NEARWeek Edition #23 (13-19 Sep. 2021)

NEARWEEK EDITION #23

13 SEP - 19 SEP 2021

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Big things around the ecosystem:

• EmiSwap DEX, Autonomy Network and solace.fi received grants from the NEAR Foundation.
• NEAR Protocol officially hit 30M transactions and 1M total accounts!!
• MetaBUIDL Awards Ceremony & A Very Special Town Hall Sep. 24
• Proximity Labs incubated projects raised over $15M to boost NEAR ecosystem and Cointelegraph featured the news. Big ups to NEAR Eco!
• meta_pool and Paras partnered with OINFinance!

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

• Total transactions: 30,814,540
• Total accounts: 1,058,429
• Weekly active accounts: Not able to fetch.
• Monthly active developers: 900

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

• NEAR Ecosystem is expanding rapidly. Source Coin98 Analytics.

4 week transactions overview:

NEAR Wallet Week 37 Update:

• Q4 public roadmap.
• The registered user number is growing quickly, but it’s influenced by spammers skinning very few tokens from the free named account feature.
• The wallet balance is now different: It is now showing the tokens immediately available to spend/stake/and interact with the ecosystem.
• On track to build the new brand for NEAR Wallet.

Results:

• 975k NEAR accounts, 25% more than last week.

• ~147,000 monthly active users, +5.4% from last week.

• New wallet features released:

  • Users sharing their email or mobile numbers during the account creation will no more need 0.2N to receive a free named account.
  • Revamped available account balance, to exclude the unspendable tokens (e.g. from staking).

DAOs:

• SputnikDAO metrics:

  • Total distributed all-time: 722,791 $NEAR
  • Total transactions: 13,619
  • Total DAOs: 209
  • TVL: 427,854 $NEAR

• Sputnik / Astro update

• Three new community council members were announced to be added to the Creatives DAO - the first thematic DAO Vertical working to disseminate the Community Fund to the creative Guilds and DAOs of the ecosystem. This is the first step toward decentralization as NEAR Core members work to hand over the governance of the Creatives DAO entirely to the community by December.

DeFi:

• OIN Finance partnered with Paras and will be releasing a stablecoin.
• Meta Pool will release their stNEAR-backed stablecoin on the OINDAO.
• Skywardfinance is hosting yet another IDO with Paras.
  • An overview of Paras Token allocation and utilities.
• The EmiSwap DEX received a grant from the NEAR Foundation.
  • Check out this EmiSwap overview.
• NEAR awards Solace.Fi $30,000 Grant to help make DeFi safer. Solace runs cross chain insurance to insure you from potential risks without sacrificing your identity.
  • A one pager on Solace.
• You’re now able to track NEAR Protocol and Ref Farming TVL on DefiLlama.
• Ref Finance had a crazy high APY last week!
• Cheddar’s FREE Community Farm goes live Sept. 23.
• Huobi Earn added NEAR to its token list!
• DYOR.net scan result of FTX Exchange featured NEAR Protocol in the top 5 bullish trend.

Developers:

• NEAR Core Engineering weekly update.
  • Includes dev platform, wallet, node experience, node interface, core, contract runtime and DevRel reports.
• Education Team weekly update.
• Happy 1000 Github stars everyone!!
• Check out NEAR Devs on Medium and dive into e.g.: 5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me While Learning To Make Smart Contracts
• NEAR Protocol x Filecoin RFP on Github. This RFP is looking to deepen the integrations building on the successful launch of the bridge.
  • NEAR and Filecoin are jointly offering up to USD $300,000 in grant funding for eligible projects.
• 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 sharding on NEAR!
  • This will increase TPS, increase # block producers, reduce storage costs

Project Growth:

• NEAR Grants program weekly update.
• Ecosystem Succes Team weekly update.
• Registration for the first official NEAR Protocol conference is open.
• ConsenSys backed Autonomy Network received a grant from NEAR Protocol. They will work with ecosystem projects to create solutions for specific conditional transactions like limit orders and stop-losses on decentralized exchanges.
• What CronCat achieved with their NEAR Protocol grant.
• NEAR is a diamond sponsor at the RustConf.
• OWS hit 1k followers on Twitter!
• OWS Rewards and Opportunities September 2021.
• The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched.

