—Large grant proposal submitted to address helping the grants pipeline with micro-grant disbursement, grant management. Team included a think tank of 8 fellows and advisors. Pending review.
—Partnerships / intros to Penrose (during Paris) and renewed interest through partnered angel investor, AVanScoyk for the NCE program. These assist with visibility for NEAR, advisory, education, and funding matches for successful projects building on NEAR.
—Continued support of U Texas Austin partnered professor and teams from the March hackathon who have submitted proposals that are to-be-reviewed as convenient.
—Proposals underway for 1) a major local accelerator out of Southern CA, 2) education and art museum entity supported by Santa Monica Arts commission and LACMA that is moving into Web3, 3) incubator-accelerator program launching to support projects on NEAR and multi-chain projects.
—Support for teams proposing to hold educational and marketing events for NEAR protocol (proposals submitted for NYC group and groups out of LATAM are still in the system, ready to be reviewed.)
—Partnership with University of Dubai is potential. This partnership is on hold while the foundation and NEAR university reorganizes and remains highly interested.
—Introduced new NEAR Los Angeles leads to the local crypto community in Los Angeles
—Meeting with new lead of NEAR San Francisco (meeting set for during Consensus) to bridge SF and LA groups.