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From YouTube: CENTER STAGE - DAY 1 - Jordan Gray: Astro on NEAR for Mainstream DAOs

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A

uh Jordan gray he's part of astro in the near team.

B

Cool all right forward forward forward. All right do I have a laser. No, the laser is not working. That's kind of disappointing, but I'll still go ahead. With my talk, um hey I'm jordan and you can also find me online at star paws and I'm here to talk about daos, my favorite thing, dao's, all the way down um before we go too far.

B

I'll do some terminology check, and I imagine that most people here do know what a dao is, but I still go through this with folks, because people who know what daos are wind up explaining dao's a lot, so it's useful to go through it. If we break down the words decentralized, autonomous organizations, organizations is easy to understand that can be a foundation club business. It could be something around an event. It can be used for crowdfunding.

B

The organization part is easy when it comes to decentralization that can be either geography or power, and often it's both so people from around the world can be working together towards a common cause and when we talk about the power being decentralized instead of having like a manager or a boss or somebody in the middle controlling everything, you can put the power in the hands of the people who are running the organization, and that means that they get more value out of what they're putting into the organization less less middlemen, more power to the people.

B

Autonomous is the spot where most people start getting a little bit nervous because with autonomy, a lot of the decision-making jobs in the world, which is what a lot of people are doing right now, those decision-making jobs are going away. Smart contracts allow us to put rules in place to take care of management tasks and um things like that, and that automation means that people don't have to be doing those kinds of tests anymore, and then they can put more time and energy into things they care about like uh creative and things like that.

B

So I think that's the biggest shift, and probably the biggest part of like the work revolution. That's coming is the fact that so much can be automated um they're also self-governing. So there's that aspect of the automation as well so on near the dao ecosystem is quite robust. We have tried and true smart contracts, there's developer tools that make it very easy to experiment with these things, there's a lot of different user interfaces, depending on how you would want to interact with your dowels.

B

So you can do it on commonwealth, whether it's threaded conversations via telegram bot or a discord bot and the ecosystem, not just the tooling, but the ecosystem is super vibrant.

B

In the last 10 months, we've paid out over 8 million dollars through daos and that's over 100 monthly, active dials. So a bunch of people have made dials way more than that. But then the dials that are actually active is still like over a hundred, and we have over a thousand users who are in those dials and if you divide 8 million by a thousand, I think it's pretty good.

B

So tooling, the most exciting thing right now is this sputnik v2 contract under the hood. It allows daos to do social token, launches, publish bounties, the voting is flexible and it can do anything on the contract on the blockchain that a single user could do so any function call on any on any contract can be done, uh minting nfts, buying, nfts selling, nfts and everything else under the sun and they're upgradable.

B

So if you are dreaming up something that the dow can't do, then you can put up a bounty and find somebody to implement it, but all that is pretty techy, so we launched astro dao, which is a simple interface for doing all that stuff. With your smart contracts with your dows, it's live at astrodow, so I encourage everybody to go and check it out. It's usable on your phone, it's usable on a tablet, it's usable at your computer and to build astro dial.

B

We worked with we three and that's a group of ex-ideo folks, and we did a lot of user testing focus groups and really talk to users and still, as we have it, rolling out into the world are doing even more of that, so that we can see how people are actually using it and make sure that this is actually a user-focused and user servicing tool and what are people doing with their dows.

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The the main message is that you can meet people, so you can find people that share your values are interested in building the same things as you and then you can vote to take collaborative action. That's the other big thing that people are doing with taos and fund your collective goals, so meet vote fund on astrodow I'll. Do a quick run through some of the ui, because it's exciting stuff um here we've got like your ways of meeting people, so you can sort your dowels by like most active.

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If you're looking to join a vibrant community, you can look, who's got the most funds. If you want to dip into them, there's also the feed and the activity. Feed is something that's really nice just to see everything that's going on in the ecosystem. You can get a check on the pulse, but especially the bounty feed is a great way to find work and see how you can contribute to everything. That's going on in the dow ecosystem on near there's voting and because the voting is so flexible.

B

There's like some details about how the vote has to go for it to pass, gives you the rules right there and then another really exciting part is the treasury, so the treasury visualizes for a dow, how much near it has how much tokens it has fungible tokens and it gives you a transition, transit action, history of everything that's come in and out, and then it also shows you all of your nfts that you've collected one of the kind of controversial things that we did with astro was to throw an intercom on it and we were iffy on if this was going to be a good or bad thing, because it's a very centralized web 2 way of getting feedback from users.

