This is an election year unlike any other in ways that are unsettling and dangerous. Unconventional Threat brings together exclusive interviews with newsmakers about everything that can happen between now and Inauguration Day, when it's possible we may still not have chosen a President. Journalist Peter Eisner and longtime State Department official Jonathan Winer will outline all the possibilities, including: the use of the military; uncounted ballots; and one scenario where the House of Rep ...
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People, Product and Crypto. Wild User Interviews is about open-sourcing open-ended conversations with the creative forces shaping up the decentralised world. In the wild, our guests range from Product Designers to Blockchain Architects, and include topics such as Philosophy and Proof-of-Stake. The common thread being our focus on the human side as he try to deconstruct the frameworks and processes to enable listeners to become the better version of themselves while venturing into the Metaverse.
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Wide ranging conversation with Eric Winer, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Managing Director at Pagoda. What makes this podcast special is that it was recorded just a few days after the announcement of several spinouts and the rest of Pagoda sunsetting came out. Which sets the scene for a very honest and insightful Eric. Some of the topics we co…
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Ep. 67 - Beyond Memecoins: Discover The Movement to Achieve SuperIntelligence w. Cameron Dennis
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This is the second conversation we have with Cameron Dennis, although the first one never got released as it was deemed too spicy! Cameron was one of the earliest contributors to NEAR Inc, spearheading Business Development and eventually recruiting a BD team. He's outlasted several NEAR Foundation CEO's, even it as some point he parted ways with NF…
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Ep. 66 - From Infra Saturation to Mass Consumer Applications w. Romain @ Polymorphic Capital
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Wide ranging conversation with Romain Despoel, an associate at Polymorphic Capital. Romaind and AVB met at ETH CC Brussels 2024 and immediately hit if off. Some would say that sharing across two hackathons in such a short timeframe would bring any two people together, but we believe it is due to their shared past growing up in Venezuela that they h…
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Wide Ranging conversation with Nick Havryliak, co-founder at Assisterr. Assisterr is a Data Provenance Protocol & Marketplace of domain-specific Small Language Models (SLMs) owned by the community. Summary In this episode we discuss the convergence of Web3 and AI. They delve into Nick's background in consulting, product management, and his journey …
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Wide ranging conversation with Mario Reder. Mario is an engineer at Orderly (on-chain perps), lead dev at Shitzu (NEAR's OG memecoin and most active community). Some of the topics we covered include: - How we was lured from being a web2 developer to web3 thanks to WASM - The beauty and nuance of Rust language - The origins of Shitzu: how AGT manage…
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Zahid is the founder of Jutsu. Jutsy is the co-pilot of web3 enabling and empowering developers to be 10x more efficient! Some of the topics we cover on this wide ranging conversation: 1. Just origins: feeling the pain points at ETH Denver 2023 hackathon 2. Jutsu evolution: hackers using it and winning in the wild 3. Philosophical musings on AI: de…
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Resources Blog Post 'Nearcon: the Post Protocol Era' - https://thecryptospace.substack.com/p/nearcon-the-post-protocol-era-is Nearcon 2023 Panel: DAOs and Collective Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj2PpoZW47g&t=14431s The Big V Value Thesis - https://x.com/DrNickA/status/1749062167188349052?s=20 'Why? The purpose of the Universe' by D…
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On this podcast we sit down with Boris Polania, from NEAR DevHub. Some of the topics we cover are: - Boris background: challenges as an entrepreneur and frustrating with the political class in Venezuela - Complexity Science and DAOs - DevHub role and initiatives to growing the NEAR ecosystem - and more! Resources - DevHub Home Base on BOS - https:/…
