### **Thursday, March 16 2023**  --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 Near Protocol releases 'entry point to web3' project Discovery in public beta https://twitter.com/mariekeflament/status/1636084369247948806?s The NEAR Digital Collective is creating a framework for self-governance and decision-making to unite and evolve the NEAR ecosystem https://twitter.com/NEARWEEK/status/1636365695993921537?s --- 🎨 **NFT & Gaming** 🎮 NEARStarter wanted to update their community on their current stablecoin / banking situation https://twitter.com/NEARStarter_fi/status/1636032932497244162?s --- 🪅**Events**🪅 NEAR Protocol Work Group Call #4. Thursday, March 16, 4:00 PM UTC https://twitter.com/NEARDevGov/status/1636108670357626882?s The countdown to DemoDay day 2 is on. Start: 16 MAR, 13:00 UTC https://twitter.com/demoday_is_near/status/1636089031736934400?s The NEAR Demo Day: Roundtable https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1636300021405556736?s --- 💰 **DeFi** 💰 Comparing the APY and the Risk/Reward profiles of NEAR Protocol's passive yield tools https://twitter.com/spin_fi/status/1636027485841158148?s Now on Meta Yield Launchpad: Jump DeFi https://twitter.com/meta_pool/status/1636234724048879617?s Australis is LIVE on Aurora mainnet https://twitter.com/AustralisFi/status/1636347335578996738?s --- 🔼 **Projects update** 🔼 Everstake and Nightly Wallet are happy to announce a raffle https://twitter.com/everstake_pool/status/1636073479219949570?s Why did Frac decide to become an Appchain in Octopus Network rather than deploying smartcontracts on a L1 blockchain? https://twitter.com/oct_network/status/1636050842351550475?s CronCat is kicking off a new era of UX: Announcing our road to the interchain mainnets https://twitter.com/croncats/status/1636130427072303104?s RainbowBridge: which passed the Blaize Security audit with a score of 9.6/10 https://twitter.com/auroraisnear/status/1635922499753107456?s Announcement on SuperEx opening NEAR/USDT trading pair at 9:00 (UTC) on March 16 https://twitter.com/SuperExet/status/1636262975383408640?s ---