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But we have had a lot of interaction from users on it, so it's been a great thing of having that, like human touch right there on the page.

B

Now I want to get to the good stuff, which is what people are actually doing with taos so on here. Some tangible examples. Some of the most exciting stuff is humanitarian causes between china, india and vietnam. Flooding release and relief and covet relief over like half a million dollars was raised between these three organizations.

B

Shroom kingdom is an example of an app or a game. That's actually has a dao to govern itself, so they did an airdrop to all of the users on near who are above a certain level on stats gallery, and then those people also have the opportunity to say how the game is going to go by joining the shrimp kingdom.

B

Dao near week is a really cool use case for the daos, because it does something where they're paying people out in very small amounts and that's something that is going to again change the way people work and how they get paid out.

B

Through these micro tasks, people are able to get paid on like a task based basis versus waiting a week or a month to get their payments, and it can also be automated where, if you interact with a tweet or you like, bring a news story to near week, then you can automatically get paid and then again people don't have to be sitting around thinking. Do I need to make a decision? Did this person actually do the work you can actually just oracle it and automatically pay them?

B

Can uh there's there's many many many creative guilds and dials on on um qin dao is one of my favorite they've got a project where they're taking they're helping homeless people make nfts in san francisco all the homeless. People have cell phones so, like all those people now have another revenue stream where they can like make nfts and they publish them through kindow and they're, actually touring around the states.

B

Getting people set up and are going to be stopping at art basel miami at the very end of it next year to show off all of the creative that happened.

B

There's also my favorite creative group coda may, which is something I founded 10 plus years ago. This is actually how I got into a lot of the crypto stuff and nfts and daos. Was this organization? Has it's a lot of energy to run an art and tech organization or just an organization period?

B

And what becoming a dow has allowed me, and my co-founder to do is: do things like automatic sales and splits of tickets, um pay people for curation pay, people for doing social media management being able to commission pixel art and just like general administrative tasks, and these are all things where, like the organization has always run in the black and we've always like done, it basically volunteer base.

B

But now we have a way of like putting some value against those things and rewarding people, and um it's just all happening much more seamlessly than if we had to do like payouts after running in festival, where, like last december, there was a festival and I'm still doing paperwork from it.

B

Okay, I lied. This is my favorite tao near chandao. um Nir chan is an anime mascot for near and me and two other anime weebs designed near chan with an artist, and the idea is that she is an intellectual, a piece of intellectual property that can be used by anybody she's out under the creative commons. So anybody can make near chan art and we did a draw this in your style contest.

B

So if you go downstairs in the nft gallery, you can get your near chad, nfts and card for card is happening right now in peras, so you can get some near chance for pretty cheap like point zero one near, um and the idea with all of these guilds and dows is that they become self-sustaining, and this is an example of how it can happen where near chan. We can commission artists to draw the character. We can sell the nfts.

B

We then have more income and can continue to expand our operations and get near chan and video games and in marvel movies and all those other things and then another super vibrant part of the ecosystem is the fact that there's all these skill based guilds in the near dials there's, if you're a builder and you're trying to get something done on nir, you can get legal help. You can get ux help. You can get growth and, like growth, hacking, help dev consulting check out near guilds.

B

There's people doing literally everything, and if you find that they're not doing something, then maybe you can make your own skill guild.

B

So what's exciting right now go to market, we just launched astro dao last week and the way that we're rolling out to the world is first like a lot of like hands-on. We were, I was talking about doing like the uh like actual, like user studies, case studies working with users. So right now, a lot of it is like manual um sending people to open web sandbox.

B

So they can understand the ecosystem, um being dow ambassadors being out in the streets, helping people set up their taos, um and you know it's amazing that you can just do this on your phone in the sun and it totally works like the near tech is so good um and then, like half of the people in this picture, still have actively running taos.

B

Today, there's like fam jam and the china charity dao um a bunch of folks and one of the things we're working on right now is taking this down ambassador program and making it reproducible, because it is valuable for me and the other core team members to be seeing how people are interacting with astro dao, but it doesn't scale so we're putting the materials together so that people who are excited about turning on communities can go and do that and also get paid for it and there's the docubator speaking of getting paid.

