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NEARWEEK EDITION #26

4 – 10 OCT 2021 🌐

NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was crowdsourced via 35 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• Octopus Network mainnet is officially live!
• OP Games raised $8.6m to bridge game developers to web3.0.
• Multi-rewards farming program now LIVE on Ref Finance!
• The NEAR | CON Community swag contest has begun.
• Businesses using NEAR Protocol can now use Request’s compliance-ready invoicing tool to automate invoice creation and payment.
• The first EVER comic mini series NFT is coming to NEAR: Bob Boom!
• NEARWEEK Discord genesis NFT launch.
• Join the launch of NEARWEEKEND LIVESTREAM w/ Riqi from Paras.
• Three devs from Core team are attending ICPC world finals this week!

– NEAR Ecosystem is expanding rapidly. Source: NEAR Mates.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 36,568,135
• Total accounts: 1,158,674
• Weekly active accounts: 70040
• Monthly active developers: 998

Executive Summary

• MAD & weekly active developers, shows continuous developer attention.
• Ref Farm was successful in gaining usage by looking at transactions.
• nearpunk and linkdrop campaign continues to be successful in driving traffic and account creation to NEAR.
• Traffic from Indonesia increased by 40% with NEAR being featured in Indodax, in addition, traffic in China from both Zhihu and Baidu increased last week, showing successful marketing efforts in Asia.

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

4 Week Transactions Overview:

NEAR Wallet week 40 Update:

• NEAR Wallet is on a steady growth trajectory, with clear Q4 objectives and and ambitious goals for 2022.
• Added a button to discover DeFi opportunities on NEAR, and included the Rainbow Bridge as an option to top-up the account balance.
• NEAR Wallet team needs to grow. We have great career opportunities available, apply today!

Results:

• 1.13 million users, +3% since last week.
• 252k monthly active users, +1.7% since last week. 
• Q4 OKRs are ready! Focuses on new user onboarding and staking interface
• Minor adjustments to the user interface: 
  • Better account selection menu, 
  • Link to the Rainbow Bridge
  • A dedicated “discover DeFi” button in the wallet dashboard.

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 877,627 $NEAR 
  • Total transactions: 16304
  • Total DAOs: 218
  • TVL: 373,561 $NEAR 

• Sputnik / Astro update
• AstroDAO, the next generation of DAOs, is close to launching on NEAR!
  • UX Guild product demo of AstroDAO on NEAR Protocol.
• The dApp data accuracy of Sputnik DAO has been enhanced.
• Aurora creates DAO as part of its community led vision.

DeFi:

• $PULSE token sale on NearPad sold out in less than 24h and raised $1.25m.
• OIN Finance deep dive into how to use stNEAR as collateral.
• Multi-rewards farming program now LIVE on Ref Finance!
• Next Creator’s podcast: “Creating a Launchpad for dApps on NEAR” w/ Cheddar founder Blaze.
• NEAR Protocol got listed on Indodax, the biggest crypto exchange in Indonesia.
• The Cheddar meme contest is live!

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team weekly update.
• Three people from Core team are attending ICPC world finals this week!

Project Growth:

• NEAR Grants program (NGP) weekly update.
  • NGP supports projects that share NEAR’s mission: to accelerate the world’s transition to open technologies by growing and enabling a community of developers and creators.
• Ecosystem Succes Team weekly update.
• Panther will receive $40,000 to help develop and deploy the protocol’s privacy solutions on NEAR’s Ethereum Virtual Machine.
• Octopus Network is accelerating the Web 3.0 revolution: Launch your Substrate project on Octopus Network and receive up to $50k in grants.
• CryptoEmpire partners with Paras to diversify NFT assets on NEAR.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
• The NEAR | CON Community swag contest has begun in collaboration with Mintbase and SwaggerDAO.
• What is DEIP? DEIP enables the discovery, evaluation, licensing, and exchange of intangible assets.
• Open Forest Protocol uses NEAR to scale forest-based climate solutions.
  • A short review of the climate tech of the future.
• Debio became the first registered appchain on Octopus Network mainnet.
  • Debio featured on the Token Economist.
• TENK is a project launching on NEAR soon. It will enable artists to release their NFT series and batch sell them as a ‘drop’.

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• PlayToEarn games on NEAR Protocol.
• OP Games raised $8.6m to bridge game developers to web3.0.
  • Check out OPGames’ YouTube channel for their latest gaming updates, demos and AMAs.
• Crypto Empire is coming to NEAR! Crypto Empire is the first Cross-chain NFT card game on NEAR.
• Sneak peek of the upcoming game Cryptoheroes from PixelDapps!
• Play the MetaBUIDL price winning Hunt for the Lost Cryptocubes.
• NEAR Lands is in steady development. New stuff is added all the time!
  • Playing around with particle effects.
• Spaceship Wars is going to be deployed on NEAR Protocol mainnet!

Events:

• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• Join the NEARWEEKEND VIDEO LIVESTREAM in the NEARWEEK discord feat. Riqi from Paras on Oct. 15, 3:00pm CEST.
• A new game in the NEAR ecosystem: Arcadians is launching Oct. 12!
• The NEAR | CON Community Swag Contest Oct. 6-15.
• Cheddar meme contest Oct. 14-22.
• NEAR | CON – Reuniting in-person. Oct. 26-27, Lisbon 2021.
• Gen C – The virtual NEAR marketing conference and competition, Nov. 1-30, 2021.
• DevRelCon 2021, Nov. 8-10.

Infrastructure:

• NEAR Academy: Learn how to build a Web3 App, fast and for free!
• In Oct., NEAR University has 5 separate training events for you to learn!
• NEAR Protocol is nominated at the Crypto Awards in the category: Best Blockchain Technology Award 2021. Remember to go vote!

Guilds:

• Chatting with the CEO of Sankore: The first NEAR guild in Kenya.
• A new series dedicated to the Women of NEAR Protocol is coming up.

NFTs:

• Check out the Paras analytics stats page overview. 
  • Congratulations to all the winners of Paras’ MetaBUIDL challenge.
• The winner of the Telegram MetaBUIDL bot competition. 
  • This bot helps you access NFTs on every wallet, publish NFTs in telegram chats and search by image!
• CryptoEmpire is giving away a NEAR NFT card to 3 lucky winners.
• Catching up with Paras: weekly recap.
• NEAR NFT Club weekly recap.
• Squid Game characters are now up on Paras.

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• +25 Current job openings at NEAR – Apply and join the team now!
• NEAR Community is expanding their team of online community managers & onboarding gurus – Apply today!
• Aurora is looking for: Blockchain/Relayer Engineer, Blockchain/Bridge Engineer Blockchain/EVM Engineer, QA Engineer.
• Director of Marketing at SupraOracles.
• FLUX is looking for RUST and Solidity engineers and a Technical Product Manager.
• Ref Finance is Hiring! 5 positions are up for grabs: Product Manager, UI Designer, Front-End Engineer, Back-End Engineer and QA Engineer. 
• Paras Digital is looking for game developers.
• Cron Cat is looking for Growth Hackers and Agents
• Flying Rhino (NEAR SoMe Guild) is looking for people!
• Reddit Manager wanted for r/Mintbase and r/NEARNFT’s.
• Open Forest Protocol is hiring.
• 4NTS Guild is hiring more wordsmiths to assist in writing blog posts about the myriad of projects that are launching on NEAR.
• Capsule Social is still looking for candidates to lead content strategy.

Join the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s Community Squad weekly update.
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap.

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NEARWEEK EDITION #25

27 SEP – 3 OCT 2021 🌐

NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was crowdsourced via 38 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• Opera browser adds NEAR Protocol to its Built-in Browser Crypto Wallet!!
• NEAR Protocol launched private shard for enterprise!!
• NEAR and Hapi announced a “long-awaited close partnership”
• $HAPI on Ref + Ref launched the second batch of $REF farms!
• DEIP Protocol entered the Octopus Network Appchain Ecosystem.

– NEAR Ecosystem is expanding rapidly. Source: NEAR Mates.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 34,712,493
• Total accounts: 1,120,800
• Weekly active accounts: 61283
• Monthly active developers: 973

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

4 Week Transactions Overview:

NEAR Wallet week 39 Update:

• The spam reduction slowed down the sheer volume of new accounts, while the monthly active users are growing
• Now it’s easier to create a new account if you already have a wallet. 
• OKRs were finalized and team decided to limit the number of new features. It will be necessary to launch the closed beta of the wallet rebrand.

