Challenges and opportunities are inherent to building empowered communities that power Web3 ecosystems.

@near_intern renders a bird's eye view of how @NEARProtocol and @AstarNetwork have adopted different approaches to the same goal– enfranchising their communities.

NEAR x ASTAR: DECENTRALISED DECISION-MAKING

Written by @near_intern for @NEARWEEK
Edited by @achildhoodhero

https://medium.com/nearprotocol/near-x-astar-decentralised-decision-making-1084a8cc35fb


The article goes over :

- How both Protocols have unconsciously interpreted credible neutrality to lay foundations of trust for their communities.
- The evolution to adopted governance frameworks and their implications
- #NEAR's grassroots DAO approach
- #Astar's Kieretsu model

NEAR x ASTAR: DECENTRALISED DECISION-MAKING

Coming in hot from the @meta_pool Community AMA on Discord! It was littered with alpha gems from @NearMultiverse @lolarocker and the team.


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1. NATIVE LIQUID STAKING TOKEN FOR AURORA
2. ETHEREUM STAKING
3. METAPOOL GOVERNANCE
4. stAUR ESSENTIALS

any Alphas? 🤷🏽‍♂️

The evolution of @meta_pool is #NEAR. The pioneer liquid staking solution on #NEAR is entering a new era of governance, going full multichain and bringing the community along.

/ NATIVE LIQUID STAKING TOKEN FOR AURORA
@meta_pool is launching the first native liquid staking token for @auroraisnear! stAUR.
stAUR will bring more liquidity, asset mobility and capital efficiency to @auroraisnear, unlocking more DeFi and value creation opportunities.

- stAUR creates more asset mobility for $AURORA holders.
- stAUR will implement "fast unstake", i.e no more 48h cooldown period as experienced on Aurora+.
- Fast unstake will have a 2% fee.
- staking and staking rewards will be on an @auroraisnear validator on #NEAR

/ ETHEREUM STAKING
#Ethereum staking is coming to @meta_pool via @ssv_network.
@meta_pool is leveraging SSV's validator system for how it allocates delegation, and interacts with different nodes on the ETH PoS network.

- Mainnet tentatively marked for 1st/2nd week of June

/ METAPOOL GOVERNANCE
@meta_pool will be launching Metapool governance v0.1 and begin the decentralization of their liquid staking platform. This decentralization is one of the the outcomes of the liquid staking token, stNEAR.

/ stAUR ESSENTIALS
- Official launch of stAUR on May 4th
- Get whitelisted by @meta_pool ambassadors on their Discord server (https://bit.ly/MetaPoolDiscord) or @auroraisnear community

[MORE ALPHA]
🚨Exclusive @meta_pool announcement coming on May 4th at Sail GP event.
- Partnesrhip with @trisolarislabs and creation of a vault on @aurigami_PLY to further use case of stAUR.
- @meta_pool is putting its community front and center in the new ecosystem.

More on stAUR and @meta_pool plans down the road 👇
https://blog.metapool.app/2023/04/26/first-native-liquid-staking-token-aurora/

More on Ethereum staking👇
https://blog.metapool.app/2023/02/02/taking-on-ethereum-our-move-to-ssv-network/

Community voting platform for projects 👇
https://metavote.app/

That's all Ronin could glean after arriving a little late to the event.

Carpe Diem!

Alpha Gems from Meta Pool Community AMA

Ronin 🥷🏽 wandered around the @meta_pool x @NEARStarter_fi Space, and overhead @GoneMultichain @NearMultiverse and @lolarocker

Some notes and alphas for you. 🧵

1/ WHAT IS NEARSTARTER?
2/ NEARSTARTER FUNDAMENTALS
3/ DUAL TOKENOMICS
4/ FUNDING CAMPAIGNS ON META YIELD
5/ ALPHAS


1/ WHAT IS NEARSTARTER?

@NEARStarter_fi is a DAO-run launchpad and incubator on #NEAR and AURORA, accelerating and funding startup projects looking to deploy on NEAR.

Many projects have solid code, good team, but lack acumen on the business side, ex. viable revenue model, legal setup, product formulation, marketing strategy, etc.

Tokens have limited use case, usually dependent on the market, limited to governance, making them highly volatile.

@NEARStarter_fi is a one-stop shop of these projects, built on a team with a combined 10+ years working as accelerators for web2 projects.

2/ NEARSTARTER FUNDAMENTALS

- Team has worked on 50+ projects so far in #Web3, 7 of them making it through as first cohort.
- @NEARStarter_fi is currently incubating on @meta_pool via Meta Yield. https://metayield.app/project/9
- NFT collection on @FewandFarNFT - https://fewfar.com/vicious-fishes-near/

3/ DUAL TOKENOMICS STRUCTURE

@NEARStarter_fi has a unique dual tokenomics set-up that ensures permanent utility and continuous value accrual for the community and holders.
- $NSTART and $NEARIA are the two tokens of the @NEARStarter_fi ecosystem.

/$NSTART use case
- Governance
- IDO allocation
- $NEARIA farming

/$NEARIA
An index pool of projects on #NEAR and #AURORA i.e an underlying pool of tokens from various projects make up the value of $NEARIA.

- Projects launching on @NEARStarter_fi commit a % of their IDO tokens to $NEARIA
- Basket currently comprises 8 tokens including $TRI, $JUMP, $SHITZU, $HLDR, CellFi and OccamDAO.
https://twitter.com/NEARStarter_fi/status/1650457466365173763?s=20

4/ FUNDING CAMPAIGNS ON META YIELD

To fund a project on Meta Yield:
- Stake $NEAR to get $STNEAR on @meta_pool
- Go to Meta Yield - https://metayield.app/
- Select a project and fund with $STNEAR

- Projects earn the staking rewards of the $STNEAR while you, backer, earn tokens of the project.
- At the end of a locking period, you get back 100% of the NEAR initially staked + tokens from the funded project.

[Alphas]
- @CURL_fi will be the first project to launch from NEARSTARTER
- $STNEAR will be part of the index pool of $NEARIA
- @NEARStarter_fi currently working on partnerships with @finance_ref @jumbo_exchange and @auroraisnear to potentially add them to the index pool.

- Potential bonus for early supporters of @NEARStarter_fi on Meta Yield.


- Liquid staking is coming to @auroraisnear (via @meta_pool)

Catch the recording here for full and detailed soundbite👇

https://twitter.com/meta_pool/status/1650454803821076484?s=20

For more, visit https://nearstarter.fi/
PS: cool game on homepage

See ya!

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/roninxnear/UmGxoAf

NEAR x ASTAR: DECENTRALISED DECISION-MAKING

Alpha Gems from Meta Pool Community AMA

Exploring NEARStarter