Project title: Business Development and Community Building
One-liner: Engage, Educate and Empower, as many people as possible about the idea of Web3 by supporting them in using, building, interacting or being part of NEAR.
Project Summary: This project focuses primarily on my existing network of Entrepreneurs & Executives in the German speaking area of Switzerland, Istanbul (Turkey) and Berlin (Germany) for all possible interactions with NEAR. In a second phase, through leveraging these contacts the aims is to increase the network and reach a wider community for projects and building Web3 solutions.
Project member: Marcos Lopez @Marcos
Period: 01.04.2022 - 30.04.2022
Monthly summary: This month was very active with lots of calls and personal meetings. I started also to reach out to other fellows with NEAR University to find common touch points and areas of cooperation.
Had also valuable meetings with decision makers in the education sector in Turkey discussing various possibilities to create curriculums and implement them in the universities, as well as partner for events such as bootcamps and hackathons.
Also had meetings and call with projects which are keen to start building on NEAR with high user number outlook (see below).
Activities:
- Fast grant approval for project building a drag & drop solution to create smart contracts. The users will have the possibility to choose from a library and structure their smart contracts and then decide on which blockchain they want to deploy.
Fast grant will cover the MVP for a set of items and later on planned to deploy for the entire library. (FP)*
1a. Initial discussion and mapping out the key framework for a educational event series together with NEAR for entrepreneurs and partners in the network of the project. - Initiated and participated in various discussions with the oldest English learning forum website with 180k registered users on their website and around 500k followers on their social media. The company intends to build their remuneration and verification (certificates) on the NEAR blockchain. (EF)
- Initiated and guided a DAO focused on building an ESG structure through the NEAR grant process to build on NEAR the structure to manage the various arms of the DAO. Fast grant application currently developing to be submitted. (DN)
- Initiated a discussion and participated in workshops with key decision makers for rolling out an Web3 themed educational program and evaluating a potential accreditation by (selected) universities in Turkey.
Currently discussing with the dean / director of a smaller university to have a pilot program. Additionally the cooperation with blockchain associations of the universities for educational events. - Ongoing various meetings with influential business people in Turkey to discuss promotion and adoption of NEAR protocol for various use cases and companies. (Various)
- Ongoing market research and identification of high potential cooperation sectors and areas.
Numbers:
Fast grants ecosystem: 2 granted, 3 pipeline
As always happy to share any information or details if interested.
*(xx) These are just for personal reference for potential future need and tracking.