Overview
Rare Network is a video channel that records blockchain conferences and publishes the talks, interviews and panel sessions for people who could not attend in person. It suits anyone who wants the stage content without attending in person. The team behind the channel produces the conference itself, so the footage comes from inside the event1.
That conference is Rare Evo, an annual blockchain and crypto event held in Las Vegas that gathers teams from a range of networks2. Within that conference coverage, Cardano appears more often than any other network, and Midnight, a privacy-focused partner chain of Cardano, also features across event talks and interviews1. Rare Network pays for part of that work through Project Catalyst, the community treasury Cardano uses to fund ecosystem projects, filing proposals for community events, media production and startup booths at its own conference3.
Key Features
- Full conference sessions. The channel includes full-session recordings of keynotes, panels and workshops, so viewers get the whole argument a speaker made on stage1.
- Interviews filmed on the show floor. Founders, developers and community organisers sit down for short conversations between sessions, filmed on the show floor rather than in a studio.
- A strong Cardano thread through the event coverage. Cardano turns up in the conference coverage more often than any other network1, and part of that filming is paid for by Cardano's own community funding programme3.
- A separate short-form crypto news feed. Rare Network's Shorts feed works as a general market news desk, covering exchanges, payment firms and networks well beyond Cardano, so the catalogue is broader than the conference footage alone.
- Archived main-stage live streams. Full conference days are broadcast live and the recordings stay up afterwards, which lets a viewer follow one track in order instead of hunting down individual talks.
What to Expect
Two different feeds sit on the same channel. The long-form videos are event coverage: talks, panels, interviews and recaps, sorted into playlists by conference. The Shorts feed is a fast-moving crypto news desk with headlines about exchanges, payment companies and major tokens across a range of networks. A podcast tab collects longer conversation episodes.
Posting follows the events calendar rather than a fixed weekly schedule, so long-form uploads arrive in bursts around each conference and thin out between them. The dominant formats are recorded sessions, interviews and news headlines. The value is access to what was said on stage, and to the people who said it, at an event whose participating organizations span several blockchain networks4. The same company runs a written news desk on the conference site, including a section given over to Cardano5, so a reader can follow the same beat in text. For alternatives, the directory lists other YouTube channels covering the ecosystem.
