NEARIANS 2021

REPORT
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As 2021 has been an amazing year for Near Protocol, as well as projects
in the Near Ecosystem, it is our pleasure to wrap up 2021, and give some
predictions about 2022 to share opportunities across this blockchain.

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This report is also a gift, our deepest thanks to followers and readers of
Nearians from the start. 2021 has been an excellent year for all of us,
and 2022 will be even better!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Gaming/NFT on Near
Overview
● Top NFT Collectibles on Near

● Major Events ● Gaming on Near

● Fundraising of projects

● $NEAR listing calendar and ATH

Other
● Blockchain compare

● Staking, Validators and Metrics on Near ● Nearians’ Community Projects - Guild

● Near Ecosystem (Aurora and Octopus) ● Nearians’ Educational Platform

● Airdrop

DeFi On Near
2022 Prediction
● DeFi Legos on Near
● About 2022 Predictions
● Total Value Locked On Near and Aurora
● Under the Radar (DeFi)
● Stablecoins on Near through Rainbow Bridge
● Under the Radar (Gaming/NFT)

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OVERVIEW

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 TOP MAJOR EVENTS IN 2021 IN THE NEAR ECOSYSTEM
2021 has been a wild year for Near Protocol, the ecosystem has gone through many changes and has had many achievements. Below are the top events
in Near in 2021, we can see the expansion in the ecosystem in all events, the TVL and the ATH of the native coin $NEAR.

May 12th October 21st November 12th December 15th

Introduced Aurora EVM - Proximity Labs Announced $100M fund to support

ATH of $NEAR for 2021, at
Ethereum Virtual Machine on $350M DAO for DeFi on gaming and metaverse
$17.95
the Near Ecosystem NEAR projects
$18

$1.3
The mainnet launch of
Aurora and $12 million first
fundraising round
The $800M grant fund to
NEAR Launched Nightshade TVL reached $500M on Near
support the NEAR Ecosystem
Sharding and Aurora
in NearCON Lisbon

October 14th October 25th November 15th December 24th

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 FUNDRAISING IN 2021 IN THE NEAR ECOSYSTEM
Fundraisings in the Near Ecosystem were mostly seed round. In H2 2021, the fundraising activities in Near started to grow, but the number of projects
were still low, the raised money was still small in comparison to the general fundraising market. VCs’ money were not paying too much attention to Near,
but it showed the signal of acceleration in 2022.

Apr 2nd May 10th Aug 20th Sep 1st Sep 11th Oct 7th Oct 14th Oct 20th

Octopus Network Flux Protocol ARterra Octopus Network Paras OP Games Aurora Vorto Gaming
$3 M - Seed $10.3 M - Seed Seed $5 M - Series A $5 M - Seed $8.6 M - Seed $12 M - Seed $4 M - Seed

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 CEXES LISTING
$NEAR are already listed on the biggest centralize exchanges in the crypto market, except for Coinbase. Most of the listings are made in 2020, just a
few days after the TGE of $NEAR.
As Coinbase Ventures also has a bag of $NEAR, we all expect Coinbase to list $NEAR on their exchange soon in 2022!

Oct 13th, 2020 Oct 14th, 2020 Oct 14th, 2020

Binance MEXC Huobi

Jan 5th, 2021 Nov 30th, 2020 Oct 28th, 2020 Oct 14th, 2020

Crypto.com OKEx WazirX Gate.io

Apr 7th, 2021 Jun 27th, 2021 Jul 8th, 2021 Coming soon...

Bitfinex Hotbit Kucoin Coinbase

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ATH OF 2021

$17.95
On Dec 15th after the Upbit listing

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 TOP-TIER BLOCKCHAIN METRICS COMPARISON
Staking ratio and APY staking on Near is in medium level in comparison to other blockchains. Near Protocol is one of the leading blockchains in terms of
low transaction fee, high TPS and scalability.

