NEAR x DROPT : REVOLUTIONISING LOYALTY AND ENGAGEMENT
NEAR Foundation is excited to announce a new partnership with Dropt, focused on embedding Web3 technologies into customer loyalty and engagement programs. LINK


AURORA RELAUNCHES ITS VALIDATOR
A new proposal to allocate an additional operational budget has been put forward and recently approved by the Aurora DAO. LINK


NEAR DAY AT ETHDENVER: ETHEREUM WITHOUT LIMITS
ETHDenver is once again upon us. NEAR will be there March 2nd with a full schedule of talks, panels, bounties, after parties, and more, exploring why NEAR is the place where mainstream adoption of the Open Web will happen. LINK


OCTOPUS NETWORK : COMMUNITY CALL VI [JANUARY]
The Octopus DAO held its sixth Community Call. This call was a significant event as Core Team Refactoring for Octopus 2.0 has just been announced. The Octopus Core Team wants to thank all Octopus validators and delegators who showed up and participated. LINK


IBC x NEAR PROTOCOL : THE CENTAURI BRIDGE
Composable Finance has received a grant from the NEAR Foundation. By receiving this grant, Composable Finance will be able to accelerate and incentivise the adoption of its infrastructure and Centauri once connected to NEAR via the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC). LINK


CV VC TOP 50 REPORT : THE BLOCKCHAIN INDUSTRY ANALYSED AND VISUALISED
The report released recently is a periodical report that analyses the top 50 best-performing blockchain projects in Crypto Valley, based on market valuation, funding, and the number of employees. LINK


BITFINEX LAUNCHES DEPOSITS AND WITHDRAWALS FOR $USDT ON NEAR LINK

LATEST PROJECTS LISTED ON AWESOMENEAR LINK

TONIC DEX HAS A NEW INDEX TOKEN $GIN ON NEAR
The Tonic Index is a basket of crypto assets available for trading on perpetuals. By staking supported assets in the index pool, you can receive $GIN. As a $GIN holder, you earn protocol fees and gain exposure to the underlying assets in the index pool. LINK


BURROW : THE BASICS OF ON-CHAIN ANALYSIS
On-chain analysis is a method of analyzing the activity on a blockchain to understand patterns in the use of a particular cryptocurrency or DeFi application. Here are some things that can be achieved with on-chain analysis. LINK


SPIN FINANCE : NEW UPDATED GITBOOK
Founded in June 2021, Spin was the first dApp to offer an on-chain order book solution on NEAR Protocol. Spin was founded by a team of derivatives traders with a vast experience in asset management and DeFi who set their primary mission to onboarding CeFi users to DeFi. LINK


GUIDE : HOW TO LIQUID STAKE NEAR WITH STADER
Stakin is pleased to announce a unique and first-of-its-kind partnership with Stader, a smart contract-based liquid staking platform for multiple Proof-of-Stake networks, including NEAR. LINK


PEMBROCK FINANCE : STAKE TO VOTE
Voting for the community rewards distribution in February just opened a couple of days ago. Be sure to stake your $PEM and participate in this decisive process. LINK


EMBEDDED DEFI : WHAT WEB3 CAN LEARN FROM PAYPAL
With Embedded DeFi, protocols have more revenue streams. Charging fees, providing different service packages, etc. Cashflow increases cash-bearing assets. LINK


COINBRAIN LAUNCHES SUPPORT FOR AURORA
After connecting for Ethereum in December and Polygon, Optimism, and Arbitrum, CoinBrain now includes support for Aurora as well. This implies that from now on, you can explore and analyse coins from your favourite Ethereum Layer-2. LINK


META BONDS : THE FIRST BOND MARKET BUILT ON NEAR PROTOCOL LINK


LEAPBOARD x TELEGRAM ON NEAR PROTOCOL
You can get notifications on Telegram for all your NEAR Protocol wallet activity through Leapboard. 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!

[2023-01-20] AURORA WEEKLY UPDATE
Read it here: LINK; or, give it a watch here: LINK


OCTOPUS NETWORK x ASIA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION LINK


POPULA REVOLUTION : TESTET LAUNCH
Popula’s mission is to give communities a space they can consider their home, where their members can communicate, engage, and bond on a deeper level while maintaining control of their data, content, and social graphs. LINK


NEAR x ETHDENVER : UPDATE & OVERVIEW LINK

KENSHI LAUNCHES ITS DEEP INDEX & ORACLE NETWORK ON AURORA
Kenshi is a full-stack application development platform targeting blockchains. Kenshi enables fast product development and reduces time to market. Whether developers want to index and query blockchain data or deliver data to the blockchain, Kenshi has them covered by enabling two-way communication. LINK


AURORA : THE BETTER LAYER-2 SCALING SOLUTION FOR ETHEREUM
Aurora enhances the capabilities of DApps on Ethereum by allowing them to access NEAR’s more efficient infrastructure and helps expand the ecosystem of NEAR. LINK


BOWEN WANG : OPEN CALL FOR VALIDATOR WORKING GROUP
The validator community is a critically important part of the NEAR ecosystem. Validators operate the blockchain and without them, every project would grind to a halt. If you are a validator on NEAR and are interested in organizing or joining the validator working group, please comment on Bowen's post to express interest. LINK


MOVING FORWARD TO 2023 : ATOCHA 2.0
In a blog post Atocha outlines what the project has learned, and how it will pivot into the new year amidst the crypto winter. LINK


DIA : OVERVIEW xRANDOM RANDOMNESS ORACLE
In this video, Samuel Brack, DIA CTO, dives deep into xRandom, DIA's distributed and verifiable randomness oracle. xRandom provides smart contracts with unpredictable and unbiased random numbers, facilitating the development of Web3 use cases across multiple blockchains. LINK


HAPI INTEGRATION : GECKOTERMINAL BY COINGECKO
You can now easily check token address Smart Contract on the common vulnerabilities to avoid blatant scams and rug-pulls. LINK

AURORA : A PLACE WHERE TALENT CAN THRIVE
Whether you are a dev or an artist, the Aurora ecosystem offers plenty of opportunities to experiment and innovate. LINK

HUMAN GUILD : 2023 FOCUS
A couple of areas of focus for Human Guild this year are to become self-sustainable, continue working with existing projects to maximize launches success, and give out little new grants with particular narrow scope. LINK


THE YOUMINTER GENESIS SALE
In the spirit of onboarding millions of people into the NFT world, YouMinter has an upcoming Genesis Sale event that will precede the official Mainnet launch. Here is a guide on how to participate in the big event. LINK


MINTBASE INTEGRATES HERE WALLET LINK

LAZYFI TESTNET : LEARN AND EARN WITH LAZYFI
LazyFi is an educational gaming platform that enables Web3 projects to effortlessly create and deploy their own Learn-to-Earn campaign via gaming. 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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