Results:

• 1.09 million users, +3% last week
• ~247,000 monthly active users, +7%
• New feature for existing users: creating a new, additional wallet is way easier! By clicking “create new account” from the top-right menu you’ll skip the funding step.
• Non-transaction signatures are coming to NEAR Wallet! We need a final security review and it will be ready to go.

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 821,030 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 15223
  • Total DAOs: 216
  • TVL: 392,455 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update
• Introducing the Info Team. They’re on a mission to enable information access and to empower community knowledge building!
• NEAR Community DAO: Evolving the v1 Community Squad DAO.
• How to create a DAO using Telegram NEAR Bot.

DeFi:

• Boca Chica “Mars Edition” to be released on NEAR Protocol!!
  • Boca Chica is a new cutting-edge IDO platform on Solana.
• AMPnet and NEAR Protocol announced partnership to launch a real-estate backed derivative token on NEAR Blockchain.
  • AMPnet is a DeFI fundrasiing & tokenization platform
• $PARAS listed on CoinGecko.
• Cheddar ended Week 1 with more than 828K NEAR ($5M USD) staked.
• $PULSE token sale postponed. New date is Oct. 7.
• MetaPool partnership with Ref: stNEAR pools are now live on Ref!
  • Meta Pool partnership with Ref Finance to create stNEAR pools.
  • Check out Ref September recap video, and recap Medium post.
• OIN Finance Constellation Series with Meta Pool.
• Keeping up with the evolution of DeFi on NEAR: Aurora, Rainbow Bridge, and Sputnik DAO updates.
• “Live swaps” category is live on Sodaki.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team weekly update.
• Nearpad core contracts have been successfully audited by Chainsulting
• near-api-js 0.43.0 released.
• Watch the NEAR validator AMA here.
  • Hardware Requirements for Validator Node.

Project Growth:

• NEAR Grants program (NGP) weekly update.
  • NGP supports projects that share NEAR’s mission: to accelerate the world’s transition to open technologies by growing and enabling a community of developers and creators.
• Ecosystem Succes Team weekly update.
• Announcing the MetaBUIDL Partner Challenge Winners.
• Panther Protocol received a grant to explore the development of open-source privacy infrastructure needed for a native Panther deployment on NEAR. 
  • This includes the deployment of Panther’s privacy solutions on Aurora EVM.
• NEAR Education overview – start your learning journey today!
• Emblem will be expanding its platform into Aurora on NEAR Protocol. Soon users will be able to mint NFT vaults/wallets on Aurora.
• Unique One Network brings its NFT galaxy to Octopus Network.
  • How to launch an Appchain on Octopus Network.
• NEAR Ukraine Accelerator.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
• HAPI and Aurora announced strategic partnership. HAPI will be responsible for securing funds for projects on Aurora!
• PARAS has reached more than $1M in TVL.
• Myriad planning to be the first social media on the Octopus appchain! Read the CEO-interview here.
• Stats.gallery September update – Big ups to the great work so far!
  • stats.gallery is your friendly guide to the NEAR Ecosystem.
• NEAR.WATCH: Helpful $NEAR crypto chart widgets for your NEAR Wallet.
• Decentralized social feeds that feel familiar. A writing experience for casual users as well as journalists and more. Read it all in Capsule Social’s Sept. update.
• Introducing “MyNiftyCollection” dapplet. This dapplet allows you to display your NFTs in your Twitter profile.
• Croncat DAO is Live!
  • Croncat update: Final PR before mainnet merged, DAO Launched: croncat.sputnik-dao.near.
• Open Forest Protocol is the first decentralized, global, and accessible platform for forest tracking.
  • OFP monthly Sept. roundup.

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• PlayToEarn games on NEAR Protocol.
• The beta version of Pixel Pets launched on mainnet! Go try it out.
• Shroom Kingdom roadmap was released! Check out if you’re eligible for their airdrop.
• Introducing Battlemon: A third-person shooter with competitive gameplay. Join their social channels here.
• Voting for candidates to members of the DAO has been launched in Galaxy Online.

Events:

• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• OWS AMA: Social Media Best Practices with Joep Maenen. Sep 29.
• Rainbow bridge meetup Kiev, Sep. 30, 4:30 PM – 10:30 PM EEST.
• $Pulse token sale on NearPad, Oct. 7.
• Octopus Network mainnet launch metaverse party Oct. 8, 2021.
• Blockchain gaming hangout with Human Guild and MTVRS, Oct. 8 at 1PM PST/4PM PST.
• A new game in the NEAR ecosystem: Arcadians is launching Oct. 12!
• NEAR | CON – Reuniting in-person. Oct. 26-27, Lisbon 2021.
• Gen C – The virtual NEAR marketing conference and competition, Nov. 1-30, 2021.
• DevRelCon 2021, Nov. 8-10.

Guilds:

• Launch your own Guild! Utilize the updated Guild onboarding strategy and pathway to join the NEAR Guilds Program.
• Guild events page.
• Thanks everyone for coming to the Human Guild Sept. NFT meetup!
• 4NTS Guild September recap.
• Wild User Interviews podcast: Growth w. NEAR Legend Ozymandius.
• Merchants of NEAR October price prediction competition.
• Another Humans of the OWS, with founder of Uxisnear guild, AlejandroVbeta1.

NFTs:

• Purchase your NEARCON pass as an NFT with $NEAR – Available NOW on Mintbase!
• NEATAR creates NFT avatars. Cool new project in beta testing.
• Are you the lucky winner of the NEARPunk giveaway?
• Catching up with Paras: weekly recap.
• NEAR NFT Club weekly recap.

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• +25 Current job openings at NEAR – Apply and join the team now!
• Aurora is looking for: Blockchain/Relayer Engineer, Blockchain/Bridge Engineer Blockchain/EVM Engineer, QA Engineer.
• Director of Marketing at SupraOracles.
• FLUX is looking for RUST and Solidity engineers and a Technical Product Manager.
• Ref Finance is Hiring! 5 positions are up for grabs: Product Manager, UI Designer, Front-End Engineer, Back-End Engineer and QA Engineer. 
• Paras Digital is looking for game developers.
• Cron Cat is looking for Growth Hackers and Agents
• Flying Rhino (NEAR SoMe Guild) is looking for people!
• Reddit Manager wanted for r/Mintbase and r/NEARNFT’s.
• Open Forest Protocol is hiring.
• 4NTS Guild is hiring more wordsmiths to assist in writing blog posts about the myriad of projects that are launching on NEAR.
• Capsule Social is still looking for candidates to lead content strategy.

Join the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s Community Squad weekly update.
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap

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NEARWEEK EDITION #24

20 – 26 SEP 2021 🌐

NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was crowdsourced via 54 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• Happy anniversary everyone! The NEAR Protocol MainNet has been fully community run for 1 year.
• The journey towards a fully sharded blockchain has started!! Phase 0 of the roadmap is set to launch in Nov. 21’.
• Congratulations to all the winners and participants of this year’s MetaBUIDL!
  • Congrats to https://roke.to for the streaming payments app.
• AbleSwap & AbleStaking on NEAR mainnet Sep. 30!
• $OCT got listed on CoinMarketCap and will be listed on Bitmart Sep 28.
• NEAR partnered with Chronicle, VortoGaming and Crust Network.
• NEARPARD announced that Pulse will launch on its launchpad.
• Announcing the NEAR Growth Guild. Call for Ideas & Teams: Involve yourself or project now and help NEAR grow!

– NEAR Ecosystem is expanding rapidly. Source: NEAR Mates.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 32,779,592
• Total accounts: 1,089,180
• Weekly active accounts: 62170
• Monthly active developers: 953

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

4 Week Transactions Overview:

NEAR Wallet week 38 Update:

• Surpassed the 1 million NEAR accounts, and we are at the almost-quarter-of-million monthly active users before the “one year birthday” of NEAR Mainnet Community Governed!
• The new onboarding works well, no more spammers, but there’s still work to be done to make it more efficient.
• The work on the new brand name for NEAR Wallet goes on, and we have a naming proposal already.

Results:

• 1.06 million users, ~9% more than last week
• 229k monthly active users, +54% since last week!
• New onboarding flow is live, and the spam of fake accounts is now over
• Close to deciding the new brand name for NEAR Wallet.

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 746,231 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 14038
  • Total DAOs: 213
  • TVL: 412,168 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update
• Our co-founder Illia Polosukhin talked about DAOs on Spacecasts podcast.
• Illia also explored learnings from the first 7 years of DAOs and shared the NEAR Protocol vision for DAOs at the Wyoming Blockchain Stampede.
• Create a DAO, add proposals and vote just with one click. Every action is a real blockchain transaction performed on behalf of your account.
• Creatives DAO is a DAO vertical supporting creatives in the ecosystem. If you’re a creative with a vision, get involved now!

