🎊 NEAR x @EthWaterloo Winners + Recap!

$10K was up for grabs at #ETHWaterloo when 14 teams hacked for the Best Frontend Component built with #NEAR on the #BOS!

Winners are:
🥇 Nounish KZG
🥈 ChatBos + ETHWinners
🥉 Keypom + Piglet + PROOF!

🧵 1/9: Full report below: 2/9: The @NEARProtocol booth at ETHWaterloo was a hotbed of activity! 🔥 The booth was quickly attracting crowds from newcomers to OGs, all eager to explore the possibilities of #NEAR and get that fire BOS merch.

Let's dive into the winners who leveraged the power of #BOS:

How far is #NEAR from reaching a complete sharded network, compared to its sharding competitors?

And what's the difference between their approach to sharding?

A Thread 🧵🔽 First, let’s rewind a bit on “what is sharding?”

Simply put, sharding splits an entire blockchain network into smaller partitions, known as "shards", with the aim of reducing latency and preventing data overload, thus making it scalable 📈

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🧵 NEARWEEK EDITION #65 ⚡️

Get updates and news from the last week featuring: @DcntrlBank, @finance_ref, @burrowcash, @CornerstoneDAO, @auroraisnear, and many more!

Check out the thread below for the major highlights!🗞️

Read the full edition 👉 nearweek.com/newsletter/edi… 1/ wallet.near.org will be rebranding and moving to mynearwallet.com - stay tuned for an official announcement to come soon 👀🫢