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NEAR Legion Open Mic #4 ft. Rhyme
Recorded: March 20, 2026 Duration: 1:00:15Space Recording
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Okay. Okay, hello everyone and welcome to what I think is the fourth Legion open mic space. And there's a lot of excitement around Legion events and city nodes, so I thought that would
be an interesting topic to go over today. So as usual, I have you and with me co-hosting and we've got rhyme as well.
So before we get started, just want to do a quick mic check from both of you.
I check.
Yeah, I can.
Hopefully others can as well. And you and yes, I can check. Yeah, I can. Hopefully others can as well.
And Ewan?
Yes, I can.
Okay.
Yeah, I think we can kick things off.
So in case you missed it, I think it was on Wednesday when we announced,
we dropped a blog post for Legion City Nodes.
So there's been a lot of events that Legion has been hosting
over the past couple of months.
And the natural evolution is to kind of grow these events
into something more formal and establish them as city nodes.
This is kind of one of the missions we have for the community in Legion.
But yeah, it would kind of probably start off things with discussing how the trajectory has been to set up this events pipeline,
which is primarily done by Ryan,
and then get perspectives from someone like you
and who has been an event host.
So Ryan, if you want to kick things off
on like how all of this kind of came to fruition and stuff.
how all of this kind of came to fruition and stuff.
Yeah, thanks, Potato, and thanks for hosting me today.
Yeah, it's been really cool to get this off the ground.
I would say, you know, the idea of city nodes and regional hubs
or, you know, whatever label you want to slap on it
is one of the ideas
that I probably feel the strongest about just because with the direction of, you know, automation
and all of these other things that are very dehumanizing in the sense and you know, taking
us further and further away from human connection, even greater premium
on that human connection.
And you know, you hear the word community thrown around all the time in the crypto space.
And you know, there's a lot of ambiguity as far as what that means to people.
And ultimately, it's people coming together and working towards shared goals, sharing same visions and
sharing passions at the end of the day. And, you know, that's really what I think is most exciting
about this is it's really a chance for, you know, people all over the world to share their passions
and my vision for, you know, the city nodes or any city really is for it to take on the identity of the hosts of the local network.
And everyone's going to have a different kind of function and theme and personality for these different regions and locations and ideally working from a place of strength and foremost interest where
some people will be more on the crypto side of things, other people will be more heavy on the AI.
Obviously, there's lots of hybrid.
It's even going across the more cultural and social to the technical and developer spectrum. So every event is going to
have parallels and similarities, obviously, since the overarching theme is near. But every event
is kind of going to take on its own identity and vision. And right now, in these early stages, there's been a whole lot of
great things to take from it. And what looks like is going to be a really successful
break in blueprint going forward. So we're really just trying to understand what these
different regions and locations, who they are, what they need, and really like what their community values the most,
and how we can help the hosts and those events coordinate the programming and to create the best experience possible within that footprint, the format that we're looking to create.
So we're very much trying
to templatize some of those to make that easier for people, especially coming in hosting new events.
We've gotten a lot of requests of people that are enthusiastic and excited about hosting an event,
but aren't quite sure how they want to do it. So we are working on making that easier
and through several different channels
and mediums and people
to try to kind of aggregate
and to create, you know,
content and resources
and, you know, things that people
can most consistently rely on
to be able to build that around.
Yeah, I mean, I just,
I think this is something
that has been needed for a long time.
I know that there's a lot of opinions about it,
or at least, you know, that has been previously,
as there always is with the kind of leftover feelings
and everything that's happened with previous iterations
of, you know, the NDC and trying to do regional hubs before.
But one thing that I've always maintained is those were not failed ideas. They were just failed execution. And I think that we're having a lot of really strong people start to emerge
and a lot of clarity as far as what a successful event looks like and you know i'm just looking forward to continue to
to improve and to to grow uh the network as as we've been doing it so i'll step down from my soapbox
yeah uh i think you said quite a few things but i think two things kind of stood out for me is
for me is everyone has an opinion around IRL presence and events in general, either for or
against. I kind of value the idea of having IRL events more than ever, as you said. I think you
said it earlier that now it's kind of more important than ever because like we're kind of getting consumed in like this digital world
like and with with ai kind of just i mean it's already there but like the there's a lot more
coming around the corner like you tend to value these experiences a lot more um and i i kind of
just i mean i'm not sure if you have like rough numbers on like how many events Legion has done thus far and like how many countries or cities have we hosted events in.
It's fine if you don't, but I'm just kind of curious if we have those numbers.