DeFi:

• Keeping up with the evolution of DeFi on NEAR: Flux, Pulse, and NearPad.
• 24hr trading volume passed $50M on Ref Finance!! 
• Bitkeep announced the support of NEAR Protocol.
• TriSolaris is building the first dex on NEAR and Aurora, launching next ~week. 
• OINDAO V3 Reveal and an informational series on OIN token utility.
• NEARPARD announced that Pulse will launch on its launchpad.
  • Introducing Pulse token economy.
• The Cheddar Farm is LIVE!!! How to Stake NEAR & Farm Cheddar.
• DeFi on NEAR is just beginning! Check out the key events of Ref, Skyward and MetaPool.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team Weekly update.
• Watch the Wasm in Web3 Workshop with Maksym Zavershynskyi.
• Flux Data Requester Tutorial. Watch it here!
• What if you could ask anything in the world you can think of and get answers from the wisdom of the crowd? With Flux you can.

Project Growth:

• NEAR Grants program (NGP) weekly update.
  • NGP supports projects that share NEAR’s mission: to accelerate the world’s transition to open technologies by growing and enabling a community of developers and creators.
• Ecosystem Succes Team weekly update.
• Introducing GEN C: The New Era Marketing Conference & Competition.
• Watch the MetaBUIDL Awards Ceremony and NEAR Town Hall.
• Crust Network partnered with NEAR Protocol, introducing decentralized storage solutions.
• StartFi has successfully concluded a 4 week NEAR Accelerator program and qualified to apply for NEAR Startup Grants.
• Six high-value startups made their final pitches on NEAR Blockchain Accelerator Demo Day to get fundraising of $200k.
• What element drives the growth of NEAR? Let’s follow the footprint of NEAR Protocol in this thread by NEAR Daily.
• NEAR and Filecoin are jointly offering up to USD $300,000 in grant funding for eligible projects.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
  • aurora.poolv1.near now holds over 5M staked NEAR, helping Aurora fund their bridge operations.
• e-Money  is a fast, frictionless form of digital cash that partnered with Aurora.
• Paras is the first NFT project on NEAR releasing tokens on Skyward. Claim your $PARAS now on Skyward Finance.
• Quidli is preparing to further integrate NEAR blockchain enhancing service offerings to its users.
• CIFOR provides valuable advising and research resources, ensuring the Open Forest Protocol is built to put forests first.
• Ready for the expansion of the NEAR Ecosystem? Check out the top projects that have not released a token yet.
• OIN Finance explained: The premier stablecoin and leveraging platform.
• The DeBio Network video explainer can be watched here.
• The founders of ITSMYNE are joining Antler Singapore starting Sep. 21.

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• Congratulations to the Play Hack winners of MetaBUIDL hackathon!
• Vorto Network launches a new generation of games that merge NFTs and DAOs.
• Get to know what Illia’s DragoNEAR is all about in the TG group.
• A new game in the NEAR ecosystem: Arcadians is launching Oct. 12!
• Hash Rush Heroes have been restocked!
• Blockchain gaming hangout with Human Guild and MTVRS, Oct. 8 at 1PM PST/4PM PST.
• Don’t forget to tune in on Next Creators podcast, to learn more about Play-to-Earn with Hash Rush cofounder Kris Vaivods.
• Galaxy Online is creating a smart contract and mechanics in the game in which NFTs are involved in the game and will change depending on the user’s gaming activity.
• A great opportunity from Galaxy Online: Become part of the DAO.
• Chain Typing game has another update of its testnet version.

Events:

• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• OWS AMA: Social Media Best Practices with Joep Maenen. Sep 29.
• Rainbow bridge meetup Kiev, Sep. 30, 4:30 PM – 10:30 PM EEST.
•  $Pulse token sale on NearPad, Sep. 30 at 5pm UTC.
• If you’re in SF Bay, come hangout with Human Guild in Dolores Park, Sep. 30, 5:30pm – 9pm.
• Open Web Sandbox monthly party – DeFi Debunked. Sep. 30, 5pm 6:30pm cest.
• Octopus Network mainnet launch Oct. 8, 2021.
• Blockchain gaming hangout with Human Guild and MTVRS, Oct. 8 at 1PM PST/4PM PST.
• A new game in the NEAR ecosystem: Arcadians is launching Oct. 12!
• NEAR | CON – Reuniting in-person. Oct. 26-27, Lisbon 2021.
• Gen C – The virtual NEAR marketing conference and competition, Nov. 1-30, 2021.

Guilds:

• NEAR Guild Reports: August 2021.
• Top guilds by membership on NEAR Protocol Ecosystem.
• The winner of the third #ExploreTheNEARverse contest.

Infrastructure:

• Watch as crypto and Blockchain make the global rounds: The UAE’s growing appetite for crypto and blockchain.
• State of the NEAR Ecosystem with 4NTS Guild.
• You can now share stats about any NEAR account using a link to https://stats.gallery.
• It’s alive! Check out the NEAR rich list on stats gallery.
• Recap: NEAR Protocol Reddit AMA

• What is NEAR Protocol? NEAR Explained with Animations.
• Explained: Why do we earn a return on staking and how does staking secure the network?
• In general, the total of active accounts by week has increased 6 times!
• Top 5 countries sending the most traffic to NEAR Protocol wallet.

NFTs:

• 1MillionNFTs is entering the NEAR platform, launching on Aurora Sep 30!
• Get first of it’s kind fully on-chain dynamic NFTdrop on NEAR! 
• Chronicle NFT Marketplace is fulfilling its eco-friendly ambitions with NEAR Protocol partnership.
  • Chronicle will utilize NEAR Protocol to serve as the backbone of its infrastructure.
• The latest batch of NEARpunks are coming to NEARTown!
• Welcome to Incubadora! Now on MintBase. Incubadora aims to create a laboratory for experimentation in arts + technology.
• Weekly recap: Catching up with Paras #31
• What’s next for NFT? – “NFT Bubble” by ITSMYNE.
• NEAR NFT WEEK | 20th – 26th Sept

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• Current job openings at NEAR.
• Aurora is looking for: Blockchain/Relayer Engineer, Blockchain/Bridge Engineer Blockchain/EVM Engineer, QA Engineer.
• Director of Marketing at SupraOracles.
• FLUX is looking for RUST and Solidity engineers and a Technical Product Manager.
• Ref Finance is Hiring! 5 positions are up for grabs: Product Manager, UI Designer, Front-End Engineer, Back-End Engineer and QA Engineer. 
• Paras Digital is looking for game developers.
• Cron Cat is looking for Growth Hackers and Agents
• Flying Rhino (NEAR SoMe Guild) is looking for people!
• Reddit Manager wanted for r/Mintbase and r/NEARNFT’s.
• Open Forest Protocol is hiring.

Join the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s Community Squad weekly update.
• NEAR Daily’s weekly highlight.
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap

Attention: We have been notified of scammers on Telegram and email – Report scam and remember not to share any private key or personal information with unverified and suspicious accounts!

Please make sure you are in https://t.me/cryptonear

Thank you for reading and have nice day in the NEARverse!

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NEARWEEK EDITION #23

13 – 19 SEP 2021 🌐

NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was crowdsourced via 64 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• EmiSwap DEX, Autonomy Network and solace.fi received grants from the NEAR Foundation.
• NEAR Protocol officially hit 30M transactions and 1M total accounts!!
• MetaBUIDL Awards Ceremony & A Very Special Town Hall Sep. 24
• Proximity Labs incubated projects raised over $15M to boost NEAR ecosystem and Cointelegraph featured the news. Big ups to NEAR Eco!
• meta_pool and Paras partnered with OINFinance!

– NEAR Ecosystem is expanding rapidly. Source Coin98 Analytics.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 30,814,540
• Total accounts: 1,058,429
• Weekly active accounts: 180,626
• Monthly active developers: 946

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

4 Week Transactions Overview:

NEAR Wallet week 37 Update:

• Q4 public roadmap.
• The registered user number is growing quickly, but it’s influenced by spammers skinning very few tokens from the free named account feature.
• The wallet balance is now different: It is now showing the tokens immediately available to spend/stake/and interact with the ecosystem.
• On track to build the new brand for NEAR Wallet

Results:

• >780kNEAR accounts, + 20% since last week.
• ~139,000 monthly active users, +12% since last week.
• New coin-op and Ledger Nano libraries on staging.
• Long-term vision of the new wallet is ready, going under internal review.

