NEARWeek Edition #13 (5 - 11 July 2021)

Big things around the ecosystem:

• $NEAR got listed on KUCOIN.
• Inc4 Guild (Inca Guild) Launched.
• Textile unveiled their plans to native Filecoin storage to NEAR!
• The $SKYWARD <> $NEAR pool became the first to break $1M.
• Illia Polosukhin’s proposal: Let’s start a NEAR Wiki.
• The Wildeverse Event.
• HEO.finance came out with their H2 Roadmap.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 12,775,567 (+10% WoW)
• Total accounts: 382,702 (+3% WoW)
• Weekly active accounts: 18,724 (+9% WoW)
• Monthly active developers: 507 (-3% WoW)

Check out the full metrics dashboard here.

Current ecosystem:

DAOs:

• The next steps of the NEAR Ecosystem Treasury DAO were announced.
• Make sure to follow the Merchants of NEAR Guild and get macro insights, technical analysis, and fundamental analysis, across the NEAR Ecosystem
• Check out the NEAR Arts DAO and join the Discord. Their mission is to enable cryptoart community growth initiatives.
  • 50% of the sale of this auction will fund the NEAR Arts DAO and help build up the NEAR Artist community
• Check out the brand new Graffiti DAO

DeFi:

• The $REF token is officially live!
  • $REF proposal: auction on Skyward
• Skyward Finance raised more than 1.2 million $NEAR
• First Round of the SKYWARD Token Sale exceeded expectations
• Join metapool.near doing beta testnet

Developers:

• With the next protocol upgrade in a few weeks, one NEAR shard will be able to process ~50 ERC-20 transfers/sec. That’s ~2.5x as many transactions as Ethereum!
• Aurora blog is now available in Russian.
• Join the brand new Official Aurora Discord server. Get in on the General, Tech Support, Dev channels and chat about Aurora!
• Learn how to store data on Filecoin directly from a NEAR dApp on Testnet!
• A few words on the partnership with Ceramic
• Are you a web developer? Learn how to get involved with NEAR here.
• Check out near.ai/wbs for a deep dive into protocol tech with NEAR founders Illia Polosukhin and Alexander Skidanov
• # Transactions on the protocol are still going strong!
• Build your own $NEAR donation button in a few simple steps.
• Latest DevRel TPS report is available here.
• Watch the latest Aurora update here or read it here
• Watch the Dev Platform Sync here and check it out here

Entrepreneurs:

• NYM testnet grows larger than Tor

Events

• Join NEAR’s climate neutral NFTs hackathon as part of the Next Top Blockchain Startup virtual hackathon.
• Get ready for the next Guild Town Hall July 16.
• The Octopus Guild launch event on July 16.
• Wildeverse’s virtual project is coming alive at the Wilde Möhre Festival this Friday July 16.
• NEAR will co-host a cross-chain pitch event with Celo, The Graph, Centrifuge, and others in Paris on July 23.

Guilds:

• If you’re looking for help building your dream dApp the INC 4 Guild provides founders, developers, and projects on NEAR Protocol with 80 hours of FREE development work!
• The Octopus Guild had a call with the rest of the NEAR Protocol Guilds. Check out their Gov intro post and remember to join the launch event on July 16th.
• Human Guild talked to Nate Geier discussing his journey and building Mintbase.
• C1 Guild has been funded to create and help others who can’t afford to put in work.
• The Guilded Age is off to a roaring start! Read the full NEAR Guilds Update for June.

Infrastructure:

• Check out the NEARCore engineering update for last week here.
• Did you know that Aurora is now fully compatible with Ethereum
• NEAR Foundation CEO, Erik Trautman, elaborates on the nascent revolution inside the Creator Economy.
• The Octopus Network published a series of videos highlighting the network and projects being built, all from the 2021 Octopus Network Showcase Day
  • Here is a small explainer on the Octopus Network
  • Take a first look at Discovol’s roadmap. A decentralized community for discovering and sharing science-based health information.
  • A few words about Muse Network, one of the first appchains on Octopus
  • Atocha testnet is scheduled to be released in September. Learn more here.
  • Myriad Social is another of the first 6 appchains on Octopus
• Check out NEAR Mates’ guide to $NEAR and get a comprehensive picture of the token
• Mask Network and NEAR explained
• A16z is one of the biggest ventures of NEAR, check out their investment profile here
• Here is a video of all the projects in the ecosystem
• The exchanges with the largest volume of $NEAR
• Nearians’ H1-2021 Report

NFTs:

• Top 3 NFT projects on the protocol according to Learn NEAR
• NEAR Protocol is slowly paving the way for the music industry. Get to know one of the Blockchain Musicians @vandigital in NEAR.
• Mintbase added a new “Virtual Gallery” feature which displays your mints directly from your store
• In case you didn’t know this is how you purchase on Paras

Join the ecosystem!

• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• How to receive 20 $NEAR on Okcoin.
• Now is the time to join and play the games that run on the protocol.
• Vietnamese has been added to http://learnnear.club - Big up to the vietnamese NEAR community!
• Octopus Network is on the hunt for ambassadors. More information here.
• NEAR Crowd is changing lives! NEAR Crowd is a service that allows people to earn $NEAR by completing small tasks. Learn how to get involved here.
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Check out July 2021’s Open Web Sandbox rewards and opportunities here and remember to join the OWS Discord for the weekly AMA
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• 4NTS Guild’s weekly recap
• NEAR Daily’s weekly recap
• NEAR Mates’ weekly recap