Yeah, so I mean, as of like March 1st, we've had 21. We've had several since March. So
we'll be over 30 events by the end of this month. April's already packed up as well.
And we've got overflow into May and like vision for, you know, at least a
couple events already starting to manifest really throughout the end of the year. So
we have a, we have quite, we have quite a bit of proliferation. You know, we're at like 19 cities
in nine countries. And, you know, we've got four more countries on the horizon
and seven new cities on top of that.
And the doc that I'm referencing right now
is probably not the most up-to-date either.
So there's probably a few more to round that out.
We're starting to get a whole lot more coverage and reach.
Definitely having some concentration in areas, in certain geographic locations, which
taking into great consideration and really just trying to objectively evaluate how things are unfolding. And like I said, this is something that I very much believe in.
So I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that everyone,
all these events are successful to whatever extent they can be.
And I'm under no delusions that that's, you know, going to be a
work in progress. But like you said, it's, there's a lot of, there's a lot of great things that have
come from it. A lot of things that make me, you know, even more optimistic than I was, you know,
coming in with it. So yeah, I think, I think we're going to have a really cool network and community foundation that a lot of other campaigns and communities will be able to replicate.
Or at least that's my goal.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's a big win to highlight this.
We're kind of averaging just over 10 or 12 events a month.
And it's only been about two and a half months
since we kicked things off.
So getting that up to scale
and making sure all of these events are impactful
and they're kind of delivering value
requires one, a lot of work
and two is a lot of coordination and two is like a lot of coordination uh so like it's not only
like i'm not only proud of like the quantity of events but also like some of the outcomes that
have come through it so i think that's a win uh one thing i'm kind of going through the list of
people who are listening in it's a nice thing to highlight that we have quite a few people in here
who either hosted an event themselves with Near Region
or they've attended one.
So, UN's hosted two already.
He's on his way to host a third one in the coming week.
Raul has attended one.
Modify has hosted one, I believe, in Ullo.
We have Jean who is looking to host one in Montreal.
If you know, you know Rajabal hosted a meetup in Egypt.
So that was really nice and yeah I think we had a few people as well I had I had someone else in mind to give a shout out to but I can't see them anymore
but it's interesting to see that you actually have people who hosted events joined this space
so that was cool but I think yeah you and just to kind of give you an opportunity to speak, I was kind of curious
to know about your experience with hosting events.
And as someone who hasn't hosted events, like, how you felt about it, like, what kind of
things have you noticed, and, like, what takeaways do you have from them what takeaways you have from them.
So maybe I'll give a bit of my experience.
If you want to host an event, do not be afraid.
Reach out to Rhyme, reach out to any of the Near Legion admins
and just say, hey, I have interest to do an event for Near Legion.
Where should I go?
So we will give you a form and then you could fill it in.
And then if we see that, okay,
this person is really a good member for Near Legion,
and they have proven themselves in the coming months,
you will have an opportunity to be able to host a Near Legion event and be part of the Legion vision moving
forward.
I would say do not worry if you're worrying about maybe, hey,
I need materials.
I don't know what kind of merge I want to do,
what kind of talking points should I bring up.
I would just say don't worry about those.
Just you could ask anyone,
like you could just head over to Rhyme,
ask for some advice, ask for some suggestions,
and then he will be able to give you a really good guide
on how you could start doing your first New Legion event.
Don't stress about it.
If you get the chance, I would say go forward with it.
Just ensure that you have the location right,
you have the members as well as the Luma links correct.
Since for some people, they do change
either one, the location at the last minute,
or sometimes they want to do maybe an outside venue.
So make sure that your Luma location is correct
so that the people that want to join
know where they need to go because like that would be a big issue with it a big issue with some of
like the some of the members that want to join your events so i think that's it uh uh we will
link over the meetup application later in the talk so i'll ask mr potato to pin that up later for anybody here that wants to do
a whole sub in the coming in the coming months as well i really hope to see more and more people
doing more near legion events throughout the globe and if you if you need any advice uh cut
just shoot me a dm and i'll provide as much advice or as much support from my site as possible. Thank you.
Cool.
Yeah, I think I'd like to pass it on to Rhyme.
Since Ewan was kind of given things to kind of look out for
and not be afraid of hosting a meetup, the question to Ryan would be,
what things are you assessing
that would kind of qualify a meetup to be successful?
Yeah, I think a couple of the biggest things,
and I'll start with a more kind of generic umbrella,
but being intentional and purposeful,
I think is really important.
Having an overarching goal
within the footprint,
within the way that you kind of direct programming
and create a very direct theme
and those things align.
