July 16, 2022

No matter the reason you want to set up and run a NEAR validator node, whether it’s to participate in NEAR Stake Wars III, to experiment, to contribute to NEAR’s decentralization, or any other reason – this step-by-step guide has you covered.   In about 30-45 min, you’ll learn:which Microsoft Azure virtual machine (VM) to use

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May 1, 2022

Here we go with the Vital Point Pulse for April – where you find out what the guild has been up to in support of the NEAR ecosystem and what it’s planning to do in the coming month.  Let’s get to it.Current Members: 12 (no change) Coming up below:NEARly die doing taxes this year?Catalyst is (almost)

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April 9, 2022

AimTo consider the similarities and differences between guilds and communities in proposing a future-facing framework for community and guild development in the NEAR ecosystem.BackgroundNEAR Protocol started a guild’s program around summer of 2019.  Since then there has been a considerable number of discussions and evolutions centered around clarifying its reason for being and supporting guild

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March 31, 2022

Here we go with the Vital Point Pulse for March – where you find out what the guild has been up to in support of the NEAR ecosystem and what it’s planning to do in the coming month.  Let’s get to it.Current Members: 12 (no change) Coming up below:Did the Pistol Shrimps win? (Metabuild)Catalyst Completes User

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February 28, 2022

Here we go with the Vital Point Pulse – where you find out what the guild has been up to in support of the NEAR ecosystem and what it’s planning to do in the coming month.  Let’s get to it.Aaron’s Random Thoughts It’s unbelievable that another month has passed and we’re staring March 2022 in

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February 21, 2022

Onboarding is a Catalyst in the Journey to a Billion Users The founders of NEAR Protocol designed it from the bottom-up with a focus on usability both from an end-user and developer perspective.  That focus, combined with super low gas fees, ~1s block finality, and infinite scalability via sharding make it feasible to develop applications

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