### **Thursday, June 29, 2023**  --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 Samurai speaks with NEAR Foundation, CEO Marieke Flament during Consensus 2024. Find out what makes them unique https://twitter.com/ESR_tv/status/1673788798377811970?s Celebrating the Women in Web3 Changemakers. NEAR Foundation announced the top 10 finalists at Collision as voted by the public https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1674402435652112386?s --- 🎨 **NFT & Gaming** 🎮 Popula Thread Contest is now Live https://twitter.com/beepopula/status/1674402432506548224?s --- 🪅**Events**🪅 NEAR Contract Standards Work Group Call #5 https://twitter.com/NEARDevHub/status/1674239238781681665?s Weekend, let's add knowledge, join the event Pintu, together with Paras, Near Indonesia https://twitter.com/AstarNetwork_ID/status/1674342317355057152?s Supermoon is excited to welcome Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of Near protocol, at NearBase Paris EthCC https://twitter.com/Supermooncamp/status/1674383146685546497?s --- 💰 **DeFi** 💰 Spin just made it onto Crypto Rank. Now you can access all the token sale data in one spot https://twitter.com/spin_fi/status/1674414935877746688?s --- 🔼 **Projects update** 🔼 NEARWEEK will work with the ShardDog team to create unique claimable covers for the official NEARProtocol newsletter https://twitter.com/achildhoodhero/status/1674144692458471427?s ---