And that's very ambiguous in a lot of ways. But, you know,
just for context, you know, we have the different tracks essentially where, you know, people are,
there's people that are more on the crypto side of things and there's people that are more on the
AI side of things. But I don't think it's any secret that,'re in the agentic era and we want people creating
agents and creating innovations and events that are catering and become safe places and
reliable and consistent spaces for people to learn and grow and to understand how this agentic world is evolving and how
NEAR is at the forefront of that and pioneering and really being able to answer the question,
why NEAR? Why is NEAR the answer to, you know, being able to frame that in different ways from, you know, presentations and education to, you know, prompting people to engage and to build and, you know, just even doing small functions, just, you know, getting familiar with an open claw, you know, near AI cloud.
you know, getting familiar with an open claw, you know, near AI cloud, you know,
it's definitely going to be a huge priority to locations and hosts that are able to curate those
environments where, you know, people are building and, you know, not just like building things just
to be building things, but, you know, finding reasons and justifications for these agents to exist and, you know, solving real problem,
you know, for individuals and, you know, people outside of the network and, you know, the businesses
to integrate, you know, whether it's an agentic flow, you know, on a small scale or, you know,
a payments system, you know, that does fiat and crypto if, you know, you're on the intense side.
system, you know, that does fiat and crypto if you know you're on the intense side.
I try to every, you know, every event, you know, that does get approved. I try to meet with the
hosts beforehand and, you know, get an idea of what their vision is and see how it best aligns
with the way that, you know, we're structuring and trying to, you know, be as impactful
and trying to, you know, be as impactful as possible within those parameters.
So it is becoming pretty highly competitive at this point, I would say.
You know, there's some really strong events and really strong locations that have started to emerge.
And, you know, it's in everyone's best interest if, you know, we want near to hit that magical number of 142 and change, you know, to double down on these best locations and to be able to scale them up and to, you know, really be, again, I think intentional and purposeful is kind of one of the lost ideas just in general in the crypto space. We all just kind of get lost in our own circular little world.
And, you know, there's a whole world that exists outside of our bubble and echo chamber that has real problems that, you know, we we claim that we can be able to solve, you know, with these tools and with these ideas.
And, you know, my challenge to everyone is like, let's solve them.
Like, let's solve them.
Yeah, I think the purposeful part one is a very important way to kind of describe what and adjust based on like cultural preferences and like different audiences.
So we had like meetups in Tokyo where the vibe is very different to like somewhere in India or other parts of Europe.
So I think like having that flexibility,
it's not like a rigid framework.
You have to kind of tick these boxes exactly,
but you're kind of empowering the hosts,
make sure they have everything they need,
but at the same time,
give them the freedom of like,
hey, we trust you to host things
to the best of your capacity
and do the best of your knowledge.
And we're not going to try
and kind of put you in this like sandbox uh where you can't kind of come up with your own ideas or
like offshoots on like how to kind of make it more impactful i think that's been something worth
highlighting that we don't have like these events don't look a copy paste of each other. Each has its own flavor to it.
Yeah, and I mean, I use the music industry parallels a lot in this space.
And I mean, I have for a long time because it is so similar.
But I compare it to the artists that thinks their music or thinks their songs are for everyone.
Nobody's music's for everyone. Not even Taylor Swift.
It's a very specific niche. It's a very specific fan base that they caters to.
And yes, that has appeal outside of that immediate bubble for the most part.
But ultimately, that has its own identity as other artists have their own identity and niche.
And, you know, it's the same principle here as we're doing events.
You know, I'm a big believer in, you know, you can't make someone that someone, somebody that they're not.
So, you know, again, one of my big principles is just, you know, operating from a point of strength
and, you know, putting people in a position, you know, where they can share their passions. And, you know, there's a lot of like meta,
like metrics. And, you know, I'm very much, I'm very much more into the qualitative data than I
am to the quantitative data. And that has a lot to do with things just being, you know,
so superficial with metrics and vanity metrics. And this isn't the only place
that it exists. Some of my greatest nightmares when I used to work in PR and marketing agencies
is clients coming in where they have botted follower accounts and it just makes the whole page
a mess. And you have people with a thousand followers that have so much deeper of a connection, you know, with their fan bases and, you know, actually get more people, you know, to support what they're doing.
So, you know, the big numbers aren't necessarily like, you know, what I'm looking for at all.
about the quality of relationships, the quality of communications, especially in these early
stages where we're trying to get our feet under our ground and figure out what is the
best way to be able to reach people where they are, ultimately.
