📰 NEARWEEK EDITION #40 📰
10 – 16 JAN 2022 🌐
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💥 Big things around the ecosystem 💥
- NEAR Protocol successfully raised $150m in its latest funding round.
- Coindesk: NEAR’s latest raise brings some of the space’s highest-profile investors into the fold as the network gears up for a major DeFi push.
- NEAR is the first proof-of-stake blockchain to support stake farming contracts. Ecosystem projects can now partner with validators to incorporate the project tokens’ farming into their rewards structure. This allows validators to split the NEAR staking rewards with projects while giving PoS delegators the chance to earn rewards in more than one token.
- Aurora is the first project to use NEAR’s Proof-of-Stake 2.0 to unlock staking rewards.
- Coin98 Insights: NEAR 2021 Year In Review Report – The foundation for the future
- $NEAR hits new ATH: $20,44, an ATH TVL of +$950m, new ATH in daily tx: +1m txs and saw a spike in new accounts created over the weekend: +600k.
- $AURORA hits new ATH: $35,4, TVL reaches new ATH: +$770m and is the most active contract on NEAR Protocol.
- BoringDAO announces partnership with Aurora. This enables bridging of $USDT & $USDC btw. Aurora and 13 other chains supported on oPortal.
- The Rainbow Bridge currently ranks #6 among Ethereum TVL Bridges : $1,209,475,348 and a 163% TVL change in the last 7 days
- Flux token $FLX is now available on Trisolaris and Ref finance.
- Flux has created an oracle design that provides a decentralized infrastructure for accessing data on and off-chain. Validators stake $FLX, the native utility token of Flux Protocol to provide data to the Oracle.
- Paras surpassed $3m in trading volume and +80k txs in the past 30 days.
- Trisolaris, Paras, Wannaswap and Metapool got listed on Hotbit.
- Earthood joins Open Forest Protocol as it’s first validator to bring world class carbon auditing on-chain.
- Open Forest Protocol announced their 2022 roadmap.
- Introducing Tamago: “The NEAR Partnered Spotify Killer“. With a team of acclaimed audio engineers, musicians and blockchain developers focusing on creating the best environment for all musicians to thrive in, Tamago is something to keep an eye on.
- A little alpha from Human Guild: +10 projects set to go live from Jan-April.
- Airdrops via Croncat in the making: do immediate drops to 100+ accounts for $NEAR, any token, any NFT.
📈 NEAR’s week by the numbers 📈
- Total transactions: +71m ⬆️
- Total accounts: +3m ⬆️
- Max # daily active developers: 1893 ⬆️
Check out the full metrics dashboard and last week’s metrics update here.
DAOs:
- DAO Stats:
- Total distributed all-time: 989,598 $NEAR
- Total transactions: 17633
- Total DAOs: 312
- TVL: 112,939 $NEAR
- AstroDAO updates.
- Astro is a DAO infrastructure on NEAR that empowers groups from across the world to make decisions together, collectively.
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DeFi:
- You can now use $NEAR as collateral for loans on Binance.
- imToken now fully supports Aurora. As a non-custodial wallet, imToken lets you handle your assets on Aurora with full control, use DApps and more.
- Ref finance
- Milestone: Over $1B in trading volume since inception.
- 2022 Roadmap is out.
- Trisolaris
- Updated product roadmap.
- TVL ATH: +$500m.
- Enabled LUNA double rewards for atUST<>LUNA and atUST<>WNEAR farms on Trisolaris.
- WannaSwap AMM
- HashEx has started the process of auditing Wannaswap.
- Received a grant from Proximity – Proximity is a $350M Grant DAO for NEAR DeFi Projects.
- Meme contest: 10 of the best memes will win 100 $WANNA each.
- AuroraSwap DEX
- AuroraSwap updated roadmap.
- Next product coming up: BOREALEND – a lending protocol to power the financial markets & applications of the future.
- Pickle Finance partnership: Trade $PICKLE on AuroraSwap & get $BRL from the PICKLE-NEAR farm.
- Ape DAO joined the AuroraSwap KYC & BUIDL Program as a Gold Tier Participant. Ape DAO is an Innovation focused Reserve Currency Protocol focused on expanding the Aurora Blockchain.
- Vaporwave Finance
- The scheduled TDE on Nearpad for the VWAVE token will be delayed.
- tin.network x VW Finance: Track your yield and rewards from vaporwave with tin.network.
- Octopus Network
- Q1 roadmap.
- 200k $OCT drop for Myriad IDO participants on Skyward.
- Empyrean DAO
- Listed on Coingecko and Defi Llama.
- The Jumbo Exchange IDO on SmartPad raised $100k.
- Jumbo Exchange $JUMBO Token is now listed on Rainbow Bridge and can be bridged.
- Introducing Mecha Tracker: Aiming to be the most complete and user-friendly one-stop-shop for the Aurora network. Track your assets and DeFi portfolio with Mecha Dashboards.
