Near Protocol - DevNet Workshop

Speaker: Alex Skidanov

The first engineer at MemSQL responsible for building sharding implementation that now powers the likes of Goldman Sachs, Uber, Pinterest, Akamai, and Comcast will share his experiences of building industrial-grade solutions and applying it for the blockchain scaling. Alex Skidanov (https://twitter.com/AlexSkidanov) will walk the audience through how sharding is done in a commercial database space, and what's the missing ingredient in scaling blockchain today. He will also walk developers through some of their tools and how smart contracts work on the platform.

Description:

NEAR is a blockchain protocol designed to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream commercial DApps. Designed to linearly scale with the number of nodes by sharding (100k tps at 1M nodes, ~1s finality), have wide adoption by running on mobile devices, and security guarantees on the level of best blockchains. To build it, NEAR Protocol has assembled a dream team of engineers who implemented sharded distributed systems at scale including 3 early MemSQL engineers, 4 ex-Googlers, 4 gold medals at ACM ICPC and more.

Tech Stack:

Rust
TypeScript
WASM
etc...