And if we try to fit people in a box and try to do things that, I mean, I'm not going to
be the one that's like hosting hardcore
like agent hackathon. You know, that's not really like what my skill set is. And you
know, the same thing with, you know, a dev doing doing a music concert, which is, you
know, a little more extreme, but you know, it's this it's the same thing. So it's really
just about understanding people and, you know, connecting the dots and creating relationships.
Yeah, I kind of agree to like most of the points you said there.
Ewan, you've got your hand up.
Anything to add on this topic?
Yeah, and let me piggyback on what Graham said just now.
So just do your own thing.
Do not see like, hey, the other countries did this type of event.
I should follow them.
You could do something from workouts to workshops
to even just basic how-to- to near type of events.
It's fine. Everybody needs to start somewhere.
And we don't want to just have events that are just what Rhyme said,
copy-passed and it's just going to be like
the same type of event for all the different regions,
just in different languages. It doesn't make sense for us as well.
So just do your own way, just do your own style,
but it needs to just tie back into near, it needs to tie back into Ironclaw, it needs to tie back into Nier AI.
We just need to make sure that it fits your current demographic as well as the culture,
the language, as well as what you guys would be more used to seeing. So just create your
own pattern and just go out there and just do your events if you are doing
a Near Legion event in the future.
You could reference them,
but don't fully copy
what others say, in my opinion.
Yeah, I fully agree with that.
As long as the event is purposeful, right?
Like, there has to be, like,
some goals or, like, that you set beforehand, like, hey, I want to do this fun stuff, but I kind of expect to get X, Y, Z out of it.
So as long as you have a purpose in mind, you can make events as fun as you want. That's cool.
I have a somewhat controversial question or topic to bring up just based on some of the discussions we've heard in the chat.
Hey, why is Legion asking me to attend an IRL event?
Why am I being encouraged to do so?
I could just do an online one and attend that instead. I know I'm me personally,
including like how strong feelings against that. But yeah, I think it's worth bringing up just to
kind of make sure we kind of get our point across and stress the importance of meeting people face to face. Maybe, Ryan, if you want to go first.
Thanks. Thanks, Potato.
I love talking about participation trophies.
I mean, it's like, you know, it's one of those things,
like, if we're going to create things like missions
and we're going to create challenges and, you know,
ranks in the sense of like, you have to do things like, ultimately, there's going to be people that
are like, more inconvenienced or like, you know, less interested in completing that. But like,
that's kind of like how fan clubs and, you know and fan ecosystems work and loyalty and rewards and everything else.
Like, you know, if you want to be able to get like top prizes, you know, there's just certain things that you have to do.
Otherwise, it's just, you know, everyone's able to click buttons and all get the same things.
And I don't know that that sounds a lot like socialism to me,
which, I mean, can be a whole different conversation.
But, I mean, that's what it sounds like to me.
How's that for a hot take, Potato?
Yeah, I think it's fair. It's valid.
Ewan, you had some thoughts?
Yeah, let me add some thought on there as well.
So I know in Web3, there is a stigma of anonymity
or anons in Web3.
But in my opinion, there are two sides.
You could be anon, but like if you do reach out,
go to the events, meet the real people behind those PSPs,
you really do build those connections
and you really understand like who's here,
who's building, who's grinding.
And it's a whole different experience.
Like I've been in Malaysia,
I've joined different ecosystems event.
I joined the main Malaysia Blockchain Week as well.
I got to learn who was here,
who are the current builders
that I never really interacted with.
And we slowly built a better connection with each other
as well as trying to support one another
to push Malaysia up in the web ecosystem.
So near putting prioritize on the Legion events for you guys to meet rl it's
completely optional if you don't want to like uh dox yourself it's fine but if you do want to dox
yourself if you want to show who who that person is behind the pfp i can assure you like it's a
whole different experience as and you could like gain a lot through it as well and you really
build connections to the people when you meet face to face compared to like just chatting through
spaces like this in my opinion like there is a what there is like a better bond building
where we are just talking face to face we're drinking like drinking a beer at
shout out to International Sports Bar.
I know Jay is here and a few of the different people that went to Neercom, Mr. Potato as
well.
So we went to a sports bar.
We talked a lot about what Neer is doing, what we envision Neer is going to happen in
the future.
So yeah, you really gained a lot of alpha as well.
I'm going to shout out that as well.
Yeah, speaking about doxing like uh jay is kind of publicly
doxed now like he used to rock a black dragon pfp until recently but i think uh now he kind of
wants i mean not it is uh you you do get surprised when like after a long time, someone who you kind of,
you only identify based on a certain PFP,
they change it.
