NEAR WEEK EDITION #14
12 - 18 JULY 2021
In Paris for EthCC? Visit NEAR! Join our TG community chat, contribute and earn $NEAR here.
Big things around the ecosystem:
- Alibaba’s e-commerce website Taobao will include NFT arts in its Maker Festival in collaboration with NEAR.
- NEAR’s Town Hall was packed with exciting stuff!
- There was a critical bug on testnet. A new release that fixes the issue has been released
- Wildeverse Festival’s One Real Beer: the first physical redeemable NFT on the NEAR blockchain. Burn cost less than 0.00124 $NEAR - That’s about $0.002!
- New NEAR Weekly News Ep.2 from NEAR Degens
NEAR’s week by the numbers:
- Total transactions: 13,874,116
- Total accounts: 394,842
- Weekly active accounts: 23,381
- Monthly active developers: 601
Check out the full metrics dashboard here.
Current ecosystem:
DAOs:
- Here’s an update on the 200M $NEAR Ecosystem Treasury DAO proposal.
- DAOrecords is building the tools for the music industry of the future
- An Ecosystem Wide Sputnik DAO To Fund Covid Relief in Vietnam has been founded!
- In addition to consumable Personas, Catalyst (https://catalystdao.com) now has analytics and vote delegation.
- Seed Club announced a fundraise of $2M into the DAO treasury to support, build, and help usher in a new era for digital communities.
DeFi:
- NEAR micro incentives are now possible for communities, startups and corporates via Quidli.
- MOVE Capital: Why We Are Funding Quidli to Build on NEAR Protocol
- Mikko Ohtamaa tweeted an interesting thread that mentioned NEAR
- Kalata has decided to develop on NEAR
- Deposits are now open for the $REF auction on Skywardfinance. The auction will begin at 4pm GMT on Monday, July 26
- The Ref DAO voted to create the $REF token
- Check the details of the release of $REF token.
- Quick update on Ref statistics
- The HEO.finance preliminary date of the deployment to the BSC mainnet and to the other chains is August 16
- The partnership with OIN Finance explained
Developers:
- Looking for a good introduction to start building on NEAR? Check out NEAR Onboarding Bootcamp!
- Aurora is proud to be the top tier sponsor of the IOSG Venture and Chainlink Layer 2 Hackathon
- Join the brand new Official Aurora Discord server. Get in on the General, Tech Support, Dev channels and chat about Aurora!
- Town Hall recap of Alex Shecvhenko presentation on Aurora
- Alex Shevchenko speaks at EthCC
- At the Town Hall Aaron Ting discussed combining relay chains with next-gen blockchain dev platforms
- NEAR Mate’s summary of Aron Ting at Town Hall
- NEAR’s Matt Lockyer joined LADZ City Network’s Layer-1 podcast.
- Watch the latest Aurora update here or read it here
- Watch the Dev Platform Sync here and check it out here
Grants:
Events
- FirstBlood and NEAR will host a Call of Duty Warzone Tournament with a $60,000 prize pool starting Aug. 2.
- NEAR will co-host a cross-chain pitch event with Celo, The Graph, Centrifuge, and others in Paris on July 23.
- Join NEAR’s climate neutral NFTs hackathon as part of the Next Top Blockchain Startup virtual hackathon. Deadline Aug 8.
- NEAR Tip Bot festicval
Guilds:
- 7 new guilds launched!
- Join the Merchants of NEAR July price prediction contest
- C1 guild officially created a store in the Mintbase marketplace
- Human Guild posted an update about gaming within the NEAR ecosystem
- C1 Guild has been funded to create and help others who can’t afford to put in work.
Infrastructure:
- New $BSC feature allows Rainbow bridge to run on Binance Smart Chain.
- Check out the NEARCore engineering update for last week here.
- Check out this awesome Octopus roadmap
- TUTORIAL: Octopus testnet2 cross-chain transfer (part 1)
- NEAR’s Joshua Quintal published a design proposal for the future of near-cli.
- Are you tired yet of getting milked by Facebook? Check out Myriad Social: The Next Generation Social Network
NFTs:
- Artists came together at Wildeverse to create a unique piece of art that will be auctioned off on Mintbase.
- Paras launched #card4card through July 21.
- Beer for NEAR!
Check out the video of the redeemer and QR code implementation going live. - Mintgate launched support for Mintbase to token protect videos, audio, webpages, or tickets.
- The NFT.HipHop NFT Marketplace brings Web 2.0 usability to Web 3.0.
- The dream is $NEAR: Burn a shoe on a website, send a shoe to physical address
- Pixel launched the pixeltoken (pxt) sale and airdrop
Join the ecosystem!
- NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin proposed a plan for a Wiki where you can learn about NEAR, the ecosystem, technical basics, our strengths, and how we compare to other platforms.
- Quick poll to see which platform is preferred for NEAR Wiki
- Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
- Check the new tips.nearspace.info to see onchain and offchain stats for NEAR TipBot.
- How to receive 20 $NEAR on Okcoin.
- Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
- Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
- Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.
Other updates:
- NEAR community metrics update here.
- NEAR’s community team update here.
- 4NTS Guild’s weekly recap
- NEAR Daily’s weekly recap
- NEAR Daily’s Town Hall recap on Octopus
- NEAR Mates’ weekly recap