JAN2023

NEARSLETTER 0.1

JANUARY 2023 EDITION

Howdy Builders,

On this January edition of NEARSLETTER we are giving recaps of NEAR happenings from (Jan 1-31st) regarding Developer updates, product updates, events, funding, and the NEAR Ecosystem in this edition of NEARsletter

📌Quick Start Devs.NEAR.social page just launched & NEAR official page on NEAR.social

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🛠️ DeveloperDAO

📄 General NEP Updates

Changes to the protocol specification and standards are called NEAR Enhancement Proposals (NEPs) and are a key initiative of the Developer DAO alongside funding open source public goods on NEAR.

Meetings

Community Groups are designed to ideate and support builders, while Working groups vote on NEPs. Generally Community groups coordinate async on telegram & github with some having weekly meetings, while working groups meet to decide the outcome of NEPs. Most meetings are recorded and can be found below.

Community / Working Groups	Discussed/Voted On
Tools Working Group Meeting (1/19/2023)	✅NEP418: allow attached_deposit in view contexts
Wallet Standards Working Group Meeting – (1/17/2023)	✅NEP 0413: Add `signMessage` method to Wallet Standard
Contracts Standards Working Group (1/13/2023)	✅ NEP351: add `standards` key to `ContractSourceMetadata` ✅ https://github.com/near/NEPs/pull/423 ❌https://github.com/near/NEPs/pull/431
ZK Community Group (1/24)	ZKSnarks, Zpoken
NFT Builder Groups (Weekly) ¼, 1/11. 1/18, 1/25	Linkdrop, NEP393 (Soul Bound Token), NFT NEAR Social Widgets, Rentable NFTs
Wallet Builder Groups (Weekly) 1/3,1/10, 1/17, 1/24)	Wallet Transition (Account Export) myNEARWallet transition Process NEP413, NEP428
DAO Builder Groups (Weekly) ⅓, 1/10. 1/17, 1/24	Standardizing DAO Contract DAO Widgets on NEAR Social NEAR Digital Collective

MyNEARWallet Transition

Done entirely through the DevGovGigs board, there have been 4 teams (HERE Wallet, Meteor Wallet, Electron Labs, INC4) to make bids to take over the code base for myNEARWallet.com. See the progress of the bids in the new MyNEARWallet Transition kanban board and leave your comments regarding their plans.

Funding Requests

Open proposals requesting for funding (check “funding-requested”) on the Developer Governance Gigs Board

Name	Date
Ziggarut	1/31/2023
TypeScript Light Client Implementation	1/25/2023
NEAR-SDK-JS solve standalone contract function name conflicting with C functions problem	1/20/2023
NEAR-SDK-JS Add gas benchmarks and document the result	1/20/2023
NEAR-SDK-JS Helper class inheritance or code generation to quickly build standard contract	1/20/2023

Funded Projects

The following are funded projects through Developer DAO (check “funding-provided” tag”

Name	Amount Approved
Zpoken	$28.000 USD

Open Source Tooling

NEAR Wallet Selector This is a wallet selector modal that allows users to interact with NEAR dApps with a selection of available wallets (10+ wallets supported).

Personal Smart Contracts, upload smart contracts to an account with use cases such as NFT leasing, margin + spot trading, subscriptions, spending limits, auto token sales, and account recovery.

ZMQ Indexer Implementation of a NEAR Blockchein RPC node to publish all blocks by ZMQ.

Keypom: Easily onboard new users on NEAR, contracts, JS SDK, and Keypom app & docs coming soon.

MintbaseJS Powerful open-source library for doing all things NFTs on the NEAR protocol. (Docs)

DevGigsBoard Widgets near.social widgets for Gigs Board

NEAR Social, Social data protocol on NEAR with viewer (front end), socialDB, standards, API server js. NEAR Contribute to track contributions to NEAR Social.

