NEARWeek Edition #21 (30 AUG - 5 SEP 2021)
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NEARWEEK EDITION #21
30 SEP - 5 AUG 2021
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Big things around the ecosystem:
- Etherscan will launch on Aurora. Big ups to the team!!
- POMP podcast with NEAR Co-founder @ilblackdragon and @APompliano!
- near.university launched! Start your NEAR learning journey now.
- Farming on Ref took off and what a big milestone: $35M+TVL $REF!
- NEAR got listed on KickEX!
NEAR’s week by the numbers:
- Total transactions: 26,286,145
- Total accounts: 759,411
- Weekly active accounts: 162,917
- Monthly active developers: 789
Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.
4 week transactions overview:
NEAR Wallet week 35 Update:
- NEAR Wallet continues on its growing trajectory, with ~100k more users since last week.
- A lot of work behind the scenes, mostly around better UX and messaging.
- The long-term direction of NEAR Wallet is almost finalized, unblocking the rebranding.
Results:
- ~650k NEAR accounts, + 97k from the last week.
- ~124k monthly active users, ~10% above the average of the last month.
- New public roadmap live at https://portal.productboard.com/lnpb6dhpyz225uxhuo74d32p
- Launched minor UX improvements: validators list page, with better indication of available staking pools; 2FA and Ledger copy.
DAOs:
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- Total distributed all-time: 705,545 $NEAR
- Total transactions: 12,413
- Total DAOs: 195
- TVL: 276986, $NEAR
DeFi:
- Skyward Finance tops Dapp rankings.
- Farming on Ref took off and what a big milestone: $35M+TVL $REF!
- Start your week off with 4x $REF farming rewards.
- Last week was StakersWeek at Metapool. This week has rewards too!
- Cheddar is almost done testing. Once the contract is tested and no further critical bugs are identified Cheddar will launch genesis proposal.
- $PAD token was added to SushiSwap with liquidity and can be found at CoinGecko.
Developers:
- Fast Rust Builds by NEAR Inc’s Aleksey Kladov. Follow his blog here.
- Intro to NEAR for Senior Developers.
- NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
- Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
- 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!
- A handy little library for parsing & presenting NEAR Tokens. For TS/JS projects, as well as command line.
- Check the NEPs Github here.
- Developer office hours are live - It’s a new daily dev support initiative which summarises all the questions from the NEAR Discord channel #dev-support. Go check it out!
- Learn NEAR in a Community-based initiative: videos bound to make your NEAR journey so much easier!
- Looking for a good introduction to start building on NEAR? Check out NEAR Onboarding Bootcamp!
- Dev at Minting Music weekly update.
Project Growth:
- NEAR Grants program weekly update.
- METABuidl hackathon with up to $1M prizes: NEAR is partnering with ecosystem partners. You bring an idea related to your product. NEAR brings the prize!
- Join the NEAR Discord: Connect with potential collaborators in the “Hackathons” category, share ideas, and get your questions answered.
- Hackathon Startup Guide for developers.
- Browse teams, view open positions or list yourself as available to join a team!
- Check out the challenges.
- Facebook joined the Hackathon!
- Timeline of the hackathon event.
- Sponsors and partners overview.
- OWS Rewards and Opportunities September 2021.
- Daily new number of accounts going UP, UP, UP!
- The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched.
Projects:
- Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
- NearPad token distribution event sold out in minutes.
- Pulse will be the first project to do an IDO on NearPad!
- Introducing Pingbox: Notifications for your NEAR crypto wallet.
- The Corpsemen: Centered around sequestering carbon and building out a new carbon economy.
- The Open Forest Protocol Press release is out in the world.
- Octopus Network secured $5 Million series A funding round.
- Another appchain joined Octopus: Unique One Network, a multichain NFT marketplace.
- Streaming Xyiming on testnet: Streaming payments on NEAR
- Wild User Interviews: Ep. 02 - Product & Philosophy w. Rin 'Rimberjack’.
- A sneak peak at the Myriad.Social wip metaverse.
Gaming:
- Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
- “Building The NEAR Economy” - The next generation of Web3 Games with the Human Guild.
- Why is play-to-earn and Web3 gaming taking off? w/ Yield Guild CEO Gabby Dizon and Human Guild.
- Great early gaming thoughts and content from Vlad Grichina.
- Galaxy Online has a big update scheduled for Sep. 6 Monday. All game servers will be suspended for 5 to 30 hours.
- Jump in on the NEAR Lands fun!
Events
- Game jam by Js13kGames - Join the decentralization category and win $NEAR Aug. 13 - Sep. 13
- The Gitcoin Open DeFi Hackathon is NEAR’s first DeFi hackathon Aug. 18 - Sep. 8.
- 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. 12.
- Human Guild is hosting an Ama with Metapool Sep. 8.
- 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.
- NEAR Intelligence Agency (NIA) roadmap.
- Exploring the Metaverse w/ Somnium Space CEO Artur Sychov and Human Guild. Recorded in VR!
- Lessons from Createbase Guild: shared learnings for the creatives’ guilds community.
- Degens Weekly News №5.
- Merchants of NEAR community highlights for the first week of Sept.
- NearMemeDaily x Open Web Sandbox September meme contest.
- Join the NEAR x Music Guild today!
Infrastructure:
- Ecosystem Map wip: Creating an accurate, up-to-date database of all entities in the ecosystem.
- Missed NEAR August Town Hall? Read the recap here.
- The only video you need to watch to learn about the Octopus Network.
- NEAR exchanges flow analysis by NEAR Mates.
NFTs:
- Mintbase +500 deployed NFT smart contracts controlled by the users.
- NEAR joined Legend of Fantasy War as a partner for NFT giveaway.
- PARAS 2.0 migration started and is coming soon!
- Here’s a tutorial on how to Mint NFT’s on Paras.
- The top 10 artists from Para’s #card4card August.
- Participate in the Arcadians September NFT Giveaway.
- Pixel Dapps: Roadmap update.
- Don’t forget to check out, and follow, the NEAR NFT Club for more updates on NFT’s and the NEARverse.
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!
Other updates:
- NEAR community metrics update here.
- NEAR’s community team update here.
- NEAR Daily’s weekly recap.
- NEAR Mates’ weekly recap.
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