The third MetaBUILD hackathon, the largest and longest building event in our ecosystem, is officially over. Throughout 8 weeks of hard work, we’ve been hosting weekly mentorship sessions and daily office hours to support our very early stage unicorns.

Together with SWG, we are going to bring 30 winning projects from the MetaBUILD III hackathon into an 8-week pre-acceleration program to grow these new teams and prepare them to launch their first product iteration to market.

Here's a recap of our mentorship series number 7 which was all about pitching new projects! This week we were joined by Karina Lapina, a seasoned startup mentor and head of scouting at Startup Wise Guys.

This week we invited Rim from Ref Finance and Proximity Labs along with Lorny from Pagoda to talk about their main expertise – community building. Here’s what we learned.

NEAR’s vision is a world where creativity is no longer limited by technology. The ecosystem’s goal is to reach 1 billion active users in the first 5 years. That would not be possible without focusing on usability. Let's review why.

NEAR has evolved tremendously in its two years on mainnet. More than 20 protocol upgrades were done live, including the launch of Sharding Phase 1. As we look ahead to the next two phases of sharding and beyond, it’s time for an updated protocol roadmap.

For the latest mentorship Twitter Space, we discuss what marketing in Web3 looks like with Ofir and Oleg from SWEAT and Pagoda's developer marketing manager, Nico Poggi.

At our latest mentorship meetup, we invited those who represent NEAR locally to talk about the support our hackers can get from their local community members.

Mark Ery from NEAR Foundation and Alex Botezatu from Aurora joined us on Twitter Space to help figure out the best ways to receive support for the future hackathon winners. Listen to them or read this quick recap to find out!

On October 13, 2020, the NEAR community passed an on-chain vote to enable transfers on NEAR Mainnet. Today, we can look back and reflect on two years of tremendous work, innovation, and growth, and start planning ahead for what's to come.

This week, we invited our IRL Hackathon winners along with the NEAR Foundation content lead DJ Pangburn, and the editor-in-chief of the WOW Summit Victoria to discuss one of the most non-developer questions in the builder community: how to tell the world about your idea.

NEARCON 2022 is in the books and it was an amazing event where not only we met the entire NEAR ecosystem, but celebrated amazing news and releases for Pagoda, NEAR's sharding, and more. Let's dive into them!

MetaBUILD has started and so have our mentorship series! Let's recap our first Twitter Space, with advice on what to build on this hackathon by our mentors from Aurora, Metabuild, Arroz Estudios, Roketo, and Pagoda!

Join Dennis from the DevRel team on this ground-perspective recap of NEARCON! From the venue, to the Pagoda booth and the experience of meeting the entire NEAR ecosystem in Lisbon.

After a long, hot Portuguese Summer, NEARCON was a breath of fresh air which, with over 500 hackers on the IRL Hackathon presenting 90+ amazing projects in only 48hs time!

Let’s explore exactly what we’ve been busy building at Pagoda for NEARCON! With everything we do, our goal is to save you time and increase confidence in dApp development on NEAR.

Since Consensus, the Pagoda team has been heads down working on NEAR-API-JS. Today, not only we want to share what's new, but thank the NEAR community for providing feedback. We have taken your feedback to heart and have been working hard making many improvements to NEAR-API-JS since!

Pagoda may be a new name to you, but if you’re using NEAR, you already know our work. We’re the primary contributors to the core Open Source NEAR Protocol. If you’ve heard about NEAR’s Nightshade sharding, NEAR’s new JavaScript SDK or StakeWars and the upcoming launch of our next generation of sharding, you’ve heard of our work.