The launch of the Simple Nightshade Sharded Mainnet is getting closer!
NEAR is one of the first blockchains to introduce sharding to Mainnet, drastically increasing transactions per second and decentralization. The Simple Nighstshade Sharding upgrade is the first of a series of upgrades to fully implement sharding.
https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1439601273620291595

The MetaBUIDL Awards Ceremony is approaching! Stay until the end for the NEAR Special Town Hall featuring an exciting announcement from NEAR Foundation accompanied by an NFT gift Eyes

Join us Friday, Sept. 24 at 1 pm UTC!

RSVP 🔽

https://metabuidlceremonyandtownhall.splashthat.com/

NEAR Protocol is Launching Sharding with the Simple Nightshade update!

This is the most important update to our network since the launch of mainnet. The Simple Nightshade update is the first step to prepare the network to onboard the next billion users to NEAR Protocol.

https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1441025586860679177

🔴 The Validator AMA on NEAR Sharded Mainnet is live!
https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1441085033855393800

Today will be the most action-packed Town Hall so far!
We’re welcoming all community members to join us for the #MetaBUIDL Awards Ceremony, A special announcement by the NEAR Foundation and will be giving away an NFT to all attendees!
Join us at 1 PM UTC / 9 AM EDT 🔽
https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1441309733051375616

📢NEAR announces the launch of Private Shards for enterprise.

It helps create an ecosystem where businesses, users, and partners can interact, and we invite anyone to join us in that mission to create a more open, and inclusive web.

Read more ➡️https://near.org/blog/near-launches-private-shard-for-enterprise/

📣 Big news from the NEAR team!
https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1443625718743715844

📣 Open Forest Protocol is partnering with NEAR to bring forth a fully on-chain carbon economy!

NEAR's certified climate-neutral chain and scalability will allow OFP to bring forest-based climate solutions.

Read more about how OFP x #NEAR will work 🔽

https://medium.com/nearprotocol/open-forest-protocol-uses-near-to-scale-forest-based-climate-solutions-a778b631e064

🤝Aurora is launching its own DAO!

The Ethereum scaling solution that allows projects built on Ethereum to utilise the cutting-edge technology of NEAR will hand over key decision-making to its community.

Learn more about #AuroraDAO 🔽
https://medium.com/nearprotocol/aurora-creates-dao-as-part-of-its-community-led-vision-d9181bb79dfa

AMA on the next generation of DAOs - AstroDAO, is live!
https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1447925818403995651

It's better late than never!

Today we’re extremely excited to announce the FIVE WINNERS of the Telegram Community Reward in September!

They have been showing very active involvement in our Telegram group last month. Congratulations!

So are we settled for rewarding these five people?

@kv9990
@kenjay60
@larry_lang
@Vishwadeep_9
@arcadia9


Our admin will reach out to you for reward arrangement 🤩

Don’t worry if you are not on the Sept list. Speak up and rank up!

Big DeFi news! 🚀

Proximity Labs is launching a $350M grants DAO to support DeFi Ecosystem on NEAR. The first projects that are about to launch on NEAR are Curve Finance, Sushi Swap, Kyber and Dodo DEX, with many more to come!

Learn more 🔽

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-21/a16z-backed-blockchain-gets-350-million-grants-vehicle-for-defi

📣JUST IN: NEAR Protocol is launching an $800 million ecosystem grants program, including

- $250 million in ecosystem grants that will be distributed over four years
- A regional fund of $100 million
- $100 million specifically for startups
- $350 million fund from Proximity Labs

Read more 🔽
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/10/25/near-protocol-offers-800m-in-grants-in-bid-for-defi-mindshare

🎉 NEAR Protocol is thrilled with its integration with
the Graph, the indexing and query layer for the decentralized web! 🔥

This enables developers to build subgraphs on NEAR using the Graph, allowing web3 infrastructure to support even more dapps.

https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1453025003763642375

Aurora is excited to share with you some of the design considerations that went into the new Rainbow Bridge 2.0! 💪

https://aurora.dev/blog/rainbow-bridge-2-0-design-details

🗣 NEAR and 499 Block will co-host an audio conference on Twitter Space next week (Nov 16). NEAR Co-Founder Illia will join forces with eight projects to share about updates in the NEAR ecosystem. Stay tuned!

https://twitter.com/499BlockGlobal/status/1459116920871944193

📣 Paras, the NFT marketplace on #NEAR, is now debuting a one-stop crypto-native shop for comics fans to connect!

Superhero Paras Comic, the new platform, is aiming to become a hub for the global comics community by harnessing NFTs.

Learn more 🔽
https://medium.com/nearprotocol/comics-meet-nfts-on-paras-newest-platform-291914aac732

🗣 Did you catch NEAR Protocol CEO Illia's talk at Web Summit 2021?

Illia shares the story of architecting NEAR, the blockchain network that can power a truly open web.

What's Illia's vision for a global blockchain-powered internet?

Watch https://youtu.be/s3lhhyNCRwU

NEAR has just successfully deployed Simple Nightshade Sharding onto Mainnet!
Phase 0 of the Nightshade Sharding Launch is the the first step towards a fully sharded, infinitely scalable Blockchain. Check out the tweet and learn more on the blog!
https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1460248482766372865

Live 499 Block x NEAR global audio carnival session!

NEAR Protocol will be joined by 8 star projects, including Aurora, Octopus, Ref Finance and others.

It’s happening now at 499 Block Twitter space.

Join for a chance to win airdrop rewards! https://www.twitter.com/499BlockGlobal