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Jonathan and Edward are co-founders at Meteor Wallet, one of the main and rapidly growing wallet in NEAR ecosystem. Prior to founding Meteor, Jonathan joined Edward in NEAR Tinker Union, a rich NFT community focused on the technology, innovation and product. Resources Meteor Wallet Website - https://meteorwallet.app/ NEAR Tinker Union (NTU) Website…
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Bonus Special Episode: Cross-posting the first episode of the DevHub Unplugged Podcast, a new series produced by DevHub Link to Original Podcast: https://youtu.be/Ke5c3GS5-KU Subscrite to DevHub Unplugged: DevHub Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@NEARDevHub Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/24Ns7EaHzEhMl8OQqrkomg Apple Podcasts - https://pod…
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Ep. 58 - There is No Future for Existing Oracles or Bridges w. Peter & Jasper, co-founders @ SEDA Protocol
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Peter (CEO) and Jasper (CTO) are co-founders at SEDA Protocol, a base layer focused on interoperability. You may know them from Flux, their prior First Party Oracle protocol - Flux. On this pod, we waste no time and we go DEEP into the future of decentralised infrastructure and what would be required for mass adoption. The promise? Chain abstractio…
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David Weinstein is the current Chief of Staff at NEAR Foundation. Some of the topics we cover on this wide ranging conversation with David: * David Background - from great intellectual input at a large financial firm to optimise tiny credit card margins to working at LinkedIn, Circle, and now NEAR Foundation * Road to Self-Actualisation: where do c…
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Ep. 56 - "We Don't b* About It. We Focus on High Impact Initiatives Instead" Pet3r @ NEARWEEK
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Wide ranging conversation with Peter, co-founder at NEARWEEK, the OG newsletter of the NEAR ecosystem. Some of the topics we cover on this conversation include: * How high levels of trust in government in Denmark have shaped the web3 landscape there. * Role of adversity in hustle and ambition * Getting things done * NEAR ecosystem: evolution, chall…
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Ep. 55 - I Look Peaceful But On the Back End I Calculate Things by The Second w. Erica Kang
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Erica Kang is the founder of KryptoSeoul, a leading community building team in South Korea made up of professional communicators, marketers, and analysts. Some of the topics we cover on this wide ranging conversation include: * Origins of KryptoSeoul: transitioning from Korean Corporate world to crypto. * Importance of Brand and Reputation: how to …
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Ep. 54 - You Will Get Destroyed By Someone Who Focuses More on People w. Kendall Cole, Proximity Labs
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Kendall Cole is the founder and CEO at Proximity Labs, also known over time as the 'Defi Arm' of NEAR Ecosystem. On this wide ranging conversation with Kendall, you can actually hear the energy and the tone in the room change as time goes on. As we keep hitting him with quirky jokes, and asking genuine questions from every angle, Kendall finally st…
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Ep. 53 - We don't need infrastructure, we need consumer facing apps w. Riqi, co-founder @ Paras, Arkana & Akoma
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Riqi is the co-founder of Paras, Arkana and Akoma and one of the five NEAR Community Treasury Trustees. This podcast was recorded in person, at the Paras HQ in Jakarta on September 4, 2023. This is a wide ranging, wholesome, at time hilarious conversation where you can see Riqi and AVB become best friends in real time while talking about: * The Ori…
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Mike Purvis is an engineer, builders, and awesome human being. Early NEAR Core, co-founder at Croncats, and current contributor to Cosmos. Some of the topics we cover on this wide ranging conversation with Mike: Origins Story - Mike joining NEAR early days (2020) - working alongside founding team, hustle beast mode on. Serendipity - magic happens w…
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Ep. 51 - Web3 isn't a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Making a Sh*t Game w. Hugo & Jon, @ PlayEmber
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PlayEmber is a mobile games studio with over 100 million downloads. PlayEmber is making web3 easy & rewarding for players, developers & creators. Their web3 team are building the infrastructure and games to mass onboard web2 games into web3. they are already Top20 Blockchain Game and still in private beta. On this wide ranging conversation with Pla…
