Update on this, we only have been able to start the defi journey now due to some personal obstacles in the council’s life BUT:
We used the 100 USD (9.4N at the time of receiving the budget) on Metapool & ref.finance as suggested & topped it up with 10.6N from our buffer to have a round number and as in Metapool the min. deposit is 10N. So overall defi value 20N.
The received ~9.8 stNEAR from Metapool have been deposited the stNEAR/wNEAR (current APY 10.8%) pool together with the 10N from our buffer. Now we’ll wait and observe.