NEWSLETTER ISSUE #81
gm NEAR heads!
Happy Halloween! As we head into November, our weekly newsletter is here to kick off the week!
We've had a busy month behind us, with NEAR Protocol recently implementing the 2nd phase of its Sharding road map! This has resulted in the total validator count increasing from 100 to 300, lowering the overall barrier of entry to becoming a validator.
NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was community curated via 37 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.
Highlights
USN WIND DOWN — MESSAGE TO HOLDERS AND COMMUNITY
The Decentral Bank team publishes a Medium article explaining their decision to wind down all existing USN operations. We recommend everyone who currently holds USN to gives it a read. LINK
NEAR FOUNDATION TO FUND USN PROTECTION PROGRAMME
The NEAR Foundation sets aside $40m USD for a USN Protection Programme grant, designed to protect users from the recent USN issue by ensuring eligible USN holders can redeem their USN on a 1:1 basis with USDT.e. LINK
NEARWEEK INTERVIEWS: AURORA
NEARWEEK manages to catch up with Alex Shevchenko, CEO of Aurora Labs, to find out more about the recent developments at Aurora Labs and the direction its Aurora+ service is heading in. LINK
OCTOPUS NETWORK: RISK MITIGATION AND EARLY DESIGNS
Following the statement released by DEIP Founder, Alex Shkor, announcing that the project would cease to maintain the DEIP token on NEAR Protocol, Octopus has released an in-depth article explaining more about the situation and steps that were taken. LINK
DeFI
SPIN FINANCE - PERPETUALS PUBLIC RELEASE
Spin Finance releases the public version of its NEAR native on-chain perpetuals. Users can now hedge their capital and extract returns from any price action. LINK
RAINBOW BRIDGE RANKS IN TOP 5 ETHEREUM BRIDGES BY TVL
The Rainbow Bridge is currently ranking 4th in the top 10 Ethereum bridge by TVL. LINK
AURORA INTRODUCES GITCOIN GRANT WINNER: FILEVERSE
Aurora announces Gitcoin Grant round winner #3: Fileverse - a file sharing and collaboration tool between addresses. Private, easy-to-use, and on-chain. LINK
SPIN x NEARPAY WIDGET
Spin has successfully integrated the NearPay widget, so now users can top up their wallets to start trading on Spin. LINK
PEMBROCK FINANCE TO HALT USN REWARDS
In line with the recent announcement by Decentral Bank, PembRock will no longer pay rewards in USN for lenders and borrowers. LINK
NFTs
SENDER WALLET RELEASES v1.4.0
Sender Wallet App Release v1.4.0 has many features, including the option for NFT display and transfer. LINK
MYNEARWALLET RELEASES NFT GUIDE
MyNearWallet releases a step-by-step guide for users outlining how to start buying NFTs on NEAR Protocol. LINK
NEKO DROPS FREAKY FELINE 'FREE MINT' COLLECTION
Yesterday, NEKO, the first meme coin on NEAR, released its Freaky Feline Collection. These will be needed to mint the Gen01 collection to the Good Fortune Felines. LINK
INTRODUCING SEATLABNFT: THE STARTUP CHANGING THE TICKETING GAME
The NEAR Foundation has published an article introducing SeatlabNFT. LINK
Events
THE AURORA WEEKLY UPDATE IS HERE
Read it here: LINK; or give it a watch here: LINK
NEAR FOUNDATION LAUNCHES NEW AMA SERIES
The NEAR Foundation realises there has been an issue with communication to the NEAR ecosystem. To that end, NEAR Foundation will host its first Twitter Spaces tomorrow, enabling the community to ask any questions or concerns directly to Foundation. LINK
NEAR PROTOCOL'S METABUIDL III HACKATON
There are currently 1339 participants and $1,000,000 in prizes for the NEAR Protocol MetaBuidl III Hackathon. It's not too late to register! LINK
SATURDAY WITH $SHITZU
The $SHITZU community is hosting a free-form open discussion about anything and everything NEAR Protocol, Aurora, and Octopus related. This will happen each weekend as a Twitter space around 11am EST. LINK
Developers
OCTOPUS NETWORK GUIDE: SETTING UP A VALIDATOR NODE
Woori Chen publishes a step-by-step walkthrough detailing how to set up a validator node on Octopus Network. LINK
CHAINSTACK AURORA NODES NOW SUPPORT WRITE TRANSACTIONS
LINK
GUIDE: TOURING THE PAGODA CONSOLE
The following video shows you around Pagoda’s development platform and all its features for building on NEAR; from deploying a project to building automations. LINK
NEAR PROTOCOL WILL ATTEND ETHSANFRANCISCO
The NEAR ecosystem will be present at ETH San Francisco, with Banyan US and Pagoda offering $10k of bounties to grow NEAR's new JavaScript SDK. LINK
Project Growth
CYPHEROCK WALLET LAUNCHES SUPPORT FOR NEAR
LINK
PIKES PEAK IS NOW ACCESSIBLE VIA NEAR WALLET
Featuring a 3-day trial, any user is now able to subscribe to Pikespeak.ai via their NEAR account / wallet. LINK
POLARIS FINANCE WILL ADD COMMUNITY POOLS
The next update of Polaris Finance will offer a 'community pools' section in the DAWN dashboard. LINK
MYNEARWALLET TO IMPLEMENT HAPI RISK SCORING
MyNearWallet aims to implement HAPI risk scoring, which will get rid of the possibility for users to interact with malicious addresses. LINK
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