It's happened a few times,
but it's fun nonetheless.
On the topic of anonymity,
I think it's important to kind of,
and I totally respect people who don't want to share who they are,
how they look like, or where they're based.
Yeah, maybe I'll step in as Mr. Potato has to go handle something for a sec.
So really, you really do get shocked when you meet the person.
You sometimes, what you imagine that person to be behind that profile pic or behind that voice,
it's like a 180 difference or like a 360 difference.
Oh, Mr. Pili, are you back?
Yeah, yeah.
So I was saying that on topic of anonymity, it's something I totally respect.
And like, I'm probably one of the few people
who are still like online is not doxed.
Not that I'm like inviting anyone to dox me,
but I think it's just a fun element, right?
Like you get to attend some of the people
you've been speaking to for a really long time online and you get to kind of meet them IRL it just hits different and yeah I
I think once you kind of attend IRL events you'll probably change your mind
a lot of people are probably skeptical which is fine like
i was probably it i think like i really got seriously into crypto in 2019 and obviously
covid happened right after but i didn't attend any events until early 2022 so um that kind of changed things and uh it makes you more willing to kind of
network with people and and have a chat and i get to know them better so um and yeah international
sports bar uh shout out like it was a really fun place uh where a lot of people who some of which are in this spaces we hang out for almost every day during
near console it just goes to show that like you could you could kind of get together in
in the most random of places and like just connect with people all right um those are kind of the top things but i think on the topic of city nodes there's
a lot of questions and we obviously don't have answers to all of them but um since we've got Rhyme, maybe if you could briefly outline what are the plans for the city nodes.
There's been a lot of questions around like, hey, can I apply to be a city node?
Because obviously it's a very rewarding program.
But maybe a brief overview of like, what are we trying to achieve with it?
Why should people not panic to kind of rush to be accepted as a city node?
Like it's a long term game that's going to be going on throughout the year.
And maybe if anything else you have to people who are kind of eyeing that city node slot?
Yeah, that's a good question.
I think a lot of it will probably sound repetitive to what I said previously.
You know, like any event, like any city node,
we'd like to be able to build it on the strengths of the hosts and help curate, you know, its own identity that's
able to serve that community.
So I don't think that principle changes.
And I mean, to be honest, as far as the city nodes go, you know, it's really going to come down to which are the strongest teams
and locations that are doing the events successfully.
So, I mean, it's a very selective process,
but it's also like a long-term game as well.
At least I hope so.
You know, these these things growing a community
network like this takes quite literally takes years Yeah, I had to remove you, Kings, because your mic was on.
But yeah, Rhyme, go ahead, please.
Yeah, sorry.
I lost my train of thought a bit.
But yeah, it's, I mean, really about, you know,
who are the strongest representatives
and who are the most capable of, you know, helping grow the ecosystem locally.
And, you know, being able to, you know, essentially, you know, work together within that unit to be able to build intentionally, to be able to integrate products, to be able to onboard builders, you know, to be able to create culture and, you know, a community identity that resonates.
And, you know, that's, you know, not necessarily like the easiest thing in the world to do.
And it's not necessarily supposed to be either.
You know, not everybody is, you know, being an event host and coordinator is a skill in itself. It's just like being a developer. It's just like being an engineer. You know, it's a certain skill set. And I don't know if everyone really looks at it like that. curated and detailed thing that you have to be able to communicate, not only on paper,
but to be able to put together the pieces and the team and the network and the vision
that all works together and synergistically.
And I don't want to give anyone the delusions that that's an easy thing to do. But, you know, as we, you know, put this together, that's what our whole
team, you know, on our side and our unit is for, is to be able to identify those and, you know,
and even ones with, you know, potential that, you know, we can help, you know help further support and to curate and to coordinate and to supply the necessary
resources to be able to make these locations as impactful as possible.
Between now and the end of the year, we've already had, you know, what are we in 30 cities already, you know, at this point, or at least 30 events in almost probably more than 20 cities by now. So, you know, and anticipate many more, you know, start submitting or to continue submitting throughout the year. So, you know, I don't want to give anyone any like false impressions that
it's not going to be, you know, highly competitive to be able to lock down a city node. And, you
know, even at this point, you know, we're we're limited in spots or, you know, monthly, just as
like a budget, as you know, more submissions are coming. And we've had countless submissions to
this point, but each
month we only have limited spots. And like I said, the ones that are the most consistent,
the ones that are most capable of continuing the mission on their side and to bring ideas
to the table and to really help create the most impactful experience and community possible
you know, really help, you know, create the most impactful experience and community possible,
you know, are the ones that we're going to be doubling down on. So, you know, it's a very open,
you know, submission format. But as the months have gone by, and, you know,
friends have started to emerge, you know, it has made the entire environment a whole lot more,
you know, competitive, just because we are limited on on resources and, you know, we would love to be able to do that in the future. We really need to be as intentional and purposeful
and impactful with the runway that we do have in front of us so that we can grow and scale.
