Let’s be honest – most people avoid crypto for good reasons. Scams, pump-and-dump coins, and endless stories of people losing everything make it feel like the whole space is nothing more than a ponzi scheme. And in some corners, that’s true. But that’s only part of the story. Behind the noise and the bad actors, […]
Breaking down Proposal ID 11 – New Voting Mechanism in plain language… Purpose To define proposed functional and non-functional requirements for a new voting mechanism as part of the NDC Voting Framework (NDC VF). Assumptions active community members should have more influence than passive members voting should be private during the election I am Human […]
Onboarding is a Catalyst in the Journey to a Billion Users The founders of NEAR Protocol designed it from the bottom-up with a focus on usability both from an end-user and developer perspective. That focus, combined with super low gas fees, ~1s block finality, and infinite scalability via sharding make it feasible to develop applications […]
A huge foundational component of a couple of the DApps I’m currently building on NEAR are centered on user interactions and contributions in a community setting. One of them is a project I started this week that will even be a submission for HackFS. In attempting to architect them in a decentralized fashion, I need […]