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We have been working on a NEAR official visual ecosystem map for all entities building within the NEAR ecosystem - its source of data lives in a GitHub repository, which will be community maintained by way of GitHub pull requests.
This repository will not only act as the data source for the NEAR Ecosystem web app coming soon, but also for other dashboards as well in the future.
Our aim is to have an accurate, up to date database of all entities in the NEAR ecosystem. Therefore, we ha…
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Ecosystem Metrics | Sputnik DAO Stats
This category is for the Analytics Guild to share metrics and insights related to NEAR Ecosystem. We hope to build trust in our governance systems by promoting accountability.
10 Approved Proposals
65 Approved Proposals / 87 Total
20000 NEAR to creatives.sputnikdao.near for a monthly payout to the Creative Guilds:
For the month of August 2021, we wanted to share an overview of the Creative’s DAO budget with the creative community so that we as the council (@mecsbecs 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.
Budget:
1: Guilds/DAOs Monthly …
123 NEAR to fritzwagner.near for making landing pages:
550 NEAR to cizi31.near for the monthly budget of NEAR Turkey Guild:
Hi guys,
In this topic I am going to show you about what we did in the last 3 months for Near Protocol Turkey and also shortly sum up our future plans.
CoinNET website article sharing:
Near turkish self written organic articles and translations:
Twitter sharing
Shared Near articles on our Twitter account 8K+
Near Turkey Twitter Channel https://twitter.com/near_turkey?s=09
Video sharing
Created Near related videos and shared on a 50K abonnements youtube channel
[NEAR …
7100 NEAR to near_india_guild.sputnikdao.near for the monthly budget of NEAR India Guild:
I’m planning to execute 2 events this month
One event with the employees of Wipro tech(Bhubaneswar) where I will teach them about NEAR and I will invite them to use NEAR and at the end of the event I will help them to create their NEAR id. I’m Expecting 30+ attendees for this event.
The second event will be with a local college students where I’m planning to teach them the use case of NEAR and I also teach them to create their NEAR id. I’m expecting 50+ attendees at the event.
During th…
APPROVED ~ 10000 NEAR to china_charity_dao.sputnik.near to support victims of severe flooding in China’s Henan province:
The NEAR Community Council is uniting in support of our friends from Henan, China. We are allocating 10K NEAR for the Henan Relief Fund via China_Charity_DAO.putnik.near
Henan, China. Since 17 July 2021, China’s Henan province has been affected by severe flooding, caused by a period of recording-breaking, prolonged heavy rainfall. As of August 2, 2021, at least 302 ppl died and 50 went missing, 1.5 million were relocated, and 14.5 million people were affected. @Iota Chen and a few community mem…
APPROVED ~ 43.5 NEAR to near_india_guild.sputnikdao.near and 43.5 NEAR to neararabia.sputnikdao.near for Town Hall referral rewards:
TLDR of the proposal:
We had promised guilds referral rewards if they shared the Town hall within their communities. Any guild that has over 15 sign ups would receive 100$. The guild with the maximum number of registrations would get 500$ in resources for their entire guild. This could be a course, a software, some service etc. for the benefit of the entire guild.
Detailed documentation:
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Our referral sources.
Russia- 40 [$100 for crossing the threshold of 15+ $500 for max number ]
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APPROVED ~ 1500 NEAR to sandbox.sputnikdao.near for additional payouts to OWS contributors:
Hello the Community,
On behalf of the Open Web Sandbox, I would like to request 1500 NEAR to cover the remaining payouts of the contributors for the July period.
Best,
Vasilya
APPROVED ~ 2000 NEAR to nearweek.near for their monthly budget:
July was a great month for NEARWEEK here are the details:
Published NEARWEEK Editions 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16 which featured +300 crowdsourced news.
NEARWEEK got a new layout (please give feedback on the format).
Held development meetings with several NEAR officials: @juliebissinger , @grace , @JMaenen , Agatha, @shreyas and @jcatnear . Good meetings and very happy for your time. NEARWEEK will now start working together with NEAR officials in order to scale and develop the the platform further.
Made …
APPROVED ~ 2000 NEAR to art.sputnikdao.near for a grant program to support creative people:
Profile - vlad - NEAR Forum provided an article that helped a lot in finding the right solution.
And Profile - starpause - NEAR Forum gave me the right strategy.
Let’s try through my sis. She has 10 people. @JAzure6 @bourgeois_ie @bekkerantn @grekknhnft @ResetNft @IpekMorel @be747 @lola_tighe @whoiscavenaghi @Sanj0nas assign…
APPROVED ~ 2380 NEAR to sue.near for a monthly payout to the NEAR Reddit Ops Team (requested an additional 380 NEAR per month to allow them to do AMA payouts internally):
NEAR Reddit Ops Team Report
July 2021
Background
The Reddit Ops Team has been working to increase engagement with NEAR protocol since April of 2021. The goal of the reddit operation is to increase engagement with the NEAR community. We accomplish this goal by hosting AMAs on the r/nearprotocol subreddit, sharing general content on the r/nearprotocol sub, and posting on other subs.
On July 5th, we had 1,168 subscribers. Today, July 31st, we have 1,276 members. This is very strong growth towar…
APPROVED ~ 149 NEAR to icebear.near for coding the landing page of Astro:
My team builded the landing page of AstroDAO from given figma design.
