Greetings, humans of NEAR!
This forum post includes links to recent updates from around the NEAR ecosystem.
https://ethereum.bridgetonear.org
A connector to Rainbow Bridge that allows sending $NEAR to Ethereum as an ERC-20 token (eNEAR)
Protocol: https://github.com/near/rainbow-bridge https://github.com/near/rainbow-bridge-frontend https://github.com/near/rainbow-token-connector https://github.com/near/rainbow-bridge-client
Metadata Standard: NEP-177 NEP-181 NEP-178
Time: Mar 21 - Mar 28
NEAR Explorer Stats
NEAR Ecosystem Scoreboard
If you donāt 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 )
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MAD reached its highest in the last 30 days on March 24, 664, a 4% increase from previous day. However, the overall MAD number decreased bā¦
Time: Mar 14 - Mar 21
NEAR Explorer Stats
NEAR Ecosystem Scoreboard
If you donāt 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 )
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The trend of MAD is still upward, above the 600 level with a slight increase on March 18th.
Daily Active Developer (External)
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@RileyTran @Angela @3UN1C3 @Chloe_nonce
Discord total members: 9578 ā 9789 (+211)
Telegram total members: 9025 ā 9082 (+57)
Active guild: 32
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@RileyTran @Angela @3UN1C3
Global Community Updates:
Discord total members: 9277 ā 9578 (+301)
Telegram total members: 8700 ā 9025 (+325)
Active guild: 32
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See all: Topics tagged weekly-updates
The following are the priorities that NEAR engineering teams are using to prioritize team and individual OKRs, milestones, tasks, etc.
Protocol Priorities:
Secure & stable
Developer friendly
Performant & scalable
Decentralized (validator friendly)
Dev Platform Priorities:
Responsive & community involving
Developer friendly
Fuel innovation
NEAR Wallet Priorities:
Easy to onboard
Enabling apps usage
Secure
Easy to transfer & stake
Explorer Priorities:
Exhaustive data
Accessibility of dā¦
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group:
This week, bridge team has lots of updates:
Weāve released bridge in the mainnet. CLi guide can be used to access the smart contracts on the low level
Weāve released bridge front end
@zavodil created a dashboard to track the bridge stats
Weāve launched a TG support channel for all bridge users
Weāve discovered multiple bugs, which we plan to work on next week: Ledger bug , ethashproof bug and proof generation bug
Next week, we are plaā¦
The weekly Friday update from the EVM Working Group:
This week, we hardforked TestNet and deployed our EVM implementation, named Aurora Engine, to TestNet and BetaNet both in a soft launch. We also published a CLI tool and a client library for interacting with the EVM, continued integrating the ETH Connector into the EVM, prepared Web3-compatible relayer infrastructure, and worked on updating EVM developer documentation.
Next week, we are planning to deploy more features to the EVM, make availā¦
The weekly Friday update from the EVM Working Group:
This week, we completed work on a protocol upgrade to accelerate cryptographic functions used in the EVM contract, implemented EVM meta-transactions and precompiles, fixed bugs in the EVM contract, and prepared for the TestNet release next week.
Next week, we are going to deploy the EVM contract to TestNet, host relayers for TestNet and BetaNet providing Web3-compatible RPC endpoints, and update the EVM developer documentation to refer to Teā¦
The weekly Friday update from the EVM Working Group:
This week, we implemented native Eth1 transaction support in the EVM contract, continued integrating the ETH connector with the EVM contract, and continued work on a protocol upgrade to accelerate cryptographic functions used in the EVM contract.
Next week, we are planning to finish integrating the ETH connector with the EVM contract, begin ingesting the Eth1 Goerli testnet through the EVM Bully stress-testing tool, and continue troubleshootā¦
NEAR Certified Developer L1 Cohort 3
:trophy: Grand Prize of ā100 goes to Small Group E with their tremendous NEARMons project. Repo
Danny, Arthur, Daryl! Way to go!
Repo
Messagā¦
Metrics pilot cohort Certified NEAR Developer program - NCDL1C2
NEAR Certified Developer L1 Cohort 2
:trophy: Grand Prize of ā100 goes to Small Group G with their tremendous Riddles project (source code ):
Ryan, CJ, Veneris, Max, Xu Endong! Way to go!
