Big things around the ecosystem:
- $NEAR got listed on KUCOIN.
- Inc4 Guild (Inca Guild) Launched.
- Textile unveiled their plans to native Filecoin storage to NEAR!
- The $SKYWARD <> $NEAR pool became the first to break $1M.
- Illia Polosukhin’s proposal: Let’s start a NEAR Wiki.
- The Wildeverse Event.
- HEO.finance came out with their H2 Roadmap.
NEAR’s week by the numbers:
- Total transactions: 12,775,567 (+10% WoW)
- Total accounts: 382,702 (+3% WoW)
- Weekly active accounts: 18,724 (+9% WoW)
- Monthly active developers: 507 (-3% WoW)
Check out the full metrics dashboard here.
Current ecosystem:
DAOs:
- The next steps of the NEAR Ecosystem Treasury DAO were announced.
- Make sure to follow the Merchants of NEAR Guild and get macro insights, technical analysis, and fundamental analysis, across the NEAR Ecosystem
- Check out the NEAR Arts DAO and join the Discord. Their mission is to enable cryptoart community growth initiatives.
- 50% of the sale of this auction will fund the NEAR Arts DAO and help build up the NEAR Artist community
- Check out the brand new Graffiti DAO
DeFi:
- The $REF token is officially live!
- $REF proposal: auction on Skyward
- Skyward Finance raised more than 1.2 million $NEAR
- First Round of the SKYWARD Token Sale exceeded expectations
- Join metapool.near doing beta testnet
Developers:
- With the next protocol upgrade in a few weeks, one NEAR shard will be able to process ~50 ERC-20 transfers/sec. That’s ~2.5x as many transactions as Ethereum!
- Aurora blog is now available in Russian.
- Join the brand new Official Aurora Discord server. Get in on the General, Tech Support, Dev channels and chat about Aurora!
- Learn how to store data on Filecoin directly from a NEAR dApp on Testnet!
- A few words on the partnership with Ceramic
- Are you a web developer? Learn how to get involved with NEAR here.
- Check out near.ai/wbs for a deep dive into protocol tech with NEAR founders Illia Polosukhin and Alexander Skidanov
- # Transactions on the protocol are still going strong!
- Build your own $NEAR donation button in a few simple steps.
- Latest DevRel TPS report is available here.
- Watch the latest Aurora update here or read it here
- Watch the Dev Platform Sync here and check it out here
Entrepreneurs:
- NYM testnet grows larger than Tor
Events
- Join NEAR’s climate neutral NFTs hackathon as part of the Next Top Blockchain Startup virtual hackathon.
- Get ready for the next Guild Town Hall July 16.
- The Octopus Guild launch event on July 16.
- Wildeverse’s virtual project is coming alive at the Wilde Möhre Festival this Friday July 16.
- NEAR will co-host a cross-chain pitch event with Celo, The Graph, Centrifuge, and others in Paris on July 23.
Guilds:
- If you’re looking for help building your dream dApp the INC 4 Guild provides founders, developers, and projects on NEAR Protocol with 80 hours of FREE development work!
- The Octopus Guild had a call with the rest of the NEAR Protocol Guilds. Check out their Gov intro post and remember to join the launch event on July 16th.
- Human Guild talked to Nate Geier discussing his journey and building Mintbase.
- C1 Guild has been funded to create and help others who can’t afford to put in work.
- The Guilded Age is off to a roaring start! Read the full NEAR Guilds Update for June.
Infrastructure:
- Check out the NEARCore engineering update for last week here.
- Did you know that Aurora is now fully compatible with Ethereum
- NEAR Foundation CEO, Erik Trautman, elaborates on the nascent revolution inside the Creator Economy.
- The Octopus Network published a series of videos highlighting the network and projects being built, all from the 2021 Octopus Network Showcase Day
- Here is a small explainer on the Octopus Network
- Take a first look at Discovol’s roadmap. A decentralized community for discovering and sharing science-based health information.
- A few words about Muse Network, one of the first appchains on Octopus
- Atocha testnet is scheduled to be released in September. Learn more here.
- Myriad Social is another of the first 6 appchains on Octopus
- Check out NEAR Mates’ guide to $NEAR and get a comprehensive picture of the token
- Mask Network and NEAR explained
- A16z is one of the biggest ventures of NEAR, check out their investment profile here
- Here is a video of all the projects in the ecosystem
- The exchanges with the largest volume of $NEAR
- Nearians’ H1-2021 Report
NFTs:
- Top 3 NFT projects on the protocol according to Learn NEAR
- NEAR Protocol is slowly paving the way for the music industry. Get to know one of the Blockchain Musicians @vandigital in NEAR.
- Mintbase added a new “Virtual Gallery” feature which displays your mints directly from your store
- In case you didn’t know this is how you purchase on Paras
Join the ecosystem!
- Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
- How to receive 20 $NEAR on Okcoin.
- Now is the time to join and play the games that run on the protocol.
- Vietnamese has been added to http://learnnear.club - Big up to the vietnamese NEAR community!
- Octopus Network is on the hunt for ambassadors. More information here.
- NEAR Crowd is changing lives! NEAR Crowd is a service that allows people to earn $NEAR by completing small tasks. Learn how to get involved here.
- Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
- Check out July 2021’s Open Web Sandbox rewards and opportunities here and remember to join the OWS Discord for the weekly AMA
- Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.
Other updates:
- NEAR community metrics update here.
- 4NTS Guild’s weekly recap
- NEAR Daily’s weekly recap
- NEAR Mates’ weekly recap