So the not fun part for me is, you know, ultimately having to make hard decisions,
you know, monthly and, you know, definitely not on my own by any means.
The decisions are getting harder and the landscape is getting more competitive and, you know,
that's the best thing that could possibly happen because that means that we have so
many people that are, you know, emerging as, you know, qualified candidates and people
that are able to really grow this network as we move forward as an entire ecosystem.
Yeah, I heard you mention competitive many times.
And I want to stress that, like, there is a lot of interest from a lot of people in a lot of places to host events.
I can probably attest to that. And as Ryan said,
we're booked for March. We're booked for April, I believe, as well. And May is looking pretty
tight as well. And we obviously want to let people have opportunities to host events,
but the bar keeps getting higher. So we also have to be cognizant of that.
And to kind of talk about the requirements for city nodes, there's two pathways. One's kind of
either hosting an event with other Vanguard members in the Legion.
So if you've got like three of them together and you host one event,
that's one of the ways to get the prerequisite.
Or the other one is to host three events yourself.
And speaking about three events,
Ewan's about to host his third one next week.
So he technically ticks one of the prerequisites.
But I also want to kind of highlight the point that just because you host three events, it doesn't automatically qualify you to run a city node.
It's just that, like, hey, you hit these prerequisites, you are eligible to submit
the form. There will be more work into, like, exploring what the goals of the city node will be,
how can we get as much awareness and reach for the near ecosystem, the AI products it's building,
for the near ecosystem, the AI products it's building,
and whatever else you can kind of leverage your local community for
just to kind of get the movement going locally.
So, yeah, it's important to know that it's just a prerequisite to be considered.
You still have to kind of plan out what the goals are of the city node, how you intend to make it impactful and purposeful, as Ryan was saying.
But as someone who's going to host their third event, you and if I was to kind of give you the opportunity, maybe like to have like a sales pitch, like why kuala lampur be a legion city though like
what plans or thoughts do you have in mind just based on like recent discussions
yeah so i'm gonna raid the open claw meter i'm gonna wear a suit and put on a blue face and go
there and just shoot iron claw to like all the all the attendees and just say build on iron claw or all your data is going to go to all to the industrial leaders as well
as the people that will stress out the data.
But like for me, but like truthfully, if I want to pitch myself, I will say that Kuala
say that Kuala Lumpur currently has a lot of people building. I think if you can see in the
Lumpur currently has a lot of people building.
Malaysia CT, currently a lot of government officials are being more welcoming with Web3
regulatory as well as you can see the other chains as well, getting more and more builders. We are
getting more and more people from Solana to Base to Scroll and from near side there will be me pushing more of near towards the current
people within the quality scene so i'm gonna make sure that we do not lose our footing here as one
of the main main chains that was here since 2022 because like in malaysia there was predecessors
when i went to all the different events they were were like, oh, you're near, right?
I've been to a few of the events before during 2022.
And I really liked the chain.
I really liked what your predecessors did.
So are you going to keep up with what they did before and keep pushing the chain?
And I told you, hell yeah.
You will hear a lot of what Nier is doing in Malaysia,
so stay tuned to that.
So I'm going out, spreading out the Nier gospel,
as well as getting more and more people on board into Nier Legion as well.
So that's the end of my pitch.
Don't sleep on Malaysia, don't sleep on KL.
If you are a builder, if you are somebody that is coming to Malaysia,
do let me know.
I'm happy to bring you around as well yeah uh i i think it's uh i've actually pinned one of the pictures from your first meetup i thought like that was that was a big w but at
the same time like it made me laugh because you're wearing this McDonald's near hat and you're signing an MOU with with one of the local partners in Kuala Lumpur.
I think those kind of things, they really open the doors for like both you to kind of grow the community locally and kind of get near more known out there.
So I think those are the kind of things we're kind of looking at.
And it doesn't have to be that, right?
Like you don't have to sign like a formal MOU,
but like the fact that something like this came out from an event
is pretty commendable, right?
Like I was very impressed to see like some of the stuff you pulled off.
But I'm definitely holding up to you for the Ironclaw costume.
I think that would be sick.
And I know how funny costumes can be
because we saw a lot of footage.
