📣 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

Illia, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol is speaking on the 499 Block Twitter Space now. Tune in to learn more about the NEAR development and the latest sharding release.

https://twitter.com/499BlockGlobal/status/1460213382875811844?s=20

Learn all about NEAR Protocol’s Nightshade Sharding during the Twitter Spaces with NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin and LunarCrush CEO Joe Vezzani!

Live now, join! 🔽

https://twitter.com/nearprotocol/status/1461025070177042435?s=21

📣 Flux Protocol is live on NEAR Protocol

Flux Protocol, the world’s first fully decentralized oracle provider, goes live on NEAR.

The launch brings game-changing use cases for any project needing fast, reliable and trustworthy data.

Read more 🔽

https://medium.com/nearprotocol/flux-worlds-first-fully-decentralized-oracle-and-oracle-aggregator-launches-on-near-68a9003ac241

🎉 Aurora is partnering with Consensys 🔥

Aurora, the EVM built on NEAR, is partnering with Consensys to deliver its users the software development tools currently used by Ethereum developers.

This includes MetaMask and others!

Read more 🔽
https://near.org/blog/aurora-consensys-partnership-metamask-infura/

🎉 Aurora is partnering with The Graph

Aurora has announced another major partnership with The Graph to bring superior data indexing. Congratulations!

Read more 🔽
https://aurora.dev/blog/aurora-and-the-graph

🎙️ Aurora is an EVM built on the
NEAR Protocol that delivers a turn-key solution for developers to operate their apps.

Alex, the CEO of Aurora Labs will join us for a Telegram AMA hosted by the NEAR community on 12/9 at 2:00 PM UTC.

📍Venue: https://t.me/cryptonear
🎁 50 NEAR be rewarded to 10 selected winners who come in with thoughtful questions before or during the session.

See you!