Wild User Interviews Podcast (Wuipod)

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.

Show Notes

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/
* 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

What is Wild User Interviews Podcast (Wuipod)?

People, Product and Crypto.

Wild User Interviews is about open-sourcing open-ended conversations with the creative forces shaping up the decentralised world. In the wild, our guests range from Product Designers to Blockchain Architects, and include topics such as Philosophy and Proof-of-Stake. The common thread being our focus on the human side as he try to deconstruct the frameworks and processes to enable listeners to become the better version of themselves while venturing into the Metaverse.