# Building for the Future: NEAR’s Vision for Layer 1 Infrastructure by Bowen Wang

- Channel: [Ethereum Denver](https://streameth.org/ethereum-denver)
- Date: 2023-10-07
- Duration: 14:05
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-5IHWFUJj7zs
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IHWFUJj7zs

## Description

Usability is the biggest hurdle to Web3 adoption today. In the past, people in the Web3 space have either largely sidelined the usability problem or considered it to be the responsibility of application developers. In this talk, I'd like to present how NEAR thinks about usability and new innovations on the protocol level to make NEAR attractive to both developers and end-users.

Bowen Wang