think
about
those
new
ideas
we'll
be
here
to
help
accelerate
that
journey
and
we'll
continue
with
near
to
help.
You
understand
how
footprints
can
be
reduced,
as
well
as
the
great
ideas
that
we
have
to
share
to
help
scale
climate
action,
because
we
all
know
we
need
it,
and
I
think
the
technology
that
we
have
here
can
help
us
really
do
that
at
a
large
scale.