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:

• Total distributed all-time: 722,791 $NEAR
• Total transactions: 13,619
• Total DAOs: 209
• TVL: 427,854 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update
• Three new community council members were announced to be added to the Creatives DAO – the first thematic DAO Vertical working to disseminate the Community Fund to the creative Guilds and DAOs of the ecosystem. This is the first step toward decentralization as NEAR Core members work to hand over the governance of the Creatives DAO entirely to the community by December.

DeFi:

• “The evolution of DeFi on NEAR Protocol“.
• OIN Finance partnered with Paras and will be releasing a stablecoin.
• Meta Pool will release their stNEAR-backed stablecoin on the OINDAO.
• Skywardfinance is hosting yet another IDO with Paras.
  • An overview of Paras Token allocation and utilities.
• The EmiSwap DEX received a grant from the NEAR Foundation.
  • Check out this EmiSwap overview.
• NEAR awards Solace.Fi $30,000 Grant to help make DeFi safer. Solace runs cross chain insurance to insure you from potential risks without sacrificing your identity.
  • A one pager on Solace.
• You’re now able to track NEAR Protocol and Ref Farming TVL on DefiLlama.
• Ref Finance had a crazy high APY last week!
• Cheddar’s FREE Community Farm goes live Sept. 23.
• Huobi Earn added NEAR to its token list!
• DYOR.net scan result of FTX Exchange featured NEAR Protocol in the top 5 bullish trend.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team weekly update.
• Happy 1000 Github stars everyone!!
• Check out NEAR Devs on Medium and dive into e.g.: 5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me While Learning To Make Smart Contracts
• NEAR Protocol x Filecoin RFP on Github. This RFP is looking to deepen the integrations building on the successful launch of the bridge.
  • NEAR and Filecoin are jointly offering up to USD $300,000 in grant funding for eligible projects.
• Validator AMA on Thursday, Sep. 23, 5pm GMT. Get your questions answered about the upcoming sharding change. Sign up now!
  • We’re steadily approaching the launch of Simple Nightshade which will lead to sharding on NEAR!
  • This will increase TPS, increase # block producers, reduce storage costs

Project Growth:

• NEAR Grants program weekly update.
• Ecosystem Succes Team weekly update.
• Registration for the first official NEAR Protocol conference is open.
• ConsenSys backed Autonomy Network received a grant from NEAR Protocol. They will work with ecosystem projects to create solutions for specific conditional transactions like limit orders and stop-losses on decentralized exchanges.
• What CronCat achieved with their NEAR Protocol grant.
• NEAR is a diamond sponsor at the RustConf.
• OWS hit 1k followers on Twitter!
• OWS Rewards and Opportunities September 2021.
• The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
  • Aurora TVL growth overview from May – Sep 21.
  • Top assets issued on Rainbow Bridge.
• Decentricitu submitted their 2dverse metaverse prototype to MetaBUIDL! Check out the video to see the NEAR Testnet login.
• Octopus has been added to DCGco’s public portfolio.
• CEO of DeBio-Network presented their concept at CNBC Indonesia Tech Conference 2021.
• Latest Liquality release v0.41.0 introduced fixes for the recent RSK derivation path bug,
• Check out the latest Wild User Interviews: “Early Consensys to Near Core, Web 3.0 Product Design” w/ Corwin Harrell.

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• Overview of games currently on NEAR Protocol maintained by humanguild.
• VR Slot car racing in the making! Looking good.
• Join the Arcadians by OPGames Discord.
  • One pager on Arcadians.
• Big announcements and updates in the coming days from OPGames.
• METAMON Reveal Day.
• A lot of of contributions at Js13kGames. Try them out yourself!
• Chaintyping got updates for ya!
• Shroom Kingdom is looking for graphic designers who will help with the designs for the upcoming NFT airdrop.

Events:

• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• This week’s OWS AMA features ITSMYNE: A sports-focused social-plus NFT marketplace for officially licensed digital collectibles, being built on Aurora.
• MetaBUIDL Awards Ceremony & A Very Special Town Hall Sep. 24.
• Dive into modern Blockchain smart contract execution at the Blockchain 2021 online conference, where our own Maksym Zavershynskyi will be speaking. Sep. 22, 21:30-22:15 CET.
• Validator AMA on Thursday, Sep. 23, 5pm GMT. Get your questions answered about the upcoming sharding change. Sign up now!
• NEAR Blockchain Accelerator Demo Day Sep. 25; 5:00 p.m. IS.
• Another NEARZone Call of Duty Warzone event is coming up, Sep 26, 8PM GMT+2!

Guilds:

• NEAR Guild Reports: August 2021.
• Explore the NEARverse with NEARWEEK, PARAS & AwesomeNEAR part 3.
  • The winners of the second #ExploreTheNEARverse.
• Announcing the NEAR Growth Guild.
• If you want to learn what’s latest @humanguild.

Infrastructure:

• Watch as crypto and Blockchain make the global rounds: The UAE’s growing appetite for crypto and blockchain.
• State of the NEAR Ecosystem with 4NTS Guild.
• You can now share stats about any NEAR account using a link to https://stats.gallery.
• It’s alive! Check out the NEAR rich list on stats gallery.
• Recap: NEAR Protocol Reddit AMA with Illia Polosukhin.

NFTs:

• Reddit AMA with Riqi from Paras on the launch of the $PARAS token on Skyward.
• Seven Dead Stars releases their own marketplace w/minting music.
• [BOUNTY] Create an artwork based on the Incubadora DAO visual identity.
• Mintbase went over 20k ArweaveTeam transactions and upgraded 544 NFT contracts.

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• Current job openings at NEAR.
• Aurora is looking for: Blockchain/Relayer Engineer, Blockchain/Bridge Engineer Blockchain/EVM Engineer, QA Engineer.
• Director of Marketing at SupraOracles.
• FLUX is looking for RUST and Solidity engineers and a Technical Product Manager.
• Ref Finance is Hiring! 5 positions are up for grabs: Product Manager, UI Designer, Front-End Engineer, Back-End Engineer and QA Engineer. 
• Paras Digital is looking for game developers.
• Cron Cat is looking for Growth Hackers and Agents
• Flying Rhino (NEAR SoMe Guild) is looking for people!
• Reddit Manager wanted for r/Mintbase and r/NEARNFT’s.
• Open Forest Protocol is hiring.

Join the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s Community Squad weekly update.
• NEAR Daily’s weekly highlight.
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap.

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NEARWEEK EDITION #22

6 SEP – 12 SEP 2021 🌐

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• The AltRank™ for NEAR was 1 out of the top 2,909 coins last week.
• NEAR is now available on CoinBene Global.
• Paras 2.0 is now live! Paras migration correctly adopted the NFT token standard, and you can now see your collectibles inside NEAR wallet.
• Aurora launches its validator on NEAR.
• Milestone for Ref Finance: TVL 👉 from $4m to +$60m in few days.
• $REF and $Skyward now listed on CoinGecko!

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 28,679,165
• Total accounts: 930,174
• Weekly active accounts: 186,303
• Monthly active developers: 883

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

4 Week Transactions Overview:

NEAR Wallet week 36 Update:

• Ledger Nano is back on Chrome and Brave! Go to https://wallet.staging.near.org, test it and leave your feedback on  support channels (In wallet UI or FAQ)
• New account creation flow is coming! Wallet will ask for a mobile number or email to create “zero-funding” accounts. Test it at the same link as above and leave your feedback.

Results:

• >780kNEAR accounts, + 20% since last week.
• ~139,000 monthly active users, +12% since last week.
• New coin-op and Ledger Nano libraries on staging.
• Long-term vision of the new wallet is ready, going under internal review.

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 717,514 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 13,257
  • Total DAOs: 206
  • TVL: 333,988 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update
• The ‘Hot DAO Summer’ party of the Open Web Sandbox was HOT.
• Creatives DAO weekly [APPROVED] proposals.

