### **Wednesday, July 12, 2023**  --- 💥 **Big things around the ecosystem** 💥 NEAR Foundation Town Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUxllA4IL20 --- 🎨 **NFT & Gaming** 🎮 CryptoEmpire, the most addictive Match-3 game, has arrived https://twitter.com/CryptoEmpireNFT/status/1679038031624564737? The I-AM-HUMAN Content Contest is live https://twitter.com/neardc/status/1679100842329137152?s --- 🪅**Events**🪅 AMA : Near Insider x Paras. July 14th, 1:00 PM UTC https://twitter.com/near_insider/status/1679026236730007553?s=20 --- 💰 **DeFi** 💰 The Advantages of NEAR Protocol for Veax: A Match Made in Blockchain Heaven https://twitter.com/veaxlabs/status/1679121929423278080?s --- 🔼 **Projects update** 🔼 NDC Elections are NEAR! Check out the FAQ for NDC V1 Governance Elections to get answers to your burning questions https://twitter.com/neardc/status/1678995172493754369?s Pagoda's hiring an Engineer with experience in low-level programming https://twitter.com/PagodaPlatform/status/1678907772883148803?s Meteor Mentions: This week's top 5 NEAR highlights https://twitter.com/MeteorWallet/status/1679119733226913794?s SBT's are live for I-AM-Human. NEP393: Integrating Soul Bound Token https://twitter.com/NEARHACKS/status/1679150893244223488?s ---