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Alex Skidanov & Illia Polosukhin: NEAR Protocol – Scaling Blockchain to a Billion Users
FromEpicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
Alex Skidanov & Illia Polosukhin: NEAR Protocol – Scaling Blockchain to a Billion Users
FromEpicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
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81 minutes
Released:
Feb 19, 2022
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Podcast episode
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NEAR Protocol is a leading smart contract platform that aims for simplicity, security and scalability. NEAR was one of the first sharded blockchains and allows deploying smart contracts using Web Assembly on currently four different shards. NEAR's sharding design, Nightshade, splits the blocks into different segments, which allows for great scalability without negatively impacting user and developer experience. Since, its launch NEAR has evolved into one of the most active smart contract ecosystems.Illia and Alex, co-founders of NEAR, joined us to chat about the NEAR's protocol design and recent advances, such as the launch of Aurora, NEAR's EVM shard. We also discussed how their sharding solution works and how it can scale to support a massive amount of users and applications.Topics covered in this episode:Why Illia and Alex decided to build NEARNEAR's core idea to scale through shardingNEAR’s Nightshade sharding designDealing with interactions between programmesHow cross-shard interoperability worksAurora - the EVM shardNEAR's focus on user experiencePagoda - the first web3 startup platformThe biggest challenges aheadEpisode links:NEAR ProtocolAuroraNEAR on TwitterAlex on TwitterIllia on TwitterSponsors:Gnosis Safe: Gnosis Safe is a smart wallet for securely managing digital assets and allows you to define customized access permissions. - https://epicenter.rocks/gnosissafeTally: Tally is a new wallet for Web3 and DeFi that sees the wallet as a public good. Think of it like a community-owned alternative to MetaMask. - https://epicenter.rocks/tallycashThis episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/431
Released:
Feb 19, 2022
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Podcast episode
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