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From YouTube: NEAR Town Hall November 2020: The evolution of NEAR Protocol and its Ecosystem

Description

This Town Hall provides an overview of where NEAR is coming from, where NEAR is now and where NEAR is going.

NEAR has gone through a lot of changes, the original idea for NEAR was to be an AI project slated to launch on Ethereum. When NEAR Co-Founders Illia Polosukhin and Alex Skidanov realized that Ethereum wouldn’t be able to scale to sustain their project, they decided to shift focus to developing their own sharded blockchain. From there, the story evolved into what NEAR is now.

NEAR Foundation CEO Erik Trautman explains what exactly NEAR is, what the current state of the ecosystem is and where it will go from here.

The Town Hall continues with showcases of what is currently being built on NEAR, with examples from 1Inch Co-Founder Anton Bukov and Aliaksandr “Sasha” Hudzilin providing an update on the NEAR ecosystem at large. Mildred Idada presents the Open Web Collective and all the projects that they’re helping incubate on NEAR. Hear from Chase Freo from OP Games, Tori Samples from Leaf Global Fintech, Jose Carlos Tolosa from Boxscore, Bridge Craven from ARterra and Misha Libman from Snark.art.

Nima Asghari concludes the Town Hall with a thorough update on the NEAR Community.

Speakers and Twitter Handles
NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin - https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon
NEAR Co-Founder Alex Skidanov - https://twitter.com/AlexSkidanov
NEAR Foundation CEO Erik Trautman - https://twitter.com/ErikTrautman
Anton Bukov from 1Inch - https://twitter.com/k06a https://twitter.com/1inch
Mildred Idada from Open Web Collective - https://twitter.com/MimiOWC https://twitter.com/openwebfounders

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

2:00 - Townhall Agenda

6:26 - Where NEAR Has Been - Illia and Alex

6:47 - The Origin Story of NEAR

11:05 - From Origin to Launch

17:18 - Where NEAR is Now - With CEO of the NEAR Foundation Erik Trautman

17:50 - The Purpose of NEAR

18:05 - What is NEAR

21:46 - NEAR Launch Timeline

22:36 - Key Stats on the NEAR Blockchain

24:47 - What is the NEAR Foundation?

27:14 - The NEAR Roadmap Going Forward with Alex S.

31:20 - EVM Support

33:30 - Bootstrapping Open Finance

35:00 - the NEAR Wallet

35:24 - NEAR Wallet Roadmap

36:04 - The Governance Forum

40:00 - 1inch Anton Bukov Sharded DeX

48:07 - Sasha (Aliaksandr) Business Update

52:59 - What NEAR Unlocks for Builders

53:30 - What Can You Build on NEAR?

56:30 - Video on the Open Web Collective

58:25 - NiMA and the NEAR Community

102:45 - Daniela Osorio Developers Building on NEAR - Demos

105:08 - yNEAR

106:50 - Planetary

108:56 - MyEcho

111:59 - Next Steps Peter DePaulo

113:20 - Trust Token on NEAR

119:54 - NEAR Swag Shop Demo

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