“I get why the BOS is cool, but isn’t it just a decentralised front-end?” — someone out there. It’s been a few weeks since Consensus and the announcements surrounding the BOS. Nevertheless, many tend to still think of the BOS as a layer that other chains can use as the…

Building and decentralisation are two ever-present, overlapping themes at NEAR Protocol. For developers, NEAR DevHub represents the ideal convergence point for these two pivotal processes. So, what is DevHub? NEAR DevHub offers a decentralised coordination and resource body designed specifically for developers on NEAR. Its aim is to function as…

Isn’t it quite ironic that in over ten years of blockchain technology being around, we’re still heavily reliant on web2 technologies? Show us a single web3 project that doesn’t use Twitter to share announcements or an NFT project that doesn’t host their community on Discord. Of course, there are good…

The recent NEARCON 2023 conference was nothing short of booming, with a series of heavy announcements on the development of the NEAR ecosystem, it becomes clear that NEAR Protocol is charting a bold new course. …

THE NEW ALPHA? Anyone spending a significant amount of their time on Crypto Twitter will have noticed the recent shift in narrative. Away from a focus on the underlying infrastructure and the never-ending discussions around differences between L2s, toward the question: who will build the apps that interact with real people? It’s an…

TL;DR Open Forest Protocol (OFP), one of the first projects to start building on NEAR Protocol back in 2020, is preparing to launch the world’s first on-chain carbon credit in the coming months. After years of research and development, OFP’s original validation and asset issuance system, is set to issue…

While everyone is familiar with DeFi in the NEAR ecosystem, there has been little activity in the realm of DeSci. However, this intern believes that DeSci, when done right, has huge potential to deliver outsized impacts in the real world. …

Empowering the African Web3 Community — Held from September 7th to 9th at the University of Legon in Ghana, ETHAccra 2023 saw DevHub collaborate with NEAR Africa to introduce developers to the Blockchain Operating System (BOS). As we reflect on this remarkable experience, we’re excited to share highlights of our ETHAccra experience, efforts we made, and…

Navigating Web3, Virtual Reality, and Decentralisation — In the second instalment of ‘Prominent Voices’, our editor-in-chief, Hero, sat down with Altan Tutar, partner engineer at NEAR Foundation, to talk about his journey from Turkey to England, and transition from software engineer to business development (BD). …