The Road to Devcon with NEAR

Recorded: Oct. 7, 2022 Duration: 0:46:59

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GMG, GMG, whatever suffix you want to apply after that word good, but whatever it is, it is always going to be a good Twitter Spaces with the incredible guests that we have on today to talk about
about all things DEV CON which is happening in Bogota, Colombia next week, this Twitter Spurs is in English but it is of my knowledge that there may be a handful of Twitter Spurs in Spanish for some of the locals around
there as well. I have invited up Claudio from Metapool Alexive Chenko, the CEO and founder of Aurora. We have Pagoda here. I believe that is Nico behind that wonderful Pagoda logo. Is that unique?
It is me, it is me, all out. How's it doing?
Very, very good. Wonderful. Wonderful. Bring it here. I'm ready to go over to play the next couple of days. So we'll all be seeing each other soon. I hope we're really in. I cannot wait. Claudio is now speaking as co-host. How are you doing, Claudio?
doing good doing good I'm seeing Alex also joining us thank you very much for coming yes right now at the airport waiting to board my flight to Bogota so excited about that pond and at
everything Aurora everything there that is happening on October 15th. So, ready to show what's going to be happening during that specific date. And one of the
I'm so excited. I can't wait to see you all in Berlin. All the incredible buildings from the near and the Ethereum ecosystem and beyond. But Alex, how are you doing? Are you in Bogota? Yeah. Excited? Not yet. Not yet. I'm still in Lisbon, Bomb here.
So no GMs, BD is what you need to say in this space. So looking forward coming to Bogota, or the next vacant node to join the DEF CON, get in touch with the builders from the Ethereum ecosystem.
who are also the builders for Aurora, right? So it can all make sense why we are there. And looking forward to the near space during that event and some additional events and meetups happening there. I wish everyone safe travels and see you there.
Brilliant guys awesome very excited to see you all before we kick it off Claudio just as you did with the medical Spaces that we had last week some house rules the house rules are you can say whatever you want as long as it's within reason
right? I don't care if you swear, if you have to swear to get the point over that something so incredible is happening in DevCon, then go ahead and do it. But before we kick it off, we dive into what's happening with the near spares and everything that's going on in Colombia next week. If any
Anybody out of our speakers has been to Bogota or to Colombia or is there now? How about we start off with sharing some top tips of what to do, what not to do, what to eat? How can you enjoy Colombia to its fullest extent?
Yeah, so definitely the first thing safety rules, right? Like using Uber transportation wise using Uber is pretty safe Of course, be mindful, right? If you go if you ask for a car you look at license plate and then you get another car, saying that that's your car then
definitely don't get in, right? But it's pretty safe, right? Transportation is pretty safe. Public transportation, yeah, let's try to avoid that. At the end of the day, you're not locals there, even for myself, which I'm a Mexican, and I can maybe look like a police
or on your 3G or whatever, there's going to be folks right there at the airport to help you out. So that's first and foremost, very important always being groups, right? If you find yourself alone, call your neighborhood Spidey or whoever you
see that can help you out at that time at any time. So just also have a list of phones from locals if you have and if not somebody from your team or your group, right? So that's super important for everybody to be to be aware of. Other than that,
I think it's it's enjoy enjoy Columbia right to be honest the the the placework or fetus is at it's a neighborhood right so it's residential area and it's not a poor neighborhood so it's a mid mid-middle class
high-class residential neighborhood, there's shopping malls nearby, the US and the US and the US. So it's pretty safe. So just let's spread lightly on the ceiling that if you feel that you're in an insecure space, definitely you're outside of the
fairgrounds or that area. So just read lightly on that one. Other than that, I think it's if you go out at night, please do not walk at night after 1 a.m. and I think this is the safety role for any big city, right? So anyhow, so just enjoy, right? Enjoy the
Colombia, the Colombian hospitality is super good. Regarding food, I guess, like the good thing about depots is there's going to be plenty of hackathons, plenty of local folks there, so ask for recommendations. I will tweet out a couple of recommendations as well.
to the site, going to the monastery among Serrat, that's the must. You get really good nice views of the city and there's two good restaurants over there at the top of the mountain. If you're into praying or a little bit of Catholic side, there's a church there as well and so definitely need lots of stuff going in.
and to see in both of them. So anyhow, that's all for now. The mic is back to you, David. - Brilliant. Thank you so much. - All that inside Claudio, moving on, I think everybody who attends Columbia next week is gonna have an incredible time.
just have your wits about you. Stay safe. Stay with the group. But hey, let's not focus on that. Let's focus on what's going to be happening in and around the near of us on the ground in Columbia. So we have two incredible side events, the first of which is co-hosted by Plotsy.
one of South America's largest educational platforms. I believe Kyrgyz M. Runglario, that is on the 12th at the Hilton, Cofetia. On the 12th, 6th of the 10pm, I never passed a wonderful near space all day the next day. So guys, what are your plans during those two days?
So, so definitely the first one right October 12 with the virus is the education platform Spanish speaking education platform, which is platy that's really exciting We're gonna have around 200 people do a local need up there talk all related to near in Aurora as well, so definitely we're gonna have the
grants team there to present their new strategy for funding projects around the near ecosystem. Also, if Alex open invitation, if someone from your team wants to be there and discuss like the Aurora funding, go right ahead. I think it's an open mic as well for ecosystem partners.
um then October 13 right October 13 is the big event near space event we opened the doors at 9 a.m. and all the way to 7 p.m. we're gonna have transportation from the Corpeteas main uh conference to the double tree hilton so that's gonna be a
right that we're going to be doing from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. So we will be sending later today all the information about the logistics. So we're making it super easy for folks to come into the double tree hilton, participate in the near space, get to know Alex for sure, and there's going to be office hours there as well.
It's a super important from 10 to 12 Alex and the Aurora team are going to be there to basically do office hours with developers and builders around the Ethereum ecosystem that want to come into Aurora and to near as well. And Nico, I send the mic up to you to talk and discuss a little bit more on the
hours that's happening up in your space. Sure let's take it away think we did miss the opportunity David to shield bandai has pices on the good overlapped you have with them and with beans it's they're amazing people have to try that out personal favorite over there and we have a from 10 to 12 at the near space like
will be hosting office hours like Claudia said. It's not just us but Gota it's the near foundation grants team so you can find a Garcia and Matthias sharing you know how the grants process works for everyone their builders and people looking to start growing their projects on near from us from
Hagoa will be with the WNP and Lorny who's here in the conversation as well, Bidong, and will be the main source of knowledge for everything regarding development on near whether it's the tooling, the stack on JavaScript, Rust, or any other for libraries.
or just like how you get an end to end setup on the chain or with the little components that might build your depth from contract to the front end and the things that you can use to interact with the chain. And then we have Aurora as we said with
And the rest of the team, Shring Ho to build on the EVM side of things, scaling your Ethereum Daps on Aurora itself. So I think it will be a great space for any type of builder, whether you are EVM or non-EVM based, to get ready and set with your next project on here.
Alex, so you will be at the Twitter space, right? But did I see a trait saying you're attending some consensus event, too? What are you going to be getting up to in Columbia? Yeah, so looking forward to the near space, that's going to be the main thing where I'm
going to be, that's just an amazing thing. I know that lots of people are working hard to organize it and make it good. So we can forward to this. And yes, there is a separate event that consensus is organizing and besides that there is an event that Pantera organizes. So we have a partnership with consensus
pretty in-depth partnership for integration of consensus products with Aurora. And also a map Ontario is one of the co-lead investors in Aurora. That's why also it all makes sense to meet the friends and partner of other portfolio companies there. So these are the
the things that I'm going to cover there, like the kind of scheduled big events, I would say. But besides that, there are also quite a number of, you know, face-to-face meetings with some of the companies in the ecosystem.
like Zerion and many, many more. So some of them are scheduled and some of them were going to figure out during the event. Conferences are always an extremely great place to get connected with people and to kind of finalist move. Some in
initiatives that have been discussed for some period of time faster forward. So really looking forward to this, I can say that I have an extremely efficient method for attending the conferences and making sure that all of the agreements that are made
are followed up. This is a no-how not going to show it and not going to share it here. But yeah, besides that, I've never been to South America before. Hopefully the jet lag isn't going to be
that insane starting to prepare for this and yeah, keep in my fingers crossed that everything is going to be good in Colombia. He's going to welcome all these great people from all over the world and we'll let them fly home after the event finished.
I'm sure that we're going to be absolutely fine. I would like to pick on Alex's tweet that he sent out referencing the question on how to experience Colombia the best he said remotely the panicking part of it. I promise you it's going to be fine. We're going to have an incredible time. There's people out there already from what I've heard. It's wonderful.
And I think it's a good time to reflect on the past few years, not just on near journey, but this is the first dev-consence COVID, right? Like how many opportunities do we have of this scale? I mean, this is the flagship Ethereum developer conference. It's incredible that near is going to be there. It's incredible. Our wonderful attendees going to be there.
just so excited to reconnect with each and every one of you and all of the people from across all of the ecosystems to see what we can do to build Web 3, right? Nico, I would love to dive a little bit more into those office hours that you mentioned. So you mentioned that the Neo family
The foundation funding team is going to be there that's absolutely correct if you're wanting to build a project on Neo or you haven't been convinced just yet. You head over to the near spaces. We'll have a ton of professionals there ready to talk to you. Spanish and English about all things near funding and see what we can do to get you building on this blockchain.
Nico, I am a developer. I want to build on me. Why should I come to your office hours? What's it going to do for me? Sure. There's one specific top we're giving. You know, our intro of the hours with the men is going to go over the entire stack for building on here. So if you want to get started,
on pagoda and the libraries that we've been building, but things that are in the community, right? So we go from Rust to JavaScript to many community libraries that we can see like go. So it's the best spot to pick on a good wide look into the tooling.
Again, it's not just about the smart contracts, it's about how you interact with the chain with your front end, how you query data in an efficient way. We've got that all covered there and we'll be ready to answer a Qvalency questions if you come from another space. Rest assured whether you come from another ecosystem, Web 2,
We got logpads to take on entry intermediate and bads then it'll be a nice nice refresher in case you're just getting started or if you have a blocker right it's not always just about learning but you know if there's a blocker an idea that you need to POC and you know you need to get your thoughts on
how to make it viable will be there. Not just that. There's such an amazing group of people from all ecosystems near Ethereum that I just gave the advice that don't make it just a space to meet people and talk to each other, but refresh ideas, concepts, if there's a, you're a dev, you'll meet a ton of
amazing talent over there that you know can get you on blogged and will be part of that help over there Alex you want to share a little bit of the tooling that people might want to access from the Aurora set of things so not a lot to share actually unfortunately
or maybe fortunately actually because all of the natural tools that the people are using with the theorem blockchain are supported by a theorem. So like explorer and as explorer is ethoscan, all of the natural functionality of ethoscan that is highly
used by developers, ability to verify their small contracts, ability to actually execute transactions directly from the Ether scan interface, all of this stuff is available in Aurora. In case you're using some SDKs, like OpenZap and SDK, or for example Truffle or Hardhead, all of the
tools are just working seamlessly with the only thing that you need to do as a developer is to change the RPC endpoint, which you are naturally doing in case you're working with different EVM compatible networks, which you are because you need to deploy in the test net and then you usually deploy on the main net, right?
So you just need to set up the RPC endpoint and the chain ID and then the whole software stack that you're working with. In the sense the case they're working directly. In case you use in some IDEs you're also able to do this similar type of updates to it and changing the preferences and
then you are able to deploy your smart contracts directly from the IDs. So for developers or looks and feels exactly like Ethereum and many tools are available. I can't say that all of them are available because some of the tools are
kind of online base and in order to work with some EDM, kind of a little chain, they need to do some kind of index and things like that. So it is not that fully simple, I would say. But all of the major straightforward tools that you can think of for Ethereum
make a system, they are there for Aurora. And there are tons of educational materials around this. So just take what you are used to and you can use it right away, straight away, to work with Aurora.
incredible. I think that's going to be so palatable for the audience there. I mean, obviously, right? Because it's an Ethereum folks develop a conference and we are replicating it if not improving the Ethereum experience with Aurora. So I'm going through the agenda. Folks, there's a ton of great office hours.
with the fun and team as we mentioned. There's also tons of talks and incredible talks from incredible speakers. We have Santiago series from Proof of Humanity which I personally have used for a long, long time is one of my decentralized heroes. Super excited to listen to that. Nico, Claudio,
Alex, you guys have talks. What can people expect to hear from you? Are you going to drop any alpha? Or are we just going to twist their arms so tightly that they will build on near after they've heard it? Both. Just kidding. It's mostly a good opportunity as well to just
understand that the things we're building towards, you know, onboarding the next billion users to web3, and that's, you know, things oriented towards, of course, capability and how sharp it is evolving in near usability itself and how we bring new new libraries and toolings to onboard
developers from any ecosystem and then last but not least you know the experience itself for developers and how we can help them get their project you know not just from zero to one but through to a hundred and beyond that's what we'll be sharing from our end from from good I want to get away else
So I can say that absolutely no interest in the staff shared from Aurora and you probably wish to find another or the
another talk to visit. Nothing interesting, nothing prepared at all and because of this I am because of nothing is done and because of this I am taking a right over half of the world to get to Bogota.
