### **Monday, Apr 24, 2023**  --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 NEAR Foundation has made a strategic investment in CosmoseAI to revolutionize retail with Web3 and AI. Cosmose will utilize the NEAR Blockchain Operating System (BOS) and AI-powered retail personalization to provide users with access to their data and personalized recommendations. https://near.org/blog/cosmose-and-near-foundation-set-to-revolutionize-retail-with-web3-and-ai/ --- 🎨 **NFT & Gaming** 🎮 Paras is officially partnering with QSTN , one of the leading decentralized social platforms https://twitter.com/ParasHQ/status/1650303582640676864 --- 🪅 **Events**🪅 Join the ZKP / Web3 hackathon to learn how to code Zero-Knowledge apps with SnarkyJS to win 19,000 USD! https://zk-hacking.org/tracks/zk_snarkyjs_track/ Aurora Community weekly upcoming activities April, 24th - 30th https://twitter.com/auroraisnear/status/1650137465624354817 --- 🎙**Twitter Spaces/Podcasts** 📻 Future of NEAR: Decentralized Governance Round Table https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1jMJgLEmpmlxL/peek Meta Yield x NEARStarter: Powering success https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1YqKDoQoRAOxV/peek NEARatNIGHT: AMA with the NEAR Creatives DAO https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OyJAVQVwvWxb/peek --- 🔷 **Projects Updates** 🔷 Orderly Network's On Chain Swap now live - a solution that simplifies token swapping for developers by eliminating the need to use our off-chain APIs. Deposit, trade, and withdraw tokens with a single smart contract call https://twitter.com/OrderlyNetwork/status/1650446001239658497 CoinSender now supports Aurora https://twitter.com/CoinSender/status/1650488757844426753 Metapool has partnered with Ssv network, They aim to democratize access to blockchain infrastructure, drive innovation and decentralization https://twitter.com/NearExplorer/status/1650282139248652288 --- 📜 **Must read** 📜 Derivio — a fully decentralised derivatives ecosystem and liquidity platform built on zkSync and NEAR https://medium.com/nearprotocol/derivio-the-leading-edge-derivatives-platform-on-near-1f1334c69435 NEARStarter now on Meta Yield Launchpad https://medium.com/meta-pool/nearstarter-now-on-meta-yield-launchpad-8a0315e468b9 Cosmose ditches Stripe to adopt Near’s crypto solution https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/near-cosmose-ai/ The Future of Enterprise Blockchains: How Layer-2 Solutions are Paving the Way for Web3 Adoption https://www.cryptointelligence.co.uk/the-future-of-enterprise-blockchains-how-layer-2-solutions-are-paving-the-way-for-web3-adoption/ ---