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A huge thank you to all 7k+ of you that read our bi-weekly ecosystem updates. It means a lot to us that so many people from different geographies, different expertise and interests, are excited about participating in NEAR's broad-ranging community. 
With our ecosystem continuing to grow beyond technical advancements, this newsletter has shifted to a broader focus. If you're interested in receiving NEAR's deep-technical updates, please join our recently launched developer newsletter for monthly engineering & protocol updates.
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NEAR Drops -- Send NEAR to anyone via a link
We want NEAR to be easy to use (as easy as Web2!) for both developers & end-users. Now, with NEAR Drops, you can send NEAR to anyone via a link, whether they have a NEAR account or not. Get the full details from the announcement. 
 


Events
Join us at the “Go For Launch!” conference call, hosted by Pantera. Illia and Colin Evran from Filecoin will explore the process of taking innovative technologies from ideation to launch.
When? Next Tuesday the 7th at 9 AM
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Content Highlight
1 Episode #6 of "Building the Open Web" with Danny Zuckerman from 3Box is out; discussing how to Build User-Friendly Products in Web3.
2 Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
3 If you missed the “Scaling Web3” Panel between Illia, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) from Binance, Sergey Nazarov from Chainlink and Jamie Burke from Outlier Ventures -- you can now view the recording.
4 Flux is introducing the Flux token.

Introducing the Open Web Collective
Founders “will learn and work with leading entrepreneurs, corporate partners, and investors such as IDEO, Deloitte, and The World Economic Forum to validate/invalidate business ideas and decisions, build a product, define and grow KPIs, develop product-market fit, and fundraise.” -- Read the whole update here. 
If you would like to receive more founder updates, please sign-up for the OWC mailing list.


Engineering Update
We Published v1.0.0 of create-near-app. Spin-up your own app in seconds: https://github.com/near/create-near-app/releases/tag/v1.0.0
You can find quick updates until we launch our developer newsletter in the Rust in Blockchain Newsletter with updates on NEAR.
Middleware update: 
• The security audit will start on the Rainbow Bridge. We will be adding final CLI command, tests, and documentation. @Bo and @Bowen are looking at an issue that we found with verifying ed25519 signatures from the current testnet;
• RPC @frol is finishing Rozetta support, ATA beginning next week. Unfortunately, since Rozetta API does not support pagination it can only be used with locally running nodes. Bohdan finished explorer indexer;
• Contract runtime @Nikolay.Igotti has added support for Wasmtime. @sirwillem and @Nikolay.Igotti are working on decreasing the contract size.
• Transaction runtime. While @sirwillem was adding a fee for loading contracts into memory he exposed an issue which looks like P0, @Bowen will take a look. @Nikolay.Igotti 's params estimator will be added to the CI to avoid this kind of issues later;
• Contracts. @Evgeny | NEAR made lockup contract to work with multisig, also added an e2e bash script test to check the interaction of all core contracts with the nodes;
If you have questions and would like to connect with our amazing engineering team, head over to Discord.



How You Can Get Involved
We have something for everyone
• Join the NEAR Contributor Program to contribute to our engineering efforts.
• You love hosting events, engaging communities, and creating content? Then head over to our Guild Program.
• If you are in the process of setting up your own start-up in the Web3 space, the Open Web Collective will provide guidance.
If you’re just getting started, learn more in The Beginner’s Guide to NEAR Protocol or read the official White Paper. Stay up to date with what we’re building by following us on Twitter for updates, and join the conversation on Discord.

Your friends,
Anais and the NEAR team

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About NEAR
Technically speaking, NEAR is a decentralized application platform built on top of a public, sharded, proof-of-stake blockchain.  More importantly, NEAR is the backbone that powers the final stage of blockchain’s evolution, called the “Open Web”.  In brief, you can think of blockchain technology as spanning three generations:
1 Open Money: Bitcoin showed the power of creating a global currency that anyone could interface with but there were limited opportunities to use this because of constraints on the performance of the blockchain and the limited computing layer on top of it.
1 Open Finance: Ethereum showed the power of expanding the financial primitive of Open Money by building a computing platform which could spawn new tokens and enable applications to permissionlessly access them.  Despite lacking the performance or usability for general consumer adoption, Ethereum still proved that significant innovation could be achieved by making it easy for developers to combine financial building blocks to create valuable new products.
2 Open Web: When any data can be shared and composed between applications just like the financial primitives of Open Finance, the set of possible new business models and applications expands exponentially.  No blockchain yet has been able to meet the requirements for this, however, because it must be performant enough to meet enormous demand, low cost enough to justify itself and usable enough by developers and consumers to allow user experiences on par with today’s web.
NEAR was built specifically with this final stage in mind.  It doesn’t just provide the performance and usability upgrades which are necessary to drive the global adoption of Open Finance, it also has the scalability and low cost necessary to drive the even larger vision of the Open Web. 
No blockchain of similar scope or sophistication has yet been released into full production. 

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