Today I presented Decentralized Confidential Machine Learning from @near_ai at @NVIDIAGTC – a system for creating & deploying confidential, verifiable LLMs and agents that enables monetization of open source models and decentralized training. The DCML approach solves major problems facing AI developers and companies today by offering new business models for model builders, incl open source. It also enables better resource utilization and removes the risks with handling user data or exposing proprietary data.

Chain Abstraction is taking over web3, and there is no way back

We are moving past chain maximalism and audience fragmentation it created HOT opening up web3 to Telegram users

https://twitter.com/hotdao_/status/1781628770295652447

Landed in Seoul for @eth_seoul_ and @buidl_asia – excited to share #NEARIsTheBOS with the amazing Web3 community here in South Korea, along with @NEARProtocol partners and the @NearKoreaHub team! Find us this week, event specifics below 🇰🇷 Talk/workshop at @eth_seoul_ Saturday, June 3 at 10am about "Building Composable Decentralized Frontends" – I'm also a hackathon judge. Be sure to check out the prizes from @NEARProtocol @proximityfi and hack on #NEARIsTheBOS!

ethseoul2023.devfolio.co/prizes?partner…

Happy New Year and Holidays everyone!

2022 has been a crazy year, let’s recap and sneak preview of 2023! NEAR Protocol has raised $500m. Startups in the ecosystem raised over $330m. A number of eco funds have started like @MetaWebVC @LyrikVentures @stealthcapfund and many of the existing VCs has been supporting projects on NEAR

Security should be thought with usability in mind. They are not opposed to each other as some think.

Current self custody is not secure nor usable. Users will go via path of least resistance and expose themself to hacks and phishing if products don't offer usable defense. Currently web3 space is full of hidden security problems that are usually pushed to the user to DYOR.

Instead let's focus on build products that offer protection by default.

One of the biggest decisions was to make NEAR account model support many keys with different permissions

Privacy is a UN-recognized human right.

Blockchain embodies transparency. Consensus is the first layer of mutual agreement on its state. Privacy is the next layer, regardless if it’s via pseudo-anonymity or ZK proofs. Making someone liable simply for using a privacy tool used also by nefarious actors is equivalent to considering all clients of JP Morgan guilty because someone has used a bank account to launder money.

From the day 1 with @NEARProtocol it was about experience.

NEAR Ecosystem is ready for mass adoption now. Multiple examples of hiding blockchain and integrating into web2, onboarding of non crypto users and more.

Thread 👇

https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon/status/1417048876935172100

We started with the idea of experience.

Developer experience was first as the initial team were developers, focusing on bringing common languages (Rust/Typescript), using widely adopted platforms (WASM), scalable infra and programming model that's familiar to web devs (services)

It’s exciting to see the Rainbow Bridge launch after a year of development! Bridging tokens, assets, and calling contracts are now possible between Ethereum and NEAR.

Read more: near.org/blog/the-rainb…

Check out the frontend for ERC-20 transfer: ethereum.bridgetonear.org First I want to thank @k06a who came up with the original design, and to congratulate the group that built Rainbow Bridge with this release: @mzavershynskyi, @ExonumAlex, @mfornet94, @chadoh, Evgeny Kapun, Bo Yao, Alex Kouprin and other members of the team.