We also open source the project on Github: GitHub - sonnh96/sputnik
Hope to contribute more.
APPROVED ~ 162 NEAR to samlwtn.near to form a DAO, launch a social token, and manage the community for a record label with 20,000 followers:
I’ve been contacted by a record label with 20,000 followers. To avoid any mishaps with token or account names being stolen I’ll refrain from naming them publicly UNTIL everything is set up.
Proposal:
Over 1 month I’m requesting $1200 and expect to onboard 1000 new wallets to NEAR in that time. My estimate comes from a modest 5% response rate against the label’s 20,000 followers.
Detailed Plan:
Consult with Record Label and Seed Club to verify my approach
Launch DAO on v2.sputnik.fund
Launch…
APPROVED ~ 165 NEAR to portuguese.sputnikdao.near for the Portuguese Guild’s monthly distribution from June (accidentally targeted an inexistent account in previous attempt):
Hey everyone,
Goal
To clearly define the rules of the forum in order to mitigate spam, encourage a positive environment, and share basic guidelines on how to interact with others in the NEAR Community.
Below is a proposal for general community guidelines which will pertain to everyone participating in the NEAR Governance Forum.
This will be sent as a welcome message to every new user who signs up.
As is always the case in an open-source ecosystem like NEAR, I’d love to hear your input on how…
Updates on several tracks of work happening for DAOs on NEAR! Ecosystem overview for orientation:
[Landscape - Sputnik & Astro]
Major milestones and pieces that don’t fit in to any other bug tracker live on taiga (was the quickest open source scrum board I could find to set up, options welcome):
tree.taiga.io/project/starpause-astro-spunik-near-daos
We are here to share key results from last week, plans for this week, and current blockers. Transparency is crucial for accountability and governance. Click here to see all weekly updates from the Community Squad.
Council Members: @chloe @3UN1C3 @grace @jcatnear @jlwaugh @JMaenen @mecsbecs @norah.near @ross @shreyas @starpause @David_NEAR
Regional Community Activations:
Connections in the modern world, particularly over the last 18 months, have been made with cables and signals. With our upcoming string of Hackathons, the NEAR Community is set to change that! We’d like to bring people together. Are you ready to support a global network of creators, hackers, and builders around the world?
NEAR is putting together a series of Global Hackathons around the world. The Global Hackathon Series kicks off on August 27th, with 3 major online hackathons and ‘in-person’ e…
Co-Sponsorship of Bounties / Prizes:
TLDR;
Bring your idea for hackers to tackle and get $5,000 of NEAR as prize co-sponsorship!
Co-sponsorship is first come first serve. NEAR Foundation has a prize pool of up to $100,000 for 20 partners.
Submit your Challenge Proposal here
Browse approved challenges for inspiration
Context
NEAR is putting together a series of Global Hackathons with up to $1M prizes lined up. The series kicks off on August 27th with MetaBUIDL .
To ensure the hacks are meaningful, NEAR is partnering with ecosy…
Hey community,
I’m looking for help with PMing the NEAR Ecosystem Treasury DAO project.
There are a lot of piece there but I’m constantly behind and other stuff has been diverging attention to actually drive it forward.
Needs:
Kick ass understanding of governance (ideally you have worked on something like this already, may be in traditional governance)
Can run a project: managing engineers on implementation, talking with community, creating next steps and more.
Believe DAOs are future of th…
Open Web Sandbox Full List of Rolling Rewards August 2021:
Below is a list of the rolling rewards for the Sandbox for the month of August. For detailed instructions on how to post rewards and how to claim rewards please see: The Sandbox SputnikDAO Guide for Claiming Rewards
Note 1:
We tried to make the list of rolling rewards posted below as detailed as possible. If you have any additional ideas or suggestions regarding the list, please contact one of the Sandbox moderators. There is always r…
Guide for Claiming Rewards:
Dear Sandboxers and NEARians,
As of June 2021 all rewards for your contributions will be paid out through the Sandbox SputnikDAO. This change is entirely in line with the core values of the NEAR Ecosystem: transparency and decentralization.
Submitting a proposal through the Sandbox SputnikDAO is possible as of the 15th of each month till the end of month. Simply put, you will have to create a post on NEAR governance forum where you describe all of your achievements, calculate your rewards base…
TLDR of the proposal:
The Community Buidlers guild is a new guild that will focus on creating and curating information throughout the NEARVerse to keep the new portal relevant and updated. The NEARVerse Portal servers the needs of the overall community to provide both a landing zone and launch pad to learn, engage and grow with the NEAR community. The guild members will be comprised of curators, writers, editors, translators, and liaisons to the NEAR core team.
Purpose
To curate, create, and …
Guild Name: Wizards’ Guild
Guild Leader(s): [@Node000]
Guild SputnikDAO Address:
Guild Location (if focused on a specific geography): International
Guild Details: A wizarding school for the dark arts of DeFi.
Due to the rapid growth in DeFi on NEAR, it’s important that users receive guidance on how to interact with these new financial DApps. We aim to provide support by:
1. Creating animations that demonstrate DeFi MAGIC spells that maximize yield.
2. Creating DeFi infographics and memes …
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