**Friday, Jan 13, 2022** 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 Give a read to NEAR Foundation & Pagoda Goals and Target Metrics for 2023 https://near.org/blog/near-foundation-pagoda-goals-and-target-metrics-for-2023/ ICYMI Here’s a Recap for yesterday’s AMA with NEAR Foundation on “All things NDC” https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1613885352447451138 Open Forest Protocol has raised $4.1M in their pre-seed round with investors like Shima Capital, BigBrainVC, Ubermorgen, Notboringco, Valor Capital Group and more participating. https://twitter.com/_TokenHunter/status/1613420246488190977 🎨 **NFT & Gaming** 🎮 Sweat Economy Released Roadmap for 2023 https://twitter.com/SweatEconomy/status/1612518027316318209 Web3mon announced an official partnership with ParasHQ https://twitter.com/web3mon/status/1613889633175363584 💰 **DeFi** 💰 LiNEAR Protocol to Launch Phoenix Bonds, a Principal-Protected Amplified Yield Product on NEAR https://twitter.com/LinearProtocol/status/1613830742714503176 $NSTART trading is now available on Trisolaris. https://twitter.com/NEARStarter_fi/status/1613884543106179073 Meteor Wallet is now available in WOOFi DEX from WOO DEX https://twitter.com/MeteorWallet/status/1613507687140007942 🔷 **Project Updates** 🔷 Aurora Weekly Updates is here! Check this thread for this week’s Major Updates. https://twitter.com/auroraisnear/status/1613919642275446784 Aurora x Kenshi, Aurora introduces Kenshi to ecosystem, a new full-stack application development platform for blockchains. https://twitter.com/auroraisnear/status/1613892169319993345 🧑💻 **Developer** 🧑💻 NEAR released NEARd 1.31.0-rc.2 for testnet: github.com/near/nearcore/.The release has no protocol upgrade and no database migration. https://twitter.com/NEARChainStatus/status/1613923322890227713