NEAR FOUNDATION : REFINING THE GRANT APPROACH

The NEAR Foundation endeavours to make decisions that support the strategic approach that will drive NEAR to the next phase of its roadmap. With a look ahead at evolving areas of product and development, the Foundation aims to be as transparent as possible about the new funding strategy as it rolls out. LINK

NEAR FOUNDATION x SPILL : MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

For the next 6 months, the NEAR Foundation is extending access to Spill, its mental health partner service to anyone building on NEAR or contributing to its growth. LINK

AURORA DISCONTINUES ETHERSCAN PARTNERSHIP

After a successful partnership with Etherscan, Aurora Labs decided to decommission Aurorascan to develop its own block explorer. LINK

MULTICHAIN WEB3 INFRA : CREATE WITHOUT LIMITS

Last week, Illia Polosukhin (NEAR), Alex Shevchenko (Aurora), and Louis Liu (Octopus), joined forces for an impressive all-star Twitter Space to talk about all things multichain. LINK

CHATME x NEAR SOCIAL

ChatMe is integrating with near.social for enhanced messaging capabilities. Access your contacts' profile details and address book through NEAR Social and stay connected with the people you follow. LINK

LATEST PROJECTS LISTED ON AWESOMENEAR LINK

TONIC DEX : PERPETUALS AND HOW TO TRADE THEM
NEARSTARTER x REF FINANCE NEARStarter incubated projects will now benefit from listing on Ref Finance, the premier NEAR DEX with the largest liquidity. The partnership will also enable projects developed in NEARStarter to engage in joint community-building and marketing initiatives with REF. LINK

NEARSTARTER x TRISOLARIS

NEARStarter is officially launching an $NSTART:$ETH pool on Trisolaris! The pool will be seeded with liquidity just hours before the actual TGE, and its existence and address will be widely communicated by both NEARStarter and Trisolaris to avoid potential scams from popping up. LINK

AVB : AURORA ALPHA LEAKS

Check out the latest guide with @AlejandroVBeta1 to find out everything you need to know about how to swap using @1inch on Aurora. LINK

REF QUARTERLY UPDATE : Q4 2022

2023 will be intense and Ref will be expanding its DeFi capabilities. Although user acquisition has slowed in the last quarter of 2022, the Ref team is proud to have secured key achievements, such as the deployment of concentrated liquidity and an impressive DeFiSafety score of 91%. LINK

CHAINPORT ANNOUNCES AURORA EVM SUPPORT

ChainPort is glad to announce that it is expanding and increasing the number of blockchains it supports. Adding the Aurora Network moves ChainPort one step closer to its goal of offering full interoperability while prioritising security. LINK

TONIC DEX NOW SUPPORTS $META TOKEN LINK

TONIC DEX : GREEDY GOBLIN DAILY GIVEAWAY

The giveaway applies to those trading on the new Tonic DEX perpetuals platform, and will run till Jan. 17th, 2022. LINK

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!

[2022-01-06] AURORA WEEKLY UPDATE IS HERE
Read it here: LINK; or give it a watch here: LINK

[2022-01-05] REF FINANCE : COMMUNITY CALL
The NEAR community was given the chance to ask Didier — Ref, product lead —any questions during a community AMA last Thursday. Didier's responses were very insightful, and you're able to read them back by heading to #ask-ref-anything channel on discord. LINK

[2022-01-13] NEAR COMMUNITY EVENT & PITCH FEST @ SINGAPORE SAIL GRAND PRIX

Join NEAR Protocol for a special networking event at the SailGP Adrenaline Lounge featuring NEAR Foundation, SailGP, and top regional ecosystem projects. During this event, we'll be exploring the exciting partnership between these two organizations and delve into some of the innovative projects currently being developed within the NEAR ecosystem. LINK

HERE WALLET : NEAR INDEXER ZMQ

Implementation of a NEAR Blockchain RPC node to publish all blocks by ZMQ. LINK

NEAR NEARD v1.31.9-rc.1 TESTNET RELEASE [CODE_GREEN_TESTNET]

The release has no protocol upgrade, but does have a database upgrade. LINK

WAYS TO ENGAGE IN DEVELOPER GOVERNANCE

The blog post outlines how builders can ideate, implement, review, and support projects within the NEAR developer ecosystem. As always, the goal with governance is to encourage broad innovation from the community without relying on a single entity. This opens the door for anyone to participate and contribute in a transparent way. LINK

NEAR WORKSHOPS: NOTIFI SDK

In this episode, Nimesh, CTO of Notifi, guides you through the new NotifiSDK on NEAR—which enables integration between SMS, email, and Telegram notifications with your NEAR dApp. LINK

USER RESEARCH DAO : FREE COACHING AND TRAINING FOR NEAR BUILDERS

Builders who take part in the program will learn about: defining your product’s user(s); user research methods dos and don’ts; recruitment and handling research participants; interviewing participants and designing surveys, and much more. LINK

WEB3MON PUBLISHES NEW WHITEPAPER LINK

WEB3MON : NEW CLOTHES

Web3Mon's first NFT consists of clothing. The NFT functions as a character-skin in the game. Five NFT backgrounds will reflect the characteristics of each chain (NEAR : Ice, Polygon : Soil, Arbitrum : Forest, etc.) The battle background will also reflect the attributes of the five chains the game supports. LINK

LAZYFI TESTNET : LEARN AND EARN WITH LAZYFI

Community members which participate in all three rounds of the testnet will be whitelisted for the upcoming LazyFi NFT collection in 2023. LINK

MOTODEX SIMULATOR ON AURORA

MotoDEX is a competitive simulator where users take part in motorcycle races, develop their racers and improve high-speed tracks. LINK

MINTBASE : TRANSPARENCY UPDATE

Users can now use Mintbase to view the provenance of multiple tokens in one place, allowing you to deep-dive into your token history. LINK

PLAYIBLE : FANTASY BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

Launching next week, you will be able to claim two free soulbound packs and begin entering weekly contests. Win up to $25,000 in prizes. LINK

NEAR WIKI
The open-source, collaborative wiki connects you to information about everything relating to the protocol, usage, infrastructure, opportunities, and guilds. LINK

FREECODECAMP : NEAR CURRICULUM
The curriculum will contain at least ten interactive practice projects that will guide you through learning the NEAR protocol and its tools. You'll learn how to build and deploy your own smart contracts, dApps, work with NEAR command line tools, and much more! 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

HOW TO BRIDGE ASSETS TO AND FROM NEAR (GUIDE)
Bridges help form the concept of interoperability between blockchains in Web3. In other words, bridges enable the exchange of information from one blockchain to another, even when coded in different languages. The following guide outlines some of the cross-chain bridging solutions that are available to those wanting to move assets to and from NEAR. LINK

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