📰 NEARWEEK EDITION #35 📰
5 - 12 DEC 2021 🌐
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💥 Big things around the ecosystem 💥
- MoonPay launched NEAR Fiat on ramp in 150 countries worldwide!
- NEAR protocol mentioned on Nasdaq.
- Flux Protocol is going to power Aurora’s DeFi growth.
- $FLX staking is live. Here's how to stake your $FLX and LP tokens.
- Aurora partnered with The Graph, bringing superior indexed data to its users and developers 📈
- KYVE and NEAR Protocol teamed up, bringing permanent data availability to the NEAR ecosystem. Read more here.
- Top social DAO projects currently building on NEAR.
- NEAR Education launched the "1,000 Teacher Education Programme".
- The idea is: 1,000 teachers → 1 million developers → 1 billion users.
- YouMinter and MetaWeb Venture Capital are becoming official partners.
- Make sure to check out SWAGGER DAO: a fashion network pushing the boundaries within blockchain tech by connecting the physical with digital.
- The Community Choice Awards winners have been revealed.
- Createbase is rebranding: MintbaseDAO is the new Createbase.
- Myriad Social is partnering with Skyward and Ref finance for the IDO. Check out the $MYRIA pre-sale opportunities.
- COMING SOON: Machina – Designed to revolutionize how data is stored on-chain.
- Illia Polosukhin at CV Labs: Why you should build on NEAR protocol!
📈 NEAR’s week by the numbers 📈
- Total transactions: 54,109,954
- Total accounts: 1,907,557
- Weekly max active developers: 1771, GOING UP UP UP!
Check out the full metrics dashboard and last week’s metrics update here.
NEAR Wallet Week 49 Update:
Brief Summary:
- NEAR Wallet keeps breaking records in monthly active users, showing unprecedented levels of engagement.
- Moonpay is now available in the US and multiple other countries, enabling an easy access to NEAR via credit card purchases.
Results:
- 1.81 million users, +5.8%
- ~357,000 monthly active users, +7.4%
- Moonpay is available in the US and many other countries! Users can now buy NEAR using a credit card in a lot more jurisdictions.
DAOs:
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SputnikDAO metrics:
- Total distributed all-time: 989,598 $NEAR
- Total transactions: 17633
- Total DAOs: 249
- TVL: 114,746 $NEAR
- Sputnik / Astro update
- How to get involved in the Business on NEAR DAO.
DeFi:
- NearPad: ManuFactory’s TDE enrollment is now live.
- Skyward Finance: November month review.
- Double Reward Farms for Trisolaris are launching soon!
- Wannaswap announced marketing partnership with GFS Ventures.
- New Order and NEAR Protocol announced strategic partnership.
- OINDAO: nUSDO private beta testing started on NEAR Protocol mainnet.
- OINDAO V3 Rust audit released!
- Farming and single staking is live on wannaswap.
- Introducing Dacha.finance - an evolution of berryclub.
Developers:
- NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
- Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
- The NEAR University is launching a limited period referral program to help accelerate the outreach of its various programs.
- Education Team weekly update.
- Explore Aurora Knowledge Base with a comprehensive database of answers to all questions.
- NEAR DevRel team are sharing their insights more regularly and offering tips, and tutorials. Here's three pieces:
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Project Growth:
- NEAR Grants program (NGP) weekly update.
- NGP supports projects that share NEAR’s mission: to accelerate the world’s transition to open technologies by growing and enabling a community of developers and creators.
- Ecosystem Succes Team weekly update.
Projects:
- Join the recently established Aurora Community on Telegram.
Gaming:
- Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
- LandToEmpire is available on NEAR testnet, make sure to check it out.
- Check out the Shroom Kingdom NEARDROP campaign.
- Check out the Human Guild x NEAR Hub first annual gaming achievement award competition.
Events:
- NEAR Guilds' event calendar.
- Rise and Grind, NEAR ecosystem! is live everyday at 2pm CEST.
- Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
- Join Aurora Update for weekly alpha leaks and news every Fri. 2pm UTC.
- The NEARWEEKEND vodcast features a new guest from the NEAR eco every Friday @ 2pm CET.
- Youminter IDO @ UpLift DAO, Dec. 16.
- Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University) Jan. 24-26.
Community and Guilds:
- Human Guild Creators Podcast #27 : Inspirational Advice for Comic Book Artists in Web3.
NFTs:
Open jobs in the NEARverse:
- +40 Current job openings at NEAR - Apply and join the team now!
- + 10 current job openings at Aurora
- The NEAR Ecosystem is BOOMING and as one of the most promising crypto projects, it is running into a problem: IT NEEDS MORE PEOPLE. So go on and sign up to join the NEAR Ecosystem!!
Join the ecosystem:
- Check out the NEAR Protocol playlist on YouTube.
- Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
- Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
Other updates:
- NEAR community metrics update here.
- NEAR’s Community Squad weekly update.
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