September 13-20
Summary
Our team is focused on enhancing the onboarding experience of NEAR to facilitate adoption through community-driven projects and organizations. We are improving systems of accountability using DAOs, governed by open web contributors.
This category is dedicated to Grassroots DAOs and nodes within Near
The next Town Hall is also the Closing Ceremonies for the MetaBUIDL Hackathon, and we are looking ahead to NEAR | CON .
https://metabuidlceremonyandtownhall.splashthat.com
Updates from the Ecosystem
NEARweek
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NEARWEEK EDITION #23
13 SEP - 19 SEP 2021
NEARWEEK is aggregating and curating information across the NEAR ecosystem. This edition was crowdsourced via 64 news contributions to the NEWS DAO.
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Big things around the ecosystem:
EmiSwap DEX , Autonomy Network and solace.fi received grants from the NEAR…
Q4 Roadmap:
Dear all!
A small update from NEARWEEK’s side, an envisioning of the coming months.
We are ambitious and working towards achieving our objectives for Q3 & Q4 from the NEARWEEK news guild announcement . In order to speed up the process we need more people. We are looking at onboarding up to 5 NEARWEEK Agents (job description tba) to the team who will be helping out in the daily operations of NEARWEEK and focus on the future of the guild. Are you interested in joining or helping out you can book …
Data Center
Time: September 12 - September 19
NEAR Explorer Stats
NEAR Ecosystem Scoreboard
If you don’t have the access to the dashboard or reports, or have any questions would like to discuss, please feel free to contact Tiffany(tiffany@near.org )
Executive Summary/Key Insights
With the deadline of MetaBUIDL Hackathon approaching, MAD continued to grow and remained stable at a historical high of almost 1000 devs.
NEAR getting mentioned in national TV and recent grants and partner…
Community Events
SUBMIT YOUR COMMUNITY EVENTS NOW ON BEHALF OF YOUR GUILD OR PROJECT here .
Shout-out to @Primaveralina & INC4 Guild for making this happen; @starpause for your tireless calendar research & decision matrix; @ross for getting the foundation in place for getting events all together; and @jcatnear for running lead on this effort and the other ways to come in which we hope to bring nearguilds.com into the NEAR branding & resource family.
Objectives
NEAR MarCom Team is focused on these objectives in Q3:
MarComm team and Community members,
I am happy to share our agreed Objectives and Key Results our team will be reporting progress on to the NF:
1: Grow the power of the NEAR of Communities by 30%
KR:1.1 Total Power Rating of the Guild Community grows by 30%
KR:1.2 Total Power Rating of the Social community grows by 30%
2. Channel the Community Force to build momentum and support projects building on NEAR
KR:2.1 Generate 15 new leads of projects handed off to the ES team
KR:2.2 Succ…
Team Accomplishments
Special recognition of @shreyas doing awesome work to support communities. NEAR ecosystem includes nearly 100 guilds with 100k+ members!
Plus, check out this neat Q3 OKRs update from @mecsbecs
We are very excited to have @olpl leading project management and @norah.near focused on ecosystem development!
Sputnik DAO / Astro Update
courtesy of @starpause
Community Reports
Telegram
Hey there, this is Yunus from Near Protocol Moderator Team
For the last month We’ve been collecting Google Forms: Sign-in and filtering telegram Marketing Proposals
in cooperation with @jcatnear @Benz_Near @stanisnear
We would like to give a start for local AMA sessions.
We have chosen 7 small Community Groups for this month
These groups have around 1-10k members each and require 200-400$ to host an AMA on their channels.
You can see all the details on the chart below for each group.
docs…
Reddit
Stan @NearProtocol
Weekly Report 08/12 - 09/19
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We keep growing!
REDDIT main tasks which were covered:
Interact with various posts that members liked and engaged with.
Assisted users having issues with AMAs.
