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NEARWEEK EDITION #33 📰

22 – 28 NOV 2021 🌐

Now is the time to join the NEAR Eco – Start you career today!

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NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was made possible via 37 news contributions from our community to the NEWS DAO.

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💥 Big things around the ecosystem 💥

• Ardana partnered with NEAR Protocol – Ardana will enable token transfers between the NEAR and Cardano blockchains and, later on, enable cross-chain smart contract functionality
• How NEAR’s Simple Nightshade Works and why it’s the foundation for what will set NEAR apart for years to come.
  • NEAR Nightshade launch on Brave Browser!
• The projects on NEAR Protocol helping tackle climate change.
• Aurora got listed on Bitmart Exchange!
• Meta Pool announced their IDO on Skyward!
• “Tip with NEAR on Twitter”, by @dappletsproject supported by Learn NEAR.
• OP Games joins Game7: A collective built to accelerate the blockchain gaming industry through grants, education, and strategic initiatives.
• NEAR Foundation awarded grant to WannaSwap to build a DEX.
• NearPad is teaming up with Frax to bring $FRAX and $FXS over to the Aurora and NEAR ecosystem.
  • Frax is the world’s first fractional-algorithmic stablecoin.
• Dante partners with NEAR! Dante will receive a grant from to build better privacy storage.
• NEARMisfits sold out on “The First Fleet of The Metaverse!”
• NEARnauts public sale minting goes live Dec. 1 , 3pm UTC
• QSTN is launching on NEAR Protocol: Introducing “The Future of Data Privacy”
• Jumbo Exchange DEX launching on Boca Chica Mars.
• Rose announced their IDO on NearPad.

Source: NEAR Mates.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 49,832,516
• Total accounts: 1,700,168
• Monthly active developers: 1722 (+100 from last week)
  
  MONTHLY ACTIVE DEVELOPER OVERVIEW:

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

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 989,598 $NEAR 
  • Total transactions: 17633
  • Total DAOs: 241
  • TVL: 127,015 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update

• How to get involved in the Business on NEAR DAO.
• The OINDAO V3 is releasing soon!
• MoleDAO is partnering with NEAR Protocol.

DeFi:

• MetaPool’s token $META has been unlocked!
• The launchpad project on NearPad: ManuFactoryGG – a NFT play-and-earn, tower-defense survival game!
• Ref Finance is making Discord the place for their Community Events.
  • Ref Finance’s 1st airdrop is now fully claimable.
  • Instant Swap is now LIVE on Ref Finance.
• Rose announced their first partnership with Frax Finance.
  • Rose IDO goes live on Dec. 2.
• $TRI staking and double rewards for TriSolaris farms.
• WannaSwap’s contracts are currently being audited by Certik.
  • WannaSwap IDO is coming to SmartPad!
  • Check out the project vision and roadmap.
• disBalancer partners with Boca Chica to ensure that users interact only with official channels.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Dear Validators: A new version of nearcore 1.23.0-rc.1 for Testnet was just released.
• Education Team weekly update.
  • Make sure to follow the official NEAR Education Twitter account.
• Learn how to use, build and $earn on NEAR with Learn NEAR Club.

This edition was sponsored by SOTA

SOTA is re-imagining the habits and cultures of crypto-gaming and NFTs, in a sophisticated space. The gallery provides a full-blown interactive 3D experience for NFT lovers and gamers.

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.

Projects:

• Join the recently established Aurora Community on Telegram.
• Help Each Other (HEO) is deployed on Aurora.
• Atocha Protocol is now in a partnership with @Meridian_VC and Damo Labs.
• Luis Liu Founder of OCT – “Fat Hubs: Why Octopus Network is NOT hub minimalists“

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• NEAR Checkers are live on mainnet – Check it out!
• One-pager on Vorto gaming.
• World of the Abyss (WOTA) Game on NEAR x Humanguild.

Events:

• 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 updates every Friday, 2pm UTC.
• Gen C – The virtual NEAR marketing conference and competition, Nov. 1-30, 2021.
• Paras November Card4Card, Nov. 26-30.
• “NEAR my City” event hosted by NEAR, Dec. 1, 3 PM UTC in Zurich
• Open Web Sandbox Monthly Party, Dec. 3.
• Dcentralcon Nov. 31 – Dec. 1
• Flux LBP on Balancer, Dec 1.
• Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 2-4.
• Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University) Jan. 24-26.