B

The dow cubator wants to hear what you want to do with your dow and we would love to give you some seed funding to get it off the ground and talk with you about your circular economy, setups and your revenue streams and figure out how we can make you self-sufficient so hit up dowcubator.org and, let's talk, there's also a gen c growth hack going.

B

So if you're a marketing person, we've got an open call for people to bring their marketing ideas to us, and we have a bunch of bounties to get in on that and then there's the dow global hackathon, if you're more on the tech side into hacking, the smart contracts or getting into the edges where the dials are interacting, with the real world doing print on demand and other things like that, the dow global hackathon is worth checking out and now for the one more thing.

B

Community choice awards are happening now, thank you, rebecca and everybody else. Who's worked so hard to bring this together. um The community choice awards start now and through november 26th.

B

You can go to the dao at community.astrodow.com and nominate your favorite project out of the new ecosystem, your favorite people, out of the near ecosystem, and also vote for people that have already been recognized and when you participate, you could maybe win one of these cool near misfit, avatar nft prizes- and this is the first generative project on near that is the cryptographically like hashed, with the entire collection from the start. So this this is the genesis. These are the punks um on here.

B

So yeah, yeah, you're, allowed to clap willem clapped like a little bit. Okay, people do like nfts people do like nfts, yes, okay, so that's it thanks. So much for listening um come talk to me afterwards. If you want to get your dial started, I can sleep you some near, so you can boot it up and yeah. Let's go.

C

Now, um there's yeah: they have some pretty exciting announcements coming up soon and um yeah. You can try it out right away and uh coming soon we have a few that you may have heard of from the ethereum community. So one of the ones we're really excited about is curve. Finance is going to be launching. They are a staple swap protocol and they're, not actually writing all the largest d5 protocol. That goes to the great team over at ave, but they kind of trade back and forth as to which one has the largest tvl.

C

That's going to unlock a lot of opportunities for users of near and beyond, sushi swap is launching as well. They are what I would call one of the more flexible dexes they are launching a new product called trident that has a lot of different types of markets that you can launch. I'm very excited to see them coming over to aurora dodo is another really good, decentralized exchange that has unique mechanisms that enable sort of deep liquidity pools with a lot less assets, which is really fascinating and tying them all together is kyber.

C

Kyber has what's called a distributed market maker, which essentially aggregates dextrades similar type product to one inch and can actually utilize all three of these to give users the best price for their trades, and there are quite a few announcements that will be coming out very very soon if you're interested in learning more and like keeping up to date with those either give the aurora team a follow or if you follow us at proximity, five we'll also be keeping um keeping you up to date as well.

C

All right! So that's the present! That's where we are today. That's we're gonna be over the next few weeks. uh I just want to take a brief moment here to sort of spin where we're going in the future and not even that far of the future.

C

So I think it's only going to be a matter of you know a very short amount of time before we see billion dollar protocol dials. You know this is like the the dow four unit swap, for instance, already a billion dollar protocol dial the dial for sushi swap already there we're going to see this on near very very soon.

C

I think there's some some teams that are building up this momentum pretty quickly and what's going to be really interesting, is when these daos actually start building products and utilizing products that allow them to to act with each other like end, users would act with uh with these protocols. So imagine dao's lending to each other.

C

Imagine dials like doing swaps with each other, uh all trustlessly, all through smart contracts, um as I've spun on a lot about uh like how much I'm a fan of liquid staking liquid staking is a small subset of a much larger idea, called superfluid collateral. What this means is you basically have your asset in one place and then you're able to use it in two or more other places. So the simplest example of that is that staking derivative that staked near where it's locked and staked in the network, but then you're using the stick.

C

In your token, in a lot of other protocols, you know- and I think what's going to be really fascinating- is we're going to see this being used across chains so on near you're, going to be able to use your assets that are currently locked in, say, ave on ethereum, on polygon, bsc or avalanche, and then use that in maybe even ave on near, which is going to be really fascinating.

C

um Another team who's working on some really interesting projects. This is like basically, what's called single-sided staking, which basically gives you some passive low risk income. I'm not going to touch too much on that one, but I think it's an exciting concept, um taking advantage of the unique scalability of nir we're soon going to see order, bus bait order book based decentralized exchanges. uh There are a few of these that are in the wild now on on protocols like solana and others.