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Ep. 50 - When PsyOps & Jokes Turn Serious w. Plug, Chief Decentralisation Officer @ Banyan Collective
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Web3 Plug is the mastermind behind many great projects on the NEAR ecosystem and beyond. Plug agreed to come on the Wild User Interviews podcast as long as he could remain anonymous. Masked up and constantly moving in the middle of the night at an undisclosed location, we do DEEP... Some of Plug's publicly disclosed affiliations include: co-founder…
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Some of the things we cover: * State of the NDC - airing and listing grievances from a Builder's perspective (Diving deeper into The Viral Tweet). * Anatomy of a Revolution: AVB got sacrificed first for speaking out, now moderates are coming forward with a silent majority behind us. * What happens when a chain's main product become's governance? In…
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Wide ranging conversation with Carolin Geier, co-founder at Mintbase and one of the five NEAR Community Treasury Trustees. This podcast is a short one but packed with goodies where we come, among other things: * The beginning: from German Parliament researching 'Distributed Ledger Technology' to meeting Nate working on Blockchain and NFTs. * Changi…
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Alex Chiocchi is the Chief Product Officer at Pagoda. Prior to joining Pagoda, Alex was en early LinkedIn employee, founded and exited an AI startup (that used one of Illia's open source libraries), and worked at Kraken. On this wide ranging conversation we cover many things, including: * What makes a good product - frameworks for building successf…
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Ep. 46 - Governance, Culture & Economics: Unpacking NDC. w. Illuminfti, Core Contributor @ GWG
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Podcast Recorded July 3, 2023 Illuminfti is the co-founder of Anti-social Labs and a core contributor to the NEAR Digital Collective (NDC) Governance Working Group (GWG). This is a wide ranging, unfiltered, and at times spicy conversation where we cover: * Illuminfti Journey: from College in US to startup ecosystem in UK * Crypto Counterculture. * …
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Didier Pironi îs an OG of NEAR ecosystem. Previously served as Product Manager at REF Finance, the leading DEX on NEAR. Current he is co-founder at PikeSpeak, advanced analytics tool. Some of the topics we cover on this wide ranging conversation: * Journey from Consultant at PWC to becoming a web3 Builder * The impact that working at Techstars and …
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Podcast recorded live in Seoul as part of the ETH Seoul and Asia Buidl 2023 tour. Discover the untold potential of Web3 as we navigate the world of blockchain technology with Agwn, the founder of Lidium – a Web3 education venture in Korea – and co-organizer of ETH Seoul. Together, we'll examine the unique aspects of Korea's history and culture that…
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Alina Tustanovska is the COO at INC4, CEO of Spaceport Labs, DAO Council member at AirDAO, friend with Open Forest Protocol. Most recently, Alina has been appointed as one of the five NEAR Community Trust Trustees. This is the second instalment of the 'Get to Know the Trustees' Series, episodes where we dive deep to uncover who the stewards of the …
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Wide ranging conversation with Ben Kurrek. Ben is a Software engineer @ Pagoda (prev. NEAR Inc), ex DevRel Engineer @ Pagoda, co-founder @ Keypom, student at University of Waterloo Engineering. On this wild conversation we cover A LOT including: Ben's journey into blockchain and NEAR protocol as a total beginner. Reflections on branding, marketing,…
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Wide ranging conversation with Alex Sims, is an Associate Professor at the Business School at Auckland University , has a PhD in DAOs, and is part of the Executive council of Blockchain New Zealand. Some of the topics we cover: * Being an 'unconventional academic' - shifting entire area of research after 20 years. Journey from Copyright to Crypto. …
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In this episode, I had a fantastic conversation with Antonio Gone Multichain, exploring his journey from Spain to Malaysia and his involvement with Near Malaysia, Near Starter, and the Near Digital Collective. We discussed the importance of gold and cryptocurrencies as diverse stores of value, the impact of travel on our lives, and empowering regio…
