### **Thursday, February 23, 2023** --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 NEAR is expanding its zeroknowledge integration beyond protocol and infra. We invite ZK experts and organizations to propose their solutions for integrating developer-friendly ZK SDK with NEAR https://twitter.com/NEARDevGov/status/1628546429374562308?s Keypom Brings Frictionless Onboarding to Near and Web3 https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1628773187923107841?s --- 🎨 **NFT & Gaming** 🎮 Minting Schedule with W3M family https://twitter.com/web3mon/status/1628430410052169738?s --- 🪅**Events**🪅 Aprende Liquid stalking meta.pool Near protocol. Hispanic community, this Friday 24th at 10 pm UTC https://twitter.com/meta_pool/status/1628530644283273218?s Join the Octopus Challenge. Create a Tiktok video on How Octopus promotes interoperability https://twitter.com/oct_network/status/1628473254590533633?s Built On NEAR: Web3 Gaming and NFTs with OpenBiSea. Feb 23rd, 15:30 UTC https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1628485491388477441?s AURORA RUN the Big Quest. It's time to find out the most active community in Aurora during a 5-stage AuroraCommunity competition https://twitter.com/aurora__hunters/status/1628480555963539458?s --- 💰 **DeFi** 💰 $pNEAR < > $NEAR V2 liquidity pool is now live on Ref Finance https://twitter.com/LinearProtocol/status/1628706595327840257?s --- 🔼 **Projects update** 🔼 Apollo42 announces strategic partnership with Router Protocol https://twitter.com/apollo42world/status/1628394730554810368?s OFP panels at the official EthereumDenver Climate Summit https://twitter.com/OpenForest_/status/1628495710437138432?s Hiring Sales Representative for Aurora https://twitter.com/CryptoJobsList/status/1628577571561512961?s ---