# NEAR @ ETHDenver My first ETHDenver was a full on cyber citizen experience. A few themes seemed to permiate every conversation... NFTs, Scaling, and Interoperability. Dig further into these themes with bulleted take aways from sessions run by or featuring [NEAR](https://near.org/) team members. Besides NEAR things being where my interest naturally lay, I was generously awarded a 10 $NEAR grant from the [Createbase DAO](https://createbase.community/) to write these up. [Submit your own creative project proposal](https://sputnik.fund/#/createbase.sputnikdao.near) and join in the passion economy! If you enjoy synthesis extracts from talks and articles, follow [staRpauSe on mastodon](https://vis.social/web/accounts/36196) or [twitter](https://twitter.com/starpause). --- {%youtube bgIUt2yAgN4 %} [ETHDenver 2021 Opening Ceremonies: NEAR Protocol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgIUt2yAgN4) * $1M grant positions NEAR as developer experience leader in the ecosystem. * Projects focused on usability, adoption, & onboarding can apply for funds at http://near.org/grants. * NEAR complements ETH with its own EVM & trustless Rainbow Bridge. --- {%youtube 7CmIHooej5A %} [NEAR PROTOCOL Sponsor Feature, ETHDenver & ColoradoJam 2021 Feb 5th-12th](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CmIHooej5A) * NearProtocol (L1 chain) is focused on speed to market for apps and scalability for everyday usability. * Rainbow Bridge will let ETH developers benefit from NEAR speed & scale. * NEAR addresses are human readable (like ENS). --- {%youtube PuZb_yoFxXQ %} [Rusty NFTs on NEAR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuZb_yoFxXQ) - [Nate Geier](@nategeier) ([Mintbase](@mintbase )) For artists: * Mintbase is a NiftyGateway or SuperRare factory, allowing you to launch & own smartcontract storefronts. * UI supports split revenue/royalties & linking to liquidity/utility tie ins (defi, games, unlocks, ticketing, etc). * NFTs are on ARWEAVE & cryptographically hashed. For developers: * Mintbase users launched more than 1,014 stores on ETH over 2.5 years. * ETH gas fees rob NFTs of utility and Nate researched many workaround chains. * Mintbase is happy 6 months into rebuilding their platform on NEAR. * Mintbase rewrote their own indexer in RUST, new applications built on NEAR can use TheGraph. --- {%youtube 8Wt3wWZhUJo %} [War and Peace: The Multi-Chain Reality - Alex Skidanov (NEAR)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wt3wWZhUJo) * Hot take: The most adopted interop solution will be a killer app rather than a pure interop play. * Finality, permission/less, centralization, EVM support, and scaling are interoperability design choices. * No single choice can be one size fits all. * Ease of building and integration are something that new platforms like NEAR offer projects. --- {%youtube 7mO4yN1zjbs %} [WHERE ARE MY KEYS? Onboarding the Masses with NEAR Protocol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mO4yN1zjbs) - [Matt Lockyer](@nategeier) Conext: * NEAR is L1 but tools like Rainbow Bridge and EVM allow ETH developers to use it like an L2. * 2020 May: Mainnet launched * 2020 Oct: tokens unlocked, Mainnet decentralized, Paras & Berry Club launched. * DevRel team releasing loads of working demos that can be build upon and combined into full apps. Progressive Onboarding Demo: * NEAR Account Model enables new ways to onboard users while still being non custodial and enjoying all the power of readable account names. * Without any NEAR, user signs in as a guest. Guest account can only call cercertain functions in an app & has a gas limit. * Guest mints a new NFT and puts it on sale for 5Ⓝ. Someone buys it 😉😉 Funds are waiting in escrow. * Guest makes a new account at wallet.near.org. They send Ⓝ to the funding address via onboarding demo app. +1 NEAR user! * Rust contract and app review. Steal the code and build cool isht! --- {%youtube htT1MHzCuEk %} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htT1MHzCuEk [New Standards for DAOs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htT1MHzCuEk) - NiMA (NEAR), Illia (NEAR), James Young (Createbase) CTA: Contact DAO@NEAR.org with a proposal to access more than 100 million $NEAR in community fund! Standards: * We haven't solved governance in human history so crypto won't magically solve it. DAOs are just another tool & the social layer remains the most important. * For DAOs, standardization is an exercise in balancing the formalism of smart contracts with the fuziness of managing an organization or community. * Elements to standardize include membership, token roles, voting/nonvoting chairs, and how to interface (API) with other DAOs. * Interoperability is an crypto industry wide issue. Standards are the most widely adopted solution rather than the best solution. DAOs: * DAOs reduce coordination cost by automating mechanical parts of governance & management. * Small, focused, composable DAOs enable more fluid, dynamic, and innovative companies. * Social tokens offer informal DAO functionality like membership, implicit identity, and asset access. There are often different social tokens in play on any given discord or telegram chat. Resources: * [See 4NTS article for further details!](https://nearguilds.com/2021/02/17/eth-denver-episode-5-a-new-standard-for-daos-featuring-illia-polosukhin-nima-asghari/) * [Snapshot](https://snapshot.page/) can be used for off-chain voting. --- {%youtube j3wqHwlX_0E %} [ETH Denver Walkthrough w/NEAR Booth Sputnik DAO and MORE!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3wqHwlX_0E) Feature run through of the virutal space, more relevant durring the event... or if you want to experience some FOMO of what's past 😉 --- {%youtube JVUy9LXzwoE %} [Interoperability via the Rainbow Bridge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVUy9LXzwoE) - [Chad Ostrowski](https://twitter.com/chadoh?lang=en) Example Rainbow Bridge Uses: * Use ERC20 tokens in NEAR * Make NFTs in NEAR then send to Ethereum to list in larger marketplaces. * Balance liquidity and arbitrage across markets on both chains. Tech details ([details in slides](chadoh.com/rainbow-bridge-talk)): * Bridge peices are: Clients, Provers, and Connectors (in pairs) * With 2 chains there are 4 directions (each implements send & receive) * 4 steps to add to app: Dependencies, Initiate, List, Check in. * This is working on testnet and a March ETA for libraries. --- {%youtube ATG83gKdFUk %} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATG83gKdFUk Colorado Blockchain FTW: Project Edition - Dani Osorio (NEAR) * "It's not about a killer app, it's about a killer ecosystem" What CO companies are doing in blockchain. # CREATEBASE @ ETHDenver {%youtube W1cQDsy5PeM %} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1cQDsy5PeM The Invisible Economy - Bea Ramos, Sparrow Read - Sparrow Read (Createbase) --- {%youtube joVhwi7UWMY %} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joVhwi7UWMY NFTs For Everyone - Carolin Wend (Mintbase) & Sparrow Read (Createbase) & Chloe Lewis (Createbase) & Max Jackson (Paras.id artist) --- {%youtube YvF_3CC6R_w %} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvF_3CC6R_w Onboarding Diversity: Exploring community challenges and unique solutions - Chloe Lewis (Createbase) --- {%youtube qIHX6bXCyJk %} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIHX6bXCyJk Global Adoption: Where Are We Now? - Chloe Lewis (Createbase) ---