Q12023

NF Ecosystem + Developer Quarterly Report

The NEAR Ecosystem has made some amazing strides this first quarter of 2023, here is a general synopsis of project, funding, developer, and DAO updates in the Ecosystem.

💸 Funding

• Open Forest Protocol Raises $4.1 million

• Calimero Raises $8.5 million

• Few n Far Raises $10.5 million

🧰 Developer Tooling / Infrastructure

Aurora Cloud - Suite of Industry-First Products.

🟢 Aurora Borealis Business

Borealis Business is a transaction processing and accounting engine, that allows businesses to remove the concept of transaction fees from the experience of their users, and can support almost any conceivable blockchain business model.

🟢 Aurora Pass

Aurora Pass, coming soon to iOS and Android, that allows mobile-first Web2 businesses who adopt blockchain technologies to provide their customers with cost-and friction-free transaction signing using the Touch ID and Face ID biometric facilities they’ve come to know and love.

🟢 Aurora Silos

Aurora Silos are dedicated blockchains that can be provisioned for Aurora Cloud customers, that deliver a set of features eclipsing mere Ethereum compatibility.

With an Aurora Silo, businesses can leverage the benefits of blockchain in an environment that permits multiple levels of access control, custom token & transaction fee mechanics, while preserving full Ethereum & NEAR compatibility and interoperability with the outside world (🌈 Rainbow Bridge Built in)

NEAR Security Course https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Gwuo_MOL740lhKTvouCJvk4sAyuqZqT

NEAR Unity API Plugin: interact within the NEAR Blockchain for game development with this Unity Plugin

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02_dk_gGePk

Pikespeak

• Tagging for Active NEAR Contracts check out the directory

• 7 DAY Free Trial

Tradeport powered by Indexer

• Byzantion becomes Indexer.xyz

• Indexer new API Explorer

NEARBlocks

• Advanced Paid API plan release (docs/)

• Integration with Raen.dev to directly interact with contract from block explorer

Keypom

• Launches no code tooling for launching linkdrops tps://github.com/near/boilerplate-template-keypom

• Launches documentation docs.keypom.xyz

• Launches trial accounts https://fxtwitter.com/keypomxyz/status/1637798074155163648?s=20

• Flex-a-tech hackathon with Ready Layer One Labs (untll April 10th)

Switchboard

• Launches v3 on NEAR https://vxtwitter.com/switchboardxyz/status/1631025358379323392

Calimero

• Launches Developer Dashboard https://twitter.com/CalimeroNetwork/status/1631371049307701248

Welldone Wallet

• Remix IDE Plugin for NEAR https://docs.welldonestudio.io/code/deploy-and-run/near

Boto.io Enables NEAR Automation Integrations https://boto.io/bots/?search=near

Omnia adds NEAR to RPC https://twitter.com/omnia_protocol/status/1633071528433598464?s

Indexers

NEAR microindexers:

https://github.com/near/near-microindexers

Leap Wallet

• https://near-indexer-demo.web.app

Fast-NEAR with LDMB

• https://twitter.com/web4near/status/1623879660357701635

📲 Products

🖼️NFT Ecosystem

Bodega Marketplace launches by Cafe Cartel

• First traits based marketplace where you can swap traits

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

• Mintbase Integrates NEAR Social Profile

FewFar

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

• launches its roadmap https://twitter.com/FewandFarNFT/status/1633951127275290624 (EVM Integration,

GenaDrop

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

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

New NEAR Developer Examples

New NEAR Developer Examples

👜 Wallets

My NEAR Wallet transition to Meteor Wallet through NEAR Developer Governance https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/Post?id=78

Wallet Selector becomes chain agnostic modal, test out all the Wallets Supported here and the wallet account export feature https://near.github.io/wallet-selector/ to easily migrate private keys from a wallet.

