NEWSLETTER ISSUE #74

• NEAR Protocol’s Javascript SDK is live
  NEAR Protocol has launched its Javascript Software Development Kit (JS SDK)!
  
  With JavaScript being the most popular coding language in the world, the JS SDK opens the doors for developing on NEAR for more than 20 million developers. The JavaScript integration increases the pool of potential developers by 10x, further preparing the NEAR ecosystem for mass adoption.
  
  Are you familiar with JavaScript and would you like to say “Hello” to the NEAR Blockchain?
  
  Follow this guide to take your first steps into the NEARverse.
  
• Aurora will run as part of Gitcoin's 15th Grants Round (Sep 07th - Sep 22nd)
  Aurora is participating in Gitcoin’s 15th Grants Round with a matching pool of $100.000 in $AURORA. The round runs from the 7th - 22nd September. Projects can submit their grant applications on Gitcoin to make a chance to earn a grant from the matching pool. Aurora is looking for grantees that accomplish any of the following goals:
  
  - Usability - improving the user experience
  - Community - growing the ecosystem
  - Tooling - improving the developer experience
  - Governance - building tools for governance
  - Protocol Politicians - campaigns for governance champions
  
  Make sure to submit your grant proposal before the end of the first week of the round in order to be eligible.
  
  Do you think you have what it takes to help improve the Aurora Ecosystem in one of the fields mentioned above? Check out gitcoin.co/grants/new now and submit your proposal!
  
• LiNEAR has used The Graph’s hosted service to visualize blockchain data through the NEAR Events Format, using subgraphs indexing NEAR blockchain data.
  LiNEAR announced that it’s now using The Graph’s hosted service to visualize blockchain data such as staking APY, liquidity pool APY, and staking rewards using subgraphs indexing NEAR blockchain data.
  
  At the end of last year, The Graph announced a beta hosted service integration of the NEAR blockchain. This enables developers to build subgraphs indexing NEAR blockchain data using The Graph, allowing web3 infrastructure to support even more dapps. LiNEAR’s integration with The Graph marks another key milestone for expanding use cases in the NEAR DeFi ecosystem.
  
  Interested to adopt The Graph technology to empower the frontend and analytics of your project? Check out the tutorial and get started today!
  
• NEAR blockchain reached 200.000.000 in total transactions
  Due to the explosive growth of the NEAR Blockchain, it has been breaking record after record and now reached an astonishing amount of 200 million total transactions! With less than 30 million transactions one year ago, the amount of transactions on the NEAR Blockchain has grown over 560% in only one year. Will we break 1 billion transactions before the next NEARCON?
  
• Spin become the first dApp to release Perpetuals to NEAR Protocol's mainnet
  Spin has become the first DeFi dApp on NEAR that supports perpetuals. Perpetuals allow users to trade with up to 10x leverage or to hedge your spot positions. Learn how to join the incentivized Early Beta release and win a stake of over $5,000 USDC in rewards.
  
• Huobi Global Listed USN (Decentral Bank) on September 8, 2022
  Decentralbank’s $USN is listed on a top 10 CEX with close to $1 billion in daily trading volume. You can now deposit, withdraw and spot trade USN/USDT on Huobi!
  
• Akash Network joins the NEAR ecosystem as a partner for hosting NEAR validators on its decentralized cloud
  Pagoda recently announced a partnership with Akash Network, providing cloud hosting services for NEAR validators. Most validators currently run on AWS, adding more cloud hosting services for NEAR validators helps NEAR’s road to increased decentralization.
  
  Akash created this easy-to-follow guide helping you setup your node on Akash Network.
  
• MetawebVC announces a $30 million blockchain fund to support developers and entrepreneur BUIDLing the future of Web3. LPs in the Fund include NEAR Foundation, Sequoia Capital, Dragonfly Capital, GSR Markets, Octopus Network, SevenX, Mentha Partners, as well as notable entrepreneurs such as NEAR’s co-founder Illia Polosukhin, Matrix China's co-founder Bo Shao, Alchemy Pay’s founder Shawn Shi, Dodo’s co-founder Mark Wang, and more. Learn more here.
  
• Few and Far announced partnership with the NEAR Foundation to grow the NEAR NFT ecosystem.
  
• The SailGP x NEAR partnership is changing the world of sport with Web3 technology. SailGP believe in community-owned teams, organized via a DAO. The evolution of fan loyalty programs is NEAR! Learn more with this article.
  
• The Rainbow Bridge has been stopped at 1 PM CET this Sunday, 11th of September, because of the upcoming Ethereum Merge. Read more here.
  
• Check out NEAR Data Dashboards powered by Flipside Crypto.
  
• SatoriNFT introducing Proof of Memories at NEARCON2022. Read How Proof of Memories will combine IRL event experiences with POAPs.

AURORA

• Aurora+ is now on DefiLlama!
  
• Checkout this thread to learn how Aurora Rainbow Bridge is the most trustless, robust & secure bridge out there through implementing light clients as smart contract on both ETH and NEAR to secure the transactions and prevent any hacks!.
  