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👀 Product Updates

See which Projects have been shipping the most in the NEAR Ecosystem in the past month

Decentralization / NEAR OS

NEAR Social

• Overall Updates

  • Customizable Homepage

  • Mentions + Bios on Posts

  • New Wallets: NETH, Meteor, HERE, & Sender

  • Hackathons: Social Hackathon TBD & Treehacks: Stanford Hackathon with NEAR Social bounties soon

• New Widgets

  • NEAR Price

  • ShardDog- Create a free wallet

  • Mintbase NFT Marketplace w/ AffiliateDirect

  • OnChain: 2048

  • Widget Attribution (give credit)

  • Widget History (see code commits for widgets)

DevGovGigs Board

• Notifications enabled

• Kanban Board, Funding Board, MNW Transition

• NDC Bounties for Roles

• Badges for Developers

NEAR Discovery

• In AstroDAO transition, mention of elements of DAO tooling being encompassed by NEAR discovery

• In NEAR Social twitter space, mentioned that NEAR Discovery team helping on NEAR.social

AstroDAO

• Call for maintainers and transition into NEAR Discovery

• WIP - Standard for DAO being ideating (checkout DAO Builder Group)

Wallets

Meteor Wallet

• Meteor Profiles with NEAR Social integration NEAR Social Profile

• Top Up with Offramper

• App + Projects like LearnNEARClub, GenaDrop, Popula, DegenMarbleRace, Nativo.art, Web3Mon, RainbowBridge, WooFIDex, JumpDeFI, NEKO support Meteor Wallet,

HERE Wallet

• Added Paras and Woo token

• Passed Audit by Ottersec

Nightly Wallet

• Nightly Connect bridge wallet and notifications

• Nightly wallets testing on Android and iOS

Ledger Live

• Supports NEAR https://twitter.com/Ledger/status/1620089512268374016

Sweat Economy

• Sweat Wallet Moonpay Integration

DeFi

Ref.finance

• Liquidity pools for $UMINT

• Limit orders on deep liquidity

Spin

• DeFi Option Vaults

• Roadmap https://twitter.com/spin_fi/status/1614977250373373952

Linear Protocol

• Phoenix Bonds principal-protected amplified yield product (try here)

Tonic

• Goblin Contracts: Non-fungible Token + LinkDAO contract. ellowing NEAR NFT communities to form governance structures based on ownership of an NFT

• Perps Trading App Trade with up to 10X leverage 💰, triggers (Stop loss 📉 / Take profit 📈), + NEW UI

Metapool

• Metabonds: Meta Bonds enables users to access early liquidity from Meta Yield Launchpad

• Meta Pool is moving ~1.4m NEAR (15% TVL) through Meta Staking Vote, where it will be assigned to the highest voted validators.

• Metayield Launchpad: JumpDeFI & NEARHub

JumpDeFI

• Mainnet launch, $NEKO presale on Jumppad IDO applications open

• xJump SingleStake pool for those who stake $JUMP and Jump NFT staking platform

• Jump Token Laboratory (no-code NEP141 fungible token contract deployer)

NEARStarter

• $NSTART IDO w $NEARIA farming on Aurora mainnet

Burrow

• Burrow NEAR Social Widgets WIP

NEARWeek - launches NEAR Staking

NFTs

Mintbase

• NFT Referral System (AffiliateDirect), with leaderboard & AffiliateDirect race to EthDenver, NEAR Social Marketplace Widget

• Enables SVG NFTs to load on platform

• Mintbase GraphQL NFT Indexer

FewFar

• Minting API (fund mints, non-transferable nfts)

YouMinter

• Web3 Social Network with NFT Capabilities Launch on Apple and Play Store

GenaDrop

• launches text to AI NFT minting on NEAR + Aurora & integrate HERE + Meteor Wallet

Playible

• Mint for Soul Bound Starter packs

• Create fantasy lineups

Niche Protocol

• Launches public beta in the Apple app store

Data / Infra

Switchboard

• V3 Coming soon

Calimero

• Console Overview to Managing Your Calimero Network Private Shard: View your private shard through your own explorer, manage keys, , explore marketplace to deploy & manage common dApps already on NEAR mainnet, make cross contract calls to NEAR mainnet, and manage APIs for other to interact with your private shard.

