NEAR WEEK EDITION #16
26 JULY - 1 AUG 2021
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Big things around the ecosystem:
- NEAR joins ICON’s BTP Ecosystem.
- The official launch of the Open Forest Protocol!
- Pulse acquired StakeGG in the first of its kind DAO to DAO acquisition.
- Getting close to 300k transactions/day!
- $NEAR is already listed on more than 30 global centralized exchanges.
NEAR’s week by the numbers:
- Total transactions: 17,171,421
- Total accounts: 441,709
- Weekly active accounts: 39,627
- Monthly active developers: 595
Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.
Current ecosystem:
DAOs:
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SputnikDAO metrics:
- Total distributed all-time: 376,744 $NEAR
- Total transactions: 8,668
- Total DAOs: 157
- TVL: 211,029 $NEAR
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Community Squad DAO metrics:
- Total distributed all-time: 112,866 $NEAR
- Weekly number of approved proposals: 3
- New DAO & dev focused NEAR grants proposal - go give your opinion!
- Send a donation to: vietnam_covid19_charity.sputnikdao.near
DeFi:
- Ref. Finance sale took off!
- Count of DAI issued on NEAR rose significantly
- Start staking now and earn $NEAR.
- How to farm on Ref Finance and earn $NEAR.
- TVL almost doubled in just 1 day.
- Cheddar moved to TestNet.
- Meta Pool is going live on mainnet on Aug. 23.
- The Skyward Finance 20% August launched.
- How-to-purchase-guide available here.
- HEO Finance testnet is live on BSC. Join the public HEO.finance tests of Help Each Other.
Developers:
- Interview with Aurora’s Alex Shevchenko during EthCC in Paris.
- Learn NEAR in a Community-based initiative: videos bound to make your NEAR journey so much easier!
- 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!
- NEAR is one of the projects that has the most development activities on Github weekly!
- NEP: Multi Token Contract Standard
- New version of nearcore 1.20.0 released for mainnet.
- Watch the latest Dev Platform Sync here and check it out here.
Events:
- NEAR Learn & Earn Series - with BitMart starting July 29.
- FirstBlood and NEAR will host a Call of Duty Warzone Tournament with a $60,000 prize pool starting Aug. 8.
- 4NTS Guild NEAR India Ecosystem spotlight Aug. 3.
- Join NEAR’s climate neutral NFTs hackathon as part of the Next Top Blockchain Startup virtual hackathon. Deadline Aug. 8.
- MetaBUIDL Aug. 27.
Guilds:
- Interested in Launching a Guild on NEAR? Take a Tip From Swine Guild
- New episode of NEAR Weekly News from DEGENS.
- Swine Guild: The meme theme for July is “NFTs on NEAR”
- Merchants of NEAR: July Price Prediction Contest.
Infrastructure:
- NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
- BitMart officially integrates with NEAR Protocol.
- A bigger NEAR plan from Illia Polosukhin
- Sketch of new analytics dashboard by CEO Erik Trautman. Give feedback!
- If you didn’t watch it yet: Illia Polosukhin on Open Web: Scaling Web 3
- A place in Ukraine where you can buy food and drinks with $NEAR.
NFTs:
- Top 7 NFT sales July 22 - 29 amounted to a total of $2,012 million.
- What NEAR was doing at the 2021 Taobao Maker Festival.
- Paras and Mintbase on the first page overall marketplaces of DappRadar.
- Check out this video of the new VR gallery feature on Mintbase.
- A short recap vid about the latest Wildeverse event.
- C1 Guild’s first video NFTs came to life.
Project Growth:
- NEAR Global Hackathons with up to $1M prizes: NEAR is partnering with ecosystem partners. You bring an idea related to your product. NEAR brings the prize!
- Check out the first update from NEAR Foundation’s Grants Program.
- Layer2 hackathon: Challenge & Bounty Announcement
- Aurora challenges with a prize pool of $4,500
- Check out the hackathon timeline
- OWC batch I alum 1inch Exchange is giving 10M tokens back to their DeFi community
- OWC is officially accepting applications for BATCH III now! Batch III will start in September
- V2 of the Open Web Collective (OWC) is in the works.
Projects:
- Meeting DeBio: a platform that allows to anonymously control and monetise one’s genetic+biomedical data
- You can now tip in $DAI using theTip Bot.
- Paras wants your opinion and input for producing the web 3.0 native comic platform. 100 $NEAR prize.
- Watch the latest Aurora update here or read it here.
Open jobs in the NEARverse:
- Are you an entrepreneur interested in helping blockchain projects get built and funded? SputnikDAO is hiring an Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR)!
- Project managing the Treasury governance project.
- Marketing Project Manager at NEAR Foundation.
- Operations Associate - Grants Program at NEAR Foundation.
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 July recap
- NEARIAN’s weekly recap
- NEAR Daily’s weekly recap
- NEAR Mates’ weekly recap