NEARWeek Edition #22 (6 SEP - 12 SEP 2021)

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NEARWEEK EDITION #22
6 SEP - 12 SEP 2021

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• The AltRank™ for NEAR was 1 out of the top 2,909 coins last week.
• NEAR is now available on CoinBene Global.
• Paras 2.0 is now live! Paras migration correctly adopted the NFT token standard, and you can now see your collectibles inside NEAR wallet.
• Aurora launches its validator on NEAR.
• Milestone for Ref Finance: TVL from $4m to +$60m in few days.
• $REF and $Skyward now listed on CoinGecko!

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 28,679,165
• Total accounts: 930,174
• Weekly active accounts: 186,303
• Monthly active developers: 883

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

4 week transactions overview:

NEAR Wallet week 36 Update:

• Ledger Nano is back on Chrome and Brave! Go to https://wallet.staging.near.org, test it and leave your feedback on support channels (In wallet UI or FAQ)
• New account creation flow is coming! Wallet will ask for a mobile number or email to create “zero-funding” accounts. Test it at the same link as above and leave your feedback.

Results:

• 780kNEAR accounts, + 20% since last week.

• ~139,000 monthly active users, +12% since last week.
• New coin-op and Ledger Nano libraries on staging.
• Long-term vision of the new wallet is ready, going under internal review.

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:

  • Total distributed all-time: 717,514 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 13,257
  • Total DAOs: 206
  • TVL: 333,988 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update

• The ‘Hot DAO Summer’ party of the Open Web Sandbox was HOT.

• Creatives DAO weekly [APPROVED] proposals.

DeFi:

• BSC bridge to NEAR about to hit mainnet soon?!
• Read the post-mortem on the Ref Finance exploit here.
  • Check out the new Ref explained video.
• The community board has approved the Cheddar Genesis!
• NEAR in Binance 48-Hour thrilling flash promo.
• HEO presents the second fundraising campaign.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Cryptographic Hash Functions with Evgeny Kapun.
• Validators: A new version of nearcore 1.21.0 was released for mainnet.
  • nearcore 1.21.0 introduced a new protocol version, so once 2/3 of validators are upgraded, older nodes will get stuck. Thus, if you use Indexer Framework and run your own Indexer, it is time to upgrade. Please, follow this guide: https://github.com/near/nearcore/discussions/4689
• Validator AMA on Thursday, Sep. 23, 5pm GMT. Get your questions answered about the upcoming sharding change. Sign up now!
  • We’re steadily approaching the launch of Simple Nightshade which will lead to the launch of sharding on NEAR!

Project Growth:

• With leading social + market activity, the AltRank™ for NEAR was 1 out of the top 2,909 coins last week.
• NEAR Grants program weekly update.
• Ecosystem Succes Team weekly update.
• Deadline for MetaBUIDL Hackathon submissions postponed to Sept. 19.
• Community Fund Processes: USD Pricing.
  • This forum post addresses the issue of Community Fund payouts denominated in NEAR tokens.
• NEAR has awarded CurioInvest a developer grant expanding carbon neutral tokenization of collectible assets.
• The Local Hack Node Event in Nigeria was successful. Read more here.
• OWS Rewards and Opportunities September 2021.
• The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
  • More than $50mio. total assets bridged!
• e-Money explores integration with Aurora.
• Illia Polosukhin hosted an AMA on Reddit, check out the thread!
• Overview of top core projects on NEAR with own token.
• Croncat is in the final stages of being an official legal entity, testnet entity, mainnet entity & fully decentralized DAO.
• Sybil attack detected at http://LearnNEAR.Club!
• Unique One appchain joined Octopus Network.
  • Wanna learn more about “The Octopus Network Reach”?
• This week on Next Creators Podcast: What is Liquid Staking? w/ Meta Pool Co-founders Lucio Tato & Claudio Cossio.
• Mintbase got a new community manager, please give a warm welcome!

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• Bloomberg Tech & Ideas: How Gaming Will Change Humanity as We Know It.
• Roughly 20 games so far are being built on NEAR, likely it will get to 100 games within 12 months.
• Metamon Reveal Day is set for Sept 17 at 5pm (EST).
  • Revealing: the revamped Metamon world, 3 of first Gen 1 characters, Metamon lore and story, and limited edition character collectibles!
• How to build a Play To Earn game: A guide that will enable you to create a play to earn game on NEAR.
• Voice chat is live now on main domain for http://near-lands.onrender.com
• Shroom Kingdom is looking for graphic designers who will help with the designs for the upcoming NFT airdrop.

Events

• Join the NEAR Protocol RU-Community contest and get a chance to win a NFT + $50 in $REF.
• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• It’s time for MetaBUIDL Hackathon with NEAR. The infrastructure is ready to onboard the next billion users to Web3 - $1MIO in prizes!. Aug. 27 - Sep. 19.
• The State of the NEAR Ecosystem hosted by 4NTS Guild, Sept. 16, 9:30 PST.
• Validator AMA on Thursday, Sep. 23, 5pm GMT. Get your questions answered about the upcoming sharding change. Sign up now!
• Another NEARZone Call of Duty Warzone event is coming up, Sep 26, 8PM GMT+2!

Guilds:

• Explore the NEARverse with NEARWEEK & AwesomeNEAR part 2.
  • The winners of the first #ExploreTheNEARverse.
• NEAR Legal Guild: Business Ops Lessons for Crypto Project Founders.
• Open Forest Protocol headed to SWISS FINTECH Fair.
  • How OFP works.
• The Corpsemen Guild: A Community for the New Carbon Future. Get enrolled and start making a difference!
• Degens: Weekly News №6 is out.
• September week 1 recap by Merchants of NEAR
• Take a glance at NxM ecosystem map.

Infrastructure:

• You can now share stats about any NEAR account using a link to https://stats.gallery.
• What Is The Future Of Interoperability? Octopus founder Louis Liu recently participated in a panel with NEAR and the Cosmos ecosystem
  • OCT Token Timelock Contract Bug Bounty Program.
• Check out the Analytics wiki page that aggregates data tools in the ecosystem.
• A rant about developer adoption and why @marwolwarl “likes” NEAR”.
  • The NEAR Protocol thread for those too lazy to read.
• Want to know more about NEAR’s sharding system? Read it here.
• As the NEAR network matures, a new role is emerging: Chunk-Only Producers.
• $26,500 lost on failed ETH transaction. Reason: not enough gas. Not gonna happen using NEAR!

NFTs:

• New features added to Mintbase: Remove minters from your store and Storage Full Meter.
• How to mint NFTs on Paras.
• NEAR Nft Club introduces - NEAR NFT WEEKLY NEWS.
• Almost $6k USD was the price on Sep 11 to mint one NFT on $ETH.

Open jobs in the NEARverse

• Current job openings at NEAR.
• Project managing the Treasury governance project.
• FLUX is looking for RUST and Solidity engineers and a Technical Product Manager.
• Ref Finance is Hiring! 5 positions are up for grabs: Product Manager, UI Designer, Front-End Engineer, Back-End Engineer and QA Engineer.
• Paras Digital is looking for game developers.
• Aurora is looking for a QA Engineer.
• Cron Cat is looking for a designer and commanders!
• Flying Rhino (NEAR SoMe Guild) is looking for people!
• Reddit Manager wanted for r/Mintbase and r/NEARNFT’s.
• Open Forest Protocol is hiring.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s Community Squad weekly update.
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap.