Rapping at Stanford | NEAR Update: May 31, 2019

We kicked things off this week with an epic rap session at Stanford! Last week, we were heads down smashing bugs, crushing code and shipping features. Keep your eye on our twitter – we’re planning our next hackathon – announcement coming very soon.

In other news, we’ve shipped economics to our testnet, as well as the new wallet.

?Just for fun ?

4-Leaf Cheddar AKA Lucky Money AKA 4tunate 4tune @PotatoDepaulo dropping some wisdom ahead of tonight’s crypto collectible workshop at Stanford Blockchain Club.

Get your sweet cryptocorgis here -only at NEAR ? pic.twitter.com/zVf3KjxbMK

— NEAR Protocol (@NEARProtocol) May 31, 2019

COMMUNITY AND EVENTS

If you want to see us do more in person and/or online events, just reach out on Discord: near.chat

• Stanford Blockchain Club workshop
  • We covered how to build NFTs on our protocol. You can find the template for creating a new app here. You can find a completed version of the code and a complete version of Crypto Corgis!
• Lightning talk for Decentralized Colorado
  • We skyped in to the Decentralized Colorado Lightning Talks night to promote our upcoming virtual dApp workshop in partnership with the Denver crypto community. If you’re in Denver, make sure you mark June 19th in your calendar.

Upcoming events

• Hack.Two (TBA)
• Denver DIY Crypto Collectible Web Dev Workshop

WRITING AND CONTENT

• We recorded a stack of Whiteboard Series interviews with teams that had flown into New York for Consensus. More videos will be released next week so keep an eye on our YouTube.
  • Whiteboard with Fluence
  • Whiteboard with Spacemesh
• We’ve released a new post on Developer Experience in Blockchain.
• Max published Exploring Liveness of Avalanche

ENGINEERING HIGHLIGHTS

There were 32 PRs in our multiple repos from 5 different authors over the last couple of weeks. As always, the code is completely open source on Github.

We’ve been making steady progress on economics and our new model of sharding.

Application/Development Layer

• Wallet
  • Initial support for app-specific keys
  • Send money to another account
  • Cleaned up UI to prepare for release
  • Display token amounts in dashboard and profile pages
  • Account recovery working cross-browser
• Nearlib
  • Minor error message improvements
  • Support for viewing authorized apps from wallet and revoking access keys.
  • Send tokens
• Near CLI
  • Make method calls from command line
  • Support setting networkId
  • Configure separate network IDs for starter project config environments
• NEARStudio
  • Improve templates compatibility with CLI tools

Blockchain Layer

• Stabilizing current nearcore (released and running)
• Implementation of economics: charging storage rent and transaction fees.
• Continuing Nightshade development: integration tests, chunk production and network.

HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED

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