Worked together with Reddit ops
Daily Managed the Moderation Queue
We had a steady growth this week, it wasn’t a huge one, but that’s more due to the fact that we are stabilizing to the current price. The overall rise of near was able to bring to our community new memb…
Governance
Community Squad DAO
Howdy all
You might have heard a lot about the Community Squad DAO and the Community Council which are involved in the funding process for all your awesome ideas But as we all know, there are people behind the profiles.
Check out our intros below
Oh, and don’t forget you can drop any of us a message any time!
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Current Community Council
Chloe
NEAR Wallet: chloethedev.near
Forum Username: @chloe
Adoption Specialist within the NEAR community; just h…
Review Proposals: The domain name sputnik.fund is for sale
Following up on last week’s post [NEAR Community Fund: The Vision of Community-Driven DAOs ]. Here is the first version of an evolving document on the Community Fund. We hope this document helps us keep you informed and allow us to consider your say in what and how we develop our Ecosystem.
We’d love your feedback and insight into how we can make this as clear, transparent, and pragmatic as possible.
0. Background
With a fully decentralized NEAR Ecosystem in mind, the NEAR Foundation’s long-te…
Creatives DAO
The Creatives Astro DAO ’s purpose is to help support the creative Guilds/DAO’s within the NEAR ecosystem. Please submit a payout proposal to the Creatives Astro DAO if you are a “Creative Guild Leader” or if you do not see another relevant creative DAO to submit to .
Our Funding Guide for the Creatives DAO is up:
We’ve Also Posted a Step-by-Step Proposal Submission Guide:
Keep Up With The DAO:
Please feel free to follow along with the Creatives DAO on our An…
Review proposals: The domain name sputnik.fund is for sale
For the month of September 2021, we wanted to share an overview of the Creative’s DAO budget with the creative community so that we as the council (@chloe and I) can be held accountable.
Also, this serves to update the community on what else we are planning on funding as support and incentives for our Creative Guild Leaders.
Please also review and respond to our Creatives DAO’s OKRs for Q3 (July - September 2021), for which this budget was designed to support. This is our final budget for Q3 …
Marketing DAO
Hey everyone
For those of you who haven’t met us yet, we’re the Marketing DAO Council.
We’re here to support projects, guilds, and communities in the NEAR Ecosystem with their marketing efforts and enable them to achieve their marketing goals.
Whether that’s through consultancy, ideation, or funding, the Marketing DAO is an open and accessible platform available to all in the NEARverse.
On that note, let’s get introduced to the Marketing DAO Council members:
JC
NEAR Wallet: jcpacion…
Review Proposals: The domain name sputnik.fund is for sale
Thanks to everyone who shared their feedback on our first budget request !
The proposals just keep pouring in so as the council continues to evaluate and approve while the NEAR token price constantly changes we want to make sure we have enough to distribute funds in a more timely manner.
That said, we’re requesting an additional 2000 NEAR from The Community Squad DAO to reimburse NEAR Reddit Ops August Report . We just recently started meeting with them to transition them from the previous syste…
Challenges & Blockers:
Recently, our team is helping to build trust in DAO verticals, and we are committed to empowering community-driven projects. NEAR Community Fund governance needs to be clarified with regard to the processes of distributing funds and expectations of reporting.
Overall, the MarCom Squad has grown to 20 people. There is a need to establish a “Branding + Communications” team, a “Social Community” team, including teams of “Builders” and “Connectors” (a.k.a. Info Team). Also, NEAR Foundation Labs will be focused on experimental growth initiatives. New team structures means updating workstreams and evolving dynamics.
Action Items:
We are busy promoting the September Town Hall + MetaBUIDL Hackathon Closing Ceremonies, coordinating NEAR | CON , getting ready to launch Astro , assessing Q3 OKRs , and strategically planning for Q4. NEAR wiki development is another focus, along with exploring future collaborations with other teams.
Let us know any ideas or questions. Your feedback is much appreciated!