C

Nir is definitely uniquely well positioned to to expand this offering and uh we envision a world where you basically will be able to use these derivatives with intersparing assets as the collateral which just improves your basically your payout potential and one of my favorite features, and I think this is the future. We're going with all stable coins is we're going to see derivative back, stable coins.

C

That'll have perfect price stability uh if anyone's interested in this concept, please come talk to me, I'm very bullish that this is actually going to play a major role in uh near's, stable coin future and will be a very bright one.

C

Now, let's walk through a quick scenario uh that I think is a really exciting illustration of what kind of the kind of flexibility that near offers. So, let's imagine that you earned samir on near crowd, which is a great just kind of work for near earth like do some work and earn near, don't even have to buy it wait to get onboarded um and it's been actually providing a lot of people. Some interesting income earned same euro near crowd.

C

You then take that near and you stake it in metapool, so you're securing the network, but you also have this stake near that you can now do something with you, then go over to burrow you deposit. This stake near as your collateral, and you borrow some dye against it, and all of this is happening on nativity. Now is where it gets interesting. You take that dye and you supply that dye on curve.

C

Now curve is running on aurora, but this is going to feel completely seamless, you're still all on near, but it's as though you didn't go anywhere, but you're now using curve a completely different product designed for a completely different virtual machine.

C

You get some three-pole tokens and you'll also be earning curve, as their native token, so yield is just going up and up and now imagine that you take that those three pull tokens and you, you deployed them into we'll call it perp chain, a uh decentralized exchange, that's basically running as its own app chain using substrate-based app chain using octopus, and you buy some leverage near with us. So you basically have gone through all of these different environments, all running on near starting with samir.

C

You ended up now with a leveraged near position and you're, basically earning a lot of tokens along the way by providing liquidity to different actors in the space, and all this is happening on near in three very different environments.

C

This is the future that is, is actually not very far at all, uh and I think it's very exciting, and it's not something that we see offered anywhere else now taking a bit of a detour and talking about how we're at like one of the many ways that we are going to build this future and get here um one of the things we're really excited to talk about last week for the first time uh that proximity is a big part of, is this defy grant style?

C

um So the headline number is pretty is pretty exciting 40 million year, which, depending on the day, is worth you know, certainly not a small sum of money.

C

um What we're trying to do here is really just look for the top d5 builders on any blockchain and work with them to build out and like great new applications, because we believe near is the best blockchain for this uh we're targeting to distribute this over a period of about four years, but I actually think that this is something we can make even more sustainable uh and it can be. You know a way that we can support teams for the long term, not even just give all of this money away.

C

um One of the things we're trying to do differently than other programs is like for us. The most important aspect of this is that it's community-led. We don't have a whole lot to share on this right now, unfortunately, but it's going to be a dow from day one there's, no single party, that's running this and over time the community is going to be involved in a big way. This is an important part of we believe to make this initiative sustainable and also to have the biggest impact and, if you're interested, please go ahead and apply.

C

There's a little biddly link for you. If you're a builder, if you're just interested, if you want to learn more, go ahead and shoot us an application and someone from the team will get back to you um all right. So that's what I have for you guys today: um yeah we're we're we're big believers that near vember is coming um and yeah. If you're interested in getting in touch with me or other people from the team, please go ahead and give us a follow or shoot us a message.

C

C

If anyone has any questions, we have a little bit of time here so uh happy to pass the mic around and answer anything.

D

Oh, even better, even better.

E

Hi uh super interesting: uh can you go over aurora, uh I'm just trying to figure out. You said you can use metamask. um I guess it's an evm compatible chain right. um If you could just expand on that, and also what happened to the rainbow bridge. Is that still a thing or.

C

Yeah great question, so the rainbow bridge is still a thing um it's actually built or currently maintained by the aurora team, so just to give more context on what aurora is so the easiest thing to think about is that aurora is an evm compat, fully compatible environment that is running on the near blockchain. So the ramifications of this developers who have built say curve the curve developers can basically change uh like one pretty small change.

C

You change the rpc node that you're targeting which would be the aurora rpc node, deploy their smart contracts like to through that rpc node, so it'll end up being wrapped into a near transaction and then I'll actually be deployed or deployed into a smart contract. That's running on near so I think it's actually one of the fascinating things about aurora, which is complex, but we do think is really cool.