Guilds:

• Do you have a cool Music Event or Idea in need of funding? Look no further than the NxM Events Grant!
• Women of NEAR: Rim the NEAR Socialite.

NFTs:

• Check out the community update from Mintgate.
• Check out SOUNDBASE: Open store for musicians, powered by Mintbase.
• Paras November Card4Card is here!
• The beta launch of ITSMYNE is coming soon.

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• +25 Current job openings at NEAR – Apply and join the team now!
• + 10 current job openings at Aurora
• Octopus Network is hiring for their marketing department.
• Capsule Social is looking for candidates to lead their content strategy.
• 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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Thank you for reading and have nice day in the NEARverse!

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NEARWEEK EDITION #32

15 – 21 NOV 2021 🌐

Now is the time to join the NEAR Eco – Start you career today!

NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was made possible via 39 news contributions from our community to the NEWS DAO.

Want to earn $NEAR and help spread the news of the ecosystem? Please read our step-by-step guide on how to submit news and make 0.5 $NEAR pr. contribution!

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• “NEAR’s Simple Nightshade: A Primer” is a series of articles on NEAR’s sharding approach, including pieces on how it works, why it matters, and more.
  • Learn all about Simple Nightshade Sharding (Phase 0) and the road towards NEAR’s infinitely scalable blockchain.
  • Mainnet has been successfully upgraded to four shards.
• The first yield farm went live on Aurora and soon after Trisolaris broke through a TVL +$100m in less than a week!!
• AstroDAO got mentioned in Forbes: “Dawn of the DAO”.
• Flux announced $FLX token and mainnet launch details.
• MathWallet5 integrates Aurora: Over 2 million MathWallet users will be able to trade Aurora assets and use Aurora-powered dApps across the globe.
• Aurora is now listed on Gate.io, MEXC, Coin Market Cap and CoinGecko.
• Jumbo Exchange has received $200k grant from NEAR Foundation
• NEAR Protocol integrated Alchemy Pay’s hybrid gateway.
• MODA DAO is Web 3.0 for the music industry creating free and open-source tooling for the music world.
• NEAR partnered with Travala giving token holders access to 3,000,000 travel products.
• NEARvember Challenges: 12 days. 12 challenges. 15 huge prizes.
• Join the NEAR Community Concierge initiative.

Source: NEAR Mates.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 47,859,452
• Total accounts: 1,585,252
• Monthly active developers: 1616
  
  MONTHLY ACTIVE DEVELOPER OVERVIEW:

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

NEAR Wallet update week 46

• NEAR Wallet is growing and reached an all-time high monthly active users
• Multiple almost-invisible changes to the code that improves stability of the wallet experience

Wallet number and results:

• 1.49 million users, +12% since last wallet update
• ~300,000 monthly active users, +23% since last wallet update
• Better account recovery, secure login and the fix of the “transaction expired” issue
• The new naming of the wallet is ready. As soon as the logo is ready we’ll announce it!

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 989,598 $NEAR 
  • Total transactions: 17633
  • Total DAOs: 240
  • TVL: 149,936 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update

• How to get involved in the Business on NEAR DAO.
• Check out the result of the NearPad DAO voting for DEX pool structure and incentives.
• Introducting Renaissance DAO: A treasury-backed museum of NFTs that gives back to the community.

DeFi:

• Trisolaris soon to be listed on Coin Gecko.
• Stableswap will be launching soon on Ref Finance.
• wannaswap partnered with Aurora on building a DEX.
• RoseOnAurora has reached $800K TVL.
• DeBio Network Initial DEX offering has ended, here’s what to do next.
• Jumbo Exchange to become the first DEX to use HAPI.
• Keeping up with the evolution of DeFi on NEAR: New Grant Allocations
• How can Web3.0 leverage DeFi to succeed interview with Louis Liu, Octopus Founder of Network.
• Watch the Trisolaris tutorial and start using the platform today!

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team weekly update.
• Godot is ready for game developers on NEAR.
• Check out the NEARvember Challenges and compete for $-prizes!
  • 12 days. 12 challenges. 15 huge prizes.

This edition was sponsored by SOTA

SOTA is re-imagining the habits and cultures of crypto-gaming and NFTs, in a sophisticated space. The gallery provides a full-blown interactive 3D experience for NFT lovers and gamers.

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.

