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Yes Astro is Good too...

You can stake on any validator although which have less fees and good Uptime.

⬇️ near-staking.com

check here for their stats. and you can choose accordingly..

If You don't want any hassle of choosing and stuff You Can Stake on Metapool.. They Stake in different Validators behalf of you.. They Provide 11% APY NEAR Rewards + Extra META Rewards too😉

Staking Guide for Metapool- https://www.producthunt.com/posts/meta-pool

1. Actually the Token ID that we have on Paras (just pick any NFTs and see the url) is an IPFS hash. So if you know the Token ID you can just go to any IPFS hosting website like ipfs.io or cloudflare-ipfs.com .

We're working on SDK that lets everything to easily connect with Paras' contract and API to do a lot of cool stuff, minting, displaying, etc. 3. Yeah we have this problem since day 1, we're still looking to find the best solution for that. But right now I guess that's fine because the creators actually paid small amount of gas fee everytime they update their listing price. 4. Yes this is actually one thing that we have in our mind, like very small price to update their listing price, or we can just create like a "bump" function that puts their listing on top while the price update didn't bump their NFTs. 5. We believe in the creators that we whitelist. Later on, we'll do a more dynamic whitelist feature by letting the DAO/Community to vote to whitelist/unwhitelist creators. 6. Not right now 7. We wanted to have more Crypto-native IP, could collectibles like NEARpunks, Web Novel like Immortal Flame Series, Gaming like Galaxy Online, and more. We believe that the current NFTs are not the end game. We are moving and branching out along with the community to more mediums. Overall, we hope Paras to have a more pop-culture brand/vibe.

Yes! All I meant there was that you can easily let others interact with the content via things like link sharing. Eg. I've been listening to this awesome set while working on these answers: https://audius.co/wearegraves/digital-mirage-full-set-60702

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q2: Multichain is a cross-chain router protocol on a mission to be the ultimate router for Web3. Since its inception in 2020, it has helped bridge more than $80 billion worth of assets across 52 blockchains and nearly 2,000 different currencies. In addition to token interoperability, Multichain allows messages and contract calling to take place across chain with its anyCall feature. Projects such as Hundred Finance have used this feature to create cross-chain DAOs.
The NEAR blockchain will join other projects including Aurora, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Bitcoin, Celo, Ethereum, Oasis, Polygon, and a host of others.

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Good point about increasing storage costs with increasing price but I don't think there's been a huge impact so far with storage costs - When NEAR was under $10, we have just a slightly higher storage costs plus the team is dedicated to keeping things as cheap as possible in the long run: https://airtable.com/shr5C1rS95KoeTt7p/tblJZk0vjX6r3gqU5

Question on the dates in Ref Finance farms as newbie - when they show the dates how likely they will be extended? e.g. I saw Celo-wNear was ending May 1 few days ago and now said until May 25.

Also what happen after it ends? Do I hv to send the Celo bk to Celo chain?

Great question. We felt the same way as you are about companies like Facebook running a metaverse.

For our communications system we are installing a Jitsi, open source communication server ( more details can be found at https://jitsi.org/) allowing encrypted peer to peer communications.

We are also working on integrating encrypted NFTs to store user data. Keep all sensitive user data off our servers and protected in your wallet.

Hijacking the top comment here to post the reward link that was missing from the original post. Click this link (https://airtable.com/shrcCiGvGfA2lJNHt) to submit your info and qualify for $NEAR rewards.

I don't want to sound like a downer. I'm a developer who is trying to transition to blockchain dev. My question is why build on NEAR protocol instead of other very similar EVM blockchains like Harmony or Celo? Transaction costs on those two are so much less than NEAR.

Thanks, looking forward to learning more about the NEAR.