I think it was ETH Denver 2024
where you had Rhyme, Monza, and a bunch of others, like,
go around in this Black Dragon inflatable.
Yeah, and just kind of, like, creating a vibe there.
So it's anything that's kind of different grabs a lot of eyeballs.
So it's worth exploring.
But always with this thing in mind that
you have to be purposeful and like have try to achieve some kind of outcome out of it uh it's
it's nice to have fun but it's also kind of important to make sure uh we aren't like deviating
a lot from from the goal of like uh getting near out there. Yeah I think I'm done with
the Legion City nodes chapter. We've got about 10 minutes. I do want to put a hard
stop this time because on the hour we then have spaces with Ilya and Eric Voorhees from Venice AI,
where they're going to be discussing the latest partnership
of both projects I've had.
So I want people to tune into that.
But we've got about 10 minutes.
And I saw that Yuen pinned the announcement
for the Vanguard reward.
So maybe, Yuen, we could discuss that for a few minutes
before we wrap up.
Oh, for sure.
We did an announcement this week
to talk about what Vanguard's get,
what Vanguard is rewarded.
We want to thank everybody,
all the Near Legionnaires that came in,
that took in their time to either do events,
join events, or you onboarded somebody, your friends or family
onto Legion.
So this is a small thank you to you guys.
But let me maybe talk about a few of the,
there are different milestones for you as well.
Once you hit Vanguard, you get 100 near upfront,
but as near ecosystem itself is doing more governance
as well with House of Stake,
if you do lock your 100 near for 60 days
and participate in House of Stake,
you not only get another 100 near in you after 60 days,
but you also help create a decentralized governance in the
NIR ecosystem as well. So you are hitting two birds with one stone in my opinion, because
the current highest APY is if you stick your NIR to one of the LSTs and then you stick it directly
into House of Stakes to earn that juicy APY. So that is what I would also, not financial advice,
but we recommend for all the vanguards
here in this space to do
if you want to like double
or like even 2.15
your current near location as well.
Secondly, if you attended
any of the RRL events
or even if you hosted RRL events,
you will get 100 near added to it. So it's going to be like 300 near. RRL event you will get a 100 near added to it so it's it's going to
be like 300 near and finally you will need to grind you need to push your friends to go and
do all the different missions reach vanguard with you as well and then you'll get the full total 400
near so these are the current milestones available for vanguard i know that there are a lot of people
trying to reach vanguard as fast as possible,
but here is an advice for you guys.
Do not rush it.
Take it step by step.
Ensure that you do the requirements for each mission.
And if you need, do read the bio or the description
on mission first.
And if you do not understand it or you reach a roadblock,
head over to the Near Legion chat or Near Legion support chat
to ask the admins for help.
Just a shout out to you guys as well.
Please do at least read the description of those missions.
Don't just, hey, admin, I see this mission.
How can I just do it?
And then we cannot just handhold one person
to the three different missions.
Because understand, if we handhold one person, we have to handhold because understand if we handle one person we have
to hand hold all the different legionaries coming into to do this mission as well so
we do hope you guys take some time out read it try and do it first and if you fail to do it like
two to three times then head over to the near legion support chat and ask any of the admins
for help and then next will be, don't rush it.
This, the Legion mission was not supposed to be done within a day.
This was supposed to be done like either a few weeks or even a few months based on like
the current funds you have or the current knowledge you have of the Niagara system as well.
So take your time, join the Near Legion group chat, talk with all
the different members, and I hope you have a great time ranking up starting from the second level of
Ascendant to Vanguard. And I do hope more and more Vanguard's come up to in Near Legion in the coming
months with April and May as well. So see you guys then. I'll hand it over to Mr. Potato
since I yapped for quite a long time as well.
Yeah, I'm mindful of the time we have left,
but we also have Jean on this base.
He always has fun stuff
that he's explaining on what he's building.
So maybe if you want to have some words
yeah this week have you guys seen on the timeline the mpp thing no one look at it i share it
everywhere and no one look at it like i'm making yeah i i saw it but i didn't quite understand
just feed it to an ai you will understand it it's like it's like x42 like i'm making the
version for near and like no one cares.
Like, come on guys, we got to get exposure.
And it's not like being in a space
and just talking about making some event.
Like we're like lagging on that.
I mean, we're fine doing the AI stuff,
but I feel like I'm trying to build it
and like no one cares.
I'm like, is it like no one cares?
Or it's like, no one cares.
