Try Quests to earn NEARNEAR - 18. Social Segmentation
Create a segmentation tool to help us understand the NEAR profiles of new users on Near.social. The intention is to allow users to select a new group of Near users based on when they joined then look at that group of users wallet behavior.
What is NEAR Protocol?
NEAR Protocol is a smart contract capable, public Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain that was conceptualized as a community-run cloud computing platform. Built by the NEAR Collective, NEAR was designed to host decentralized applications (dApps), and strives to compete with Ethereum and other leading smart contract-enabled blockchains like EOS and Polkadot. NEAR’s native token is also called NEAR, and is used to pay for transaction fees and storage. NEAR tokens can also be staked by token holders who participate in achieving network consensus as transaction validators.
NEAR Protocol is focused on creating a developer and user friendly platform. To accommodate this mission, NEAR has incorporated features like human-readable account names as opposed to only cryptographic wallet addresses, and the ability for new users to interact with dApps and smart contracts without requiring a wallet at all.
What is Near Social?
NEAR always had an idea to create a user-centric Open Web. Where the users are in control of their data. The data is not siloed in a single instance. The developers don't have to rely on someone else's API permission to integrate with the services. Where the applications themselves are open and can be improved and modified towards one's needs.
Blockchains deliver this idea with smart contracts. An always on services that can be used by anyone. But front-end applications are stuck at web2. They are centralized and controlled by a single entity. And smart contracts were mostly designed for financial applications. This was mostly a technical and monetary limitation of legacy networks. The operations were too expensive to be used for anything else than commercial transactions. Each transaction had to have a monetary value to be worth submitted.
But with creation of NEAR, this limitation was removed. The scalability allowed creating new types of applications. Where the value of a transaction is not a monetary value, but a social value.
Widgets are the building blocks of the Near Social framework. They are reusable open-source components that can be used to build applications on top of the SocialDB contract. A widget can be a small component, like a button, or a large component, like a profile page, or even a whole application like a social network. Image Source