I think you always deliver Alex you did a brilliant job at Neocon. I'm excited to see you at DefCon 2. Claudio, Medipool, what are you talking about? Yes, so hi everybody, my name is Wyatt, I'm the head of social
from media and comms over here at Metapool Claudio had to hop on his plane so maybe I can give a little bit of insight here. I know no alphas confirmed from our side of things but I'm sure that Claudio will have a riveting presentation about the state of liquid staking both on near protocol and aurora really
emphasizing I think the liquidity pools that we've started to really hammer down on origami and Bastion some other some other or our native D5 platforms so no alphas confirmed from my end but I'm I'm sure that Claudia got one or two things up asleep he always does
He absolutely always does. I'm more than looking forward to it. I myself will be there. My name is David. I'm from the Near Foundation. I'll be doing a quick presentation on the Near ecosystem where it's at now, the power of
And then I'm super excited to hand it over to some of the incredible depths which are building in the ecosystem including the Tvo NFT, octopus network and so many more. Why perhaps while we've got you we can dive into your
brand a little bit more. How familiar are you with Plotsy in the relationship we have with them? I know Claudio has worked really closely with them. It's a pretty big thing in the Spanish-speaking world. Of course, our course-ponsors at the first night event, right?
Yeah, they absolutely are. Unfortunately, I've not been included 100% in those discussions with Plotsy, so I'm not going to have the insight that Claudio is going to have. But I know they were really happy and excited to work with them to kind of bring education awareness to all
in the Latin American community where we have such a big investment. The way that I think Claudio and Guillermo are CMO marketing always talks about it is that we're kind of fighting two battles. The first one is within the ecosystem itself, trying
And to try and to become the best liquid-staking solution, but also everyone on the near community is fighting the war against Web2 to make people more aware of the benefits, the values of DeFi, of platforms like Aurora, the interoperability of everything, and to kind of take us to that next step.
That's what I really see as the vision there from our partnership with them. I also know that we're partnering with Crypto Valley, which is another Spanish English crypto publication, which is further toward that end of bringing awareness and education about everything that we're doing and
And we'll be building here because I think everybody, especially on this panel, really knows that we've got lightning in a bottle, we've got something special. And to be able to articulate that to those communities that may not have the broadest reach or awareness yet is absolutely one of our core goals, especially coming up to DevCon here.
really intently sets wire. I think that actually leads really well into my next question. Now this is a bit of a curveball and I was second guessing myself on whether or not I should ask it, but I think it's pretty common knowledge that at least in the realm of crypto Twitter, there's certain amounts of maximalism.
shared by certain individuals when they find a chance and attach themselves to it. Obviously we're all in near here, at least certainly those on the panel near an Aurora and we're fighting the fight to prove that this is the best ecosystem to build on. Now we have an incredible near space that we've touched upon. We've got the
incredible event with Platsy the day before. Lots of wonderful speakers and workshops and office hours. What can people on the ground do on what can we do while we're at DevCon to help carry the flame of near and express its value to everybody else?
I can I think I can uh positive reasonable uh answer to this one here. So obviously being on the ground and being at that Plotsy event uh the day before the Space Lab is going to be a huge huge part of you know kind of trying to capture and interact with that audience that may not be
fully aware. But I think also Alex here from Aurora is going to have a really good avenue at articulating the value that near protocol brings, especially from a very technical and straightforward perspective of capturing the value of lightning fast and low gas fee transactions while also building with the same tools.
that you're familiar with. So being at that space lounge and emphasizing those core technical values and then being able to showcase what projects we're bringing to bear on those very sound technological underpinnings is going to be a pitch that I think is really attractive to developers who are looking for
comfort within what they're writing or at least familiarity, but also having a very clear and logical articulated benefit to being able to being in that space. And maybe Alex can share some of the more specifics on how Aurora tackles that angle. But I think being there and
having that kind of core articulation about software development and the benefits of near protocol across the board. I mean, you've seen the amount of infographics that we have our teams turning out about the interoperability and the fees and the X, Y and Z that we have compared to everyone else that I think really kind of drives the point home.