Projects:

• DeBio Skyward IDO Participants gets $OCT Airdrop. Be sure to check your wallet for surprises.
• Edigital Assets has partnered up with DeBio.
• Join the CheddarCatz GIF Twitter competition.
• IStories has started the sixth fundraising campaign on HEO platform

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• OP Games donates $300k for Game Dev, NFT Communities through Arcadians NFT sales
• Godot is ready for game developers on NEAR.

Events:

• 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 updates every Friday, 2pm UTC.
• Gen C – The virtual NEAR marketing conference and competition, Nov. 1-30, 2021.
• Paras November Card4Card, Nov. 26-30
• Dcentralcon Nov. 31 – Dec. 1
• Flux LBP on Balancer, Dec 1.
• Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 2-4.
• Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University) Jan. 24-26.

Guilds:

• Read about Sankore 2,0’s trip to Mumbasa for the first NEAR-MEET in Kenya.

NFTs:

• Creators! Start preparing yourself for November’s #card4card
• Join the NEARNAUT competition on Twitter.
• “When You Hear It Howls” is accessible on Paras Comic!
• “Ground Zero” will be available on Paras Comic on Nov. 24 and offers the first two chapters for FREE.
• 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!
• + 10 current job openings at Aurora
• Octopus Network is hiring for their marketing department.
• Capsule Social is looking for candidates to lead their content strategy.
• 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.

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 #31

8 – 14 NOV 2021 🌐

Simple Nightshade is LIVE, the first step towards a fully sharded blockchain!!

Now is the time to join the NEAR Eco – Start you career today!

NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was crowdsourced via 31 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• Illia Polosukhin has been nominated as one of the best CEOs in blockchain & crypto for the Crypto Awards 2021. Vote for Illia!!!
  • Watch Illia’s Web Summit talk.
• Top 10 metaverse, gaming, and NFT projects building on NEAR Protocol
• Introducing NEARDROP 1.0: The easiest way to onboard new users to the NEAR blockchain.
• The DAOcubation program is live! Create your own DAO and apply for funding, mentorship, onboarding success and many more.
• Nearpad announced the first DEX and Liquidity Farming on Aurora.
• nearcore 1.22 has been published.
• DeBio won the CNBC Indonesia award for Healthtech Innovation of the year!
• $DBIO sale is live on Skyward Finance. Read all the details here.
  • How IDOs on Skyward work.
• Announcing the NEAR x Encode partnership and initiatives.
• OPGames donates $300K to open source game developers.
• NEARnauts and NEAR Protocol are coming together to bring you a hot set of NFTs! Check it out!
• BOB BOOM chapter 1 is out and live in a limited edition of 5 collectible covers!
• Rise n’ Grind NFT scavenger hunt inside NEAR Hub.

Source: NEAR Mates.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 43,771,403
• Total accounts: 1,493,461
• Monthly active developers: 1511
  
  MONTHLY ACTIVE DEVELOPER OVERVIEW:

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

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 989,598 $NEAR 
  • Total transactions: 17633
  • Total DAOs: 237
  • TVL: 167,752 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update

• The Business on NEAR DAO has launched! Share your ideas, refer projects, help build the NEAR Protocol ecosystem and get paid in $NEAR!
• The 12 week GovernanceDAO rewards systems research initiative has begun.
  • NEAR has funded the community research initiative to analyse v1 SputnikDAO data and come up with improvements for NEAR community fund governance.

DeFi:

• Keeping up with the evolution of DeFi on NEAR: Croncat, Roketo, Burrowcash, and QSTN.
• Aurora is part of IOSG 8th Old Friend Reunion: Scaling Summit & Metaverse Carnival.
• Nearpad farms are smoking hot!

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team weekly update.
• Hack by Evgeny Kuzyakov: A decentralized wikipedia based on NEAR blockchain.
• Missed the AMA with Jane Wang and Everstake? Here’s the recap.
• NEAR predictions: Developers chart the bridge to professional freedom.

This edition was sponsored by NFT INNOVATION DIGEST

NFT Innovation Digest is a short and free weekly newsletter focused on NFT innovation, not price action. Every Thursday, we bring you a curated digest of the most innovative and relevant topics of the NFT space.

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.
• NEAR Protocol awarded DePocket with grant: This will enable users to track their NEAR protocol portfolios within the DePocket dashboard.

Projects:

• A comprehensive overview of Croncat.
• Bounty: $10,000 USDC for growth and marketing individuals that can help showcase the benefits of staking $NEAR with Meta Pool.
• DeBio partners with Genomic YARSI as its first medical partner.
  • Women of NEAR: Decentricity The Crypto Wonder Woman.
  • DeBio Reddit AMA.

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• What goes into building a sandbox robot crafting MMORPG? Let’s find out on this week’s Next Creators podcast episode!
• If you like creating and solving puzzles, you should check out Atocha: A decentralized protocol based on Octopus with real prizes!
• OPGames CEO Chase Freo talks about the Web 3.0 gaming revolution.
• Phaser development accelerated by part of $300K OPGames donation.

Events:

• Rise and Grind, NEAR ecosystem! is live everyday at 2pm CEST.
• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• Gen C – The virtual NEAR marketing conference and competition, Nov. 1-30, 2021.
• $AURORA IDO Nov. 4 – 17.
• $DBIO sale is live on Skyward through Nov. 20.
• METAMON limited drop on Paras Nov. 8-14.
• MTVRS NEAR 2v2 PROTOBALL TOURNAMENT Nov. 21
• DevRelCon 2021, Nov. 8-10.
• Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University) Jan. 24-26.

Featuras:

• “Welcome to the Web3 Renaissance” by King NEAR

NFTs:

• Comics meet NFTs on Paras’ newest platform.
• Watch how split royalty works on Mintbase.
• Check out the Urban “HIP-HOP”collection by 16mspstory.near.
• 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!
• + 10 current job openings at Aurora
• Open Forest Protocol is hiring.
• 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 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.

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 #30

1 – 7 NOV 2021 🌐

NEARWEEK HIT 10K ON TWITTER!!

 – Thanks for all the support!

Did you know that developers on $NEAR get 30% of the transaction fees spent on their contract? One of the most overlooked features of the $NEAR blockchain is the contract rewards. Help us spread the word!

NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was crowdsourced via 36 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.

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Sign up for the weekly newsletter here and join our TG community chat and the development of NEARWEEK.

Big things around the ecosystem:

• Check out the NEARCON megathread!
• How DeFi on NEAR is helping combat climate change.
• COP26 week 1 roundup from the Open Forest Protocol delegation
• NEAR got listed on Bitrue and Token Terminal.
• First Octopus appchain, DeBio Network, launched IDO on Skyward Finance.
• DefiLlama now tracks the Aurora chain.
• Rainbow + Aurora bridges merged into one interface. Read more about the Rainbow Bridge 2.0 design details.
  • What is Aurora? NEAR’s layer 2 smart contract explained on video.
• World’s rarest comic: Hash Rush to go on SALE on the Vorto Network store
• Gen C: A $50k bounty is up for grabs for the best brand revamp submission for Cheddar.
• Comic by Paras will launch 3 new titles this NEARvember.
• METAMON limited drop on Paras.
• MTVRS NEAR 2v2 Protoball tournament on Nov. 21. Prize pool $2k.
• SOTA NFT and gaming mag with its own 3d NFT gallery is live!
• NEAR Hub integrated login with testnet wallet! Check it out for yo self.

Source: NEAR Mates.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 43,771,403
• Total accounts: 1,376,635
• Monthly active developers: 1444
  
  MONTHLY ACTIVE DEVELOPERS OVERVIEW

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

Executive Summary
TBA

NEAR Wallet week 44 Update:

• 1.32 million accounts, + 3.9%
• 241k users active in the last 30 days, + 7%
• Testing a new feature to retry transactions that fail for insufficient gas.
  

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 989,598 $NEAR 
  • Total transactions: 17633
  • Total DAOs: 235
  • TVL: 194,872 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update

• The Business on NEAR DAO has launched! Share your ideas, refer projects, help build the NEAR Protocol ecosystem and get paid in $NEAR!
• Check out Pontoon DAO – Real-World-Asset index funds on NEAR.

DeFi:

• Skyward announced their DAO and Innovation zone. Read more here.
• AbleSwap is launching on November 15 on AVAX / NEAR mainnet.
• Ref Finance October review.
  • AMA w/ Didier on Ref.finance’s new UX.
  • Ref.finance update: Migration from nWETH to nETH.
  • Price charts of every single token on Ref finance are now available on http://sodaki.com
• The audit report for the OINDAO V3 by Certik is here!
• 200k $OCT airdrops for $DBIO Skyward Finance IDO.
• One-pager on Risk Swap: The first derivatives DEX running on NEAR.
• Snails Finance is here! The first StableCoin Swap using curve-like AMM on NEAR Protocol.
• Onomy Protocol is coming to NEAR – Easily mint, trade, and lend stablecoins cross-chain.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team weekly update.
• Want to learn how to design, build & deploy smart contracts on NEAR? Check out NEAR University’s free program!
• Validators: A new version of nearcore 1.22.0-rc.4 for Testnet has been released.

