🎙Neko Morning Show Season 6 Episode 7 recap 🔹️ Hosts: Soos & Nono 📌 Topic: Data Availability on Near Protocol NEAR DA & ZKWASM Near protocol aims to enhance its platform as the optimal space for creators and users on the open web🕸️ through several key initiatives. 🔸️Data Availability (DA) : This innovation efficiently reduces costs compared to Eth, because it's 8,000 times cheaper, and notable projects like Vistara labs, Caldera, Fluent, and Madara by Starknet have embraced this technology. 🔄 Alton Tutor during NEARCON 23 reveals 4 shards producing a small portion of a block called chunks every 12 hours. None of this is visible to the end users. These chunks become blocks, and Near DA leverages this for efficient Rollups. The three pillars of Near Data Availability: 🔸Blob Store contact that stores arbitrary data. 🔹Light client for easy data access. 🔸RPC client to publish data blobs. 🔸️Zero Knowledge Web Assembly (ZKWASM) : Is a concept that combines two important technologies; Web Assembly and Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs). Let's break it down 🧩 💥Web Assembly ( WASM): WebAssembly is a binary instruction format that is designed to be executed at near-native speed in web browsers. It allows developers to write code in languages like C, C++, and Rust, which is then compiled into a binary format that can run in a web browser. WASM provides a portable and efficient way to run code across different platforms, making it a crucial technology for web development. 💥 Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs): 🔹️Zero-knowledge proofs are cryptographic protocols that enable one party (the prover) to prove to another party (the verifier) that they possess certain information without revealing the actual details of that information. 🔸️In simpler terms, it allows someone to prove the authenticity of a statement without disclosing the content of the statement itself. 🔹️Now, combining these concepts, zkWASM in the context of NEAR's collaboration with 0xPolygon implies the integration of Zero-Knowledge Proofs with WebAssembly. This has several potential applications and benefits: 💥Security: Zero-knowledge proofs can enhance the security of smart contracts and transactions by allowing parties to prove the correctness of their computations without revealing the sensitive 💥Privacy: #zkWASM can contribute to privacy-preserving solutions on the blockchain. Users can execute smart contracts without revealing specific details of their inputs, offering a higher level of privacy. 💥Interoperability: The collaboration aims to bring the benefits of zkWASM to multiple blockchain chains, promoting interoperability and allowing developers to build applications that can seamlessly work across different blockchain ecosystems. 🔸️In summary, zkWASM is a powerful combination of WebAssembly and Zero-Knowledge Proofs, with the potential to improve security, privacy, and interoperability in the blockchain space. 🫂 FRIENDLY MEME CONTEST ON $NEAR 🔹️$REF finance hosted an on-chain context among some meme coins on $NEAR where community members stake/feed their favourite meme token in other to claim 125,000 $REF tokens winner's Price 🏆 + 50M $NEKO tokens which will be distributed among $NEKO participants during the campaign. PROJECTS CONTEXTING 🏓 🔸️$NEKO😺: First community token on $NEAR with a focus on creator empowerment. 🔹️$LONK🐲: Lonking, not shorting. Home of $NEAR degens. 🔸️$BLACKDRAGON🐉: The second-generation meme coin that has emerged from the $NEAR stack. 🔹️$SHITZU🐶: Shitzu is entirely community-run and no longer controlled by Bastion. 🔵QUICK MARKET UPDATE 📈 NEAR is up 16% in the last 7D, currently trading at $3.09 per $NEAR at the time of the show on 30/01/24. We are currently #31 on Coin Market Cap ratings. Written by: Fandix 🎙️Join Us again on Thursday 1st FEB by 8 am UTC, for an Epic finale!🔥🔥. There will be lots of incentives for viewers and the Neko community.