NEWSLETTER ISSUE #78

NEAR PROTOCOL EMOJI IS BORN ON TWITTER
NEAR Foundation is thrilled to announce the launch of branded hashtags on Twitter. Whenever the following hashtags are tweeted from anyone, anywhere, they’ll be accompanied by the NEAR logo: #NEAR, #NEARisNOW, #NEARProtocol, #CreateWithoutLimits #NEARnft . LINK


NEAR FUNDING UPDATES
Welcome to the Funding Team Series that highlights important updates about NEAR Foundation’s Grants program, ecosystem and funding strategy. LINK


AURORA+ LAUNCHES SWAP FEATURE W/ 1INCH
The Aurora team has recently launched a swap feature for Aurora+ together with 1Inch. The swap function allows instant crypto exchange, making it the most efficient swap function in the Aurora ecosystem. LINK


LEAPBOARD IS LIVE FOR ALPHA TESTING
If you are looking for a complete NEAR and Aurora dashboard take a closer look at Leapboard. Get an overview of your account, stake & claim rewards, view your NFTs and more. LINK


FIREBLOCKS IS NOW AVAILABLE ON BURROW
Following the announcement of NEAR Protocol partnership with Fireblocks during NEARCON, the ecosystem is starting to witness new integrations. Burrow, a decentralized, non-custodial pool-based interest rates platform based on NEAR disclosed that Fireblocks is now available on Burrow, making NEAR’s main money market accessible to +1300 institutions. LINK

NEARLEND DAO ANNOUNCES TESTNET PHASE
Nearlend DAO, a NEAR-native open-source capital market, has announced the launch of its public testnet phase, which is now scheduled for the 10th of October. The testnet phase will last until the 17th and will be the final step before the mainnet launch. In order to participate, users are invited to register. LINK


$SEAT TRADING ABOUT TO GO LIVE
Live on Ref Finance from 27.10.22. Sign up to be notified when trading goes live. LINK


PANTERA & GENBLOCKCAPITAL JOIN PITCHTALK
Both will take a direct part in PitchTalk being a Judge and potential investor to projects incubated on PitchTalk. LINK


ALLBRIDGE’S TESTING PHASE SUCCESSFULL
Allbridge, a fast and affordable bridge that focuses on improving the liquidity flow between EVM, non-EVM, and L2 blockchains, brought to conclusion its testing period. The team will soon remove the transaction size limits as the core audits are being finalised. LINK


NEARSTARTER PARTNERS W/ DECENTRAL BANK
NEARStarter will embrace $USN for Guild and DAO payments and incorporate it into their user interface to enable IDO projects to be funded in stablecoin. Additionally, NEARStarter and DCB will cooperate on educational activities to help the incubation projects integrate $USN as well as cross-marketing campaigns. NEARStarter is a DAO-governed incubator for the NEAR and Aurora ecosystem. LINK


MYRIAD SOCIAL NOW SUPPORTS MYNEARWALLET
Myriad Social, a Web3 social network, has recently integrated MyNEARWallet, allowing users to sign in with their NEAR wallet to start posting, tipping and receiving tips for their content. LINK


OPEN FOREST PROTOCOL PARTNERS WITH GAIA
OFP, a NEAR-native ReFi project focused on reforestation, recently announced a partnership with Gaia Gives, a ReFi-focused crowdfunding community to streamline access to MRV technology to projects focused on forestation. LINK

NEARWEEK PICKS: TOP 5 NFT PROJECTS ON PARAS
NEARWEEK’s editors put forward a top 5 selection of the most successful projects on the NEAR ecosystem. The selection was based on TVL, originality, and community engagement. LINK


PARAS ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP W/ SWEAT
Paras recently announced its partnership with Sweat Economy, one the most popular fitness apps in the crypto space. Sweat Economy turned to Paras to launch its exclusive collection of 888 NFT as an initiative that is part of Sweat’s efforts to further engage the community. LINK


TENAMINT MARKETPLACE FOR TRADING CARDS
TENAMINT democratises trading cards so you can own that ‘1st Edition Charizard’ or that ‘86 Fleer Michael Jordan’ card you thought you’d never have. Every card on TENAMINT is curated and fractionalized, meaning anyone can afford a piece of the best cards on the market. LINK


SWEAT & FEW and FAR BREAK NFT MINT RECORD
Sweat Economy & Few and Far registered an impressive 10k of minted and distributed NFT’s. LINK


FREAKY ELVES PARTNERS W/ BATTLE BOARS
Freaky Elves, an NFT collection launched by Spin is going to work with Battle Boar to create more use cases, strengthen their marketing cooperation and pave the road to more product opportunities. LINK.