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.

• NEAR awards MooPay $50k grant for it’s no-code payment gateway.
• Score a $50K contract if you can figure out how to turn NEAR’s ability to gift wallets to users, into a product!
• NEAR Foundation hired Chris Ghent to lead Global Brand and Communications efforts.

Projects:

• Yahoo Finance covered DeBio Network’s public fundraise.
• OpenForestProtocol has the power to change the world! Check out Fred Fournier’s talk at NEARCON.
• Token Factory has been redesigned from scratch.
• QSTN is on a misson: Re-establish consumer control of data through a decentralized social platform.

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• Metamon got over 1k sign ups for playtesting their Battle Royale game!
• Try a Croncat tutorial to claim a special croncat PixelDapps pixelpet!
• Next Creators podcast: Accelerating gaming in Web3 with DeFi Alliance & Will Robinson.
  • Will Robinson is the Head of Accelerator at DeFi Alliance, a Web3 accelerator working to grow Web3 to 1 billion users
• A brief look at the OPGames and Yield Guild Partnership.

Events:

• Rise and Grind, NEAR ecosystem! is live everyday at 2pm CEST.
• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• Gen C – The virtual NEAR marketing conference and competition, Nov. 1-30, 2021.
• $AURORA IDO Nov. 4 – 17.
• METAMON limited drop on Paras Nov. 8-14.
• MTVRS NEAR 2v2 PROTOBALL TOURNAMENT Nov. 21
• DevRelCon 2021, Nov. 8-10.
• Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University) Jan. 24-26.

Guilds:

• Women of NEAR: Sofia The Sandbox Queen.
• Another AMA from NEAR Protocol Philippines about NFT for Filipino Artists on NEAR Protocol and Paras.
• NEAR Protocol Philippines interviewed Luis Freitas on Mintbase and 3XR

NFTs:

• The road to 1000 NEARPunk – Roadmap, drops and details.
• Generation Crypto AMA with Paras.
• Unique One Network is building its mothership chain on Substrate as an appchain on the Octopus Network!
• 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!
• + 10 current job openings at Aurora
• Cron Cat is looking for Growth Hackers and Agents
• OINFINANCE is hiring a communications strategist.
• 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.
• 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 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.

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 #29

25 – 31 OCT 2021 🌐

NEARCON 2021 was a blast!

WHAT an incredible energy and vibe we got in the NEAR ECO! <3

NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was community sourced via 43 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• Dig into all the NEAR | CON Highlights, Talks & Videos.
• NEAR announced $800m in funding to support ecosystem growth!
• Can you believe it? Sharding is coming to mainnet this Nov 15!!
• How NEAR went carbon neutral.
• Huobi NEAR | CON shoutout!
• The Graph integrated with its first non-EVM blockchain: NEAR!!
• Refer and earn: Pick projects you love and get up to $10,000 in $NEAR.
• Aurora integrates Chainlink Price Feeds! This will enable rapid EVM-compatible DeFi development.
• SmartPad became the first launchpad for Aurora.
• Aurora DAO approves $AURORA IDO!
• NearPad announced the first incubated project: Rose.
• $REF is now listed on CoinMarketCap!
• Vorto Gaming & RawBots formed an official partnership at NEAR | CON.
• Keyko and NEAR partner on Web 3.0 development services with Chikai.
• Paras launched Paras Comic.
• Nifty Comedians announced the launch of its NEAR NFT marketplace.
• It’s time for the Community Choice Awards powered by Astro Dao.

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

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 42,018,029
• Total accounts: 1,320,116
• Weekly active accounts: 111,686
• Monthly active developers: WIP

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

4-Week transactions overview

NEAR Wallet week 43 Update:

• Welcomed >60,000 new users this week, welcome!
• Shipping a new UI for login and transaction signatures, improving the security and usability of these features.
• Support team is receiving a lot of requests, working hard to keep it up!

• 

Results:

• 1.27 million accounts, +4.6% from last week.
• 232k monthly active users.
• Minor fixes to the user interface.
• Completed a redesign of login and transactions, which is running the final tests.

• 

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 989,598 $NEAR 
  • Total transactions: 17633
  • Total DAOs: 235
  • TVL: 200,421 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update

• Introducing the Business on NEAR DAO. They’re all about making projects building on other chains aware of NEAR!
• Introducing the NEAR Hub DAO. NEAR Hub is a community-driven project built to provide an immersive virtual experience to the NEAR community

DeFi:

• NearPad is live on Aurora mainnet: Introducing NearPad DEX and 3m ($4.5m) PAD Genesis mining liquidity event.
• Keeping up with the evolution of DeFi On NEAR: New partnerships.
• AMPnet announced PantoonDAO: Real-World Asset Index Funds built on NEAR Protocol.
• DeBIO IDO will soon be live on Skyward.
• Starting Nov 2 you can earn $PULSE and $REF rewards farming on Ref.
• The Ref Finance dApp got a fresh new look and feel! Check it out.
  • Highest TVL liquidity pools on Ref.
• Boca Chica Mars edition launch.
• Silicon Craftsmen: How to maximise yield returns on NEAR using stNEAR to farm on Ref.
• SushiSwap now has an Onsen Farm for PAD/WETH
• NEAR DeFi graphic overview by NEAR Insights

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Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Engineering team was both participating in the NEARCON and delivering the engineering work! We launched sharding on the Testnet, added safety limits to Wasm, migrated to rustc 1.56, published docs for RPC nodes, and improved our tests
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team weekly update.
• Validators: a new version of nearcore 1.22.0-rc.3 for Testnet has been released. This upgrade is optional. If your node is experiencing memory related issues, please upgrade to the new release.

• 

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.
• DIA Oracles now available natively on NEAR. This new product update is set to enable smart contracts on the network to have easy access to accurate and audited price feeds.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
• Here’s a sneak peek of the Youminter App built on NEAR.
• Flux Oracle v1 Whitepaper.
• 1MillionNFTs launched on NEAR.
• Atocha Protocol launched a puzzle game creator contest.
• Reality Chain: A multichain multiverse metaverse is coming to NEAR eco soon.
• Reddit AMA with Open Forest Protocol CEO Frederic Fournier.

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• OP Games and Yield Guild join forces!
• Human Guild selected gaming highlights Oct 2021.
• Thread on some of the PlayToEarn NFT games building on NEAR.
• Battlemon receives a 10k $NEAR grant from Human Guild. 
  • Take a look at the official Battlemon trailer.
• The winners of the Lost Crypto Cubes tournament.
• Spaceship Wars NFT credits giveaway.

Events:

• Rise and Grind, NEAR ecosystem! is live everyday at 2pm CEST.
• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• NFT.NYC – Nov. 1-4.
• Web Summit is live from Lisbon Nov. 1-4.
• Gen C – The virtual NEAR marketing conference and competition, Nov. 1-30, 2021.
• $AURORA IDO Nov. 4 – 17.
• DevRelCon 2021, Nov. 8-10.
• Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University) Jan. 24-26.

Infrastructure:

• John Smith joins NEAR as CISO to redefine safety in the Blockchain Ecosystem.
• Taygun Dogan did a nice little thread on NEAR upon the recent $800m development fund.
• WUI: Ep. 009 – Onboarding the Next Million Users to Web 3.0 w. Chloe the Dev.

Guilds:

• The new creator economy in Kenya. Introducing NFTs: A powerful ally for African creators.

NFTs:

• SOTA 3d NFT Gallery sneak peak.
• 1MillionNFTs launched on NEAR.
• Make sure to check out the new comic on Paras, “Paradigm”.
• 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!
• + 10 current job openings at Aurora
• Cron Cat is looking for Growth Hackers and Agents
• OINFINANCE is hiring a communications strategist.
• 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.
• 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 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 #28

18 – 24 OCT 2021 🌐

NEARCON 2021 is LIVE!!!!!

Make sure to check out the official NEARCON Agenda.
Not able to attend? – Stream the event via the NEARVERSE.

NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was crowdsourced via 36 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• On Oct. 20, testnet was successfully upgraded to four shards through a protocol upgrade that enables simple nightshade.
• NEAR Protocol releases the biggest ecosystem development grants program of $800m!
• DeFi TVL broke $100m USD!
• Kyber is excited to be one of the pioneer DeFi projects building on NEAR.
• Ref got listed on MEXC Global.
• Aurora launched a block explorer to further improve user and developer experience.
• +$50m assets on the Rainbow Bridge
• Ref Finance +$100m TVL.
• NEAR joins the OIN Stablecoin Coalition to level up DeFi.
• Introducing burrow.cash! An interest rate market protocol built on NEAR.
• RiskSwap partners with NEAR Protocol.
• Chronicle joins Aurora as an early ecosystem partner.
• Vorto gaming raises $4m to make virtual economies a reality for gamers.

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

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 39,734,526
• Total accounts: 1,251,280
• Weekly active accounts: WIP
• Monthly active developers: 1163

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

Executive Summary

MAD passed 1000! This shows that recent announcement of the partnerships, grants and events were able to attract real developer attention and engagements.

DeFi landscape at NEAR has been more and more active as indicated by the top active contracts and top account creation referral dapps, and predicted to increase more with the recent announcement of the DeFi grant with Proximity.

Traffic from countries outside of Asia increased significantly in the past two weeks, especially US, Russia and UK. This shows that we are able to attract more attention more evenly around the world.

NEAR Wallet week 42 Update:

• Increased the quality of onboarded users and drastically reduced spam and fake accounts.
• Investing resources to enable external open-source contributions to the codebase.
• You don’t have to be a software engineer to contribute to the wallet roadmap, just leave a comment on the public roadmap!

Results:

• 1.21 million accounts, +3.4%
• 214k monthly active users, -18%
• Multiple improvements on performance and error handling.

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 985,165 $NEAR 
  • Total transactions: 17557
  • Total DAOs: 228
  • TVL: 274,493 $NEAR 

• Sputnik / Astro update

• The Open Forest Protocol DAO is live!
• Introducing Flux DAO!
• Introducing the “BoN DAO”. It aims to make entrepreneurs & developers aware of the NEAR grants program.

DeFi:

• To support Burrow’s product launch, Ref is boosting incentive rewards.
• Marnotaur received a $40k NEAR grant for development purposes.
  • Marnotaur is an AMM-based, cross-chain liquidity protocol for secure decentralized margin trading.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team weekly update.
• SputnikDAO-cli is now live with version0.1.0.

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.
• Aurora is sponsoring the Chainlink Fall Hackathon.
• NEAR Protocol is sponsoring the annual Nigerian Fintech Week.
• Youminter receives $100k grant. Youminter is a new project with a core value in following the Passion Economy.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
• Chronicle joins Aurora as an early ecosystem partner.
• DeBio Network received 400k $OCT votes during appchain voting phase.
  • Appchains development status on Octopus Network.
• Product journey & Web 3.0 UX insights w Trevor from Cron Cat.

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• Check out the list of NFT games building on NEAR.
• Shroom Kingdom is on DappRadar.

Events:

• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• 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:

• The role of stablecoins in DeFi eco growth.

Guilds:

• RiseNGrind is live! A daily NEARverse community-owned show.
• Join the Sankore2.0 team!

NFTs:

• Paras announced their first NFT contract integration with TooRichCity
• The Fictionspawn game “Hunt for the Lost Cryptocubes” launched.
• Paras card4card.

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.
• Join the Open Forest Society and become an OPNer.
• 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.

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NEARWEEK EDITION #27

11 – 17 OCT 2021 🌐

1 week to #NEARCON! See you in Lisbon!

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• Oct. 13 was THE day of the NEAR Protocol mainnet one year anniversary!
• Coin98 Wallet announced to support NEAR Protocol on DApp Browser! Making it the first native Web3 for NEAR dApps
• PowerPool and NEAR Protocol collaboration: Bringing advanced structured investment/asset management solutions to NEAR.
• AntiMatter partnered with NEAR, bringing DEX derivatives to NEAR eco.
• Allbridge adds NEAR Protocol to the list of supported blockchains.
• Aurora raised $12m in its first funding round!
• Chronicle joins Aurora as an early ecosystem partner.
• TriSolaris is now live on Aurora Mainnet!
• Astro launched on NEAR to supercharge DAO communities.
• Roketo beta on NEAR mainnet. Realtime finance never was easier.
• Gen C 2021: $1m NEAR marketing competition and virtual conference.
• $REF and $SKYWARD listed on Hotbit.
• RiseNGrind is live! A daily NEARverse community-owned show.

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

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 38,001,132
• Total accounts: 1,212,169
• Weekly active accounts: 74917
• Monthly active developers: 1066

Executive Summary (WIP)

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

NEAR Wallet week 41 Update:

• Wallet keeps growing: Doubled the monthly active users in the last six weeks
• NEAR Wallet is hiring full-stack senior node.js developers, apply here!

Results:

• 1.17 million accounts: ~4% growth from last week.
• 264k monthly active users: +5.6% from last week
• A lot of improvements “under the trunk”, including better infrastructure, logging and frontend libraries.

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 914,361 $NEAR 
  • Total transactions: 17082
  • Total DAOs: 222
  • TVL: 343,285 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update
• Become an AstroDAO test user.
• AuroraDAO approved $AURORA token!
• Etherscan joins AuroraDAO to bring greater decentralization.
• Deep dive into the world of DAOs – Fireside Chat with NEAR and Aragon.
• The difference between governance and DAOs.

DeFi:

• PowerPool launches collaboration with NEAR Protocol in order to launch diversified DeFi pools/indexes.
• AntiMatter is partnering with NEAR Protocol, bringing DEX derivatives to NEAR eco.
• Ariadne, a DeFi marketplace, announced its strategic partnership with Aurora.
• $PULSE is now live on Uniswap and Ref Finance!
  • Track $PULSE on CoinGecko.
  • How to transfer $PULSE from ETH to NEAR using the Rainbow Bridge.
• reBaked IDO on NearPad, Oct. 22.
• DeBio Network partners with Ref.finance and Skyward.
• Keeping up with the evolution of DeFi on NEAR: OIN, Cheddar and Crust.
• CheddarFi proposed for the Cheddar DAO to approve a limited engagement of the p2 contract to Stake Cheddar → Farm Cheddar on MainNet.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team weekly update.
• Calling all Node Operators. If you run a NEAR Validator node, a RPC node, or an Archival node, please be aware of the hardware requirement change in the upcoming 1.22.0 nearcore release to ushering in sharding.
• Become a NEAR Certified Developer in a day!! Join here next week to learn how to build DApps.

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.
• Allbridge adds NEAR Protocol to the list of supported blockchains.
  • Allbridge announces upcoming integration with Aurora.
• Chronicle joins Aurora as an early ecosystem partner!
• TriSolaris received a development grant from the NEAR Foundation.
• IndexZoo announced their partnership with NEAR Protocol.
• OKEx Blockdream Ventures entered strategic partnership with Aurora.
• Join Octopus’ Substrate Accelerator and receive up to $50k in grants.
• Jsquare announced their participation in the OP Games seed fund.
• “Watch out Vitalik, we might be $NEAR the end of $ETH dominance: An Overview of NEAR’s Ecosystem” written by Momentum 6.
  • Momentum 6 is an early-stage fund focused primarily on decentralized finance, Web 3.0, gaming and metaverse, and NFTs.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
  • Projects launching on NEAR Protocol through Aurora.
  • Thanks to Aurora NEAR has a proxy architecture with decentralized governance,
• Octopus Appchain Updates.
• Roketo beta on $NEAR Mainnet. Realtime finance never was easier. 

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• Shroom Kingdom: The $SHRM token launch has been approved via DAO vote.
• Epic says it’s ‘open’ to blockchain games after Steam bans them.

Events:

• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• 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 Legal Guild launches to bridge law and crypto.
• If you’ve always wanted to work in Crypto, but are afraid you aren’t technical enough, go ahead and take a look: The ecosystem needs YOU!
• The Inevitable Surge of NEAR Protocol, a Monday Thread.

Guilds:

• RiseNGrind is live! A daily NEARverse community-owned show.

NFTs:

• Chronicle is building a NFT brand SuperStore eco-committed to helping our planet.
• CryptoEmpire will release their second NFT series later this month on NEAR.
• Interview with Jason Wong, COO UOL Unique One Network.
• The bidding feature is back on Paras! 
• CryptoEmpire featured on AwesomeNEAR!
• Congrats to the winner @Lsdingo_nft of the NEARCON NFT Swag contest!

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.
• Join the Open Forest Society and become an OPNer.
• 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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Thank you for reading and have nice day in the NEARverse!

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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 🌐

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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 🌐

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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

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

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