### **NEARWEEK Daily Newsletter** 📩 ### **Friday, October 13, 2023**  --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 NEAR’s celebrates 3rd Anniversary since Mainnet recapping NEAR’s Growth to 700K DAUs, 1.7M Daily Transaction, 3M+ active wallets& 30M Accounts + MORE! https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon/status/1712862193652539417 ICYMI NEARWEEK hosted Monthly DeFi Spaces with BTSE Exchange, Orderly & Ref Finance last week. Read the recap here. https://x.com/NEARWEEK/status/1712856147391053912?s=20 --- 🪙 **DeFi** 💰 All Time Trading Volume on Veax DEX reaches $10,000,000 https://twitter.com/veaxlabs/status/1712790899040653564 Ref Finance Q3 2023 Buyback has concluded with a total of 219,263.939 $REF purchased! https://twitter.com/finance_ref/status/1712777904264765696? --- 🪅 **Events/Twitter Spaces** 🪅 NDC Sync - Week 1 is here! Hear from NDC V1 Gov Body what they’ve been upto this week! https://x.com/neardc/status/1712712781152100392?s=20 --- 🔷 **Project Updates** 🔷 Octopus Network September Progress Report is here! https://twitter.com/oct_network/status/1712862193589301415 Aurora Alpha Leaks Ep #105 is here! https://twitter.com/auroraisnear/status/1712810469172654091 ---