- Thetanuts Finance is now live on Aurora.
- Kresko Fi is coming to Aurora. A composable, capital-efficient synth asset protocol + DeFi liquidity hub.
- Introducing Kangaroo Coin Flip; the first coin flip dApp on NEAR Protocol.
- Cheddar community sale. The DAO has approved a 9% (2M) token sale of $CHEDDAR on Skyward.
Developers:
- NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
- Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
- Education Team weekly update.
- Mainnet node to nearcore 1.23.1. Validators: Please upgrade your node on Thursday, Jan 13 at 4pm UTC to support the timeline needed by other node operators who are not validators.
- Building your first NFT project? Preparing to launch metaverse game? Checkout this tutorial to pull NFTs easily via The Graph.
- Learn how to code and build on NEAR with Questbook.
- Next Octopus Accelerator round is in March 2022. Rust Developers have enough time to get familiar with Substrate and participate to win $50K in rewards.
Project Growth:
- The NEAR Grants program 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.
- Radom Network secured a grant from Aurora. Radom will continue to grow and develop the platform behind the management and visualisation of IoT assets.
- Autonio received a grant from the NEAR Foundation. Autonio develops accessible and easy to use trading tools.
- NEAR Foundation awarded a $50k grant to MoonNoobs, a DAO that will be among the first projects fundraising to provide liquidity to other top NEAR projects. MoonNoobs DAO supports new projects through early VC investment, strategic planning, and brand awareness.
- NEAR Foundation awarded a grant to Fusotao Protocol. Fusotao Protocol is bringing an order book DEX to the NEAR ecosystem.
- RenaissanceDAO received grants from NEAR and Aurora.
- RenaissanceDAO’s goal it to create a treasury-backed reserve currency to build a fractionalized NFT marketplace and liquidity. Check out their roadmap here.
- Aurigami received a NEAR grant and will launch on Aurora soon.
- Dante Network’s web3-oriented cross-chain messaging and contract invocation protocol is now live. You can send a message from PlatON to NEAR or call a smart contract on Avalanche from contract on NEAR.
Projects:
- Octopus Network.
- Overview: Appchains development status.
- Next Octopus Accelerator round is in March 2022. Rust Developers have enough time to get familiar with Substrate and participate to win $50K in rewards.
Gaming:
- Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
- The Metamon NFT drop attracted more than +25k to their Discord.
- Metamon is a Battle Royale game (P2E) launching on Jan. 20.
- Check out a sneak peak from in game or this 3d character animation.
- PixelDapps updated their roadmap and Cryptoheroes presale soldout.
- NEARton, a Meta Town DeFi strategy game based on NFT staking, announced strategic partnership with Big Brain Holdings.
- NearPad is partnering with “Path of Survival” for the genesis launch and distribution of $SRV token.
- Ready Player Me partnered with Inite. This will help Inite build amazing metaverse avatars and expand the community’s influence.
- ManuFactory has raised $3.2m. It is one of the first play-and-earn construction and automation games.
Events:
- NEAR Guilds’ event calendar.
- Rise and Grind, NEAR ecosystem! is live everyday at 2pm CEST.
- Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
- Join Aurora Update for weekly alpha leaks and news every Fri. 2pm UTC.
- NEAR MetaBUILD Hackathon, Dec. 22 – Feb. 10.
- Encode Club x NEAR: Building on NEAR pt. 2, Jan. 18.
- Myriad Social IDO on Skyward, Jan. 20-27.
- ODO Finance IDO on SmartPad, Jan. 20, 4pm UTC.
- MECHA Tracker token sale, Jan. 20-24.
- PixelDapps IDO on Skyward, Jan 20-27.
- NEAR Town Hall, Jan. 20, 9-10:30am EST.
- Green NFT Auction, OFP x SOTA Jan 21-28.
- Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University) Jan. 24-26.
Community and Guilds:
NFTs:
- NEAR Official: Top NFT projects building on NEAR.
- NEAR Misfits are now being traded on Mintbase.
Open jobs in the NEARverse:
- +40 Current job openings at NEAR – Apply and join the team now!
- + 10 current job openings at Aurora – Apply and join the team now!
- Opportunities for writers in the NEAR Ecosystem
- OP Games is hiring.
- NEAR Hub is hiring 3D Animators! Help them build out Near Hub metaverse.
- Join Sankore 2.0 & the NEAR Ecosystem in Africa.
- The NEAR Ecosystem is BOOMING and as one of the most promising crypto projects, it is running into a problem: IT NEEDS MORE PEOPLE. So go on and sign up to join the NEAR Ecosystem!!
Join the ecosystem:
- Check out the NEAR Protocol playlist on YouTube.
- Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
- Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
Other updates:
- NEAR community metrics update here.
- NEAR’s Community Squad weekly update.
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