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NEAR Protocol

$10,000

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About

NEAR is a modular, high-speed protocol designed for AI to act on behalf of users. Not just compute, but transact, coordinate, and evolve.

On NEAR, AI serves as the front end to interface with users and carry out intent, while our blockchain acts as the backend to handle identity, trust, and data.

Prizes

๐Ÿ”— Control Accounts on Any EVM through NEAR โธบ $6,000
Up to 3 teams will receive $2,000

With the release of Chain Signatures, NEAR accounts can now easily control EVM accounts by simply making a contract call on NEAR. This enables to bring all NEAR benefits (low costs, fast finality, email login, built-in account abstraction) to any EVM, while also simplifying to build cross-chain products.

Use NEAR accounts to control EVM accounts, and help bring a better UX to any existing project, or solve a common problem for EVM users. Explore the simplest chain abstraction tool, and allow users to do everything from a single account so they donโ€™t have to worry about which chain they are on!

Ideas:

  • Cross-chain drops: build a dApp that allows users get assets on an EVM chain through NEAR linkdrops
  • Multichain DAO: build an dApp that allows users to vote on NEAR, but executes the actions on one or multiple EVM
  • dYdX-based products: Leverage Chain Signatures to manage dYdX positions and build products on top of the dYdX platform Developer Tooling: Improve the developer experience by building or enhancing tooling around Chain Signatures (e.g. by adding more EVM RPC endpoints)

Qualification Requirements

  • You are free to incorporate any ECDSA-based blockchain(s) of your choice (Bitcoin, Cosmos chains, L1s/L2s EVM, etc.) but must include at least one network that settles on Ethereum (e.g. ETH, Optimism, Arbritrum).
  • Your submission must NOT be a simple fork of an existing example/project with minimal changes.
  • Your submission should include a basic readme file explaining the scope of the project.

Judging Criteria:

  • Creativity and originality of the idea.
  • Quality and completeness of the product.
  • Code readability and documentation.
  • BONUS: Feedback on the chain signatures technology and developer experience to help improve it
๐Ÿฆพ User owned AI is Near โธบ $4,000
Up to 2 teams will receive $2,000

Bring AI and Web3 together to enable a user-owned internet that guarantees privacy and ownership of data and assets, where everyone can be a builder. Some ideas to explore:

  • Build autonomous agents and explore their on-chain interaction on Near
  • Build an interface on near.social to deploy autonomous agents
  • Add AI capabilities to our Explorer to help users better understand what is happening on-chain
  • Enable ML research and independent contributions through programmable insentives
  • Anything that comes to mind!

Qualification Requirements

  • Your deployment should be on the NEAR testnet.
  • Your submission must NOT be a simple fork of an existing example/project with minimal changes.
  • Your submission should include a basic readme file explaining the scope of the project.
  • Bonus points: describe the business model for your project.

Workshop

๐Ÿ”— NEAR: One chain to abstract them all

What if you could control accounts across multiple chains with a simple email login? What if your smart contract co...

This workshop is happening in-person

03:00 PM UTC+8 โ€” Friday, Sep 20, 2024 in Workshop Room 2