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Rainbow Bridge Soft Launch, kicked off NEARās Q2 Initiatives Rainbow Bridge Mainnet.
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Rainbow Bridge launch, brand refresh audit complete, say welcome Wachsman PR , SEO refresh underway, many new partnerships announced, and summer events line up announced.
Branding Efforts
This week we hit a major milestone with the completion of the Brand Agency Audit and first glimpse into the new creative direction.
Progress (last week)
Priorities (for next week)
Blockers
https://createbase.community
The Mintbase Guild and DAO aim to empower projects to set up their own NFT-marketplaces. On Mintbase, minters create their own smart contract or are added to an existing one. Through the Forum the DAO council will be able to vote on which projects to support.
Earn 25 USD in NEAR for Creating Mintbase and MintbaseDAO Guides!
The topics of these guides can be any that help to alleviate some pain point affecting creatives in (or trying to onboard into) the NEAR ecosystem.
Reply to this thread with your guide idea and please tag @mariamneu.
@mariamneu will work with you to formulate what the guide will consist of.
For articles that count more than 500 words, we will be paying 40 USD in NEAR
When the guide is complete, please link the post in a forum ā¦
Open Web Sandbox Full List of Rolling Rewards April 2021:
Below is a list of the rolling rewards for the Sandbox for the month of March and April. New rewards will be updated in the comments from projects within the Sandbox and transferred over to the Sandbox Discord Channel . For a list on how to post rewards and how to claim rewards please see the FAQ Thread:
Note: The list of rolling rewards posted below are largely inspirational. The list of opportunities is non exhaustive. This means that ā¦
Open Web Sandbox Full List of Rolling Rewards March / April 2021:
Below is a list of the rolling rewards for the Sandbox for the month of March and April. New rewards will be updated in the comments from projects within the Sandbox and transferred over to the Sandbox Discord Channel . For a list on how to post rewards and how to claim rewards please see the FAQ Thread:
Note: The list of rolling rewards posted below are largely inspirational. The list of opportunities is non exhaustive. This meaā¦
Details: Sandbox Part 2: Rolling Rewards, Proposals, and Time Bonuses
FAQs: Open Web Sandbox Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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Hello NEAR community!
Mar, 2021:
Guild China-zhiwei(conan):
NEAR Ecological Application Development:
My team and I are working hard to build a decentralized application based on NEAR and Filecoin called The Doris.My team and I are working hard to build a decentralized application The Doris based on NEAR and Filecoin. Last month, we completed the creation and data filling of Filecoin nodes Doris based NEAR
At the same time, we completed the preparation of the first draft of The Dorisā white paper.
Doris whiteā¦
Month:
March 23, 2021
Guild Name:
Berryclub Chinese Guild
Monthly Highlights:
I am an advocate, participant, and communicator of the Near ecology. Berryclub Chinese Guild will promote the NFT ecology this month. Community Official Account: Chain Assets, the number of followers exceeded 1000. There are 310 people participating in the WeChat group. The number of NEARā artists is 244. A total of 11 NEAR-related articles were published on the Chain Asset public account this month. Organize a zoā¦
Month: March 23, 2021
Guild Name: WeNear Chinese Guild
Monthly Highlights:
WeNear - As a Chinese Guild, we are concentrate on code implementation and build useful and innovative projects on the NEAR platform. we have researched the structure of NEAR official docs website and improve the docs website. We are doing our best to work with the other Guild members to finish the translation of the official docs. In the meantime we will focus on code and build radical projects(DAPP) on NEAR platform
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What we accomplished in Marchļ¼
Invited 2 technical people to participate in the NEAR Certified Developer Program program.
Continued translation in the NEAR documentation translation team initiated by Robert and Jonathan, and completed the first draft of the translation work for the EVM section, will continue to participate in the translation work and invite more people to participate in the NEAR ecosystem.
Promptly promote NEAR related activities and ecology.
Daily management of NEAR official ā¦
Month:March report
Guild Name:The official community management team in China
NEARās official community management team was established by Angela. It consists of seven members, including community leaders, blockchain industry media people and professional technical personnel. At present, we mainly maintain and manage 18 official WeChat groups and 1 QQ group.
March report:
The number of official website communities increased from 18 to 19.
