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Community Groups or Builder Groups are developer centric interest groups on specific NEAR ecosystem verticals dedicated to support projects & developer governance from the ground up, and push protocol standards as NEPs, and build open source tooling.

📚 LEARN ABOUT DEVELOPER GOVERNANCE neardevgov.org

🗳️ submit an idea in the Developer Governance gigs board a devgovgigs.near.social

It also gives an opportunity for developers, technical PMs, and founders to learn from each other, connect + collaborate, and implement the latest technologies, serving as NEAR developer incubators amongst the respective verticals.

Builder Group	Meeting Dates	Telegram	Registration Link	Governance Post	Notes	Primary Organizers
Protocol Community Group	TBA	nearbuilders.com/tg-protocol	TBA	nearbuilders.com/protocol-post	nearbuilders.com/protocol-notes	Pagoda
Wallet	Weekly on Tuesdays at 12PM EST	nearbuilders.com/tg-wallet	nearbuilders.com/wallet-calendar	nearbuilders.com/wallet-post	nearbuilders.com/wallet-notes	Banyan Collective
NFT	Weekly on Wednesdays at 12pm EST	nearbuilders.com/tg-nft	nearbuilders.com/nft-calendar	nearbuilders.com/nft-post	nearbuilders.com/nft-notes	Banyan Collective
DAO	Weekly Tuesday,	nearbuilders.com/tg-dao	nearbuilders.com/dao-calendar	nearbuilders.com/dao-post	nearbuilders.com/dao-notes	AstroDAO, Banyan Collective
DeFi	TBA (Monthly Call)	nearbuilders.com/tg-defi	TBA (Monthly Call)	nearbuilders.com/defi-post	nearbuilders.com/defi-notes	Banyan Collective, Proximity Labs
Data Infrastructure	TBA (Monthly Call)	nearbuilders.com/tg-data	TBA - Monthly Call	nearbuilders.com/data-post	nearbuilders.com/data-notes	Banyan Collective, Pagoda
ZK	TBA	nearbuilders.com/tg-zk	nearbuilders.com/zk-calendar	nearbuilders.com/zk-post	TBA	Pagoda
NEAR SOCIAL	TBA	nearbuilders.com/tg-social	TBA	nearbuilders.com/social-post	TBA	James Waugh, NDC (NEAR Digital Collective)
Python Tooling	TBA	nearbuilders.com/tg-python	TBA	nearbuilders.com/python-post	TBA	NEAR Foundation
Tooling Community Group	TBA	nearbuilders.com/tg-tools	TBA	nearbuilders.com/tools-post	TBA	Pagoda
Validator Community Group	TBA	nearbuilders.com/tg-validator		nearbuilders.com/validator-post		Open Shards Alliance

Videos for Banyan Led Builder Calls can be found at nearbuilders.com/builder-videos

🧠 Other Interest Groups

These groups are for people with common interests not yet established. Reach out if you would like to be part of this.

• 🔐 Privacy on NEAR: emphasize privacy tools and privacy as the default on NEAR.
• 📹 NEAR Content Creators Working Group Goal is to bring all content creators together, support each other, and ultimately increase the quality and quantity of material produced that promotes the NEAR Protocol. Learn more at the governance post
• 🌉 NFT Bridging: developing standards and tools to bridge NFTs across different blockchains (chain agnostic)
• 🌐 IBC x NEAR: to increase collaboration between the NEAR and Cosmos ecosystem
• 🏗️ NEAR JS SDK User Group for developers using the NEAR Javascript SDK
• 🌻 NEAR Refi Grower Group build ReFI public goods and bolster NEAR as a ReFI chain