Hi NEAR people!
This forum post includes links to recent updates from around the NEAR ecosystem.
Fungible Token Launcher (factory contract + app example)
Why?
We have a lot of questions floating around various groups and stakeholders about the NFT standard. I would like to align those discussions somewhere official, here on the forum, to establish the following things:
Goal: achieve soft consensus here on the interface and high level architecture. Take it to GH for implementation.
Hereās what we would love to see happen:
everyone bring their requirements
lay all ideas out on the table
look for patterns in the possible solutions
choose solution(ā¦
This past week involved much excitement, as Mintbase launched on TestNet and Flux launched on MainNet! Also, we are looking forward to April events, including OWC Demo Day , Open Web Community Summit , and our governance challenge / hackathon .
For additional info, please refer to my previous community update:
Greetings, uNEARverse!
This forum post includes many links to relevant updates from around the NEAR ecosystem.
this community update . Going forward, Iāll make sure to do these on a weekly basis to summarize and help connect dots.
Recently, @tiffanygyj and @yifang started posting weekly updates from the perspective of NEAR Collectivā¦
Recently, our Analytics team began posting weekly updates from the perspective of NEAR Collective, and we hope others in the community give additional insights.
Time: Feb 28 - Mar 7
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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Overall, last weekās average level was still an increase compare to previous week, with a bump on March 4th.
Daily Active Developer (Exterā¦
We also provide reports on community metrics:
Global Community Updates:
Discord total members: 9217 ā 9277 (+60)
Telegram total members: 8628 ā 8700 (+72)
Active guild: 32
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You can view a list of posts tagged as āweekly updatesā here .
AURORA
EVM
Matt Henderson joined our team!
We tested ETH Connector from Ropsten to the NEAR Testnet;
We streamlined our EVM stress testing tool to talk directly to NEAR JSON-RPC, instead of using Web3 emulation layer.
Bridge
We made lots of incremental improvements to the bridge: added selection of networks to the UI, added various upgradability improvements, started working on NEP-141 standard integration, etc;
Berry Pickers
We added contract standards into near-sdk-rs!
Checā¦
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available , PR Agency confirmed, SEO refresh happening, Twitter efforts increasing, new events added, and NEAR highlighted as a Unicorn in the CV VC Top 50 Report .
Branding Efforts
Major traction was made this week with the Brand Refresh Working Group & the brand agency, MilkInside . We had an extensive workshop sessions that included partners (Mintbase ), community members like 4Ants Guild , and internal teams incā¦
NEAR PARTICIPATION @ CONSENSUS FOUNDATIONS TRACK 5/24-5/27
Foundations is a program within Consensus (organized by CoinDesk) designed to put the spotlight on thriving blockchain ecosystems. Itās a chance for protocols and projects to design a series of conference sessions specifically aimed at their community: which means developers and other technical contributors as well as the investors, customers and founders.
Consensus debuted Foundations at Consensus: Distributed in 2020 with over 20 proā¦
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group:
This week, we worked on fixing the minor issues, preparing to the release and integrating the NEP-141 standard in the token connector . We still didnāt merge the CLI guide into the core repo and update the docs. These tasks are migrating to the next week.
Next week, we are planning to do the final preparations before the release, test the upgrades of the bridge on the testnet.
Find the full meeting notes on GitHub , and the video recordinā¦
The weekly Friday update from the EVM Working Group:
This week, we tested the ETH connector with moving funds from the Eth1 Ropsten testnet to the NEAR TestNet, streamlined the EVM Bully stress-testing tool, released a new version of near-web3-provider, and began branding under the code name Project Aurora.
Next week, we are planning to begin integrating the ETH connector with the EVM contract, begin ingesting the Eth1 Goerli testnet through the EVM Bully stress-testing tool, and validate the ā¦
The grounding vision for the development of NEAR Protocol, is to create āA world where people have control of their money, data, and powerā¦
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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...
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...