HERE Wallet

• Passed Audit by Ottersec

Nighlty Wallet

• Nightly Connect bridge wallet and notifications

• Nightly wallets testing on Android and iOS

• Leap Wallet

  • Introduces their SDK with Web3 Auth built in for social Integration

  • Launching telegram notificaitons for NEAR Social

• Meteor Wallet

  • Meteor Profiles with NEAR Social integration NEAR Social Profile

  • Top Up with Offramper

• NEAR Mobile Wallet

  • Live on testnet https://twitter.com/nearmobile_app/status/1637881229264429063?s=46&t=w1K-2akWm132Lj7mGi5p2g

• Salmon Wallet

  • Launches on NEAR, Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, pioneering Unified Accounts https://twitter.com/salmonwallet/status/1634207344954318848

Check out wallet features here https://github.com/NEARBuilders/Wallets/edit/main/features.md

💻 dApps

LazyFI launches Learn to Earn program with NEKO and the NEAR Foundation after mainnet launch https://twitter.com/LazyFi_Learning/status/1636321852359417858

NEAR Primer, gamified education on NEAR

Playible

• Mint for Soul Bound Starter packs

• Create fantasy lineups

Sweat Economy

• Sweat Wallet Moonpay Integration

Niche Protocol

• Launches public beta in the Apple app store

YouMinter

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

NEARWeek ****

• launches NEAR Staking

📊 DeFi

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. allowing 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)

🛣️ Road to Mainnet

• 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

🤖 Blockchain Operating System

Gateways

The Proliferation of Gateways. Gateways are being stood up building out the decentralized infrastructure for NEAR as a Blockchain Operating System. For more information checkout nearbuilders.com/gateways and for a guide on setting up your own checkout nearbuilders.com/bos

Alpha.NEAR.org

Launches as a Pagoda run gateway.

Call for Community to transition gov.near.org to alpha.near.org https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon/status/1637434697360846848

Bos.gg

Proximity Labs sets up their own gateway for Ethereum / EVM blockchains as a start to BOS as a multichain operating system. A lot of cool Ethereum based projects have been popped up and since its launch, bounties for EthDenver and EthDubai have been spun up.

EVM based widgets include

• Lido Staking https://bos.gg/#/zavodil.near/widget/Lido

• Sushi Swap https://bos.gg/#/alotaco.near/widget/SushiSwap

• Gains Network https://bos.gg/#/0xprometheus.near/widget/GainsNetwork

NEAR.Social

VS Code Extension https://github.com/near/near-vscode

Web3 Extension https://github.com/zavodil/near-extension

• Extension to add SocialDB information into NEAR Wallet

Widgets

NFT

• NFT Marketplace https://alpha.near.org/#/microchipgnu.near/widget/nft-marketplace

• Minsta Minting https://alpha.near.org/#/microchipgnu.near/widget/minsta

• GenaDrop Minting https://alpha.near.org/#/minorityprogrammers.near/widget/genadropMinter

• NFT Transfer https://alpha.near.org/#/onboarder.near/widget/NFT-Transfer

• NFT Collection Data https://alpha.near.org/#/9c461db4ac11b66ed1167ff969042ac278eaf2d571712585424be00171a63884/widget/NFT-Collection-Data

• Multi-listing https://alpha.near.org/#/microchipgnu.near/widget/ListFromCollection

Data Analytics Widgets

• Most Active Contracts by Pikespeak https://alpha.near.org/#/frichard2.near/widget/most-active-contracts

Developer Tooling Widgets

• Widget Attribution (give credit)

• Widget History (see code commits for widgets)

• Developer Profiles https://alpha.near.org/#/zahidulislam.near/widget/Profile

DAO Widgets

• Add Account to DAO Role https://alpha.near.org/#/calebjacob.near/widget/ComponentDetailsPage?src=onboarder.near/widget/AddMemberToRole

• DAOs on NEAR Social https://alpha.near.org/#/calebjacob.near/widget/ComponentDetailsPage?src=onboarder.near/widget/DAOSocialSearch

Gaming

• Flappy BOS https://alpha.near.org/#/microchipgnu.near/widget/Game.FlappyBOS

• Tic Tac Toe https://alpha.near.org/#/zahidulislam.near/widget/TicTacToe

First NEAR Social Hacks directly on the platform. Check out the winners here

🏛️ NEAR Digital Collective

• I-Am-Human dApp has been open-sourced an implementation NEP393 for SBT token, roll out coming soon

