<h3 class="heading-node">Overview</h3>We are inviting contributors to create high quality blog posts comparing NEAR with other blockchain technologies from a developers perspective.This is not about shilling NEAR, but to create a serious comparison on the trade-off between choosing one technology or another to build Web3 applications.We will choose up to 3 high quality blog posts to earn 40 $NEAR each.<h3 class="heading-node">Submission Requirements</h3>Choose any chain from the top 30 chains by market capitalization (as defined by a major source such as CoinMarketCap or CoinGecko).Explain the differences between that chain and NEAR from a developers perspective:<ul class="list-node"><li>Compare tooling! What do you have available to develop and test your applications?</li><li>Compare the protocols, explaining how the differences impact the developer and end-user experience (Remember, NEAR has a multi-key system, smart contracts, async cross-contract calls, fast finality, sharding, paid storage, and more)</li><li>Compare even more! Does the other chain have chain signatures or something similar? What about meta-transactions?</li></ul>Upload your blogpost to any mainstream platform (medium, dev.to, etc), and share the link in the submission form<h3 class="heading-node">Timeline</h3><ul class="list-node tight" data-tight="true"><li>Start Date: Jul 28 2025, 00:00 (UTC)</li><li>Submission Deadline: Aug 31, 2025 00:00 (UTC)</li><li>Judging Period: Sep 1, 2025 – Sep 7, 2025</li><li>Winner Announced: Sep 8, 2025</li></ul><h3 class="heading-node">Evaluation Criteria</h3>Submissions will be judged by DevHub contributors based on alignment with the bounty goals and the following criteria:<ul class="list-node"><li>Humanness – Was it actually written by a human? or does it read like an AI post?</li><li>Accuracy – How accurate is the comparison between the chains, do the features being compared actually exist? or where they AI hallucinated?</li><li>Completeness – How much of the tech stack or chain features did you compare?</li><li>Clarity – How easy is to understand the post for a mid-level developer</li><li>Usefulness – Does the post adds value for a developer trying to choose a blockchain?</li></ul><h3 class="heading-node">Eligibility</h3>We will discard low-quality AI posts, or posts written on its majority by an AI. If you do not put time into writing it, then we will not put time into reading it.To clarify, it is OK to use AI to guide or help your writing, just avoid creating the whole article (or most of the) with it.<h3 class="heading-node">Contact Us</h3>Have questions or need help? Join the documentation <a class="link" href="https://t.me/neardocscg" target="">telegram channel</a><hr><h3 class="heading-node">🔒 Internal Info (for tracking only)</h3><ul class="list-node"><li>DevHub Area: DevRel</li><li>DevHub Moderator: Guille</li></ul>

Guillermo Gallardo

NEAR DevHub

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