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Ep. 39 Better Engineering with the Understanding of Enterprise Technologies w Sheldon Dearr
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In this captivating conversation with Sheldon Dearr, we dive deep into the world of crypto, exploring his journey from discovering the Bitcoin white paper in 2008 to navigating the complex ICO market and the current NFT landscape. Sheldon is a technologist, humanist, thinker, and cheeseball (self-proclaimed). Throughout our discussion, we touch on …
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Alex Shevchenko is the CEO of Aurora, a next-generation Ethereum compatible blockchain and ecosystem that runs on the NEAR Protocol, and powers the innovations behind Aurora Cloud—the fastest path for Web2 businesses to capture the value of Web3. On this wide ranging conversation with Alex we cover a range of topics including: * The importance of s…
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Wide ranging conversation with Elena Obukhova, co-founder of Supermoon. Elena is, allegedly, not a spy. Having lived in 9 different countries including Russia, China and Argentina give Elena a unique perspective as to the problem that Web3 is trying to tackle. Some of the topics we cover are: * Unique challenges of organising IRL events (Road to ET…
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Wide ranging conversation with Ben, co-founder of DecentLand, a multi chain social and online identity protocol. Some of the topics we cover are: Ben's journey and evolution into the Arweave ecosystem Decent.land origins at a Hackathon and on-going iterations based on community feedback Importance of a welcoming, nurturing community for a nascent e…
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On this episode we get to sit down with Addie Geise, who's recently joined Banyan Collective as Head of Community in December 2022. On this wide ranging conversation we cover a lot of topics including: * Addie's journey into crypto - disappointment with healthcare industry and * Evolution within Crypto - from online casino to a real opportunity for…
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Ep. 34 - Carbon: The Missing Link to Unlocking Value from Nature w. Michael Kelly, co-founder at Open Forest Protocol (OFP)
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Wide ranging conversation with Michael Kelly, also known in the NEAR Ecosystem as Ozymandius, co-founder of Open Forest Protocol (OFP). Open Forest Protocol is building a system to measure, report, verify, and fund reforestation & afforestation projects only possible with crypto, unlocking projects that are too small for traditional registries. Som…
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Ep. 33 - Web3 Wallet with Web2 Financial Features for Mass Onboarding. Petr Volnov @HERE Wallet
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On this wide ranging conversation with Petr we cover: * 'Easter European Mode' - winning every NEAR Hacker House in the US * HERE Wallet approach to UX/UI * Building Web3 financial tooling - like Venom or Zelle but better and accessible to everyone worldwide * The Problem I: US market monopoly, lacks competitiveness * The Problem II: most of the de…
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Some of the topics we cover: * NEARCON 2022 - wild experience. * Jordan's Origins - from Art + Tech nonprofit to NEAR Protocol * NFTs - origins and evolution. Digital gentrification? * Challenges and new approaches to DAOs: * Putting the human back in the equation - applying Design Thinking to DAOs * Onboarding and off boarding - quadratic quorum!?…
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This podcast is shorter than usual - time in the Podcast Booth was precious - we explore several topics - * The State of Content Creation on NEAR * Current Challenges and Opportunities * Explore the Idea of Decentralising Content Creation (User-generated content) * and more! If you want to contact Chad... just DM any of the NEAR Protocol main accou…
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Ep. 030 - "With Great Technology Comes Great Responsibility" Sandi Fatic, Founder & CEO @ Calimero Network
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On this amazing conversation Sandi draws from his experience as a three-time startup founder and Big Tech (Google and Facebook) as well as personal experience growing up in Croatia and Yugoslavia to cover many topics such as: * Mass adoption requires a combination of Technology AND Business Models * Privacy is the missing component in the tech stac…
