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"Chain abstraction is the most egalitarian thing I've ever seen. It's insanely ambitious and if it works, can really reshape the fabric of society"
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NEAR has
- Data availability
- Account abstraction
- Fast finality
- Smart contract royalties
- WASM
- AI
- Zero Knowledge
- Dragons
- Cats
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While most are focused on "owning the narrative" by trying to eat into each other's share of the pie,
@NEARProtocol
is committed to "changing the narrative" by increasing the size of the pie.
#BuildingforBillions
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The first ever "NEAR Lands Musical" is live now at courtesy
@salomonsen_p
and
@clarianmusic
- Human Guild meetups are easily the best thing to close your week with!
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Imagine what this giga brain must be cooking now at the intersection of AI x blockchain 🐉
Paper "Attention Is All You Need" is now out -
#MachineLearning
#NLU
#machinetranslation
#deeplearning
#TensorFlow
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In other news, we now have more than 10 million NEAR accounts! Take a step back from speculation and take a look at stats that matter
#MassAdoptionIsNEAR
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Anyone interested in building out a
@NEARProtocol
x
@urbit
gateway or frontend experience using ? Please feel free to reach out or comment below, would love to support!
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Looking to hire a technical writer to work with my team on putting together the best in class research reports and long-form technical content highlighting the core strengths of
@NEARProtocol
Referrals welcome, DMs open
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“Black dragon” is the zeitgeist encompassing the full cultural spectrum of NEAR and is more than just a pseudonym. From frontier tech to memes, black dragon is the center of gravity that pulls this diverse ecosystem of contributors together.
Glorious to see it take flight 🐉
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Teams in the NEAR ecosystem looking at the current narratives that were already implemented on
@NEARProtocol
mainnet on day one
"The first rule of shipping frontier tech is you do not talk about shipping frontier tech"
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No one from NEAR ever proclaimed NEAR to be "ETH-killer", these labels were mostly popularised by insecure maxis; everyone I know has massive respect for ETH, which is why we've implemented account abstraction, human readable names, smart contract wallets, sharding, Aurora, etc.
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Very proud to unveil the new NEAR DA layer!
NEAR DA is the empirically the most high scale, low cost data availability layer in web3 right now, powered by
@NEARProtocol
's dynamic sharding that enables instant finality and extremely cheap data availability for rollups building
The modular era has arrived and NEAR is set to take centre stage.
Introducing the NEAR Data Availability Layer.
Hot off the press at NEARCON23, NEAR DA is set to launch to offer secure, cost-effective data availability for ETH rollups. 🌐
NEAR DA marks NEAR's entry into the
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NEAR will be home to some of the coolest new DeFi protocols this year, bookmark it 🌊
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Throwback to when
@AlexSkidanov
shipped the NEAR devnet and conducted initial Nightshade performance tests on Twitch streams while wearing a funky unicorn costume, I remember watching it four years ago and literally saying WTF out loud
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NEAR is the modular underdog
- Battle tested blockchain that actually scales
- Asynchronous execution that's smoother than the butter on your breakfast toast
- Empirically the most cost effective data availability layer for rollups
- Lighting fast finality and low block latency
The latest price comparison on
@NEARProtocol
DA cost vs that of
@CelestiaOrg
:
No hypothetical calculation. Straight up fees from the testnet, soon to be tested on the mainnet!
Sending the same 1 OP blob (231kb) would cost:
- $0.046 on Celestia
-
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This has been happening on
@NEARProtocol
since day one where 30% of the gas fees goes to the respective contract as developer incentive.
imagine you built a public good onchain. and every time a user spent $1 on gas, you got $.20.
forever.
that’s contract secured revenue on canto.
completely permissionless. completely open. we’ve tried EF grants. we’ve tried quadratic funding. but we need something that scales.
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For the naysayers who scoff at the idea of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence working in tandem to solve complex challenges, are you even following
@NEARProtocol
?
Illia Polosukhin (
@ilblackdragon
) left G in Feb 2017 🧐 … he founded
@NEARProtocol
(competitor to Ethereum
/ Solana) in June 2017. NEAR is currently valued at $2 billion ~. Looks like they have raised $375 million ~ and done lots of secondary rounds. 😮
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2024 will be the year we blitzscale the
@NEARProtocol
ecosystem through:
Horizontal scaling
Vertical composability
Web3 consumer apps
Enterprise adoption
Gaming
Autonomous worlds
Liquid staking
Solid progress on multiple fronts already
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With several mass market consumer unlocks happening on
@NEARProtocol
, it's time for the ecosystem to be loud:
Using NEAR? Be loud!