Tradeport powered by Indexer

• Byzantion becomes Indexer.xyz

• Indexer new API Explorer

NEARBlocks

• Advanced Paid API plan release (docs/)

Sharddog

• NEAR Social Telegram Notifications Bot

• ShardDog enables Keypom wallet onboarding

Pikespeak

• Tagging for Active NEAR Contracts check out the directory

• 7 DAY Free Trial

Leapboard

• Telegram Notifications for all wallet activity

FluxusFi launches VISION to track DeFI & NFT Portfolio on NEAR

dApps

LazyFi (learning challenges for any project to incentivize users) https://app.lazyfi.gg/, and launches Learn to Earn challenges with JumpDeFi, Aurora, + more

NEAR Primer: Educational Gamified Courses on NEAR launches

Testnet

Test out the following applications in their Road to mainnet.

• Bodega Marketplace (traits marketplace on NEAR by Cafe Cartel) and gets a grant from the NEAR Foundation and releases its v2 testnet dApp

• NiftyRent (mintbase grant recipient releases its rentable NFT marketplace) launches testnet dApp

• Mintickt releases its ticketing platform for event organizers with redemption for in event items on testnet

• Veax DEX launches on Testnet

• Popula public testnet released with token gated content, community rankings, See testnet contract stats here

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🎓 Education

• Workshops: py-near

• Upcoming: Quicknode (2/6/), Ref v2 (2/14)

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🎉 Events

Check out the update NEAR Events list at near.org/events or submit your event on NEARWeek’s Calendar here (NEAR.social event native platform coming soon).

Upcoming

• TreeHacks: Stanford Hackathon NEAR US is Sponsoring (February 17-19, 2023)) 📍Stanford University, California

• NEAR Day at Eth Denver (March 2, 2023)📍Denver Colorado

• EthDenver Climate Summit (w/ NEAR & OFP) (March 1, 2023) 📍Denver, Colorado

• Interop Summit by Axelar (February 27-28, 2023)📍Denver, Colorado

• DAO Denver (February 27- March 1st)📍Denver, Colorado

Past

• MarmaJCon (January 7-12, 2023) 📍Antigua

• London Blockchain Summit (January 19-20, 2023) 📍London, UK

💸 Funding Verticals

Developer Governance is only 1 funding avenue that exists in the NEAR Ecosystem, there also exists Marketing DAO, but also NEAR Foundation. (Click here to learn more about NEAR Foundation’s 2023 strategy here.

NEAR Foundation

• Grants program winds down, shifting to grassroots DAO. PR Roundup For January,

Developer Governance: Developer focused DAO funding public goods through NEAR.social, funds first project, release transparent boards, facilitating myNEARWallet transition, and upcoming AstroDAO transition.

NEAR Digital Collective

• Begins to prepare for Community v0 tune into the Weekly calls here. Constitution v2. About Governance Working Group. New member onboarding flow NDC Community Treasury Outline v1.

• Kaz Elected a Governance Working Group Project Manager.

Marketing DAO

• Content Working Group forms for building quality NEAR centric content

CreativesDAO

Human Guild

Banyan Collective supporting the NEAR Developer ecosystem from the ground up in the United States. Check out Banyan run NEARBuilders group, city notes (SF + NYC) updates in january.

Startup DAO: NEAR Foundation in a blog post posted an interest form for those wanting to champion a StartUp DAO

Proximity Labs:

Apply for Funding From NEAR’s Investor Network

💸Funding

The NEAR Foundation has set the following 2023 goal $250M in external capital flowing into a minimum of 100 projects. The following two raises makes $12.6/250 Million (~5%))with 2/100 projects

• Open Forest Protocol Raises $4.1 million

• Calimero Raises $8.5 million

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