### **Wednesday, March 08, 2023** --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 NEAR Ecosystem Leaders & Their 2022 in Retrospect https://awesomenear.com/articles/near-ecosystem-leaders-their-2022-in-retrospect Staking Rewards : $1.1B $NEAR continues to be staked https://twitter.com/StakingRewards/status/1633218532971360256?s --- 🎨 **NFT & Gaming** 🎮 $NEARIA Update : All $NSTART cumulated from unstaking fees on the platform will be redirected to the $NEARIA pool https://twitter.com/NEARStarter_fi/status/1633432657169117184?s --- 🪅**Events**🪅 AMA : Aurority x Aurigami. The reward will be 1000 Aurora when more than 100 people join the AMA https://twitter.com/Aurority_com/status/1633120298261442560?s Meta Pool : Women building the future. March 8th, 2 PM UTC https://twitter.com/meta_pool/status/1633330449043927044?s --- 💰 **DeFi** 💰 The projected APY for the next Spin Strategies' Epoch has been announced https://twitter.com/spin_fi/status/1633135883317571586?s WOOFi boosts DeFi trading with CeFi perks for institutional clients, supported by Fireblocks https://twitter.com/WOOnetwork/status/1633440260993474564?s --- 🔼 **Projects update** 🔼 Michael Birch, from Aurora, shared his expertise on building smart contracts on NEAR using Rust with University of Waterloo students https://twitter.com/NEARHACKS/status/1633171308576899072?s Bastion : Looking for a Social Media Manager who can maintain the same brand voice of Bastion so far https://twitter.com/BastionProtocol/status/1633152117069467649?s Namesky has been awarded $20k in grants from Mintbase to support our efforts in building a more secure platform for NEAR account trading https://twitter.com/NameSkyApp/status/1633158353697505280?s New blockchain added to OMNIA Protocol's network: NEAR Protocol https://twitter.com/omnia_protocol/status/1633071528433598464?s BlueBit Finance received 500K grant from Aurora beside of the other venture capital https://twitter.com/BlueBitFinance/status/1633310989721702401?s Allbridge : With the new Extra Gas option, you can credit an empty wallet with enough gas to cover the costs of multiple transactions https://twitter.com/Allbridge_io/status/1633452522663825408?s ---