🎙Neko Morning Show Season 6 Episode 5 recap 🔹️ Hosts: Soos & Nono 📌 Topic: Founders & Builders support on NEAR PROTOCOL 🐾 $NEKO PLUSHIES 🐱 🔸️Neko Plushie NFTs is a collection of 250 NFTs that act as your pass to redeem an exclusive Genesis Neko Plushie. 🔹️It's still on sale at the time of the show 23rd of January, 2024. with a minting fee of 25N 💰 which will cover the shipping fees for holders and additional shipping fees may apply for holders outside of the US and Canada 🔸️According to the Co-founders of $NEKO, the Plushies will serve a pivotal role in the future, such as being attached to future airdrops, who knows? Mint one for yourself here and remember this is not financial advice🚫. 🪂 AIRDROP SEASON ON $NEAR 🌐 🔸️everyone on web3 are airdrop lovers and yes, it's raining airdrops🪂 on NEAR PROTOCOL ☔. On 17th January 2024, JumpDeFi announced the winners of both the private and public sale incentives which saw 2 lucky users claim $5,000 & $10,000 $UDSC respectively 🤯. 🔹️ On 20th January, the Air-jumper NFTs went live which saw the role holders (Airjumper, Jump OG, and Jump God) claim 6 NFTs which will mint about 3,000 $JUMP when staked for 3 months 🚀. 🔸️$LONK air dropped some tokens to MeteorWallet users for interacting with the Wallet. $NEKO AIRDROP 🪂 🔹️ Soon, the $NEKO airdrop will commence, rewarding Discord role holders – Ninja 1 Nft, Ronin 2 Nfts, Samurai 3 Nfts. Verify your roles and Near wallet on (https://verify.nekotoken.xyz/) to claim 6 NFTs 🐱. Each NFT will mint 50,000 $NEKO tokens. 🔸️ Don't possess all roles? The #The Neko morning show is your gateway to acquiring them! 🎉 FOUNDERS AND BUILDERS ON $NEAR 🏗️ 🔹️ Founders often encounter challenges, especially low or lack of funding during the Bear market 🐻. This hurdle can significantly impede projects under construction in bearish seasons. However, for NEAR, projects have the opportunity to secure funding as long as their intentions and ideas align with those of the NEAR Protocol, such as onboarding and increasing transactions, among others. The funds received by these projects primarily cater to running costs, staff payments, and research initiatives, ensuring a robust development process. 💡💰 🔵 NEAR PROTOCOL stands out in funding methods as it operates through governance and decentralization. Unlike traditional approaches, you don't need to approach the Near Foundation (NF) for funding; instead, you can turn to DAOs. Here are some notable DAOs on NEAR PROTOCOL with designated projects they fund. SOME DAO's ON NEAR PROTOCOL 🔹️ NFT Work Group (NFTWG): Launching NFT collections? Need funding? Apply for funds through NFT Work Group for your proposals. 🔸️Near Gaming DAO (GDAO): It's not just for game development; if you're creating content about games on NEAR PROTOCOL, you can apply for funding. 🔹️ Near Marketing DAO (MDAO): Engaged in content creation, like the Neko Morning Show? MDAO is the place to apply for funding. It's a bustling DAO, redirecting proposals and supporting various initiatives, including marketing, collaborations, and bringing mass adoption to Near. They even back IRL events, like the El Cafe cartel coffee corner at NEARCON 23. While there are more DAOs, the mentioned ones are mostly visited and all DAOs on NEAR PROTOCOL are housed by Near Digital Collection (NDC) 🌐. $NEAR LOW COST FOR GAS⛽ 🔸️NEAR PROTOCOL is a seamless Blockchain where users can easily transact and pay tiny or no gas fees. 🔸️During the show, one of the hosts discussed his $Avax maxi friend wanting to mint an Inscription on $Avax, noting the gas rose to $20-$25, maybe due to congestion. 🔹️But on #NEAR protocol, even when congested, the fee remains low. For example, during the previous NEARCON, @sharddog recorded over 12,000 Txns, costing less than 8N🤯. To spice it up, one can claim a Sharddog NFT without paying gas fees – it's literally free🎉. 🔵 SOOS OPINION ON FUNDS SAFETY 🦺 Soos banked on $Luna with all of his assets for a possible 2-3X, 🌕 but little did he know that $Luna would crash to dust, leaving him in awe. 😱 One shouldn't put or leave all of their funds on a particular project or exchange because you never know what's gonna happen. Soos also advised that you shouldn't invest funds meant for real-life activities into crypto hoping that the playout will be good.🚀💔 📍CONCLUSION With all the tech, Builders, and very low gas on NEAR PROTOCOL, reaching 1 billion users can be achievable. Written by Fandix Catch up with the Neko Morning Show every Tuesday and Thursday at 8:00 AM UTC for yet another alpha on the NEAR Ecosystem and WEB3🔥 Onward and Upward, NEAR!