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://summit.openweb.community
TLDR:
Open Web Labs
NEAR Certified Developer L1 Cohort 1
:trophy: Grand Prize of ā100 goes to Small Group A with their tremendous NearDice project (source code ):
Marco, Joe, Qiao, KK, and Robert! Way to go!
sourcā¦
Below are highlights from particularly active communities in our ecosystem. For a more comprehensive look at NEAR Guilds , check out posts tagged as āguild-reportā here .
https://createbase.community/2021/03/10/createbase-community-call-summary-9
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¦
https://www.reddit.com/r/NEARNFTs/comments/ltppu0/goals_and_incentives
Also, CODAME organized a Clubhouse meeting about NFT Communities + Creators, and Riqi of Paras.id shared this awesome Figment Learn tutorial for building an NFT marketplace .
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¦
FAQs on the Sandbox:
#1 How Can I Add An Opportunity To The Sandbox As a Guild or Project In the Ecosystem?
#2 How do I Post the Tasks I have Completed at the end of the Month as a Contributor (PioNEAR)?
#3 How Are Rewards Distributed Out At The End Of The Month? What Happens If I am Late?
#4 What is the Spotlight Tab For?
#1 How Can I Add An Opportunity To The Sandbox As a Guild or Project In the Ecosystem?
At the beginning of each month a forum topic will be created titled:
[Rolling Reā¦
The main work report of Berryclub Chinese guild in February is as follows:
The number of followers on the Berryclub chinese guild official account (chain assets) exceeded 400. The number of Twitter followers exceeded 140, and the number of WeChat groups exceeded 100.
As the official group manager of NEAR, responsible for maintaining the group on Tuesday.
Continue to promote the ecological projects near NEAR, guide new users including but not limited to wallet creation, and guide new users to pā¦
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Catalyst PitchDeck | Project Concept and Example Use Cases | Dev Video (28 Feb 21 )
https://openshards.io/#stakeit-or-breakit
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Location: India
Leader: Jitendra Naik(Telegram id- @iforbusiness2 )
Size of Guild: 12(We are still growing)
A Short Bio about it: NEAR India Guild is the place of leaders, risk-takers, and dedicated people with different areas of expertise, we want to be the face of NEAR global in India, we created the NEAR India Guild to cultivate, grow, and manage the NEAR India community, and all the members of the NEAR India guild are helping to spread awareness of NEAR in a different direction.
Wā¦
Month:February 2021
Guild Name:NEAR India
Monthly Highlights:
Three new members Abhi, Rohit,and Vinoth joined the guild where Abhi is the admin of www.myindiantechie.in (a crypto blog website) and Rohit is an influencer and admin of cryptonewshindi.com but Vinoth is a developer.
NEAR India launched #IndiaLearnsBlockchain champaign where are we educating blockchain in various Indian languages. This campaign comprises infographics,videos,etc that includes educational information about Bloā¦
NEAR Japan Community Activity Report / February
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Twitter:
https://twitter.com/NEARProtocolJP
NEAR japan Twitter followersļ¼429ā473ā504ā564ā598ā623ā
Month: February
Guild Name: NEAR Arabia (Mostafa)
Monthly Highlights:
Collaborating with Paras in order to attract Arab designers to register on the platform and create a NEAR wallet. We have about 18 designers until now you can check here
Contacted with futureblockchainsummit āone of the Biggest MENA Events on Blockchainā to discuss ways to collaborate and speaking opportunities, more information soon.
Initial agreement to create an AMA event with Binance Arabia and OKEX Arabia Group on Teā¦
Location: The Philippines
Leader: Orvard āJAMā Zapanta
Size of Guild: 3
A Short Bio about it:
The core team, Orvard, Andy, & Rich, has just launched an educational campaign this February 2021. However, Individually the three had been contributing contents already circa 3rd quarter last year (2020).
Each having his own specialty, the core team has what it takes to maintain an education-based content. Here are the skill sets of the three:
Rich (an IT student and a crypto investor/trader)
Fiā¦
hi,NEARers:
We are from Blockspaper ( SEA Blockchain Media & Community). Because of some reasons, We miss the chance to report our works for last two months. Luckily, we are keep moving under the cooperation of Angela who is helping us in building Thai Community.
Here is the late summary:
In Dec and Jan
Build Near Thai Community in telegram
Telegram: Contact @nearthaicommunity
In Dec, we decided to do an airdrop event for giving away 100 NEAR tokens. So our Members increase to 146 memberā¦
https://twitter.com/SwaggerDao/status/1370134758097817606?s=20
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!
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