Yeah, so I think the paradigm shifts a little bit or like it's kind of not even shifted evolves. And though in the beginning, Near was mainly focused on the message in
was mainly focused on the developers making it the best chain for developers. It constantly was reported as one of the best DevOps chains out there. And also obviously on the scalability factor because
no other chain in production has a has live shard in solution which is the only way how you can scale right everybody else who are not understanding the fact that in case you are not doing computations in parallel which means that you are little
the amount of the resources and the amount of the capacity in your blog. And these people who are talking still about scaling, it kind of makes me extremely mad, right? Like tell to anyone from Web 2 that you want to
scale and he will tell you okay then you need to have more servers that are doing the performing operations separate like that's the only way to do it right so so shot in approach which is in fact not a very good name for for the thing but this is literally a parallelization approach right when you split the exact
and put it on different near-sharves. So that is a core piece. Near-protocol is the final destination for the applications. No matter what,
And depending on the amount of the users that your application is going to have, you would not need to develop something in addition to what is already developed. You would not need to migrate these users to other chain. You would not need to have all of this problems
and so you're building on a solid foundation. This narrative was always there, maybe in a little bit different kind of words, but for me this is what makes
or a project that is built on top of Nier. We want to have the EVM compatibility on the final destination chain, right? And this is what we are providing, literally. Super, super simple, straightforward, and so on. However,
I do believe that the narrative evolves and it's not only devs which matter at the moment, right? It also quite a lot of users out there who matters and because of this near was you know talking a little bit about this about you know the human
readable addresses and stuff like that. But at Aurora, we are putting tons of our resources almost everything that we have right now, into making sure that the user experience for the blockchain is at least at the level of Web2.
In order to get to the mass adoption, we need to compete not with ourselves, not with other chains that haven't what, you know, several million users at max. We need to compete with meta. We need to compete with Google with billions of people who are
using these services. That's the only way we can get there. There is no point in sitting in a glass can with other blockchain projects while it is a wider world outside of it. We need to get there. And there is only one way how we can get there and it is actually
introduce a good user experience. Because in case your application looks like shit, feels like shit, and smells like shit, then people are not going to use it. It's super simple. In case you need to do KYC install an application of the
exchange, buy some tokens, move it to one network, bridge it to another network and by the way you need to install a couple of wallets in order to do this. And only then you can use your application. That is an extremely bad user experience and you are going to lose everybody from the Web 2 already
on the second point of this list. So it is our goal, it is our mission to fix this in order to not to die as a blockchain community in general. And we are putting lots of resources
here. Because of this we have Aurora Plus. And for everyone who is listening who not yet tried out Aurora Plus, go there. It is simple. You register with Aurora within one, with Aurora Plus within one minute and you already have 50 free transactions on Aurora Network. You don't need to do KYC, you don't need to do
anything you're already able to transact. And we even working on elevating it further and making sure that any developer in the world, whether it is a web 2 or a web 3 developer, would be able to give a great user
experience to his users. I'm not going to share more around it, but all of this is happening because of the great design approaches that are made both in new protocol and Aurora project specifically.
But that was nothing less than a brilliant answer Alex I couldn't agree more Aurora plus I mean that's a revelation in this industry The announcement itself if you haven't watched that video yet I don't know how you managed it but you've got Tim Cook CEO of Apple there Okay
You might not have actually got Tim Cook there, but I look like for sure an incredible product manager and incredible product So if you haven't checked it out do go check it out if you haven't tried it out even better try it out Nico in our last 10 minutes. I would throw it over to you What do you think how how can we best angle ourselves?
ourselves to, I guess, live out the vision that Alex just mentioned there. You don't want to live in the sook of us, right? We want to live in the real met of us. It, it, 100% like I couldn't agree more with the, the things he shared just now. There are two
things that we can also work for that patient. And it's, you know, again, I'll send up like a broken record on this, but it's understanding, you know, blockchain development is not just the base and the tech and the backend, like the backbone of it, but just the experience itself, what we should
users and how we evolve the patterns that might be familiar for us in Web 3 but are definitely not familiar for the rest of the world. The ecosystems coming to Web 3 into something that's universal and for that we see a lot of efforts being put from us even
and the rest of the ecosystem in building those new patterns that are as friendly as possible, creating not just the tech and libraries and examples that we need for builders to create the brain of their application on the smart contracts and the things that power them, but also great experience and front-ends.
