# Ecosystem Team Weekly Update - 12/11/2021

**URL:** <https://gov.near.org/t/ecosystem-team-weekly-update-12-11-2021/9483>\
**Category:** Ecosystem\
**Tags:** weekly-updates\
**Created:** [November 16, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/ecosystem-team-weekly-update-12-11-2021/9483 "2021-11-16T16:58:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![MarcusNEAR](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/marcusnear/32/43628_2.png) [@MarcusNEAR](https://gov.near.org/u/MarcusNEAR)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/ecosystem-team-weekly-update-12-11-2021/9483/1 "2021-11-16T16:58:11Z")

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What we’re working on:

- Ecosystem Team has organised into
  - Business Development (BD) - encourages entrepreneurs and developers to build new projects and on NEAR.
  - Ecosystem Success (ES) - supports those already committed to building on NEAR by removing blockers and accelerating the journey to a successful launch. The ES team maintains a catalog of service providers willing to support NEAR projects across a variety of domains.

- Building the framework for a highly detailed community-driven NEAR official ecosystem map to power multiple front ends
  - Ecosystem map repo is live and being actively contributed to/managed
    - [GitHub - near/ecosystem: Community-sourced and curated data for the NEAR Ecosystem.](https://github.com/near/ecosystem)
    - [Form for submitting new projects](https://nearprotocol1001.typeform.com/submit-project)
    - [AwesomeNEAR](https://awesomenear.com/) is using the data in the repo for their dashboard

- Actively refining the dealflow pipeline criteria and process
- Wiki and Service Menu updates [published](https://wiki.near.org/getting-started/ecosystem-success)
- Onboarding decks for community, spin outs, fast grants, onboarded projects to reference for resources & support right away
- Continuing to onboard projects that are funded/building
- Regular syncs with projects to inventory needs, capture important dates/milestones to provide support leading up to them
- Structuring a handoff & support process between ES\<\>OWS in regards to size & scope of projects joining
- Stood up a calendar for project milestones/ecosystem events for cross org visibility and reference to ensure they are kept on top of
- Onboarding two new members Nicky and Norah.

  

Exciting events/milestones in the NEAR Ecosystem:

- [NEAR Partners with Travala Giving Token Holders Access to 3,000,000 travel products](https://medium.com/nearprotocol/near-partners-with-travala-giving-token-holders-access-to-3-000-000-travel-products-fdebf9c41f6d)

- [Rose - the first StableSwap & wrapped assets exchange on Aurora, NearPad’s first incubated project, launched Nov 15th!](https://twitter.com/RoseOnAurora/status/1460327796622823425?s=20)

- [NearPad DEX launch on Aurora and reaches $10 TVL in under 24hrs!](https://twitter.com/NearPad/status/1458868834358681615?s=20)

- [NearNauts Twitter Takeover campaign ramping up to mint date!](https://twitter.com/nearnauts/status/1459137252907434003?s=20)

- [State Of The Art (SOTA) initiates their metaverse launch and starts their integration with NEAR!](https://twitter.com/SOTADOTXYZ/status/1460264445188481024?s=20)