Projects:

• Aurora’s weekly update can be read here or watched here.
  • Aurora TVL growth overview from May - Sep 21.
  • Top assets issued on Rainbow Bridge.
• Decentricitu submitted their 2dverse metaverse prototype to MetaBUIDL! Check out the video to see the NEAR Testnet login.
• Octopus has been added to DCGco’s public portfolio.
• CEO of DeBio-Network presented their concept at CNBC Indonesia Tech Conference 2021.
• Latest Liquality release v0.41.0 introduced fixes for the recent RSK derivation path bug,
• Check out the latest Wild User Interviews: “Early Consensys to Near Core, Web 3.0 Product Design” w/ Corwin Harrell.

Gaming:

• Join the NEAR Games community on Telegram.
• Overview of games currently on NEAR Protocol maintained by humanguild.
• VR Slot car racing in the making! Looking good.
• Join the Arcadians by OPGames Discord.
  • One pager on Arcadians.
• Big announcements and updates in the coming days from OPGames.
• METAMON Reveal Day.
• A lot of of contributions at Js13kGames. Try them out yourself!
• Chaintyping got updates for ya!
• Shroom Kingdom is looking for graphic designers who will help with the designs for the upcoming NFT airdrop.

Events:

• Q&A ~ Open Web Contributors. Every week on Wednesday GMT+1
• This week’s OWS AMA features ITSMYNE: A sports-focused social-plus NFT marketplace for officially licensed digital collectibles, being built on Aurora.
• MetaBUIDL Awards Ceremony & A Very Special Town Hall Sep. 24.
• Dive into modern Blockchain smart contract execution at the Blockchain 2021 online conference, where our own Maksym Zavershynskyi will be speaking. Sep. 22, 21:30-22:15 CET.
• 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:

• NEAR Guild Reports: August 2021.
• Explore the NEARverse with NEARWEEK, PARAS & AwesomeNEAR part 3.
  • The winners of the second #ExploreTheNEARverse.
• Announcing the NEAR Growth Guild.
• If you want to learn what’s latest @humanguild.

Infrastructure:

• Watch as crypto and Blockchain make the global rounds: The UAE’s growing appetite for crypto and blockchain.
• State of the NEAR Ecosystem with 4NTS Guild.
• You can now share stats about any NEAR account using a link to https://stats.gallery.
• It’s alive! Check out the NEAR rich list on stats gallery.
• Recap: NEAR Protocol Reddit AMA with Illia Polosukhin.

NFTs:

• Reddit AMA with Riqi from Paras on the launch of the $PARAS token on Skyward.
• Seven Dead Stars releases their own marketplace w/minting music.
• [BOUNTY] Create an artwork based on the Incubadora DAO visual identity.
• Mintbase went over 20k ArweaveTeam transactions and upgraded 544 NFT contracts.

Open jobs in the NEARverse:

• Current job openings at NEAR.
• Aurora is looking for: Blockchain/Relayer Engineer, Blockchain/Bridge Engineer Blockchain/EVM Engineer, QA Engineer.
• Director of Marketing at SupraOracles.
• 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.
• Cron Cat is looking for Growth Hackers and Agents
• Flying Rhino (NEAR SoMe Guild) is looking for people!
• Reddit Manager wanted for r/Mintbase and r/NEARNFT’s.
• Open Forest Protocol is hiring.

Other updates:

• NEAR community metrics update here.
• NEAR’s Community Squad weekly update.
• NEAR Daily’s weekly highlight.
• [NEAR Mates’ weekly recap](x.com?