whether that's components following great patterns in UI/UX to follow that vision along. We don't just have to worry about the tech but build public goods and resources for designers, developers to create great applications that are a similar
as they might feel for us as they are for other Web2 people. And that is one of the core things. And then in terms of the event itself and what this opportunity of going to such a big space, which DevConn is, is that there's not only a conversation of like, okay, there's
system, there's other ecosystems that people might choose, but there are a lot of complementary technologies that are going to be there. It's not just a smart contract or blockchain that come to these conferences, there are blockchains providing other type of infrastructures, other
protocols built on them or on us, just even if we think on that storage, you know, and Falcon's going to be there. This is a great opportunity to build those bridges and see what we can build on near by integrating to them, working with them. They're certainly like chain agnostic type of services. So it's going to be a great place
and events like these are always are to test those things out and expand and broaden the spectrum of things we can build. Not only just to find opportunities and use cases but to take near strengths and paired with other strengths from other technologies. I think that's going to be invaluable and I'm really looking
forward to it. Brilliant. I think you've summed it up really, really well, Annika. It actually reminds me of an interview that I saw Ilya do a little while back actually and somebody said they asked him if Nia was an Ethereum killer and he said no one's in a killing business here, right?
We're here to work together and I think what Alex mentioned about this Web 2 versus Web 3 fight It's really nil the sentiment there. Why is there anything else you'd like to add to that point before we move on to our final question Nothing nothing too specific beyond the fact
that we all know that interoperability is going to be the future and the more that we build those solutions, the more that we're going to get the traction that we need to create the next, you know, to onboard the next billion users. It's like somebody explained it to me at NearCon where it's, you know, the empirical or the
historical view looking back at Web2, interoperability and integrations is what exploded the the user ship and the you know almost common placeness of Web2 and the internet and so once we figure out a way to get ourselves to that same level of ubiquity and and flow
in the UI experience, the more that we'll get there. And I know that we're working on that on our own end as well to bring that experience to the forefront and make it as seamless as it can be. And beyond that, I would just encourage everyone to go keep on staking, check out Aurora Plus, and we really hope to see you.
you guys at the space and maybe Claudio can shake a few of your hands and you guys can get introduced to him and hopefully he'll have some more alpha to give up there. So thank you guys. 100% I'm so excited to see all of these builders in one place next week.
My final question and this is the final question I ask on every single Twitter space is I ever horse and likely ever will host Each of you have a couple of minutes to take the mic to shill or talk about absolutely anything you want it can be within the crib
Dovers, it can be outside of the cryptolvers, it can be about tech, it can be about swimming, it can be about coffee or food or pizza or the best way to go to sleep at night. Whatever you want to chill or talk about for the next few minutes, each that Mike is yours. Feel free to go first, Nico, pass it on to Alex, then we'll go Wyatt.
Sure, 100%. So we'll be showing a lot of things over there, but if you want to come over to Pagodan to the contract suite and the platform we have for deploying smart contracts via templates, give us some thoughts and feedbacks. There's a ton of fielders here and we're building towards you and making that experience.
easier. So if you want to come hang and just see what we're doing, whether it's on the pagoda platform itself for maintaining your daplong term with good infra or just the tooling itself like the JavaScript SDK and Rust SDK and the entire toolkits, we are always there in the discord for like the official near discord
doing office hours, come ask questions, come learn how to build on it. And if you have any doubts or feedback that you want to give, we'll take it. We're happy to improve everything in terms of tooling and the platform. We're doing it for US builders. So come and say hi.
I want to touch a little bit of the core values of the blockchain in general. We believe that transparency, that permissionlessness and ability to control all the stuff that you own is a very important thing.
I believe these values should be translating directly in how we are operating in the blockchain. Because of this, Aurora has every week, Aurora AlphaLix video every Friday, during which we are sharing all the information, transparently sharing what is happening.
in the ecosystem collecting the news and giving this information. Together with our partners, different partners, we are pretty openly sharing the information, the stats on the funds, on the flow of the stuff. Together with VCs, we just
We just launched the platform, like the project that is called Peaches. Because lots of people are coming to us for the grants or in general for the advisors. And we are sharing this pipeline of this project with Aurora Friendly, we see as I would say.
And we're accelerating this project. So everyone gets a little bit better of it. So this transparency, and the, from my point of view, it really empowers people and makes it, introduces better cooperation models in between us.