But isn't that like
mainly on tempo or something or something no it's a fucking protocol you can just fork it and make
it work on your your your blockchain we're fucking l1 we can make it work here so so yours works on
here i mean i i'm making it work right now i'm making making, like, I made a CLI for intent and, like, all the things.
Like, I'm currently making work.
But, like, it's kind of, like, annoying that, like,
I'm the only one thinking about it and trying to make it work.
Like, why?
Why is no one, like, looking at it, you know?
That's what is the current trend, you know?
Like, why are we not jumping on the train
for making it work on the air, you know?
It's just odd.
Yeah, if you could dumb it down, like, I'd be happy to play with it. If it works on the train for making it work on the air you know it's just odd yeah if you could dumb it down
like i'd be happy to play with it if it works on the air sorry to jump in here uh john you have
like a feedback in your mind oh i'm sorry yeah thanks john
but uh yeah so that's what that was this week I was doing, trying to make the implementation
of that.
And I also made a CLI for, I think your UI bot, because there was a layer that made
like skills and I made a CLI for your agent to work with that.
So yeah, I built two things.
I'm sorry I didn't do any legend task because I couldn't make one. It takes about, for the person, it takes about one month to do tasks.
If you were able to do all of them together for the first one.
And I've been building stuff instead because I can fucking do the race.
Because I don't know how to participate to it.
So the description is not that great for it.
So yeah, that's it for the Legion task.
No, that's uh that's it for the region task no that's fine like i think we've
kind of come to the conclusion that like missions they aim to cater the vast majority of people but
there's always going to be a small subset of people who don't kind of resonate with the idea
of missions and that's completely fine and it's also because we haven't
had a lot of success in building the builders track so far uh we are we keep we keep revisiting
this idea but uh for now we we're kind of lacking there so yeah you're lacking because you're you
you like just like for the mpp thing like i'm the only one looking at it it's like i try to build
things for near or whatever and like every time i share It's like I try to build things for Nier or whatever.
And every time I share, it's like I'm just in the void.
I do things and like, okay, fine, I'm just going to do something else.
But after that, you guys are focused on just social stuff.
I mean, fine, I can wait a month and try to find a team for the race.
But I don't know how it works because the mission doesn't explain anything about it.
I may be stupid, but if I'm a developer and I don't know how it works because the mission doesn't explain anything about it. Like, I may be stupid, but like, you know, if I, if like I'm a developer and don't understand the
mission and like somebody, somebody else, even less unknown, try to do the mission,
doesn't understand it. Like, no, I don't think it's, uh, it's, it's, it's a lack of clarity.
And like, oh, you're again having this feedback. Oh yeah. Um, but yeah, I don't think it's it's it's a lack of clarity and like oh you're again having this feedback oh yeah yeah
um but yeah i don't think it's a it's there's anything lacking in like description like we
we've been quite thorough with it but i think it's just that that there are we are aware that
there is this small subset of people who don't feel compelled to do missions and it's fine but they're not mission
this is just like it's just like uh you know you do it and it's fine but but like as for me like
there's no date like you like i had to find a channel to subscribe to to find the the race and
like i don't know how the race work you know like do i need to pursue the race or i just need a
screenshot of somebody doing the race do i need to go on the form to subscribe to the race like there's this part i'm like yeah the the raids part is
changing so uh i wouldn't like put so much emphasis on it but otherwise i think missions
in general that quite well explained um but yeah this is this is good feedback nonetheless like we
we constantly aim to kind of redefine how certain missions are
if they're irrelevant because things have changed or because um we find something else to replace
them with so there'll always be changes to missions and stuff but uh nonetheless it's good feedback
and yeah i wasn't aware the mpp stuff is available on near so i'm gonna keep
i know it's just a protocol you just make it it's just like you just yeah but i need i need someone
to dumb it down so like i can get it to work with like without like tinkering too much right well i
will be doing that i'm cool yeah in that case, whenever you have that ready, I'll definitely play with it.
Awesome.
All right.
Yeah, we're up on the hour.
I want to really put a hard stop
just because there is the Ilya space
going to kick off now with Eric Voorhees.
So thanks, everyone, for joining.
We'll be back again next week,
same time on Friday, 4 p.m. UTC
or whatever that is, local time.
And yeah, until then,
keep an eye out on the MPP stuff
that John is building for NIR.
Keep an eye out on the events happening this week
and subsequent weeks.
And definitely look forward to some of the city
notes that will be materializing in the coming months so until then uh see you guys next week
and uh yeah and hopefully um on telegram or whatever if you want to touch grass that's also
fine so uh yeah bye for now ciao guys happy eight murbak oh yeah
sorry for anyone celebrating of course Thank you.