ASAC x TRADE PORT
ASAC, one of the most successful NFT projects on the NEAR ecosystem, announced a new partnership with Trade Port, an NFT platform focused on trading. Thanks to this partnership, users will be able to support ASAC when trading NFTs on Trade Port. By selecting ASAC as your preferred marketplace to list your NFT on Trade Port, a 2% of the marketplace fee from the listing will go to the ASAC treasury. LINK.

NEAR event calendar.

Join the Aurora Update for weekly alpha leaks and news every Fri. 2pm UTC.

NEAR Space at DEVCON VI.
The NEAR Ecosystem is coming to Bogota to showcase what is being built by our partners and the community. Thu, October 13, 2022, 9:30 AM – 8:00.

NEAR MetaBUILD III Hackathon, Sep 23 – Nov 21, 2022.


TWITTER SPACES

• NEARWEEK DeFi Space w/ Rimberjack, 11 Oct.
• NEARWEEK NFT Space, 14 Oct.

NEAR BYTES by PAGODA - EPISODE 8
Dorian shares updates on $USDC on NEAR, Meta Transactions (NEP-366), Data encryption using NEAR Keypairs, Google Cloud partnership and more. LINK


NEAR-JS-ENCRYPTION-BOX REPOSITORY
The Near-js-encryption-box, a library to encrypt & decrypt messages with NEAR accounts keypair, has now become available. LINK.


THE CROSS-CHAIN FUTURE w. AURORA, AXELAR, TRISOLARIS & AURIGAMI
A Twitter Space hosted by yours truly featuring Alex Shevchenko. More than 3000 tuned in and you should give the 40min space a listen too! LINK


BUILD YOUR NFT PROJECT ON AURORA FASTER W/ FLAIR SDK
Flair SDK is saving months of development work for Crypto Games and NFT Projects with open-source, scalable and customizable smart contracts, simple SDK/API, and a handy dashboard. LINK


COSMOS IBC IS COMING TO NEAR PROTOCOL
A Twitter Space with NEAR Co-founder Illia Polosukhin and Composable Finance. LINK


PAGODA METABUILD MENTORSHIP SESSIONS
Episode 2 is all about storytelling in Web3. Tune into the space and learn how to build and tell your project's story to the Web3 world. LINK


WHITEBOARD SERIES W/ NEAR PROTOCOL EP: 48
Tarun Chitra founder of Gauntlet Network, a financial modeling platform focused on risk management for DeFi, drops by Illia's whiteboard for a session on MEV. The video breaks down how MEV works on PoS Ethereum, where validators are now responsible for transaction ordering/inclusion, and how the MEV environment is evolving across chains today. They also explore where NEAR’s unique protocol design differs from other blockchains and the opportunities this offers to NEAR developers and traders. LINK


WATCH THE LATEST
Protocol Community Meeting - DevConsole & Explorer Community Meeting - DevTool Community Meeting. LINK

NEAR Protocol Strikes Partnership with Attarius Network to Improve Gaming Infrastructure on NEAR
NEAR Protocol has announced a new partnership with Attarius Network, the first all-in-one NFT ecosystem for the gaming industry. This partnership is set to improve the gaming infrastructure on NEAR and the tools to facilitate the growth of GameFi. LINK

Amber World Partners up With NEAR Misfits
Amber World, a new free to play game on NEAR, is partnering up with NEAR Misfits, one of the most popular NFT collections to create a NEAR Misfits world. LINK

• NEAR Foundation Job Board: Ecosystem job opportunities
  
• Job openings at NEAR
  
• Job openings at Aurora
  
• BEExperience - The HUB of blockchain recruitment.