NEWSLETTER ISSUE #86
A weekly update on everything that moves NEAR Protocol
NO 86 · Monday 5 DEC, 2022
NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was community curated via 53 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.
gm NEAR heads,
Happy December, the final month of the year has arrived!
This week we’re excited to announce our official partnership with Sender Wallet! Sender is a non-custodial wallet solution that enables users to send and store NEAR-based funds safely and securely on desktop and mobile.
The partnership sees us integrate our v2 validator node with Sender. This makes it possible for users to stake their assets at NEARWEEK.POOL.NEAR for additional APY on top of regular $NEAR rewards.
Check out the 'NEARWEEK Originals' section in today's newsletter for a brief overview of the additional community tools we offer — from podcasts to custom ecosystem merch, we hope to soon offer it all!
Till next week!
- Mr. News
Highlights
AURORA LABS: NATIVE USDC ANNOUNCEMENT
A blog post outlining everything you need to know about NEAR native USDC integration with Aurora and the Rainbow Bridge. LINK
MARIEKE FLAMENT: FTX FAILED NOT BECAUSE OF REGULATION, BUT BECAUSE OF GREED AND CORRUPTION (OP-ED, FORKAST) LINK
MULTICHAIN: LIVE ON NEAR (WITH OVER $30 MILLION INITIAL LIQUIDITY)
Multichain’s mission is to build a multi-chain ecosystem where a billion people can freely roam among the Web3. The addition of NEAR to its ecosystem takes the project one step further to achieving that goal. LINK
METEOR WALLET: NEW 'EXPLORE' UPDATE
Meteor Wallet Wallet's latest 'explore' feature will keep you up-to-date with the latest on Meteor and the wider NEAR ecosystem. LINK
NEAR x NOTEBOOK LABS
Notebook Labs is partnering with NEAR Protocol to bring privacy-preserving ZK credentials to the NEAR ecosystem. As a first step, Notebook will whitelist all NEAR projects for use of Notebook Auth, allowing them to add ZK privacy to any existing authentication flow. LINK
OFP AT GOOGLE: THE FUTURE OF REGENERATIVE ASSETS
Open Forest Protocol has been invited to the Accelerating Digital Environmental Assets Summit, co-sponsored by Google and Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners. The three day event focused on Digital Environmental Assets (DEAs), and brought together a cohort of organisations—each of them leaders in the frontiers of environment and technology. LINK
SMART VALOR LISTS $NEAR ON EXCHANGE LINK
NEAR X ESG DAO: CREDIBLY NEUTRAL ESG SCORING SYSTEM
ESG DAO, the United Kingdom entity that is building a global, decentralised and real-time Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating protocol, has partnered with NEAR Protocol to accelerate the development of OpenESG. LINK
NEAR X NUTRESA: WEB3 LOYALTY PROGRAM IN LATIN AMERICA
Introducing the first open-source loyalty program using the Near protocol, aiming to reach one million consumers throughout the region. LINK
NEAR TRANSPARENCY REPORT [2022-12-02]
As part of its commitment to transparency, the Foundation will publish a transparency report each week to help the NEAR community understand the health of the ecosystem. Give the blog post a read. LINK
LATEST PROJECTS LISTED ON AWESOMENEAR LINK
DeFI
ALLBRIDGE X BRAVE: WALLET PARTNER PROGRAM
Adding Brave Wallet enables Allbridge to make the cross-chain swaps of native stablecoins more accessible to the community and provide a seamless way to interact with new networks. LINK
BURROW FINANCE DISABLES $USN BORROWING
Users are kindly urged to close their $USN positions as soon as possible. Once delisted, any borrowed $USN left in your account may be swapped out for another stablecoin. LINK
HERE WALLET: TASK PARTNERS (OVERVIEW) LINK
HOLDR.FI RECEIVES GRANT FROM AURORA LABS
Holdr protocol received $20,000 grant in AURORA tokens from the Aurora Foundation to launch and operate Balancer Friendly Fork on the Aurora chain. The goal is to boost the capital efficiency for liquidity providers, traders, and DeFi protocols in the ecosystem. LINK
JUMP DEFI: OFFICIALLY LIVE ON MAINNET NEXT WEEK
After spending months growing its community and grinding through three rounds of the Testnet Beta, Jump DEFI is thrilled to announce the mainnet is coming. LINK
PEMBROCK FINANCE: LAUNCHES NEW FARM (ST-NEAR - WNEAR) LINK
PULSAR FINANCE: INTRODUCING THE COMPLETE PORTFOLIO MANAGER
Start tracking your portfolio performance across 25+ protocols, including Tokens, Defi and NFTs. Give Pulsar's recent Twitter Space with REF Finance a listen to find out more. LINK
SPIN FINANCE: AIRDROP SNAPSHOT TAKEN, WHAT'S NEXT? LINK
NFTs
HERE WALLET IS OFFICIALLY LIVE ON APOLLO42
You can now easily create and trade NFTs on NEAR using one of the best non-custodial wallet solutions! LINK
GAMENAUT AUTH: LIVE ON NEAR TESTNET
Gamenaut is an authentication solution that completely eliminates the frictions of onboarding users in web3 gaming. Gamenaut allows players to sign-up with only an email address and a password. Once the user is ready, they can access GameFi features by connecting their wallet or using an automatically created non-custodial wallet. LINK
PARAS: REDESIGNED (A BRAND-NEW LOOK)
Paras is a one-stop destination to buy and sell NFTs. The marketplace recognises that UI is vital for building credibility and winning the trust of users. Visit new.paras.id to explore Paras' new look. LINK
