### **Thursday, March 02 2023** --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 Arpit Sharma Joins Near as Managing Director for India, Asia, and Middle East Expansion https://near.org/blog/arpit-sharma-joins-near-as-managing-director-for-india-asia-and-middle-east-expansion/ NEAR Day at ETHDenver is kicking off at 10AM sharp over at the National Western Complex https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1631323569153089540?s --- 🎨 **NFT & Gaming** 🎮 Here Wallet announces the successful integration with Moonshot and start of their partnership https://twitter.com/here_wallet/status/1631032160277725184?s --- 🪅**Events**🪅 NEARxSVCxSEIxGate.io Roundtable AMA https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmxPknyDvgJN?s --- 💰 **DeFi** 💰 Aurora : You can now purchase $ETH on Aurora using the C14 widget https://twitter.com/auroraisnear/status/1630973885280550923?s Spin Strategies aka DeFi Option Vaults are now live on the NEAR Protocol mainnet https://twitter.com/spin_fi/status/1631289024219324417?s --- 🔼 **Projects update** 🔼 Duel Network is live on Near Protocol https://twitter.com/duel_network/status/1630977716198440982?s Octopus Network expanded its Developer Training courses globally this past 2022 https://twitter.com/oct_network/status/1631029972558028800?s The Dev Gov Gigs Board is looking for a dev (rust + javascript profficiency) https://twitter.com/NEARHACKS/status/1630966405548867590?s Now on Meta Yield Launchpad: NEAR Hub https://twitter.com/meta_pool/status/1631160894246846465?s ---