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Some of the topics we cover: State of Marketing in Web3 Branding 101: What does the customer want? Crafting Products & User Experiences Grandma can use Migrant experience: Washington DC to Denmark How to survive bear market: marketing and funding strategy And more!由Alejandro V. Betancourt
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Some of the topics we cover include: * What is Big Brain Holdings? How to invest and nurture in multiple blockchain ecosystems * Layer One (L1) Investment Thesis * What he looks out for on potential investments * Thoughts on NFT, Onboarding, Growth and more! References & Resources Big Brain Holdings Blunt DAO - The decentralized autonomous sesh & b…
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Ep. 027 - Innovation is a Product Requirement. Building Web 3 Products and UX w Max & Ravi @ Magic Powered
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Some of the topics covered include: Magic Powered Organisation Structure (Collective v Agency) Styles of Work (Unstructured v Process Driven) The current state of Product and UX in Web 3: challenges, opportunities Basic principles of Design & UX Experience building on NEAR And more...! Resources https://magicpowered.io https://twitter.com/MagicPowr…
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Ep. 026 Uncovering a Conspiracy, Integrating with Layer Zero - Curt Shilling, founder @ Real Birds
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We cover: The origins: getting involved with Bitcoin, introduction to Libertarianism, Austrian Economics, hyperinflation. Conspiracy Theories: What, Why, How? (They are all true) Challenges for Web 3 Mass Adoption Tackling misconceptions around DAOs, NFTs (pushing back against common, bad practices in ecosystem) Introduction to Layer Zero: an omni-…
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Keep Our Republic's Jonathan Winer speaks with CBS News Chief National Affairs and Justice Correspondent Jeff Pegues. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Keep Our Republic's Jonathan Winer speaks with CBS News Chief National Affairs and Justice Correspondent Jeff Pegues. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Ep. 025 - Origins of NEAR, fight for the Open Web, Gaming on NEAR and more w Aliaksandr “Sasha” Hudzilin @ HumanGuild
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Resources & References NEAR.ai to Near Protocol Gaming on NEAR Twitter Space w ZARA, June 30 Two Games on top 15 Smart Contracts on NEAR, June 29 Richard Stallman & the Future of Software Innovation by A. Hudzilin “Why Software Should be Free” by Richard Stallman “What Comes After Open Source?” by Denis Nazarov Aggregation Theory by Ben Thompson Th…
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Ep. 024 Seizing the Memes of Production w David Morrison, Community Engagement @ NEAR Foundation
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On this wide ranging conversation with David, we cover wide range go issues including: * how blockchain technology and crypto empowers people to build an alternative to some of the world's problems, including 'conspiracy theories' * Marketing Challenges and Opportunities * Evolution of Ecosystem and Role of the NEAR Foundation References David's Ti…
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References & Resources Website - https://www.mintbase.io Documentation - https://docs.mintbase.io Mintbase <> Arweave integration - https://blog.mintbase.io/mintbase-arweave-9459f3889c79 Mintbase Series A fundraise - https://medium.com/mintbase/mintbase-raises-7-5m-series-a-5m-grants-pool-to-pioneer-utility-nft-infrastructure-850c9b2bd476 How to ap…
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Ep. 022 Stake Wars: Episode III - Next Stage Decentralization w Blaze, Open Shards Alliance
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Some of the topics covered on this episode include: * Blaze Path to NEAR: from Ethereum miner to staking validator mastermind * Open Shards Alliance: origins, current role in ecosystem * Core Technical Concepts required to understand Stake Wars * NEAR Security and Threat Model - challenges of adding 67% of all validators in one go * Stake Wars - wh…
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Ep. 021 Rocketry, Blockchain & Music: You can learn anything w Patrick McNally, Cypher Protocol
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Some of the topics we cover are: Perspective of an outsider attending NEAR Lounge @ ETH Denver. Interesting lessons on crafting IRL onboarding experiences Reflections on an unsuccessful NFT launch. Value of experimentation and iteration Vision and Mission: Innovating on Web3 Music 100 True Fans Concept. How to identify them, reach them, etc. Specia…
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