C

Is that aurora is actually a rust smart contract that is essentially executing evm bytecode, and so this means that yeah anyone who's developed, an evm application can deploy it to aurora and then, even probably, more importantly, and more excitingly people can use that application using any sort of evms compatible like uh wallet so metamask, something by a wallet, connect, etc. You just have to kind of change if you've ever used a different chain, that's similar evm compatible like polygon or avalanche.

C

You kind of change the environment that you're targeting and you just go ahead and use the application.

E

How um how easy is it for someone who's uh 100 into solidity, and they want to come over through aurora, um because one of the biggest complaints I've heard from if developers is that you know they're, just too lazy to learn russ right, so I'm just trying to get an idea like is it that simple I mean I did meet somebody here who who's into uh pretty much everything, but they started as a solidity, dab and they're coming through the aurora bridge.

E

uh But can you just give us an idea how easy or is it difficult? What's the learning curve there.

C

It I mean it's, it's, it couldn't be simpler. No, I mean you know yeah. It really couldn't be simpler. um You that the you basically change one line in your deploy, script and it'll just work and then for user now for users they have to bridge right. You know it is a separate block chain. So you know you have to like say you have. Let's just say you have ethereum on um you know on ethereum you have ether on ethereum you want to use, uh you know, say sushi on aurora.

C

You use the aurora bridge, which is really just the rainbow bridge. It's just that it's it's specifically pointed at aurora, instead of pointed at native near and you send your you're basically sending ethereum to the smart contract. um The bridge sort of re-layers work their magic, and you know they'll see that there was sent there so like that ether will then be locked. They'll, then, basically mint new ether on the near side, to your account it'll, be your same account. So it'll be your same.

C

You know like ethereum, address, 64 character address and then you can just deposit it using metamask into sushi. Now the only thing step for the user there is that they'll have to change their environment to aurora. Thankfully metamask has made this really easy and it's sort of just one click to add aurora, and then they, you know, go use sushi.

E

And to bridge back, is there like a delay of seven days or is it instant, 10 minutes.

C

Yeah, that's a great question, so there is a delay. It's I think, four to eight hours right now. um That's just yeah! You know something that we do want to improve, there's a great opportunity for products there where you can, because it is sort of a similar to an optimistic roll up, but with a much like much less latency.

C

um It's provable that that, though, that uh those assets will eventually end up on that new chain, uh but there needs to be a time basically for someone to kind of like challenge in case it was. You know like an invalid, uh an invalid transfer, uh so there's a great product to be built there, where you can have a fast withdrawal where you basically are just lending someone the asset for 48 hours taking a small fee, and then they get it instantly. So we're working on that super.

E

Cool. Thank you. uh Looking forward to this develop.

C

Oh uh okay, so I guess we'll just a show for tomorrow, so we have a d5 panel tomorrow with some great uh other teams from the the near ecosystem. Tri solaris is going to be their panther protocol. I believe one inch as well um so definitely tune in for that. I think it's around the same time, but check the schedule. um Yeah cool, any more questions. We've got about five minutes here. uh All right looks like we got one over here.

F

Hi, hello, hi, kendall, hi, huge fan, um I'm just wondering how important you think it is in terms of cross-chain compatibility right. So just going on from what that gentleman said, you know: we've got the bridge to aurora and we're getting the bridge to be a c.

F

How important do you think it is to bridge to all of the major low ones.

C

Yeah super important, I think cross chain compatibility is, is really key and not even just so that you know we can get assets from all of these chains and have them be used in in products on near, but also so that products built on near that are native to near can be used on these other chains. Yeah. I guess, like you know. Yes, we want.

C

We want near to you, know to have its own really big, really mature ecosystem, but I think there's some fascinating products that are being built on other chains that you know are not as easily compatible with near just yet. A big part of the initiative for aurora and octopus is, of course, to bring this to near, and I think over the time just about every product, we'll be able to run natively on near, but there are certainly you know, markets and users that we want to attract on other chains and yeah.

C

I think that that's extremely important and cross chain compatibility, good bridges. All of that is uh one of the most important things happening in in crypto and d5. Right now,.

C

Cool, I think that's uh yeah right, that's it and we got sasha here all right thanks. Everyone.

A

Awesome, thank you so much kendall. I want to welcome up our last but not least speaker sasha husselin. He also his name is alexander as well. Many of you may know him from the work he's done in human guilt as well as throughout near protocol sasha. Here's your mic. The floor is yours.