DeFi:

• Skyward Finance tops Dapp rankings.
• Farming on Ref took off and what a big milestone: $35M+TVL $REF!
• BSC bridge to NEAR about to hit mainnet soon?!
• Read the post-mortem on the Ref Finance exploit here.
  • Check out the new Ref explained video.
• The community board has approved the Cheddar Genesis!
• NEAR in Binance 48-Hour thrilling flash promo.
• HEO presents their second fundraising campaign.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Cryptographic Hash Functions with Evgeny Kapun.
• Validators: A new version of nearcore 1.21.0 was released for mainnet.
  • nearcore 1.21.0 introduced a new protocol version, so once 2/3 of validators are upgraded, older nodes will get stuck. Thus, if you use Indexer Framework and run your own Indexer, it is time to upgrade. Please, follow this guide: https://github.com/near/nearcore/discussions/4689
• Validator AMA on Thursday, Sep. 23, 5pm GMT. Get your questions answered about the upcoming sharding change. Sign up now!
• We’re steadily approaching the launch of Simple Nightshade which will lead to the launch of sharding on NEAR!

Project Growth:

• With leading social + market activity,  the AltRank™ for NEAR was 1 out of the top 2,909 coins last week.
• NEAR Grants program weekly update.
• Ecosystem Succes Team weekly update.
• Deadline for MetaBUIDL Hackathon submissions postponed to Sept. 19.
• Community Fund Processes: USD Pricing.
  • This forum post addresses the issue of Community Fund payouts denominated in NEAR tokens.
• NEAR has awarded CurioInvest a developer grant expanding carbon neutral tokenization of collectible assets.
• The Local Hack Node Event in Nigeria was successful. Read more here.
• OWS Rewards and Opportunities September 2021.
• The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
  • More than $50mio. total assets bridged!
• e-Money explores integration with Aurora.
• Illia Polosukhin hosted an AMA on Reddit, check out the thread!
• Overview of top core projects on NEAR with own token.
• Croncat is in the final stages of being an official legal entity, testnet entity, mainnet entity & fully decentralized DAO.
• Sybil attack detected at http://LearnNEAR.Club!
• Unique One appchain joined Octopus Network.
  • Wanna learn more about “The Octopus Network Reach”?
• This week on Next Creators Podcast: What is Liquid Staking? w/ Meta Pool Co-founders Lucio Tato & Claudio Cossio.
• Mintbase got a new community manager, please give a warm welcome!

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• Bloomberg Tech & Ideas: How Gaming Will Change Humanity as We Know It.
• Roughly 20 games so far are being built on NEAR, likely it will get to 100 games within 12 months.
• Metamon Reveal Day is set for Sept 17 at 5pm (EST). 
  • Revealing: the revamped Metamon world, 3 of first Gen 1 characters, Metamon lore and story, and limited edition character collectibles!
• How to build a Play To Earn game: A guide that will enable you to create a play to earn game on NEAR.
• Voice chat is live now on main domain for http://near-lands.onrender.com
• Shroom Kingdom is looking for graphic designers who will help with the designs for the upcoming NFT airdrop.

Events:

• Join the NEAR Protocol RU-Community contest and get a chance to win a NFT + $50 in $REF.
• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• It’s time for MetaBUIDL Hackathon with NEAR. The infrastructure is ready to onboard the next billion users to Web3 – $1MIO in prizes!. Aug. 27 – Sep. 19.
• The State of the NEAR Ecosystem hosted by 4NTS Guild, Sept. 16, 9:30 PST.
• Validator AMA on Thursday, Sep. 23, 5pm GMT. Get your questions answered about the upcoming sharding change. Sign up now!
• Another NEARZone Call of Duty Warzone event is coming up, Sep 26, 8PM GMT+2!

Guilds:

• Explore the NEARverse with NEARWEEK & AwesomeNEAR part 2.
  • The winners of the first #ExploreTheNEARverse.
• NEAR Legal Guild: Business Ops Lessons for Crypto Project Founders.
• Open Forest Protocol headed to SWISS FINTECH Fair.
  • How OFP works.
• The Corpsemen Guild: A Community for the New Carbon Future. Get enrolled and start making a difference!
• Degens: Weekly News №6 is out.
• September week 1 recap by Merchants of NEAR
• Take a glance at NxM ecosystem map

Infrastructure:

• You can now share stats about any NEAR account using a link to https://stats.gallery.
• What Is The Future Of Interoperability? Octopus founder Louis Liu recently participated in a panel with NEAR and the Cosmos ecosystem
  • OCT Token Timelock Contract Bug Bounty Program.
• Check out the Analytics wiki page that aggregates data tools in the ecosystem.
• A rant about developer adoption and why @marwolwarl “likes” NEAR”.
  • The NEAR Protocol thread for those too lazy to read.
• Want to know more about NEAR’s sharding system? Read it here.
• As the NEAR network matures, a new role is emerging: Chunk-Only Producers. 
• $26,500 lost on failed ETH transaction. Reason: not enough gas. Not gonna happen using NEAR!

NFTs:

• New features added to Mintbase: Remove minters from your store and Storage Full Meter.
• How to mint NFTs on Paras.
• NEAR Nft Club introduces – NEAR NFT WEEKLY NEWS.
• Almost $6k USD was the price on Sep 11 to mint one NFT on $ETH.

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• Current job openings at NEAR.
• Project managing the Treasury governance project.
• FLUX is looking for RUST and Solidity engineers and a Technical Product Manager.
• Ref Finance is Hiring! 5 positions are up for grabs: Product Manager, UI Designer, Front-End Engineer, Back-End Engineer and QA Engineer. 
• Paras Digital is looking for game developers.
• Aurora is looking for a QA Engineer.
• Cron Cat is looking for a designer and commanders!
• Flying Rhino (NEAR SoMe Guild) is looking for people!
• Reddit Manager wanted for r/Mintbase and r/NEARNFT’s.
• Open Forest Protocol is hiring.

Join the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s Community Squad weekly update.
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap.

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NEARWEEK EDITION #21

30 AUG – 5 SEP 2021 🌐

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• Etherscan will launch on Aurora. Big ups to the team!!
• POMP podcast with NEAR Co-founder @ilblackdragon and  @APompliano!
• near.university launched! Start your NEAR learning journey now. 
• Farming on Ref took off and what a big milestone: $35M+TVL $REF!
• NEAR got listed on KickEX!

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 26,286,145
• Total accounts: 759,411
• Weekly active accounts: 162,917
• Monthly active developers: 789

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

4 Week Transactions Overview:

NEAR Wallet week 35 Update:

• NEAR Wallet continues on its growing trajectory, with ~100k more users since last week.
• A lot of work behind the scenes, mostly around better UX and messaging.
• The long-term direction of NEAR Wallet is almost finalized, unblocking the rebranding.

Results:

• ~650k NEAR accounts, + 100k from the last week.
• ~124k monthly active users, ~10% above the average of the last month.
• New public roadmap live at https://portal.productboard.com/lnpb6dhpyz225uxhuo74d32p
• Launched minor UX improvements: validators list page, with better indication of available staking pools; 2FA and Ledger copy.

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 705,545 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 12,413
  • Total DAOs: 195
  • TVL: 276,986 $NEAR

• Community Squad DAO metrics:
  • Total distributed last week: WIP $NEAR
  • Weekly number of approved proposals: WIP

• Sputnik / Astro update.
• SputnikDAO-cli: Tools for managing Sputnik DAO v2.
• Check out this NEAR DAO treasury infographic.

DeFi:

• Skyward Finance tops Dapp rankings.
• Farming on Ref took off and what a big milestone: $35M+TVL $REF!
  • Start your week off with 4x $REF farming rewards.
• Last week was StakersWeek at Metapool. This week has rewards too!
• Cheddar is almost done testing. Once the contract is tested and no further critical bugs are identified Cheddar will launch genesis proposal.
• $PAD token was added to SushiSwap with liquidity and can be found at CoinGecko.

Developers:

• Fast Rust Builds by NEAR Inc’s Aleksey Kladov. Follow his blog here.
• Intro to NEAR for Senior Developers.
• NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Validator AMA on Thursday, Sep. 23, 5pm GMT. Get your questions answered about the upcoming sharding change. Sign up now!
  • We’re steadily approaching the launch of Simple Nightshade which will lead to the launch of sharding on NEAR!
• A handy little library for parsing & presenting NEAR Tokens. For TS/JS projects, as well as command line.
• Check the NEPs Github here.
• Developer office hours are live – It’s a new daily dev support initiative which summarises all the questions from the NEAR Discord channel #dev-support. Go check it out!
• Learn NEAR in a Community-based initiative: videos bound to make your NEAR journey so much easier!
• Looking for a good introduction to start building on NEAR? Check out NEAR Onboarding Bootcamp!
• Dev at Minting Music weekly update.