Building on NEAR? Be loud!
Backing projects on NEAR? Be loud!
Working for a project on NEAR? Be loud!
Heck, do you fucking hate NEAR? Be loud!
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RT if you want Lex Fridman to host
@ilblackdragon
on his podcast! Would love to see them discuss blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies among other things.
@lexfridman
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Just did some weekend sweeping to support one of the most hardworking teams on NEAR
All your
@NearTinkerUnion
now belong to me muthafuckas, think twice before paper handing your legendary tinkers
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Two
@ilblackdragon
podcasts diving into all things NEAR and chain abstraction dropped today that you can't miss anon:
Bell Curve with
@hxrts
hosted by
@hal2001
@MikeIppolito_
Lightspeed hosted by
@0xMert_
@GarrettHarper_
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As a contributor who's been in the NEAR ecosystem since the days when Berry Club used to be the most used app, I cannot be more proud of how far we've come and more excited about where we're going next: 700+ mainnet apps, 500+ DAOs and counting!
#NEARisNow
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The quality of teams preparing to launch new NEAR-native DeFi protocols is super inspiring. Some of the most forward thinking and high signal group of builders I have spoken with recently.
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On this
#EarthDay
I am grateful to everyone involved in the
@NEARProtocol
ecosystem, thanks for contributing to a better, more sustainable future for all. NEAR's climate-neutral infrastructure is the best platform to build projects & organise communities in this digital economy!
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DeFi unlocks for non-smart contract chains (BTC, DOGE, etc.) without wrapping the native assets/s is still one of the biggest opportunities in crypto.
Excited for experiments powered by
@NEARProtocol
chain signatures without compromising the security guarantees of native assets.
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With many groundbreaking things happening in the NEAR ecosystem on the protocol and application level, we need some strong up to date theses to weave it all together for newcomers. If you're interested in contributing, reach out.
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This guy walks in and abstracts your chain, what are you going to do?
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I've become too comfortable being lazy the last few months, time to dust these out and start running again!
Celebrating the
@SweatEconomy
and
@NEARProtocol
partnership the way it should be!
#MassAdoptionIsNEAR
#MoveToEarn
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Most of you aren't ready for the new breed of apps that will be built on top of
#NEAR
BOS in the coming weeks. Deploying decentralised frontends for web3 apps is only the beginning, now imagine being able to create an autonomous social environment for your regular web2 users.
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Not surprised that
@ilblackdragon
was literally the only one who talked about community-driven protocol governance and developer and user experience on the L1 Wars Twitter Space
#MassAdoptionIsNEAR
😎
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For the sake of threadoors, recommend dropping no more alpha like this please
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When two of your best friends set out to build one of the coolest startups in this space, you cannot be bullish enough.
Nuff said, the future is NEAR
This week marks my final week at the
@NEARFoundation
⋈
It has been an extraordinary journey, starting from when I met
@chronear
on a Discord channel, leading to my year and a half at the
@NEARFoundation
, where I have genuinely tried my best to contribute to the
@NEARProtocol
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The thesis behind
@NEARProtocol
's architecture is quite simple: Account abstraction, smart contract royalties, flexible key management, smart wallets, etc. should be fundamental and native to the blockchain, instead of being fancy features that users have to wait months for.
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Just direct your friends to the $NEAR wallet and watch the UX do its magic. You will never have to convince them again.
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Illia joining the NEAR Foundation as CEO is extremely powerful for the ecosystem. I was always fascinated by his vision for NEAR and his approach of taking the Foundation to the builders instead of telling the builders to go to the Foundation is what we need now more than ever.
News: I'm excited & honored to join NEAR Foundation as CEO.
The NEAR ecosystem is always evolving. My goal for our next phase is to help our teams work together more efficiently toward our shared vision of the Open Web.
Join us at
#NEARCON23
to learn about the future of NEAR!
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The past couple of months truly felt like the
@NEARProtocol
ecosystem moved as one, various nodes working in lockstep with wartime swiftness to bring
@ilblackdragon
's vision to life.
We embark on a new journey next week and there has never been a better time to be involved 🫡🐉
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Two simple rules of thumb you should always keep in mind:
- Never fade chain abstraction
- Never challenge
@ilblackdragon
to melee combat
You may not like it but this is what peak male performance looks like
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The NEAR ecosystem really owes a tonne of gratitude to OG devs like
@ekuzyakov
,
@zacodil
,
@salomonsen_p
,
@vgrichina
and others who continue to independently hack on some of the coolest stuff in crypto.
