NEAR WEEK EDITION #15: 19 - 25 JULY 2021
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Big things around the ecosystem:
- NEAR Foundation’s CEO Erik Trautman shared an update about NF’s strategy.
- EthCC Paris was a success!
- The Mintgate and Rarible integration is complete.
NEAR’s week by the numbers:
- Total transactions: 15,389,103
- Total accounts: 410,594
- Weekly active accounts: 23,381
- Monthly active developers: 622
Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.
Current ecosystem:
DAOs:
- SputnikDAO metrics:
- Total distributed all-time: 327,804 $NEAR
- Total transactions: 7,892
- Total DAOs: 145
- TVL: 197,910 $NEAR
- Community Squad DAO metrics:
- Total distributed all-time: 101,941 $NEAR
- Weekly number of approved proposals: 5
- Check out Illia Polosukhin’s discuss DAOs at the Cross-Chain Salon during EthCC.
- Community means people committed to NEAR Protocol beyond a specific project or a single price. Let’s dive into what they mean and why it matters
- Are you an entrepreneur interested in helping blockchain projects get built and funded? SputnikDAO is hiring an Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR)!
DeFi:
- New $BSC feature allows Rainbow bridge to run on Binance Smart Chain.
- Ref.Finance had its only public token sale on Skyward. Read the details here.
- It was incredible to observe ripple effect that was created by Ref because of multiple input token sales.
- Here’s an overview on Ref and $REF Tokens.
- $NEAR is listed on Bitmart.
Developers:
- Read up on this thorough, industry-wide research on EVM’s by Mikko Ohtamaa. It explains the current state of EVM’s, compares them, and elaborates on the case for Aurora on NEAR.
- Looking for a good introduction to start building on NEAR? Check out NEAR Onboarding Bootcamp!
- Watch the latest Dev Platform Sync here and check it out here.
Events
- Get ready for the Rainbow Bridge themed OWS Party on July 29.
- Mintbase’s
- Skyward 20% August sale reminder Aug 1.
- FirstBlood and NEAR will host a Call of Duty Warzone Tournament with a $60,000 prize pool starting Aug. 2.
- Join NEAR’s climate neutral NFTs hackathon as part of the Next Top Blockchain Startup virtual hackathon. Deadline Aug 8.
Guilds:
- Interested in Launching a Guild on NEAR? Take a Tip From Swine Guild
- 4NTS Guild gave a run down of each new guild that recently launched
- NEAR without the noise EP13
- List of projects that are funded by CypherpunkGuild, with the mission to bring privacy to our ecosystem
- Swine Guild: The meme theme for July is “NFTs on NEAR”
- Merchants of NEAR: July Price Prediction Contest
- The GUILDen Age by Orvard
Infrastructure:
- NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
- Here’s a deep dive into Flux Protocol.
NFTs:
- Now multiple folks can define a “series” of NFTs and mint serialized “editions”
- NEAR’s Jordan Gray hosts Card4Card, a crypto art exchange for artists to mint and trade NFTs
- The Varda Vision strategical trading card game is in full development! Join the upcoming airdrop by collecting one of the Varda Vision Genesis NFTs before July 30th.
- WebAssembly Music on NEAR protocol
Project Growth:
- V2 of the Open Web Collective (OWC) is in the works.
- Check out the first update from NEAR Foundation’s Ecosystem Success team.
- Venture Capital Interest in the $NEAR Token Is Booming.
- According to Messari Crypto‘s research, NEAR Protocol is the 3rd most held layer 1 asset of ventures and funds
- It’s been 14 months since NEAR launched Mainnet. Here’s an overview of communities in the ecosystem
- How NEAR is preparing for mass adoption
Projects:
- Myriad turns any content from Web2 social media accounts into substrates tipping wallets
- MathWallet: World’s first insured crypto wallet
- Walk/Build switch added to http://near-lands.onrender.com after some UI refactoring. This is an open world game from @vgrichina.
- Aurora is proud to be the top tier sponsor of the IOSG Venture and Chainlink Layer 2 Hackathon
- Watch the latest Aurora update here.
Join the ecosystem!
- Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
- Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
- 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 Mates’ weekly recap