Recently, the official blog of Filecoin was updated, announcing that Filecoin and NEAR Protocol launched a $300,000 joint donation plan to deepen the cooperation between the Filecoin ecosystem and the NEAR ecosystem. The program aims to support and encourage developers to explore new opportunities at the intersection of the above two protocols. Once funded, the project will also receive support from Filecoin and NEAR to help product development and user growth.

Introduction

NEAR is a decentralized application platform that provides high enough security to help users manage high-value assets such as currency, identity or non-fungible tokens. At the same time, the performance of the platform is powerful enough to ensure that the above assets are available to everyday users, putting the power of the open web in the hands of users.

NEAR aims to connect users of today's Internet to tomorrow's blockchain-based networks. NEAR is a PoS layer 1 blockchain platform built with UX and DevX in mind. NEAR’s novel sharding mechanism, Nightshade, parallelizes on-chain computations and automatically increases capacity when needed, enabling theoretically unlimited scalability.

The NEAR team includes many members from the world's top technology companies such as Google, Facebook, ConsenSys, and 9 serial entrepreneurs. The technology development team has won 4 world championships, 6 gold medals, and 12 finals experience in ACM-ICPC (the world's highest level college student programming competition).

At the same time, NEAR has received the support of many top venture capitals, such as a16z, Pantera Capital, Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain.com and Baidu Venture Capital, etc. Of course, Naval Ravikant, the founder of Angelist, and Andrew Keys, the founder of the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, also provided financial support for NEAR.

NEAR is an open source platform that empowers creators, communities and marketplaces to drive a more open, connected and consumer-friendly world. Currently 60+ global partners, custody service providers, wallets, utilities and applications are integrating with the NEAR network.

Origin of cooperation

As early as early July this year, Textile launched the Filecoin-NEAR bridge, taking the first step in providing simple, permissionless storage for smart contracts on NEAR. NEAR is a sharded layer-1 blockchain protocol for building user-friendly decentralized applications. The new storage bridge creates a seamless way for NEAR applications, smart contracts or NFTs to integrate any form of Filecoin-based data storage. Additionally, to encourage usage of the storage bridge, storage on Filecoin via the bridge will be free.

Filecoin is a decentralized peer-to-peer data network through which anyone can store or verify data. All Filecoin nodes use the IPFS protocol - one of the most widely used distributed protocols designed for Web3.

Filecoin is a distributed network designed to store the most important information of human society. It is also the most widely used distributed protocol designed for Web3. It can be said that Filecoin has brought a unique construction to the Web3 ecosystem. The joint funding plan between Filecoin and NEAR will encourage developers to explore new applications and new tools through the intersection of Filecoin and NEAR, and promote the closer integration of Filecoin and NEAR ecology.

How much do you know

Filecoin and NEAR are offering $300,000 in grants to developers. Any project demonstrating or supporting integration between Filecoin and NEAR is encouraged to apply, and all eligible projects will receive funding for further development.

Of course, the original text on the official website also provides developers with areas that can be explored, such as decentralized storage SDK+Demo applications; database API; Web3 applications, etc. The following are the specific requirements:

1. Decentralized storage SDK+Demo application, the applicant needs to develop a set of SDK to facilitate NEAR users to use the Filecoin decentralized storage network, and provide a Demo application at the same time. The Demo application should be able to demonstrate the functionality of the SDK and serve as a reference framework for other NEAR developers.

2. Database API, applicants create database overlays, making the interaction with Filecoin raw data storage easier and more efficient.

3. Web3 application, using Filecoin verifiable storage function, NEAR smart contract capability and Textile data bridge tool, innovative Web3 interactive gameplay, such as data bounty, DataDAO, verifiable computing, permanent storage, Layer2 protocol, etc.

4. DeFi applications that interact with Textile.io or other Filecoin storage provider reputation indices can also use Aurora Bridge.

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This joint funding plan supports and encourages developers to explore and develop new applications at the intersection of Filecoin and NEAR. As the entire ecology develops in a diversified direction, in the near future, there may be more data interactions between different systems, and ultimately serve more and more users.

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Editor: Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS Sunny