CASE FILE 06 · Web3 · Layer-1
NEAR Protocol
The protocol's original native iOS and Android wallets, and several years as a development partner and ambassador inside the ecosystem.
- Sector
- Web3 · Layer-1
- Disciplines
- iOS · Android · Web3
- Results
- Detailed outcomes are shared under NDA, on request
- Delivery
- ZTG team, end to end
- Role
- Foundation development partner and ambassador, concluded
A Layer-1 protocol needed its first production-grade mobile wallets, and an ecosystem growing fast enough to need engineering support beyond its own team.
Native iOS and Android engineering with the NEAR Foundation, working directly with the protocol's senior leadership, and a standing role as a foundation development partner in the ecosystem.
The original NEAR Protocol iOS and Android wallets, in the hands of the protocol's users, and years of core support for the developers building on it.
The relationship
More than a build. A seat in the ecosystem.
ZTG's most significant blockchain engagement, and one of several long-term client relationships in the firm's history. For several years ZTG was a NEAR Foundation development partner, providing core support for the ecosystem while serving as one of its ambassadors, across many workstreams and directly with the protocol's senior leadership. The work sat at the frontier of the technology, for a protocol valued in the billions. The engagement has since concluded, and the record stands.
- Development partner. Core engineering support for the ecosystem as a foundation development partner, alongside the original native iOS and Android wallets ZTG shipped for the protocol.
- Office hours. Standing office-hour support for developers building on the protocol, from architecture questions to shipping problems.
- Ambassador. Speaking regularly at NEAR events and on its panels, including the Miami ecosystem's meetups and growth sessions.
- Counsel to the ecosystem's enterprises. Beyond the panels, ZTG's role at those events was to meet the enterprise leaders and founders arriving in the ecosystem and advise them on their own implementations of the technology, from expert consulting to staff augmentation for their builds.
- Growth counsel. Expert support to the growth arm of NEAR Protocol as it expanded into new markets, Miami and Latin America among them.
Photographs from those rooms are on the press page.
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