NEAR Town Hall Giveaway!
A must-have for any NEAR community member: a custom NEARPunk worth 50 $NEAR.
Already have one? Keep it to reward someone who contributes something special to NEAR, or get another one with different accessories 😎

This is another call for the upcoming Town Hall, NFTs & Gaming is the next big thing in blockchain and NEAR, don’t miss out!

https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1429825808261074950

Today we’re kicking off the #MetaBUIDL Hackathon with a Grand Opening Ceremony at 3 PM CET!
We have lots of interesting talks lined up, we hope to see you all there. Partipicate in the giveaway by engaging with all the tweets in the thread.
https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1431165970693902337

NEAR x Ref.finance x Skyward Finance DeFi Quiz Challenge Winner Announcement 🎉

Thank you for your support and participation. Today we are excited to announce the 500 winners. Congratulations!

You will receive your rewards (3 NEAR) in your NEAR account by next Friday Sep 3. For those who didn’t win, we will be announcing more community events in the future, stay tuned to our telegram announcement channel regularly so you wont miss out!

⚠️ NOTE: No CS support will be provided regarding this community campaign. Please do not DM group admins about reward distribution time, lucky draw results etc

List of Winners
https://bit.ly/3jlVhc0

Live now!
https://youtu.be/vkfoIKTdIsY

We are thrilled to announce that Aurora, an EVM built on the NEAR Protocol, has partnered with Etherscan 🎉

https://near.org/blog/etherscan-will-launch-on-aurora/

It’s time to connect and have your NEAR MetaBUIDL Hackathon questions answered! NEAR Education is hosting an Open House today at 8 am PST.

There's NEAR swag up for grabs for the first 100 😎Sign up now ▶ https://t.co/sCkNxerhyE?amp=1

Congratulations 🎉

We’re extremely excited to announce the FIVE WINNERS of the Telegram Community Reward in August!

They have been showing very active involvement in our Telegram group. Each of you will receive 20N as a token of gratitude. Our admin will reach out to you for your NEAR wallet.

@Bailey_12
@rahulgoel007
@benstg
@ramkumar56
@mrhyazdani

Miss out last Telegram Community Reward?! Stay active in the group and make a name for yourself in September!

$REF Finance is bringing farming & DeFi to NEAR ⚡️

Ref will support six liquidity farms with 4x rewards in the first 14-days.

Check out the farming details here:
https://ref-finance.medium.com/ref-finance-is-bringing-farming-defi-to-the-near-ecosystem-70eb9ec9936a

We just launched near.university to help direct MetaBUIDL hackers through live and pre-recorded workshop materials. 🎓

🏫NEAR University is made for you to learn, earn, connect and certify among friends in the NEAR community.

We will continue to evolve near.university over coming months, so stay tuned!

https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1433746597398007809

The Reddit AMA with Illia is live!
Make sure to participate in the AMA, we have great prizes for the best questions!
https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1436013964157235202

The deadline for the #MetaBUIDL Hackathon submissions has been postponed!
https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1436722611787083779

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