G

uh Cool, so my name is sasha and um I'm working on a human guilt with with vlad, uh and so the first version of the slides I created was just bunch of texts and really boring. I I sent it uh for vlad to review and um he trashed it. So today I'm gonna mostly do video. It will be like very light on slides and a lot heavier on interactive content and interactive content.

G

I'm going to show today will be games on year we're working today with roughly 20 25 26 games and we're going to show today the video that um has a lot of them kind of showcased, so at human build at human guilt. We believe that every human can be rewarded for bringing their creations to the world through web 3.. So you can think that essentially on the internet, like virtual world platforms like roblox or minecraft in the last 10 years, unleashed a lot of creativity.

G

So that was a good thing, but they didn't actually enable people who create content to get paid, and so the big promise of web 3 is actually combine the creativity that we saw on the internet, the last 10 years, but also with opportunity for the people who create those things to actually get paid, and so that's what we do at human guild and uh quick slides for today would be why gaming is important for for like near why we focus on gaming quite a bit where gaming is today um selected showcase.

G

That would be a video that combines a lot of games on here, what we do and how you can actually get involved as well.

G

So gaming is actually a huge market uh at this point in time it's at 150 billion dollars, it's bigger than uh movies and uh music combined, and we believe that actually blockchain will be one of the next kind of technological platforms associated with this big market.

G

Although it's very early so as as you know, gaming started with arcades. People were playing arcades for a couple centuries, but the gaming related arcades happened in early 70s. The big one was atari's punk and we had consoles.

G

There was a battle of consoles throughout 80s and 90s in countries like where I'm from the battle was in 90s and 2000s. There was a delay, then pc and single-player games came together throughout 90s. There were like big titles on that technological platform, and then internet happened and so internet brought. Multiplayer and internet brought complex economies such as ultima online world of warcraft, and then we saw social right with with facebook, and we saw mobile with uh the free to play games.

G

That was a new way to kind of experience games where people don't need to play up front, but the games are monetized through in-game currency, in-game purchases, sorry or through ads, and so then you had blockchain and so blockchain is very, very very early trend for the for for gaming, blockchain gaming actually struggled quite a bit the the story of 2018 2020. When I was talking to a lot of game studios in blockchain was a story of struggle.

G

It was very very hard to uh to actually get the game and publish it because it is very hard to fundraise. So it's very hard to promote it, and so majority of the games throughout the cycle, kind of didn't survive actually and everything changed kind of like this year was with xc succeeding. Actually, it opened up market for a lot of people, and so I think in the next two three years, we're going to see a lot more complex games on on on chain or partially on chain where gaming is today.

G

So, first of all, it's dominated by aaa games, so majority 96 of apple store revenues are going to large studios. So india's don't get anything pretty much in this market. It's also a large scale. So two games today have at least one billion players, and that's both actually chinese games, both owned by tencent and 34 games, have at least 100 million players in in the world. Today, the biggest uh blockchain game is xc they're at quarter of the size.

G

So there are 25 million players right now, which is huge for blockchain, but in a grand scheme of things it's still kind of peanuts for the for the gaming overall and also it's a best time to be in space because, historically um being indie game developer was very challenging um and right now the state of the gaming is such that, even if you're, indie or mid-core or hardcore game developer, you actually can get funding. If you're a hardcore game developer, you go to asia for funding. If you do mid-core you go to us for funding.

G

If you're indie you actually go to apple and google for funding, and so it's actually really really the best time to be in gaming is today. That's also why it's very hard to convince people to consider web3, because, given its best time to be in gaming, also, it's a huge opportunity cost to actually get people to consider the new technological platform and also something to mention place. Playstation 5 is the fastest gaming uh fastest selling gaming console of all time uh in terms of gaming. So we work with 25 or 26 games right now.

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Some of them are play to earn games. We have some gaming platforms, we have virtual worlds, we have trading cards, we have avatars kind of like emerging uh category for funeral at least we have a lot of hinges as well, so we we go to game jumps, we participate there and we bring people who are curious about web3 and build games together with them.

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We have privacy games. We have some of the more creative projects that are turning into games as well and now I'll show the video that kind of showcases a lot of games.

