Ep. 022 Stake Wars: Episode III - Next Stage Decentralization w Blaze, Open Shards Alliance
NEAR Foundation and Pagoda just announced Stake Wars III: a competition designed to onboard the next 100+ validators to the NEAR Network as we transition into the next stage of decentralization.
On this episode we dive deep with Blaze from the Open Shards Alliance to cover all the core technical concepts (Sharding, Chunk-only producers, etc) and go deep on Stake Wars: what's at stake and how to win.
Some of the topics covered on this episode include:
* Blaze Path to NEAR: from Ethereum miner to staking validator mastermind
* Open Shards Alliance: origins, current role in ecosystem
* Core Technical Concepts required to understand Stake Wars
* NEAR Security and Threat Model - challenges of adding 67% of all validators in one go
* Stake Wars - what problem is it trying to solve? Educate the world about NEAR tech stack, train the next set of validators from within active and committed community members and reduce the barrier of access by funding seat price for winners.
* War Stories (lessons) from previous competitions
* Tips for Participants
* Onix Network, community owned incentivised testnet coming SOON
* .... and more!
Resources and Mentions
* Join Stake Wars to Become Chunk-only Producer - https://near.org/blog/join-stake-wars-to-become-a-chunk-only-producer/
* Near Decentralize - Introducing Chunk-only Producers: https://near.org/decentralize/
* Introduction to NEAR Protocol's Economics - https://near.org/blog/near-protocol-economics/
* Blaze Path to NEAR: from Ethereum miner to staking validator mastermind
* Open Shards Alliance: origins, current role in ecosystem
* Core Technical Concepts required to understand Stake Wars
* NEAR Security and Threat Model - challenges of adding 67% of all validators in one go
* Stake Wars - what problem is it trying to solve? Educate the world about NEAR tech stack, train the next set of validators from within active and committed community members and reduce the barrier of access by funding seat price for winners.
* War Stories (lessons) from previous competitions
* Tips for Participants
* Onix Network, community owned incentivised testnet coming SOON
* .... and more!
Resources and Mentions
* Join Stake Wars to Become Chunk-only Producer - https://near.org/blog/join-stake-wars-to-become-a-chunk-only-producer/
* Near Decentralize - Introducing Chunk-only Producers: https://near.org/decentralize/
* Introduction to NEAR Protocol's Economics - https://near.org/blog/near-protocol-economics/
* NEAR Validator Bootcamp - https://near-nodes.io/validator/validator-bootcamp
* Introduction to Onix - https://gov.near.org/t/the-onix-near-network-a-community-owned-and-governed-near-network/23884
* Open Shards Alliance Website - https://openshards.io
* Open Shards Alliance Discord - https://discord.gg/t9Kgbvf
* Meta Pool - https://metapool.app
