### **Wednesday, June 28, 2023**  --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem**💥 NEAR Foundation has partnered with One Minute Briefs for your brief on 'Everyone' is talking about ''Web3'' https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1674062265249669126?s=20 NEAR Foundation Town Hall - June 28, 2023 https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1674055154796986370?s --- 🎨 **NFT & Gaming** 🎮 Mintbase Grants Program Demo Day https://twitter.com/mintbase/status/1674058289275969537?s --- 🪅**Events**🪅 Octopus Network : Auditing Smart Contract, Best Practices and Pitfalls https://twitter.com/oct_network/status/1673893057954201603?s Women Web3 Wednesday with ReeSpect and Web3 Woman Hub. 7:00 PM UTC, Weds, 28 June https://twitter.com/officialloozr/status/1674002553707589632?s --- 💰 **DeFi** 💰 Aurora Staking Open to All After Successful Halborn Audit https://twitter.com/meta_pool/status/1673874084122304513?s --- 🔼 **Projects update** 🔼 Launch of NEAR Africa, the regional hub for NEAR Protocol, BOS, NDC, and Web3 in Africa https://near.social/#/mob.near/widget/MainPage.Post.Page?accountId=near-africa.near&blockHeight=95075385 Spin's Spin Rave to celebrate their token launch https://twitter.com/ParasHQ/status/1673961340300578817?s Ludero acceptances to the Amazon Web Services Accelerator https://twitter.com/LazyFi_Learning/status/1671862511413362690?s HEROES presents the first version of its #BOS component https://twitter.com/heroes_build/status/1674078649820282882?s ---