NEARWeek Edition #15 (19 - 25 July 2021)

NEAR WEEK EDITION #15: 19 - 25 JULY 2021

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• NEAR Foundation’s CEO Erik Trautman shared an update about NF’s strategy.
• EthCC Paris was a success!
• The Mintgate and Rarible integration is complete.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 15,389,103
• Total accounts: 410,594
• Weekly active accounts: 23,381
• Monthly active developers: 622

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

Current ecosystem:

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 327,804 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 7,892
  • Total DAOs: 145
  • TVL: 197,910 $NEAR
• Community Squad DAO metrics:
  • Total distributed all-time: 101,941 $NEAR
  • Weekly number of approved proposals: 5
• Check out Illia Polosukhin’s discuss DAOs at the Cross-Chain Salon during EthCC.
• Community means people committed to NEAR Protocol beyond a specific project or a single price. Let’s dive into what they mean and why it matters
• Are you an entrepreneur interested in helping blockchain projects get built and funded? SputnikDAO is hiring an Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR)!

DeFi:

• New $BSC feature allows Rainbow bridge to run on Binance Smart Chain.
• Ref.Finance had its only public token sale on Skyward. Read the details here.
  • It was incredible to observe ripple effect that was created by Ref because of multiple input token sales.
• Here’s an overview on Ref and $REF Tokens.
• $NEAR is listed on Bitmart.

Developers:

• Read up on this thorough, industry-wide research on EVM’s by Mikko Ohtamaa. It explains the current state of EVM’s, compares them, and elaborates on the case for Aurora on NEAR.
• Looking for a good introduction to start building on NEAR? Check out NEAR Onboarding Bootcamp!
• Watch the latest Dev Platform Sync here and check it out here.

Events

• Get ready for the Rainbow Bridge themed OWS Party on July 29.
• Mintbase’s
• Skyward 20% August sale reminder Aug 1.
• FirstBlood and NEAR will host a Call of Duty Warzone Tournament with a $60,000 prize pool starting Aug. 2.
• Join NEAR’s climate neutral NFTs hackathon as part of the Next Top Blockchain Startup virtual hackathon. Deadline Aug 8.

Guilds:

• Interested in Launching a Guild on NEAR? Take a Tip From Swine Guild
• 4NTS Guild gave a run down of each new guild that recently launched
• NEAR without the noise EP13
• List of projects that are funded by CypherpunkGuild, with the mission to bring privacy to our ecosystem
• Swine Guild: The meme theme for July is “NFTs on NEAR”
• Merchants of NEAR: July Price Prediction Contest
• The GUILDen Age by Orvard

Infrastructure:

• NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
• Here’s a deep dive into Flux Protocol.

NFTs:

• Now multiple folks can define a “series” of NFTs and mint serialized “editions”
• NEAR’s Jordan Gray hosts Card4Card, a crypto art exchange for artists to mint and trade NFTs
• The Varda Vision strategical trading card game is in full development! Join the upcoming airdrop by collecting one of the Varda Vision Genesis NFTs before July 30th.
• WebAssembly Music on NEAR protocol

Project Growth:

• V2 of the Open Web Collective (OWC) is in the works.
• Check out the first update from NEAR Foundation’s Ecosystem Success team.
• Venture Capital Interest in the $NEAR Token Is Booming.
  • According to Messari Crypto‘s research, NEAR Protocol is the 3rd most held layer 1 asset of ventures and funds
• It’s been 14 months since NEAR launched Mainnet. Here’s an overview of communities in the ecosystem
• How NEAR is preparing for mass adoption

Projects:

• Myriad turns any content from Web2 social media accounts into substrates tipping wallets
• MathWallet: World’s first insured crypto wallet
• Walk/Build switch added to http://near-lands.onrender.com after some UI refactoring. This is an open world game from @vgrichina.
• Aurora is proud to be the top tier sponsor of the IOSG Venture and Chainlink Layer 2 Hackathon
• Watch the latest Aurora update here.

Join the ecosystem!

• Check out the NEAR Blockchain Concepts playlist on YouTube.
• Find out about the NEAR forum and take your first step into the community here.
• Play-to-earn on NEAR Ecosystem
• Here’s a step-by-step guide demonstrating how to stake $NEAR and earn rewards.
• Want to earn $$$? Check out these options on NEAR.

Other updates:

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