2. Who am I?
Erik Trautman
CEO @ NEAR Foundation
Former founder and longtime educator… my job
is to help make developers and entrepreneurs
like you successful!
3. Who is behind NEAR?
● 5 ex-Googlers, early MemSQL
engineers, Facebook, ConsenSys
● 2 ACM ICPC world championships, 4
gold medals, 10 finals;
● 9 ex-founders;
● Funding from Metastable, Electric,
Accomplice, Multicoin, Pantera, IOSG
● Distributed across 6 countries (so far)
4. What *is* NEAR protocol?
NEAR Protocol is a community-run platform which allows
developers to build unkillable applications from shared
state components that natively interface with digital value.
Under the hood, the blockchain that drives it is:
1. Public and permissionless
2. Proof-of-Stake
3. Dynamically sharded
A suite of application-layer tools powers developer and
end-user experiences that are comparable with today’s web.
“If thou wouldst scaleth,
thou must shardeth. “
- WISDOM OF NEARKAT
5. What does that mean to you?
This is the easiest blockchain for
developers and their users to work with.
● Write code easily using TypeScript
● Write both the front end and back
end in the same folder structure
● Work with common sense tooling
and patterns
● Use our Wallet and Explorer too
TRY IT! Test-drive the tooling and launch
an application in 60 seconds at
studio.nearprotocol.com
6. Prizes:
near.org
Easy: $100 for SSO and $500 for every
project that utilises accounts and store
data against a NEAR account id
Hard: $5000 + 5000 tokens prize for the
best submission using NEAR
Need help? Go to http://near.chat.