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NEAR Protocol

$10,000

near.org

nearprotocol

About

NEAR Protocol is a climate-neutral, high-speed & low transaction fee layer-1 blockchain. #NEARisNOW

Prizes

🔗 Control Accounts on Any EVM through NEAR ⸺ $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 don’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

Links and Resources

Start here

https://linktr.ee/chainsignatures

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Documentation

https://docs.near.org/concepts/abstraction/chain-signatures

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🦾 User owned AI is Near ⸺ $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.