Hello PioNEARs! 
I’m Hai Vu, a member of the project ops team, in charge of supporting Aurora Defi projects, the Octopus app chains, and Infrastructure projects as follows:
And here is my bi-weekly report from 16th to 30th April
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Moderation, support for 7-10 users per day on NEAR Discord and other related communities.
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9 hours/ 6 days per week, one additional day for project support, with detail as below:
Defi Projects:
| Name | Help Detail | Next Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Wannaswap | Conduct AMA Metapool x Wannaswap | Find new pool & IDO |
| GONEAR | Meeting GONEAR x Move VC | Follow-up IDO |
| Bluebit | Prepare rift x bluebit partnership | Community Awareness & increase TVL |
| Spin | Amplify news about mainnet | Community Awareness |
| Bastion | Connect with Renaissance Labs, amplify news | Community Awareness |
| Mutant Swap DEX | Apply for IDO on Skyward finance, BocaChica | Community Awareness |
| Rubic Exchange | AMA with NEAR global | Community Awareness |
| Aurigami | Connect with Renaissance Labs, amplify news lottery, airdrop | Community Awareness |
| Polaris Finance | Apply for Proximity Grant | Check with Kendall |
| RIFT Finance | Connect with new projects for partnership | Community Awareness & Partnership |
| PawnProtocol | Prepare for testnet campaign, connect VC, defi, NFT marketplace Paras, Renaissance Labs | Community Awareness |
| Fusotao | Amplify voting & IDO, recruit new CM | Community Awareness |
| Incognito | meeting with Cypher punk - @Aria , wait for next step, applied for NEAR grant | Followup - Thanks @FritzWorm for precious info |
| UPFI | Advise & deploy test net campaign + airdrop USN | Apply NEAR & USN to peg for $UFPI stable coin with foundation |
| MyConstant | List NEAR as collateral asset for lending/borrowing on the lending platfrom | Community Awareness |
| Solster finance | From SOL to NEAR, apply for grant | Waiting for BD team’s meeting |
| Poly Network | Making bridge from NEO to NEAR | Follow up |
Infrastructure Projects:
| Name | Help Detail | Next Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Octopus | Update appchain’s news,Fusotao, discovol voting competition, uniqueone audit | Follow up execution through weekly meetings & Community Awareness |
| Open Forest Protocol | Building OFP VN community - making 6 medium articles, 8 tweets | Community awareness |
| Dante | apply for more VC in NEAR network | Follow up |
| QSTN | Applied & got OCT accelerator grant | Community Awareness |
| Dsuite | Apply for OCT accelerator program - summer batch | Follow up |
| DEIP | AMA NEAR VN, Crypto Family community, making one-page overview + video with Coinf community/ connect with China media | Community Awareness |
| Locify | Prepare testnet | Follow up on more VC |
| BitHappier | Advise on building website, dapp, connect vendors | Followup on building website, dapp |
| Certchain | Apply for OCT accelerator program - summer batch | |
| NEARamp | Push on Awesome NEAR listing | Follow up |
| dAngle Fund | Connect MOVE VC | Follow up Near grant |
| Crypto Capable DAO | Connect NEAR India, recruit Dev | Follow up |
| MeMusic | Meeting 2nd time with OCT for grant, applied for NEAR grant | Follow up |
| Vision.game | from SOL to NEAR & booked meeting next week with BD team for grant | Follow up |
Achievement & Side quests
*Follow up for project QSTN got OCT Accelerator Grant (50K$)
*Follow up for project CertChain got NEAR fast grant.
*Support for [MyConstant] (https://www.myconstant.com/lend-crypto-to-earn-interest) (Centralized Lending platform - stable coin APY 14% flexible) for listing NEAR buy/sell & use as collateral assets for US users. Plan for list $USN as next step with @Loudee
*Deploy testnet campaign with airdrop 8,180 $USN for UPFI - the Fractional Algorithm Stablecoin Protocol, got the 1st National SOL hackathon, and move to NEAR with grant.
*Support other chains projects SOL, NEO comes to NEAR, OCT for multichain purpose:
- Solster launchpad, MeMusic NFT marketplace, Vision.game launchpad (SOL)
- Polynetwork bridge (NEO)
*Finish theNEARprojects.guide sitemap and create a group with the Ecosystem team dedicated for website building.
Barriers
*Grant process status/application:: no clear way to check the status
Finally, it’s great to work with my project ops team and receive strong support from @nearconciergeteam
And have a nice weekend, mate! 