• You can now find trisolaris in Defi Teller’s Dapp section, to find out more about the $Tri token
  
• PembRock Finance reaches $5M TVL after only two months on NEAR mainnet. Go and check it out here.
  
• Check out this stable farming “cheat sheet” from Aurigami, which shows you how use the burrow/deposit APY’s to your own advantage
  
• MUST READ. See this article to learn more about the Eth merge, and what it will mean for users on Aurora and Rainbow Bridge

NEAR

• Registration for the upcoming SWEAT token launched on DAO Maker. Register now for the "Public SHO". Read more about the SWEAT economy here.
  
• The new Metapool X Nightly partnership now allows users to stake their NEAR to stNEAR in the Nightly wallet. Nightly wallet started as a Solana Exclusive, so we are happy to see them build with NEAR. Check out the in-wallet staking tutorial in this thread.
  
• Ref Finance Wallet selector is now live! This makes users able to interact with dApps by providing an abstraction for wallets on NEAR. Try it out at their site now at Ref Finance.
  
• Fusotao Protocol have opened a 3000TAO pool for users to earn by experiencing their new avatar wallet. The event will take place during 8. Sep 10:00AM UTC to 15. Sep 10:00AM UTC. See how to participate here.
  
• Stader is launching a bug bounty program on Immunefi.
  
• Burrow has renewed net liquidity farming rewards.
  
• $WOO is now listed on Burrow. WOO Network is a trading platform boasting deep liquidity & daily volume in billions.
  
• BITSSAswap now supports $USN to fiat swap.

• Paras kicks off the week with several game changing collaborations! The first of these collaborations is with Pawn Protocol, who will join Paras as a strategic partner and help solidify its position of strength in NFT liquidity.
  
• Impressed by the passion of the Paras team, NEARStarter has announced its official partnership with the popular NEAR-native NFT marketplace. The exact contents of the partnership are still shrouded in mystery, but users should be on the lookout for more details to be announced soon!
  
• Paras integrates with Ramper, the Web3 user onboarding service. The Ramper integration allows Paras to expand its reach to more users by enabling email and SSO login (Google, Facebook, Apple, etc.)
  
• Paras is partnering with Pawn NFT, the first NFT P2P Lending Solution on Near Protocol. Via this partnership, Paras users will now be able to collateralise NFTs and create loan offers on its marketplace.
  
• OtherVerse (creators behind NPunks) is launching a strategic partnership with Roketo focused on technical solutions and long-term cooperation.

• Apollo42 introduced new feature to easily find all recent social activities on the platform.
  
• Bee-Together x FAYYR Partnership Announcement.
  
• LacroveNFT x NEAR Ocean Partnership Announcement.
  
• AstroMarket has closed a private funding round led by Fox Capital.
  
• vself is launching its web3 identity wallet and platform for NFT rewards at NEARCON 2022
  
• The Auction Mint Feature is live on Testnet
  
• Apollo42 AR NFT app will be live on September 11th.
  
• Amber Metaverse to airdrop POAP NFT AVATAR to everyone who bought an NFT ticket for NEARCON through Mintbase!

This week is NEARCON week! So here we have listed some events you attend online while you wait for news from NEARCON. The events at NEARCON in Lisbon you can check out at degen.events.

• Aurora will be hosting a virtual event day at NEARCON as a Twitter Space about “Importance of Bounties to the Security of a Chain” featuring Aurora CEO Alex Shevchenko, founders from Aurogami, Trisolaris and Bastion, and guests from @immunefi and @PwningEth. Tune in on tuesday 13. Sep 3:00PM UTC+0
  
• In correlation with Glory Games and Paras’ partnership, they are hosting an AMA with NFT prizes for the best questions. Tune in this Tuesday 13. Sep at 1:00PM UTC+0
  
• Last Thursday Meta Pool hosted a community AMA with Claudio, to get community feedback for MetaVote and MetaYield. Check out the recording to make sure not to miss a thing.
  
• Ref Finance’s Twitter Space last Thursday revolved around “ Living in a Multichain World: New NEAR Integration” Check out the recording here to be up to date on Ref Finance.
  
• Last Friday Meta Yield and Mintbase partnered up to expand the fundraising rewards for NFT based projects. Therefore they hosted a Twitter Space to talk about “The future of fundraising”. Check it out here.

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
  
• Developer Community Feedback.
  Please share your feedback on what is working or not working well and help grow a healthy developer community.
  
• Watch the latest
  Protocol Community meeting - DevConsole & Explorer Community Meeting - DevTool Community Meeting
  
• Aurora releases Engine 2.7.0.
  Read about the fuzz tests, improvements, and upcoming cross contract calls at their site.

Bounty Programs

• NEAR Protocol Gitcoin bounties
  
• Aurora Bug Bounty program on Immunefi. Find those bugs and get up to $6,000,000 in rewards.
  
• Ref Finance's Bug Bounty program on Immunefi.
  
• Bastion launched their bug bounty on Immunefi $250k in rewards.
  
• BlueBit Bug Bounty program is live on Immunefi.

• Glory Games have partnered with Paras on their new card-based game.

• NEAR Foundation Job Board: Ecosystem job opportunities.
  
• Job openings at NEAR
  
• Job openings at Aurora