On-chain games, Dynamic NFTs, NEAR Social, Web4, etc. — these guys have
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Hearing
@ilblackdragon
lay out the vision of a future where millions of app-specific contract rollups symbiotically operate at scale this morning was mind blowing!
A simple explanation of the idea is that contract rollups will be the most powerful advancement in rollup
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NEAR DA crushing it on every single performance metric and you are still not paying attention anon?
You will be when you see the upcoming DA roadmap as part of the broader chain abstraction stack 🐉
Data availability has become increasingly important as rollups and appchains grow in popularity.
How do the different DA solutions compare in a quickly growing modular future?
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Feeling a mission-driven enthusiasm in the
@NEARProtocol
community over the past few weeks. More people are leaning in, giving feedback, volunteering to contribute, helping others, very encouraging heading into the new year.
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Pumped to work together with
@samkazemian
and the FRAX team!
This is just the first step in what is certain to be a powerful partnership, solid alpha from Sam on what users can expect in the coming months: NEAR native LSDs, DA integrations, RWAs, Stablecoins and the list goes on
Extremely excited for this partnership between
@NEARProtocol
&
@fraxfinance
. Frax-assets including sFRAX & sfrxETH will power Near DeFi yields. 🚀
In parallel we're already working on a frxNEAR LSD system & teaming up to integrate Near DA into Fraxtal. This is the first
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Love how
@starpause
captured the essence of community building that is powered by NFTs - "The collective energy that transcends cultures and human connections that can't be valued in monetary terms, this is the zeitgeist of our times."
@NEAR_China
@IothaP
@codame
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We are super excited to be working alongside legends like
@pet3rpan_
@ReadyPlayerDC
@PilsburyDAOBoy
@larryflorio
and others with the launch of
@HydraVentures_
Together we will explore incubation opportunities and support DAOs across several high-conviction, emerging categories!
Arise, Hydra!🐉
The
#NEAR
Foundation has joined forces with
@hydraventures_
on their quest to improve the investment DAO ecosystem.
The world’s first fund-of-funds investment DAO is here with
#Near
.
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ICYMI,
@ilblackdragon
announced the chain abstraction vision for the future of
@NEARProtocol
this week
But why should you care about the chain abstraction thesis?
ELI5: web3 UX and liquidity is already highly fragmented between various chains and there will always be new
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Just landed two solid new DeFi teams
Chain abstracted DeFi primitives will emerge sooner than you can imagine
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Retail when they finally realise
@ilblackdragon
was one of the brains behind Transformers, the foundational infra used in ChatGPT and is now the co-founder of
@NEARProtocol
I think
@NEARProtocol
is one of the biggest dark horses in all of crypto
Illia was one of the original folks behind LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini) and is extremely competent
the chain has a solid social layer, good devex, and is relatively differentiated
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Innovations happen at the speed of light in this space. What others see as huge strides by
@NEARProtocol
recently, I see as only baby steps. This isn't even a proper teaser of NEAR's final form. Brace yourselves folks, the layer-1 marathon is far from over.
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Going to tell my grandchildren this man is Lisan al-Gaib 🐉
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Hey NEAR Community, can we get
@humanguild
to 10,000 followers tonight? They're so close, let's make it happen!
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NEAR is fight club where world class teams battle test world class tech
"The first rule of chain abstraction is you do not talk about chain abstraction"
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NEAR 1600
Scholars working on chain abstraction during the Renaissance
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Any project that doesn't support cross chain integrations and focuses solely on building its own ecosystem is just building an echo chamber.
@NEARProtocol
aims to be the blockchain intersection, by building bridges with multiple chains. Everyone is a part of the $NEAR ecosystem!
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Casual reminder that NEAR will always be an L1 pushing the frontiers of scalability but continuing to extend its hyper composable capabilities for a multitude of use cases including modular
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#NewProfilePic
Got myself a custom NEARPunk from
@ArtofMonztre
. Finally joining the party, $NEAR well spent!
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Being able to zoom out and focus on execution is a superpower when popular discourse is filled with competing narratives.
Powerfully practical advice from
@NEARProtocol
co-founder
@ilblackdragon
, which is emblematic of the NEAR culture:
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Sending a "wagmi" text to someone today could mean the world to them. Be kind to each other because we're all in this together. Jokes and memes can wait. Times like these are litmus tests of our collective resilience, sending good vibes to everyone in this space!
