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:
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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:
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- Total distributed all-time: 717,514 $NEAR
- Total transactions: 13,257
- Total DAOs: 206
- TVL: 333,988 $NEAR
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The ‘Hot DAO Summer’ party of the Open Web Sandbox was HOT.
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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: [indexer] Get ready for nearcore 1.21.0 · near/nearcore · Discussion #4689 · GitHub
- 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.