Project Growth:

• NEAR Grants program weekly update.
• Daily new number of accounts  going UP, UP, UP!
• The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
• NearPad token distribution event sold out in minutes.
  • Pulse will be the first project to do an IDO on NearPad!
• Introducing Pingbox: Notifications for your NEAR crypto wallet.
• The Corpsemen: Centered around sequestering carbon and building out a new carbon economy.
  • The Open Forest Protocol Press release is out in the world.
• Octopus Network secured $5 Million series A funding round.
  • Another appchain joined Octopus: Unique One Network, a multichain NFT marketplace.
• Streaming Xyiming on testnet: Streaming payments on NEAR
• Wild User Interviews: Ep. 02 – Product & Philosophy w. Rin ‘Rimberjack’.
• A sneak peak at the Myriad.Social wip metaverse.

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• “Building The NEAR Economy” – The next generation of Web3 Games with the Human Guild.
• Why is play-to-earn and Web3 gaming taking off? w/ Yield Guild CEO Gabby Dizon and Human Guild.
• Great early gaming thoughts and content from Vlad Grichina.
• Jump in on the NEAR Lands fun!

Events:

• Game jam by Js13kGames – Join the decentralization category and win $NEAR Aug. 13 – Sep. 13
• The Gitcoin Open DeFi Hackathon is NEAR’s first DeFi hackathon Aug. 18 – Sep. 8.
• It’s time for MetaBUIDL Hackathon with NEAR. The infrastructure is ready to onboard the next billion users to Web3 – $1MIO in prizes!. Aug. 27 – Sep. 12.
• Mintbase on the ongoing MetaBUIDL at Twitter Spaces, Sep. 8. 6 pm CET/9 am PST
• Human Guild is hosting an Ama with Metapool Sep. 8.
• Validator AMA on Thursday, Sep. 23, 5pm GMT. Get your questions answered about the upcoming sharding change. Sign up now!
• Another NEARZone Call of Duty Warzone event is coming up, Sep 26, 8PM GMT+2!

Guilds:

• Explore the NEARverse with NEARWEEK & AwesomeNEAR.
• NEAR Intelligence Agency (NIA) roadmap.
• Exploring the Metaverse w/ Somnium Space CEO Artur Sychov and Human Guild. Recorded in VR!
• Lessons from Createbase Guild: shared learnings for the creatives’ guilds community.
• Degens Weekly News №5.
• Merchants of NEAR community highlights for the first week of Sept.
• NearMemeDaily x Open Web Sandbox September meme contest.
• Join the NEAR x Music Guild today!

Infrastructure:

• Ecosystem Map wip: Creating an accurate, up-to-date database of all entities in the ecosystem.
• Missed NEAR August Town Hall? Read the recap here.
• The only video you need to watch to learn about the Octopus Network.
• NEAR exchanges flow analysis by NEAR Mates.

NFTs:

• Mintbase +500 deployed NFT smart contracts controlled by the users.
• NEAR joined Legend of Fantasy War as a partner for NFT giveaway.
• PARAS 2.0 migration started and is coming soon!
  • Here’s a tutorial on how to Mint NFT’s on Paras.
• The top 10 artists from Para’s #card4card August.
• Participate in the Arcadians September NFT Giveaway.
• Pixel Dapps: Roadmap update.
• Don’t forget to check out, and follow, the NEAR NFT Club for more updates on NFT’s and the NEARverse.

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• Current job openings at NEAR.
• Project managing the Treasury governance project.
• FLUX is looking for RUST and Solidity engineers and a Technical Product Manager.
• Ref Finance is Hiring! 5 positions are up for grabs: Product Manager, UI Designer, Front-End Engineer, Back-End Engineer and QA Engineer. 
• Paras Digital is looking for game developers.
• Aurora is looking for a QA Engineer.
• Cron Cat is looking for a designer and commanders!
• Flying Rhino (NEAR SoMe Guild) is looking for people!

Join the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s community team update here.
• NEAR Daily’s weekly recap.
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap.

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NEARWEEK EDITION #20

23 – 29 AUG 2021 🌐

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• MetaBUIDL Hackathon was kicked off! Watch the opening here.
• Shout out from Evan Van Ness to Aurora!
• Ref Finance got listed on CoinGecko!
• NEAR August Town Hall 2021.
• Meta Pool launched on mainnet.
• Big shout out to sudo_build for making an awesome NEAR activity dashboard. Make sure to check it out!

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 24,502,302
• Total accounts: 613,724
• Weekly active accounts: 71,301
• Monthly active developers: 736

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

4 Week Transactions Overview:

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 601,530 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 11,073
  • Total DAOs: 190
  • TVL: 288,995 $NEAR

• Community Squad DAO metrics:
  • Total distributed last week: WIP $NEAR
  • Weekly number of approved proposals: WIP

• Sputnik / Astro update.
• SputnikDAO-cli: Tools for managing Sputnik DAO v2.
• Check out this NEAR DAO treasury infographic.

DeFi:

• Ref Finance got back online!! A new fork for $REF was added and the new $REF token was issued and distributed.
  • Ref is celebrating the upcoming launch of their farms.
• Meta Pool is live on NEAR mainnet! Here is the link to the Meta Pool mainnet DApp.
• The Cheddar Genesis gov post is finally up!
• Open DeFi featured NEAR on their community call.
• Watch the “Staking Monday” episode with NEAR Founder Illia Polosukhin.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• NEAR Wallet public roadmap.
• Check the NEPs Github here.
• Engineering related discussions: ask questions at stackoverflow.
• Deep dive into NEAR accounts with Vlad Frolov, manager of public node interfaces team. 
• Developer office hours are live – It’s a new daily dev support initiative which summarises all the questions from the NEAR Discord channel #dev-support. Go check it out!
• RUST gets the MOST love from developers according to StackOverflow.
• Learn NEAR in a Community-based initiative: videos bound to make your NEAR journey so much easier!
• Looking for a good introduction to start building on NEAR? Check out NEAR Onboarding Bootcamp!

Project Growth:

• NEAR Grants program weekly update.
  • Kurtosis has begun working with the Grants Program to bring simple, powerful testing to NEAR core and smart contract devs!
• METABuidl hackathon with up to $1M prizes has started!
  • Join the NEAR Discord: Connect with potential collaborators in the “Hackathons” category, share ideas, and get your questions answered.
  • Hackathon Startup Guide for developers.
  • Browse teams, view open positions or list yourself as available to join a team!
  • Check out the challenges.
    • Facebook joined the Hackathon!
  • Timeline of the hackathon event.
  • Sponsors and partners overview.
• OWS Rewards and Opportunities August.
• The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched.

Projects:

• 30 day NEAR Dapp #user overview!
• Aurora released a new version of their home page.
• Myriad got a full-fledged Metaverse.
• Cron Cat: Decentralized scheduling for blockchain transactions is about to go live on NEAR.
• It’s not just for developers. You can earn $NEAR tokens here!

Gaming:

• Shroom Kingdom is an upcoming play2earn video game built with web technologies running on NEAR.
  • If you’re curious about the project check the early whitepaper draft.

Events:

• Game jam by Js13kGames – Join the decentralization category and win $NEAR Aug. 13 – Sep. 13
• NEAR $PAD token sale Sep 1. 
• Skyward Finance September sale. Sep. 1.
• The Gitcoin Open DeFi Hackathon is NEAR’s first DeFi hackathon Aug. 18 – Sep. 8.
• It’s time for MetaBUIDL Hackathon with NEAR. The infrastructure is ready to onboard the next billion users to Web3 – $1MIO in prizes!. Aug. 27.
• Another NEARZone Call of Duty Warzone event is coming up, Sep 26, 8PM GMT+2!

Guilds:

• Update on guilds data & information access projects.
• 4NTS: NEAR Aug. Town Hall featuring the pioneers of the new creator economy
• Check out the long list of awesome Human Guild projects (August 21).
• New episode of Weekly News from Degens.
• Swine Guild’s monthly meme contest.
• UX Guild is madly, deeply in love with the new UI for the Aurora Bridge.

Infrastructure:

• Ecosystem Team weekly update.
• Node validator overview.
• Flux Protocol testnet live!
• NEAR’s flipsidecrypto page. 
• An impressive overview of NEAR’s core tech and outlook.
• Octopus completed their $OCT IDO and will soon be listed on exchanges such as Uniswap, PancakeSwap and Gate.io Exchange.
  • MEXC Global will be listing $OCT under OCT/USDT trading pair.
  • How to transfer $OCT to the ETH network.
• Andre Cronje gave NEAR’s tech and Aurora a shoutout!
• NEAR Protocol Social Engagement is going up, up, up!

NFTs:

• Ref Finance is teaming up with Paras to mint one-of-a-kind NFTs for community members who helped recover from the exploit.
• Mintbase updated the search function; you can now filter NFTs from newest, oldest, cheapest and most expensive.
• WeMeta taking the step towards Digital Real Estate NFTs at MetaBUIDL.
• NEAR x Music Live 4 took place on Aug. 28. Check them out!

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• Current job openings at NEAR.
• Project managing the Treasury governance project.
• Ref Finance is Hiring! 5 positions are up for grabs: Product Manager, UI Designer, Front-End Engineer, Back-End Engineer and QA Engineer. 
• Paras Digital is looking for game developers.
• Aurora is looking for a QA Engineer.
• Cron Cat is looking for a designer and commanders!
• Flying Rhino (NEAR SoMe Guild) is looking for people!

Join the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s community team update here.
• NEAR Daily’s weekly recap
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap

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NEARWEEK EDITION #19

16 – 22 AUG 2021 🌐

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• See you in Lisbon for NEAR Con Oct 26-27.
• NEAR Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to Grain to support the development of smart contracts on the NEAR blockchain.
• “ITS SUSHI O’CLOCK” NEAR coming to SushiSwap.
• Octopus 2,5% IDO sale took off on Skyward Finance.
• Creating an open-source library of audited smart contracts on NEAR.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 22,636,008
• Total accounts: 550,731
• Weekly active accounts: WIP
• Monthly active developers: 630

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

Current Ecosystem:

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 548,141 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 10,441
  • Total DAOs: 180
  • TVL: 231,787 $NEAR

• Community Squad DAO metrics:
  • Total distributed last week: 19,705 $NEAR
  • Weekly number of approved proposals: 9

• Sputnik / Astro update
• A DAO now owns IP and funds biotech research at a leading lab.
• NEARWEEK took its first step in the NEARWEEK DAO journey.

DeFi:

• Staking Monday’s next guest is NEAR’s very own Illia Polosukhin.
• “ITS SUSHI O’CLOCK” NEAR coming to SushiSwap.
  • How to stake on SushiSwap.
• This is how Meta Pool works – it is live and you can start staking today.
• After the exploit Ref Finance will officially re-launch at 12am (UTC) on Aug. 23.
  • Here is the proposal to fork $REF token.
  • Check the balances that got refunded.
• Earn $REF with the Octopus Network launch.
• Announcing the launch of NearPad’s token distribution event for the platform’s native $PAD token.
• Crypto.com DeFi wallet is now supporting NEAR!
• NEAR is building out its core, native DeFi infrastructure. Check it out!

Developers:

• Developer office hours is live – It’s a new daily dev support initiative which summarises all the questions from the NEAR Discord channel #dev-support. Go check it out!
  • NEAR Sighted Weekend Roundup with highlights from last week.
• A new version of nearcore 1.21.0-rc.1 for testnet was released. If you are running a node on testnet, please upgrade to the new version.
• You can now see all the details about the validation nodes on NEAR wallet.
• Creating an open-source library of audited smart contracts on NEAR.
• Latest DevRel update is available here.
• Watch the latest Dev Platform Sync here.
• Read the latest Dev Platform, Wallet and Node Experience Team updates here.
• Check the NEPs Github here.
• Learn NEAR in a Community-based initiative: videos bound to make your NEAR journey so much easier!
• Looking for a good introduction to start building on NEAR? Check out NEAR Onboarding Bootcamp!

Project Growth:

• METABuidl hackathon with up to $1M prizes: NEAR is partnering with ecosystem partners. You bring an idea related to your product. NEAR brings the prize!
  • Want to get a headstart? Join NEAR Education’s series of pre-hackathon workshops.
  • Check out the challenges.
  • Timeline of the hackathon event.
  • The cities confirmed as hack nodes.
• OWS Rewards and Opportunities August.
• OWC is officially accepting applications for BATCH III now! Batch III will start in September.
• The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched.

Projects:

• ARrterra Labs closed their seed round. Massive congrats!
• Octopus network — a revolution in parachains deployment?
• HEO announces the first campaign on their platform.
• Avrit: Earn for learning. It’s decentralized edu using evidence-based learning strategies.
• Why Aurora is different from other Ethereum scaling solutions.
• Watch the latest Aurora update here or read it here.

Gaming:

• A new era of gaming is NEAR with OPGames! OPGames gives gamers the ability to shape, define, and ultimately own the games they enjoy.
• Head of gaming @youtube: Play-to-earn is the next major gaming model.
• PixelDapps announced a partnership with Crypto Heroes.
• Gaming development update from Human Guild 
• NEAR Games guild is live! Join the community of gamers and game creators based on NEAR Protocol.
• Human Guild is sponsoring this year’s Js13kGames: a yearly competition where JS and html5 game developers compete for prizes!

Events:

• “Learn & Earn Series- Near” Quiz 2 with Bitmart.
• FirstBlood and NEAR will host a Call of Duty Warzone Tournament with a $60,000 prize pool starting Aug. 8.
  • Congratulations to Team Different Breed for winning the first NEARzone Warzone Tournament!
• Game jam by Js13kGames – Join the decentralization category and win $NEAR 13 Aug. – 13 Sep.
• The Gitcoin Open DeFi Hackathon is NEAR’s first DeFi hackathon Aug. 18 – Sep. 8.
• Paras Card4Card is back Aug. 20-24.
• $OCT sale on Skyward Finance Aug. 22-27.
• Metapool liquid staking on NEAR blockchain (stNEAR) Aug. 23.
• NEAR August Town Hall features Humanguild, Paras and Mintbase – Join and get updated on the future of NFTs Aug. 26.
• MetaBUIDL Hackathon with NEAR Aug. 27.

Guilds:

• Launching NEAR Data Center.
• If you want to learn more about Octopus Network follow the OctGuild.
• NEARVerse Portal Guild: Helping create and maintain the new NEAR Wiki.

Infrastructure:

• NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
• Useful on-chain data explorers for performance tracking of the ecosystem.
• Check out the newest version of NEAR VISION. It’s full of updates on the ecosystem!
• NEAR Social Volume hit an all-time high on 8,018 unique social mentions in 24h
• NEAR is the second most mentioned Token on Twitter!

NFTs:

• Minting NFTs, making friends and burning beer at a German festival.
• Artist talk with Rendered Flesh & Barbara Tosti.

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• Current job openings at NEAR.
• Project managing the Treasury governance project.

Join the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s community team update here.
• NEAR Daily’s weekly recap
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap

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NEARWEEK EDITION #18

9 – 15 AUG 2021 🌐

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• MAJOR MILESTONES: NEAR Twitter hit 100k and 20M transactions
• NEARLegalGuild: The Legal Basics of DAOs
• NearPad closed a $2m seed round for the development of a DAO-led DeFi hub on Aurora!
• Filecoin and NEAR launched a $300k grants program to accelerate growth of web3 stack.
• $REF farming contract was exploited by several users.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 20,635,071
• Total accounts: 538,548
• Weekly active accounts: 66851 
• Monthly active developers: 597

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

Current Ecosystem:

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 491,387 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 9811
  • Total DAOs: 173
  • TVL: 210,318 $NEAR
• Community Squad DAO metrics:
  • Total distributed last week: 28,423 $NEAR
  • Weekly number of approved proposals: 7
    
• Sputnik / Astro update
• SputnikDAO v2.0 has some adoptive contract specialities.
• The most recently approved payout proposals on NEAR Protocol.
• Thinking of launching a DAO? Here’s a guide for launching your 1st DAO

DeFi:

• A bug in a recently deployed hotfix to the $REF farming contract was exploited by several users – up to 1,000,000 REF and 580,000 NEAR were affected.
  • Here’s what’s going to happen over the next few days.
  • Reports have been filed with local law enforcement, and these accounts have been identified and blocked at exchanges.
  • Take a look at the tokenomics of $REF as proposed by the DAO.
• Everything you need to know about Metapool Liquid Staking Solution by Silicon Craftsmen
• Cheddar is building a loyalty network for the ecosystem. Check it out!
• Forgot how the NearPad roadmap looks like? Have another look here!
• How to swap $wNEAR to $NEAR.

Developers:

• Developer office hours are live! Go check it out.
• Latest DevRel update is available here.
• Watch the latest Dev Platform Sync here.
• Read the latest Dev Platform, Wallet and Node Experience Team updates here.
• Check the NEPs Github here.
• Director of DevRel Matt Lockyer spoke at The NFT Experience by GeniusNft
• Learn NEAR in a Community-based initiative: videos bound to make your NEAR journey so much easier!
• Looking for a good introduction to start building on NEAR? Check out NEAR Onboarding Bootcamp!
• Dev tooling infographic and thread.

