NEAR DevNet Workshop with ETHDenver

Hello Denver!

If you're a current blockchain developer or are migrating from an existing stack (eg the web) to see why life is more interesting on a chain, this event is for you.

This evening, you'll get a chance to test-drive the new NEAR DevNet. NEAR is a scalable, developer-friendly blockchain put together to address the key concerns of existing blockchains -- usability, scalability, and business models. You have the chance to be among the first to take it for a spin before it becomes publicly available.

In the event, which in partnership with ETHDenver, our Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin will be available to coach you through a workshop that will get your hands dirty building and deploying a DApp on the chain. We'll have food and drinks as well.

## Prerequisites

You'll be able to use our web-hosted IDE for this so you don't need to download anything but we'll make the self-hosted environment available at the event. Also:

• Read The Beginner's Guide to NEAR Protocol for a sense of what NEAR is building and why it's different: https://medium.com/nearprotocol/the-beginners-guide-to-the-near-blockchain-62f1c739e098

## Agenda

6:00 - 6:30 pm: Arrive and eat tasty nom-noms
6:30 - 7:00 pm: Kickoff and questions
7:00 - 8:30pm: Buidl! Debug! Launch!
8:30 - 9:00 pm: Debrief and wind down

PS - Please bring your laptop! :)