Let's not forget about these things. I encourage everyone to see the forest behind the trees. When people are talking nowadays about blockchain, everybody are talking about DeFi, TVL, NFTs and all this stuff, but it is much bigger.
than that. Let's not forget about this and I hope that there will be more and more use cases discovered that I go into to be picked up by the community and let's apply the same great principles say you know every day of life.
Yeah, I mean, I just want to echo the really inspiring message there from Alex that we are building the next, we are building the next, you know, financial platform, art platform, the next wave in technology, whether it be financial
or otherwise is coming and that's what we need to be focused on building as somebody who's on the marketing side of things and not necessarily a super-entom with the development technical aspects. I still have a set of eyes and I can see what the developers on our side of things are making and what kind of
developments are being made around the ecosystem, especially during this bear market, anyone who just might be the casual user in this space have hope because we are focused and we are building and really creating the next generation of products that are going to challenge the traditional structures we've seen.
But I also think Claudio would bop me in the back of the head if I didn't show our projects at least a little bit. So everybody make sure to give Metapole a look. It's one of the most integrated liquid-staking derivatives across the ecosystem. You're going to find utility for our token everywhere. We've just recently released
a very innovative fundraising crowdfunding platform called MetaYield, which I encourage everyone to check out. And the one little alpha that I can give to everyone in the community is that we've got a secondary marketplace coming from MetaYield, which is going to be another very innovative piece of financial technology, the likes of which I don't
I don't think the cryptoverse has seen let alone the near ecosystem. So keep your eyes on our socials over the next couple weeks and for some really exciting announcements, especially if you're long on near. We got some fun things coming for you. So thank you guys so much for the opportunity. - Brilliant, guys, thank you so much. I feel like every time I host the Twitter space is
incredible guests like you and reinvigorates with this desire to change the whole world. So thank you to each and every one of you. Now, I don't typically do this, but I would like to take 15 to 20 seconds to share something that I would like to show avocados in South
America. Apparently test completely different to avocados around the world. I've never been to South America. It's the first thing on my menu. Tomorrow, breakfast, avocado, and coffee, of course. Yes, absolutely. Guys, thank you so much to everybody who tuned in. We could not do this
without you, it is your fight as much as it is hours and we are going to win. There is another Twitter Spurs on the 11th of October, hosted by Pagoda. So keep an eye out for that. If you are joining us in Colombia, don't forget we have the near space which kicks off on the
12 October for the party event at the Hilden-Corferius and we have the near space on all day on October 13th. We will get those links out on our Twitter channels as well if you want to RSVP but thank you all so much. Have a wonderful day. If you're flying to Columbia have a safe flight and I will see you there.
Thank you very much. Bye.

FAQ on The Road to Devcon with NEAR | Twitter Space Recording

Who are the guests in the podcast?
The guests in the podcast are Claudio from Metapool, Alex Ivchenko, the CEO and founder of Aurora, and Pagoda.
What is the podcast about?
The podcast is about all things Dev Con, which is happening in Bogota, Colombia next week.
Who is hosting the podcast?
The host of the podcast is not mentioned in the text.
Is the podcast in English or Spanish?
The podcast is in English, but there may be some Spanish Twitter spaces for locals.
What are some safety tips for visiting Colombia?
Some safety tips for visiting Colombia include using Uber for transportation, being mindful of license plate numbers, avoiding public transportation, staying in groups, and having a list of local phone numbers for emergencies.
What is happening on October 12th at the Hilton Cofetia?
On October 12th, there will be a local meetup hosted by Plotsy, an educational platform, focusing on Near and Aurora. The Near Grants team will be there to present their new funding strategy for projects around the Near ecosystem.
What is happening on October 13th?
On October 13th, the largest event will be taking place with Near Space opening its doors from 9am to 7pm at the Double Tree Hilton. The Auraro team will be hosting office hours with developers and builders around the Ethereum ecosystem, and transportation will be available from the main conference in Corpeteas.
Who will be hosting office hours at Near Space on October 13th?
The Near Foundation Grants team will be hosting office hours at Near Space on October 13th to discuss how the grants process works for builders and provide knowledge for building on Near. The Aurora team will also be there to host office hours for developers interested in joining Aurora and Near.
What is Bandeja Paisa?
Bandeja Paisa is not defined or described in the text.
Who else will be joining the Near Space office hours on October 13th?
WNP and Lorny from Hagoa will be joining the Near Space office hours on October 13th to provide knowledge and answer questions about development on Near, including tooling, the stack, and libraries.