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This is a
@Cameron_Dennis_
appreciation tweet for his relentless hustle and infectious passion for scaling the NEAR ecosystem 🐐
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Brought some NEARchans home, love how the artists gave a distinct personality to each that represents the on-chain culture on NEAR beautifully
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Take a look at something incredible is happening on AstroDAO while mainstream focus is on degen speculation. One of NEAR's biggest competitive advantages is the most user-friendly, innovative DAO-tooling. Communities of the future will collaborate on $NEAR
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@avalancheavax
@polychaincap
I see a lot more integrations and bridges being built in the future. Time for a NEAR bridge and
@fluxprotocol
oracle on AVAX!
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Native $USDC on $NEAR is here
1/ The wait is finally over. Throughout September & October, $USDC will launch natively on mainnet for
@BuildOnBase
,
@cosmos
via
@noble_xyz
,
@NEARProtocol
,
@optimismFND
,
@Polkadot
&
@0xPolygon
– expanding access to USDC from nine ecosystems to 15.
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Kudos to
@vgrichina
for coming with this novel approach to community building on social media with the
#dotnearfollowdotnear
campaign. Much more engaging and productive than buying hashtags & emoticons for social media marketing. NEAR community will rally behind this initiative!
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Watching this fascinating 3 year old lecture by
@ilblackdragon
on why NEAR decided to incorporate WASM in its architecture, making it possible to ship contracts in WebAssembly and why it is powerful.
Not surprised we see more blockchains doing it now.
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@Guerrilla
Absolutely stellar what Guerrilla has accomplished over the years with Horizon, here's to many more adventures of Aloy!
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Good read about how the NEAR Guilds Program is empowering creators by supporting a community of organised passion projects. Come build cool things with us and get rewarded for your contributions.
psst: Your boy is quoted here!
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Awesome
@humanguild
hangout with Rawbots, DragoNEAR and other projects.
@mikedotexe
stopped by and dropped some big alpha on a tool he's building, which coupled with Human Guild's vision can really help supercharge web-3 gaming on NEAR and build an expansive, creative network!
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My father once told me, “son if you look at the stars on a winter night, you can see the NEAR blockchain dynamically expand its shards” and starsighting has been my favourite hobby ever since
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Hearing rumours that
@pikespeak_ai
is about to ship some extraordinarily cool features to help users plan their NFT and DeFi moves more efficiently and analyse on-chain activity to the highest degree possible.
I would turn my notifications on.
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Wow I can literally feel the emotions behind this tweet. Culmination of years of hard work, countless hours of coding and building. Congrats
@ilblackdragon
@AlexSkidanov
and gratitude to every developer for bringing this vehicle of socio-economic change to life:
@NEARProtocol
It has been amazing to see
@NEARProtocol
community coming together at NEAR CON.
People working on everything from infra, DeFi, gaming, NFT artists, community and guild members, and way beyond has came up together to celebrate NEAR’s 1st year as permissionless network.
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@fasc1nate
Simple to just get off the bicycle and walk with it, burns more calories and saves public funds lol
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The 'narratives' of the next bull market are being built on NEAR right now.
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This blog by the irrepressible
@KingNEAR100
is an awesome beginner's guide to the proposed 200 million dollar mega-DAO that would be the pivot of all $NEAR DAOs in the days to come. Never been more excited about
@NEARProtocol
than right now!
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Awesome post by
@VitalikButerin
exploring the intersection of Crypto and AI, reviewed by
@ilblackdragon
, co-founder of NEAR
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Comprehensive yet super-quick summary by the
@4NTSGuild
Master Chief on things that make
@NEARProtocol
a trailblazing blockchain in the cryptoverse. Value comes from utility and $NEAR has been driving protocol utility at an unprecedented rate:
.
@NEARProtocol
is about to absolutely pop off. Among other projects: 1.
@auroraisnear
, 2.
@oct_network
, 3.
@finance_ref
, and 4.
@skywardfinance
.
There you have ETH Scaling, Real Appchains, Full Stack DeFi, and Fair token launches 😎🚀🔥
👇👇👇
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Probably too early to definitively say but the early signs of
@here_wallet
finding PMF are promising:
– Gas-free transactions
- New users competing to farm HOT
- HOT utility on the horizon
- Native NEAR liquid staking
- HOT/hNEAR pools soon?
- Repeat 🔁
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