Project Growth:

• NEAR Global Hackathons with up to $1M prizes: NEAR is partnering with ecosystem partners. You bring an idea related to your product. NEAR brings the prize!
  • Establish a City Hack Node and support the hackathon series!
• Check out the first update from NEAR Foundation’s Grants Program.
• Check out last week’s update from NEAR Foundation’s Ecosystem Success team.
• Layer2 hackathon: Challenge & Bounty Announcement.
  • Aurora challenges with a prize pool of $4,500.
  • Check out the hackathon timeline.
  • Aurora presented a workshop to the ETH scaling community in China.
• OWS Rewards and Opportunities August.
• OWC is officially accepting applications for BATCH III now! Batch III will start in September.
• The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched.

Events:

• “Learn & Earn Series- NEAR” Quiz 2 with Bitmart.
• FirstBlood and NEAR will host a Call of Duty Warzone Tournament with a $60,000 prize pool starting Aug. 8.
  • Congratulations to Team Different Breed for winning the first NEARzone Warzone Tournament!
• Game jam by Js13kGames – Join the decentralization category and win $NEAR 13 Aug. – 13 Sep.
• NEAR and Octopus party on the Metaverse Aug. 17.
• Paras Card4Card is back Aug. 20-24.
• OCT Network is launching their $OCT sale on Skyward Finance Aug. 22.
• Metapool liquid staking on NEAR blockchain (stNEAR) Aug. 23.
• NEAR August Town Hall features Humanguild, Paras and Mintbase Aug. 26
• It’s time for MetaBUIDL Hackathon with NEAR. The infrastructure is ready to onboard the next billion users to Web3 – $1MIO in prizes!. Aug. 27.
  • Check out the challenges.
  • Timeline of the hackathon event.

Guilds:

• Gaming development update from Human Guild 
• Human Guild is sponsoring this year’s Js13kGames: a yearly competition where JS and html5 game developers compete for prizes!
• commoNEAR – Poetry from NEAR Philippines.
• Go follow Merchants of NEAR and stay up to date on price analysis on $NEAR. 
• Merchants of NEAR August contest is now live.

Infrastructure:

• Check out the newest version of NEAR VISION. It’s full of updates on the ecosystem!
• A thought on how future games will be developed on web3 by Aliaksandr Hudzilin
• NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
• Take a look at the educational platforms of NEAR.
• Don’t forget to support your local oracle!
• Coin98 NEAR onepager. 
• BEWARE!! There is a FAKE Flux Token airdrop circulating.
  • Also fluxprotocol.org is the only official domain for Flux.
• Illia Polosukhin at the 4th Ethereum Community Conference: Enemies and Friends in The World of Crypto.

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NFTs:

• Itsmyne startup has officially partnered with NEAR. They are building the world’s 1st climate-neutral, social+ marketplace for official sports NFTs using Aurora EVM.
  • ITSMYNE DAO was created for the management of Guild-related initiatives on SputnikDAO.
• Interested in launching a new NFT collection on NEAR? HypeDAO wants more artists to feature.
• ONIROSCOPE – an art collaboration by RenderedFlesh & spacedivers.
• Don’t forget to check out the new initiative: CreatebaseThursday.
• More and more music tracks are starting to appear at Mintbase.
• For NEAR-NFT enthusiast NEAR RU is hosting a NFT contest

Projects:

• NEAR Crowd celebrating 1,000,000 tasks labeled, in just under 4 months.
• Watch the latest Aurora update here or read it here.

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• Current job openings at NEAR.
• Project managing the Treasury governance project.

Join the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s community team update here.
• NEARIAN’s weekly recap
• NEAR Daily’s weekly recap
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap

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NEARWEEK EDITION #17

2 – 8 AUG 2021 🌐

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• NEAR is sponsoring the OPEN DeFi Gitcoin hackathon.
• Sputnik / Astro update on several tracks of WIP for NEAR DAOs
• Coin98 Wallet has integrated with NEAR Protocol!
• The $REF <> $NEAR broke $2 million TVL!
• The NEAR Ecosystem Map has launched!

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 18,724,191
• Total accounts: 485,559
• Weekly active accounts: 54034 
• Monthly active developers: 596

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

Current Ecosystem:

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 453,509 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 9441
  • Total DAOs: 167
  • TVL: 221,385 $NEAR
• Community Squad DAO metrics:
  • Total distributed last week: 18,443 $NEAR
  • Weekly number of approved proposals: 10
• Introducing the Creatives DAO
• Idavoll Network: The Future of Cross-Chain DAOs
• New DAO & dev focused NEAR grants proposal – go give your opinion!
• Donate to china_charity_dao.sputnikdao.near to help those affected by the flood in Henan
• Send a donation to: vietnam_covid19_charity.sputnikdao.near

DeFi:

• Ref Finance 2021 roadmap
  • The first AMM DEX on NEAR AKA Ref. already has $3.7 million TVL
  • 2.5M $REF distributed for: 767,000 $NEAR, 102 $ETH, ~500k $DAI
  • User guide: How to on the ref finance platform
  • First airdrop for early adopters!
• $SKYWARD August sale ended with.
• Check out this short introduction to Meta Pool by Nearians.
• New Game on NEAR from Evgeny Kuzyakov: rekt.casino
• Built on BSC and NEAR, Able Finance is designing a sustainable ecosystem
• Access limitless DeFi markets with zero barriers via Injective Protocol

Developers:

• Matt Lockyer dropping gems on “The Culture Economy podcast”
• New wallet release to mainnet. Check the description here for a full list of changes.
• Ankr provides a NEAR Protocol Full Node on http://app.ankr.com
• Learn NEAR in a Community-based initiative: videos bound to make your NEAR journey so much easier!
• NEAR Sandbox demo & visioning: A chat between various NEAR teams about an upcoming replacement for NEAR’s simulation testing library.
• Looking for a good introduction to start building on NEAR? Check out NEAR Onboarding Bootcamp!
• Watch the latest Dev Platform Sync here and check it out here.

Project Growth:

• NEAR Global Hackathons with up to $1M prizes: NEAR is partnering with ecosystem partners. You bring an idea related to your product. NEAR brings the prize!
  • Establish a City Hack Node and support the hackathon series!
• Check out the first update from NEAR Foundation’s Grants Program.
• Check out last week’s update from NEAR Foundation’s Ecosystem Success team.
• Layer2 hackathon: Challenge & Bounty Announcement
  • Aurora challenges with a prize pool of $4,500
  • Check out the hackathon timeline
  • Aurora presented a workshop to the ETH scaling community in China
• OWC is officially accepting applications for BATCH III now! Batch III will start in September
  • Closing EARLY ADMISSIONS on Aug 16.
• The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched

Events:

• “Learn & Earn Series- Near” Quiz 2 with Bitmart.
• FirstBlood and NEAR will host a Call of Duty Warzone Tournament with a $60,000 prize pool starting Aug. 8.
• Join NEAR’s climate neutral NFTs hackathon as part of the Next Top Blockchain Startup virtual hackathon. Deadline Aug. 8.
• NEAR and Octopus party on the Metaverse Aug. 17.
• It’s time to MetaBUIDL with NEAR Aug. 27.

Guilds:

• Watch 4NTS Guild’s “NEAR India ecosystem spotlight”
• Open Web Sandbox wrap up by 4NTS Guild.
• Merchants of NEAR August contest is now live.

Infrastructure:

• NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
• BEWARE!! There is a FAKE Flux Token airdrop circulating.
• Octopus Network IDO coming this month
  • Appchain explained here!
  • What’s the difference between Octopus, Cosmos, and Polkadot?
  • Check out this graphic overview.
• Transactions growth overview of the past seven months. Looking good!
• The first steps to a comprehensive NEAR Wiki have been taken.
• You can now see your USD equivalent of your NEAR in your wallet.

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NFTs:

• Why will NFTs on ETH soon become a thing of the past? Here’s why.
• Mintbase hits another milestone.
• DAOs can now have their own page on Mintbase.

Projects:

• NEAR Crowd celebrating 1,000,000 tasks labeled, in just under 4 months.
• Watch the latest Aurora update here or read it here.

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• Current job openings at NEAR.
• Project managing the Treasury governance project.

Join the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s community team update here.
• 4NTS Guild weekly recap
• NEARIAN’s weekly recap
• NEAR Daily’s weekly recap
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap

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