### **Wednesday, May 17, 2023**  --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 NEAR Foundation Town Hall - May 17, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKbbEIEU5z0 Aurora DAO's Update to AURORA Token Economy https://twitter.com/AlexAuroraDev/status/1658770316418744320?s --- 🎨 **NFT & Gaming** 🎮 NameSky is now open to the public and getting started is easy. Anyone can now mint, buy, and sell NEAR accounts as NFTs https://twitter.com/NameSkyApp/status/1658682295543562240?s Paras expanded the NFT space on AstarNetwork and Polkadot https://twitter.com/ParasHQ/status/1658804573132443649?s --- 🪅**Events**🪅 The Native USDT Quiz form is now live! Test your knowledge and stand a chance to win https://twitter.com/burrowcash/status/1658775033689387010?s Creatives DAO : Calling all early stage web3 founders. Friday at 5 UTC https://twitter.com/CreativesDao/status/1658842627649818625?s --- 💰 **DeFi** 💰 Flux Exchange Partnership with Zolidly Finance https://twitter.com/Flux_Exchange/status/1658730234202710016?s Pulsar Finance : All-In-One Platform For Your Web3 Assets https://twitter.com/PulsarFinance/status/1658835983847116803?s --- 🔼 **Projects update** 🔼 Otto AI : Newest member of the Octopus Network https://twitter.com/oct_network/status/1658538477393174532?s Aurora partnered with Epic Web3 Conference https://twitter.com/auroraisnear/status/1658746411343843331?s ---