• Announcing House of Merit https://medium.com/near-digital-collective/what-is-the-house-of-merit-cd3e133bfce8

• Announcing Council of Advisors https://medium.com/near-digital-collective/what-is-the-council-of-advisors-520ade60e819

• RFP for DAO analytics Dashboard https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/Post?id=226

🛠️ Developer Governance

Want to get funding through Developer DAO, learn more here nearbuilders.com/funding

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

👀 Check out the first Developer Governance DAO Call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMg4EQFx8h0

Name	Amount Approved
https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/Post?id=98 https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/Post?id=98	$28.000 USD
Near Ukrainians Guild funding for high-quality examples for bringing developers into ecosystem https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=183	$2,600 USD
Lightest weight client validation in TypeScript https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=341	$31,000 USD
Funding approval for ZK Work Group Applications Review https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=342	$2.000 USD
Funding for MyNearWallet maintenance https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=210	$180,000

• Marketing Support https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=244

• Looking for Developer Gov Gigs Dev https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=268&referral=minorityprogrammers.near

• New Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@NEARDevGov

• Update to DevGovGigs Board: Kanban boards, notifications enabled, roles, and non transferable nfts

RFPs

• SnarkyJS implementation https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/Post?id=7

• Swift SDK https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=269

• NEAR Social Bots

• ZK Working Group formed. View the post Here https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/Post?id=202.

  • join the community group here nearbuilders.com/tg-zk

NEPs

To get a better view of all NEPs passed check out https://github.com/orgs/near/projects/51

• ✅ NEP366: Metatransactions stabilized

• ✅ NEP364: efficient signature verification is coming to the Calimero Bridge: https://www.calimero.network/blog/efficient-signature-verification

• ✅ NEP351: add standards key to ContractSourceMetadata, needs to be implemented

• ✅ NEP-399 introduces a flatten key/value mapping for the trie structure, making storage read cheaper and more efficient. This will also make it easier to estimate gas fees for a transaction.

• ✅ NEP-455 separates parameter compute costs from gas costs to limit the processing time. This mitigates the risks of undercharging without affecting existing contracts.

• ✅ NEP423: add contract_metadata_update event

• ✅ NEP448: Zero Account Balance

• ✅ NEP413: Add Sign Message First call for implementation on devgovgigs board for a NEP, with https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=279&referral=onboarder.near

• ✅ NEP428 Update Injected Wallet Standard: moves to subject matter expert review stage

• 🟡NEP452: Linkdrop Standard being revised

• 🟡 NEP393: Soul Bound Token: being revised

• 🟡 NEP463: DAO Standard: being revised

👫 Community Groups

Community Calls

• Zero Knowledge Community Group Call #3 & Zero Knowledge Community Group Call #4

• Protocol Community Group Call #1: , Protocol Community Group Call #2, Protocol Community Group meeting #4 summary and recording.

• Banyan Led Community Group Calls nearbuilders.com/builder-videos

Call for bOS working group

• https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=322

Updates at t.me/NEARDevGov

Developer Survey https://nearverse.typeform.com/devsurvey

📣Marketing DAO

• Launches Eth Denver Bounties

• Launches Content Creators working group nearbuilders.com/tg-content

🧑🏽‍🏫 Workshops/Media

Illia talks to CryptoCito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQqKnNauMoQ&t=781s

NEAR Workshops

• Python on NEAR

• Quicknode

• Ref

• Pikespeak

• Upcoming Welldone Studio Build on NEAR with the Remix IDE

🎉Events

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

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

• TreeHacks: Stanford Hackathon w NEAR Track (February 17-19, 2023)) 📍Stanford University, California

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

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

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

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

• EthDenver (March 3-5) NEAR Hackathon Bounty Winners https://near.org/blog/near-at-ethdenver-hackathon-bounty-winners/

🙏🏽 Special thanks to Banyan Collective, NEARWeek, NEAR Developer DAO, and NEAR Digital Collective for pipelining the community with these updates

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Resources

• docs.nearbuilders.com