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Yeah, so this is like actually yeah really emotional for me, because we've been working with this uh teams through, like really hard times in 2000, 2019 and 2020. It's like really awesome to see some of this coming together and now I'll slowly. uh Okay, like sorry, very quickly, go through like what we do at human guild, so at human guild. So our mission, as I mentioned, we want every human to be rewarded for bringing their creations to the world, and that could be musician could be artists could be game. Developer could be game.

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Artist could be somebody who designs digital fashion could be like all kinds of people working uh in in this like emerging metaverse um early metric, we are actually tracking the number of near earners across different applications on here.

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So we have queries into every single application on year and the context for how people get paid in every application is very different, but we believe that the way to to kind of build a sustainable economy on top of near sustainable human activity on top of near is to focus on earners and that's kind of what we focus on today with like two and a half thousand people earning in across all of the applications.

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um We are at 900 people roughly in our discord. We have much smaller than 900 people active community. Obviously because people have limited attention, but we hang out in virtual worlds. We get to know each other we're trying to build this culture of helping each other as a community, and we also have dao. So we don't actively market our dao.

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We don't really advertise it, because we do not want to bring people into our community who do things for like money so, but but we do tell people when we work with creative people that we do have this resource available to them. So you can always kind of find out by talking to us about this, and also we have some content so for people who, like more crypto, curious, don't know where to start, we have podcasts we're going to be developing our youtube channel.

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We're going to be putting open sourcing is essentially a lot of playbook for how to build games in incremental fashion with the community how to tie economy back to the community. Why dao is important how to launch talking with daos? uh Why on-chin race is is better a lot of times, um so that's coming to youtube and then are we also producing some of the game?

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The focus content, so new york has really good content, as it relates to general development experience at this point, but has close to nothing in terms of gaming content, and so, if you're interested in building tutorials uh anything related to two different game engines or different kinds of games, different kinds of use cases always we're really open to to more and more people contributing there, because we're definitely lacking still when it comes to the content but we're building it.

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This year we actually focus quite a lot on indie gaming market, so we sponsored a couple game jumps and we noticed that people have problems with exposure of their game with monetization, with finding close collaborators across projects like artists working with game developers is a very, very challenging kind of market very hard to find collaborators across projects, and so we're trying to address those um challenges and the way we do it is through game jumps through cross promotion on youtube, starting to do more.

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On that front, we had 14 games built and most recent game jam on year with another 14 games built on near hackathon. Actually that was happening concurrently.

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And we had one of our projects recently raised close to 9 million dollars. That's one of the gaming marketplaces focused on indie gaming and focusing on enabling tournaments and nfts for for indie game developer market. That's op games and they're launching end of this year on year as well.

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How can you get involved? So if you're curious, you can in the mid space which is like here, you can meet us uh in our booth. On the second floor, we're going to be there today tomorrow we're going to have a party today as well.

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We do monthly hangouts in the virtual space. Sorry, we do weekly hangouts in the virtual space, we're doing monthly hangouts in the meat space in san francisco and we're trying to actually encourage other people to start doing it in other cities in in us. For now, we're probably going to cover portland, seattle and and la, but we we're looking for people to help us do it in other cities and online.

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You can find information, as I mentioned, on on podcast applications as well as youtube, and if you want to work us, you can join our discord or talk to us about our dao.

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Awesome alrighty hi everyone, hopefully today, has been eventful. It's been packed with a ton of information, new friends, new opportunities to get to know near a little bit better. Hopefully, what you've gotten out of today is that, from our conversations with our builders near is simple scalable and fast. It's really simple. It's that one liner, a quick thing as well is hopefully you're. Also here- and you have heard thus far- is that we're doing a lot in funding.

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If you are a builder, if you're someone building something thinking about building, someone have friends and you want to start a dow whatever it is, there's a lot we're doing in funding to support our ecosystem as well as there's a ton of traction that we have. We talked about apps. We talked about a few builders on here as well, and not only that is that we've done so much on the ecosystem side of things. Today we had over 500 people here with us.

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That's amazing y'all give it up for yourselves, because that is so awesome to see everyone in 3d we've moved from avatars and jpegs and static pictures to being in person and there's nothing like it at all. So I want to close out with the best chant that we can get, and so I'm going to come down here, because I need to stare at you all a little bit, because I feel like the more pressure you have the louder you'll be for me alrighty. So the future is the future is yeah.

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