MINTBASE: MEET THE APPROVED PROJECTS (PART III)
Mintbase is delighted to introduce the final round of projects to join the MintbaseGrants program in 2022. Read a deep-dive into the selected project proposals. LINK
MINTBASE: INTRODUCING THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM
Co-founder, Nate Geier, explains in a short video how to deploy your own marketplace and earn fees with the Mintbase Affiliate Program. LINK
NEAR STARTER: FIRST COHORT CLOSURE
The first cohort features the talented projects: Meteor Wallet, Seed Web3, House of Eros, DOJO Finance, Nearlend DAO, and Evie Hub. LINK
SWEAT HERO: LAUNCH PLAN
Sweat Hero is a head-to-head style game that allows users to compete in a step battle to win Sweat. Read the announcement to find out everything you need to know about the roll out process. LINK
CRYSTALZ OF NARAMUNZ: BETA SIGN-UP
Join the waitlist for a chance to be among the first to explore the action RPG. LINK
Events
AURORA WEEKLY UPDATE IS HERE [2022-11-25]
Read it here: LINK; or give it a watch here: LINK
NEAR FOUNDATION: ENCOURAGING THE ECOSYSTEM TO SPEAK AT ETH DENVER LINK
META STAKING - NODE OPERATOR PRESENTATION [2022-12-08]
This event will mark the mainnet launch of Meta Staking Vote as part of the decentralisation roadmap for Meta Pool.The audience will have a chance to review validator nodes and allocate voting power from their $META tokens. LINK
NEXT CREATORS PODCAST: USER-FRIENDLY WEB3 WALLET (#50) LINK
NEAR FOUNDATION: RECENT EVENTS, WHAT DO THEY MEAN FOR NEAR? LINK
NEAR FOUNDATION X FEW AND FAR: THE NFT ECOSYSTEM (ART BASEL) LINK
PAGODA: ROAD TO MAINNET (W/ KEYPOM)
The new Twitter Spaces series invites devs from rising projects to share advice about building on NEAR. LINK
REPUTATION IS KING x CORETO: TWITTER SPACE [2022-12-07] LINK
OPOLIS LAUNCHES BOUNTY ON ASTRODAO LINK
SEATLAB X INTERNATIONAL FITNESS SUMMIT [2023-09-23]
Seatlab - the next-gen NFT ticketing platform - is excited to partner with IFS (International Fitness Summit). IFS is a weekend festival of seminars, coaching masterclasses and unforgettable parties. LINK
Developers
AURORA RELEASES ENGINE VERSION 2.8.0
Aurora Labs is delighted to announce the EVM version 2.8.0 from the Engine team. The update brings security response enhancements, reproducibility, and an update on cross contract calls. LINK
DECENT.LAND UPDATE: NEAR IS HERE (#18)
All of the hard work towards NEAR functionality on decent.land has come to fruition this week with the launch of NEAR on Ark Protocol and an official decent.land funding announcement from NEAR Protocol. LINK
NEAR SF BUILDER DAY [2022-12-10] LINK
KEYPOM x REFRACTION DAO
Keypom partners with Refraction to deliver the smoothest Web3 onboarding experience: no seed phrases; no private keys; no crypto jargon. LINK
WORKSPACES RS V0.7.0 RELEASES
The update includes minor breaking changes and adds asynchronous builders for querying data into the chain. The update also comes with general fixes for better error reporting that comes with anyhow errors from running sandbox. LINK
WALLET SELECTOR V7.3.0 RELEASE
The update includes order optimisations, support for Chinese translations, and more. LINK
PAGODA: PROTOCOL ROADMAP SPOTLIGHT (META TRANSACTIONS #1)
Meta Transactions - what are they and what does this upgrade mean for NEAR? LINK
OCTOPUS NETWORK: FREE INDEXER, EXPLORER, RPC ENDPOINT & MORE
Octopus Network will continue to build and augment its unique offerings as the project demonstrates utility and innovation via its core philosophies. LINK
Join The Ecosystem
NEARWEEK: AUDIO & PODCAST LIBRARY
A selection of project and community audio recordings that cover the NEAR, Aurora, and Octopus Network ecosystem and their respective developments. LINK
NEARWEEK: COMMUNITY CALENDAR [NEW]
NEARWEEK launches its custom community calendar to be used by the entire NEAR ecosystem! Please populate the calendar with project launch dates, NFT drops, and Twitter Spaces. This way users in the space are aware of everything that's scheduled to happen. LINK
NEARWEEK: MERCH STORE
Our NEAR ecosystem merch store is live - stack up your NEAR drip!! If you're a project and want your design featured in the store, please e-mail: shop@nearweek.com. LINK
NEARWEEK: NEWSBOT
The NEARWEEK Twitter newsbot offers the easiest way to ensure that any breaking NEAR Protocol-related news on your timeline is picked up by NEARWEEK.To send us a submission, simply comment or tweet:
< !submit @nearweekbot > — it's that simple!
Other updates
NEAR WIKI
The open-source, collaborative wiki connects you to information about everything relating to the protocol, usage, infrastructure, opportunities, and guilds. LINK
CERTY NETWORK: CESOCIAL INCENTIVISED TESTNET IS NOW LIVE
The first decentralised Learn-to-Earn platform on NEAR Protocol intends to provide an effective tokenised model with a Web3 experience for everyone. LINK
LEARN NEAR CLUB: HOW TO USE & BUILD ON NEAR
An all inclusive hands-on onboarding platform to NEAR Protocol, connecting NEAR ecosystem projects to pro-active community members via (L)Earn method. Supported by NEAR Foundation. LINK
ANZA ACADEMY: THE ULTIMATE WEB3 EDUCATION PLATFORM
Features the following courses: