🗒 Daily Newsletter | Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Welcome to another daily digest of what's been moving in the #NEAR ecosystem on February 04th. Check out the highlights below to not miss out on alpha frens!

**💥 Big things around the ecosystem 💥**

Ecosystem Update: Announcing NEAR Dev, a DevHub spinout

Former Ethereum Core Developer, Lane Rettig, joins the NEAR Foundation to accelerate research across AI x Governance

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**🪅Events🪅**

NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin sits down with Solana Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko to discuss AI, Stablecoins, US Policy, Intents, Growth and more

FutureConnect: Exploring Potentials across IoT, AI & Web3

** 💰 DeFi 💰**

Ref Finance : Grab an Honorary MEME NFT & boost your MEME token stash

Meta Pool DAO Distribution Update | Feb 3rd

Road to REF’s MEME SEASON 10 with $GEAR

Empowering $BTC with NEAR Protocol

Meta Pool : February kicks off with an incredible +50% APY for active voters this month

**🔼 Projects update 🔼**

Hacken has completed a smart contract audit for Aurora's NEAR Intents

AI x Crypto is about to level up by unlocking the power of TEEs

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