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The total number of officiaā¦
Goodday, The NPK GUILD of Nearprotocol Nigeria had an eventful month of February as we decided to make our presence known both online by a tweet chat section via our Twitter page and offline in which members of NPKGUILD honour the collaborative invitation by a well know crypto-platform VELAS AFRICAN in one of the most recognized federal University in NIGERIA, Bayero University kano which saw over 200 students from the University attend the seminar, and this gave an opportunity for the Guild membā¦
Month: March
Guild Name: NEAR Arabia (Mostafa)
Monthly Highlights:
-30 new designers have filled out the Paras form: you can check here .
-Held an activity on Telegram that aims to increase knowledge about NEARās tools and products, it was a āspeed questionā about NEAR, and the user with the fastest answer gets the highest points. the activity lasted for 3 days.
-Contacted with some projects that work in MENA and some emerging educational blockchain platforms in order to discuss opportunitieā¦
Month: March 2021
Guild Name: NEAR PH (Philippines)
Monthly Highlights:
Interviews:
l We had CHRIS VERCELES, a young blockchain entrepreneur in Manila. He is a cofounder of BlockDevs Asia, a non-profit organization that is committed to growing the Blockchain Developers community in South-east Asia. This can pave the way for us to connect further into his network of blockchain enthusiasts in the Philippines.
l We also had FETUS SQUID, one of the bestsellers NFT artist on Paras.ai. Having himā¦
Month: March 2021
Guild Name: Cypherpunk Guild
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About Gitcoin
Community for developers to collaborate and monetize their skills while working on various open-source projects through bounties and grants.
Past Events
Gitcoin Grantsā¦
For the Mintbase mainnet launch, we want to create a virtual NFT experience and connect it with the physical festival Wilde Moehre (Berlin) this summer. They agreed to set this up together. This will be the first event of its kind that is outside of the typical blockchain scene. The results will be presented to one of the largest festival conferences in Berlin in November, where Carolin will host a NFT panel: https://www.futureoffestivals.com/
For our Mintbase mainnet launch we would love to abā¦
Angel DAO Proposal
by Rune Bentien (GooGuild), Ozymandius (4NTS), and Richard Muirhead (Fabric VC)
TLDR:
As the NEAR Technology and Ecosystem evolves and more solutions start to build on (or migrate onto) the protocol, a special window of opportunity presents itself for accelerating the development of new and existing projects. The following proposal seeks to take advantage of this opportunity by putting forward an outline of an exclusive, NEAR Ecosystem-focused, venture grant funding entity ā¦
TLDR of the proposal:
Implement DAO infra natively on NEAR. Starting with Moloch v3.
Detailed proposal - max 450 words, if more info is needed link to docs:
A detailed proposal can be found here: DAO IMPLEMENTATION IN RUST FOR NEAR - HackMD
A related forum post: Moloch DAO v3/modular on NEAR Protocol
This initial funding (10K) is for phase 0 or milestone 1. Further stages will be funded via technical grants program
Potential ROI/impact on the NEAR Ecosystem:
DAOs allow community members aā¦
Full Proposal
BITS City Hackathon @ MIT
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http://gov.near.org/t/approved-arroz-estudios-studio-space-for-artists-from-low-income-backgrounds/903
https://near.org/blog/octopus-network-partners-with-near
https://near.org/blog/octopus-network-seed-funding-round-complete
NEAR is the network for a world reimagined. Through simple, secure, and scalable technology, millions are empowered to invent and explore new experiences. Business, creativity, and community are being reimagined for a more sustainable and inclusive...
https://near.org/blog/berry-cards
https://near.org/blog/near-partners-with-mask-network
https://near.org/blog/the-near-blockchain-is-climate-neutral
http://gov.near.org/t/near-events-where-should-we-play/739
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/open-web-collective-/register
http://gov.near.org/t/near-collision-4-20-4-22/1018
https://summit.openweb.community
https://metagov.github.io/open-web-challenge
http://gov.near.org/t/near-consensus-may-24-27-2021/895
Please donāt hesitate to give updates on what youāre doing, as it relates to the NEAR ecosystem . Ask questions. Tell us about ideas or specific projects and goals. Share thoughts and feelings. Your feedback is much appreciated!
