### **Monday, Jan 23, 2023** --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 Private sharding startup Calimero Network raises $8.5 million https://www.theblock.co/post/204235/private-sharding-startup-calimero-network-raises-8-5-million?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Aurora Ends Its Partnership with Etherscan https://aurora.dev/blog/aurora-ends-its-partnership-with-etherscan --- 🪙 **DeFi** 💸 YouMinter announce their partnership with Octopus Network https://twitter.com/youminter/status/1617522466687176705 NEARStarter and Trisolaris enter an agreement to add $TRI to NEARIA Index Pool https://medium.ninja/near-starter/nearstarter-and-trisolaris-enter-an-agreement-to-add-tri-to-nearia-index-pool-b0280e6cc357 Octopus's Appchain registry contract and appchain anchor contracts on mainnet have been upgraded to v3.1.0 and v2.4.1 https://twitter.com/oct_network/status/1617513911313481729 --- 🪅**Events**🪅 Aurora Community weekly upcoming activities Jan, 23rd - 29th https://twitter.com/auroraisnear/status/1617203692972965888