May 2, 2022Ownership and Provinence on NEAROWS Education / NEAR Basics — Hello everyone! Welcome to the seventh and last chapter of ‘NEAR Basics’ issue which is a part of educational series created by the Open Web Sandbox team. In this part we will talk about Ownership and Provinence on NEAR and will mainly focus on ownership of NFT’s and look at…4 min read4 min read
May 2, 2022Money and Finance on NEAROWS Education / NEAR Basics — Hello everyone! Welcome to the sixth chapter of ‘NEAR Basics’ issue which is a part of educational series created by the Open Web Sandbox team. In this piece we will talk about Money and Finance on NEAR and will mainly focus on several DeFi projects from the NEAR Ecosystem. If…5 min read5 min read
May 2, 2022Identity & Decision Making on NEAROWS Education / NEAR Basics — Hello everyone! Welcome to the fifth part of ‘NEAR Basics’ issue which is a part of educational series created by the Open Web Sandbox team. In this chapter we will talk about the creation of a wallet on NEAR and ways to use it for an on-chain decision making, for…5 min read5 min read
May 2, 2022NEAR and ShardingOWS Education / NEAR Basics — Welcome to the fourth video of the ‘NEAR Basics’ batch, part of OWS Education, created by the OWS team. In this video we will look into how NEAR’s Sharding mechanism, Nightshade, works and how it allows the NEAR network to be scalable and secure. Let’s begin! PoS with and without Sharding Now that we…4 min read4 min read
May 2, 2022NEAR and TPoSOWS Education / NEAR Basics — Welcome to the third document of the ‘NEAR Basics’ batch, part of OWS Education, created by the OWS team. In this doc we will look into how NEAR’s Thresholded Proof of Stake algorithm works, and how it overcomes the decentralisation part of the Blockchain Trilemma. Consensus algorithms Proof-of-Stake is the chosen…3 min read3 min read
May 2, 2022NEAR and the Blockchain TrilemmaOWS Education / NEAR Basics — Welcome to the second document of the ‘NEAR Basics’ batch, part of OWS Education and created by the OWS team. In this doc we will look into how NEAR is aiming to overcome the Blockchain Trilemma. The Trilemma Recall that the Blockchain Trilemma is about concurrently achieving decentralisation, scalability, and security…2 min read2 min read
May 2, 2022NEAR in the Web 3 WorldOWS Education / NEAR Basics — Welcome to the third batch of OWS Education by the Open Web Sandbox. This month’s batch is on NEAR basics! Our team is creating these documents to smooth out the onboarding process for new members of our community. Let’s dive in! To understand where NEAR fits into the Web…3 min read3 min read
Published inOpen Web Sandbox NEAR·Mar 31, 2022Announcing the Release of the Web3 Entrepreneur’s GuideIn the past couple of months, Open Web Sandbox and NEAR education have been working together to create a Web3 Entrepreneurs’ Guide — a resource for developers, entrepreneurs, and educators who aspire to kickstart educational businesses on NEAR. Created by a team of entrepreneurs, Guild leaders, developers, and writers active…Open Web Sandbox2 min readOpen Web Sandbox2 min read
Published inOpen Web Sandbox NEAR·Mar 3, 2022Humans of the Open Web Sandbox: AbdelillahA series on humans currently and previously involved with OWS. — Abdelillah has been into blockchain since university — working on projects developing distributed data structures for medical data. Now, he sees no other career path but the one he has found himself in: the NEAR ecosystem.Open Web Sandbox4 min readOpen Web Sandbox4 min read
Published inOpen Web Sandbox NEAR·Feb 14, 2022A Roundtable With NEAR MetaheadsOpen Web Sandbox Party Recap: January — This January Sandboxers and NEARians reunited for the first 2022 edition of the Open Web Sandbox Monthly Party. During this hour long live event, we discussed the emergence of the web3 metaverse, its social and philosophical implications, and some of the pragmatic benefits it will bring, especially in the new…Open Web Sandbox7 min readOpen Web Sandbox7 min read