Staking ratio 11% 97% 31% 77% 73% 86% 69% - 7.16% 53% 59% 58% 66%

APY staking 17.2% 9.34% 13.28% 6.08% 5.65% 8.09% 10.88% - 5.08% 14.5% 12.76% 13.95% 9.64%

Proof of Proof of Nightshade

Avalanche Proof-of- Tendermint Secure Tendermint Nominated
Consensus Staked Staked Proof-of-Stake Proof-of- Proof-of-Work Proof-of-Stake Proof-of-Stake
Proof-of-Stake History Proof-of-Stake Proof-of-Stake Proof-of-Stake Proof-of-Stake
Authority Authority Stake

EVM AVM (Go), EVM WebAssembly/ EVM EVM WebAssembly/ EVM

VM/ WASM, WebAssembly,
(Solidity, Athereum (Solidity, Sealevel (Rust) K(EVM) EVM Cosmos (Solidity, (Solidity, WASM EVM Cosmos (Solidity,
Development Aurora (EVM) Substrate
Vyper) (EVM) Vyper) SDK Vyper) Vyper) SDK Vyper)

Validator/
21 1,043 21 943 2,076 130 66 283,159 217,266 3,200 125 297 52
Miner

On-chain
Governance On-chain On-chain - On-chain On-chain On-chain Off-chain Off-chain On-chain On-chain On-chain On-chain
(notyet)

TPS 100 4,500 500+ 50,000 250 10,000 100,000 15 100,000 15,000 10,000 1,000 - 3,000 10,000

Avg Tx Fee $0.5 $0.5 $0.1 $0.1 $0.3 $0.3 $0.05 $20 - $50 - $0.22 $0.05 $0.4 $0.05

Live Network 8/2020 9/2020 4/2021 3/2020 7/2020 4/2019 4/2020 7/2015 - 7/2020 3/2019 8/2020 8/2020

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 VALIDATORS
LunaNova Figment Networks

Stakin Chorus One Certus One Open Shards Alliance

Buildlinks Staked D1 Ventures Nodeasy

Blockdaemon Everstake SparkPool NEAR-STAKING

Dragonfly Capital
Huobi Pool IDEO CoLab AUDIT.one
Partners

Zero Knowledge INOTEL

01node HashQuark
Validator

OKEx Pool Electric Capital Cryptium Labs Astro-stakers

Infinite Lux Continue Capital Stakefish Zavodil

Finoa Dokia Capital Bison Trails Masternode24

Aurora Many more…

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 NEAR ECOSYSTEM
The Near Ecosystem has been expanding rapidly, especially after the mainnet launch of Aurora EVM - the right hand of Near Protocol.

DeFi Application Privacy Storage Payment Oracles

Data

Infrastructure & Validator NFT & Gaming Wallet DAO Infrastructure

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DEFI ON NEAR

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 DeFi in Near Ecosystem
DeFi
DeFi in the Near Ecosystem only shows the signal of money flow and the
high speed of development at the end of 2021. On the native Near
Ecosystem, some products that gains lots of traction are built by Proximity
Labs, but it’s not enough for an entire ecosystem to attract investors and
more developers since Solidity is more familiar with Web3 developers.

Therefore, as Aurora goes mainnet, Dapps goes live on Aurora, running

Dapps on Near is easier, thus attracting more developers. With many new
Dapps, incentives and bridges on Aurora, the money flow of users starts to
pay attention to Aurora, and the Near Ecosystem in general at the end of
2021.

New projects are onboarding, new users are coming for juicy farm. At this
stage, Aurora should continue to attract users and developers, while
thinking of how to keep their users if the incentive is gone.

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 NEAR SUB-ECOSYSTEM
Aurora Ecosystem

Aurora Ecosystem

Although Mainnet Aurora has just been deployed recently, the Aurora
Ecosystem has an incredible speed of development. More than 25
projects have already launched on, or partnered with Aurora, with
$400M+ TVL on Dapps in the ecosystem.

DeFi on Aurora has been growing fast, most of the Dapps are DEXes,
bridges, launchpads and yield aggregators.

Octopus Network Ecosystem

Octopus Network Ecosystem

If the Aurora Ecosystem focuses on DeFi, then the Octopus Network

Ecosystem focuses on end-user applications: 8 app-chains at the end
of 2021.

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 Top TVL in Near Ecosystem

TVL in the Near Ecosystem focuses on DEXes. Although Trisolaris $300M

Dapps on Aurora are just recently deployed, they show
significant interest of investors over Dapps in Near Ref Finance $92M
(Trisolaris TVL = Ref Finance TVL x3).

Near and Aurora are lack of lending protocol as a basic WannaSwap $85M
element of DeFi. Moreover, as a new DeFi ecosystem, DeFi
on Near is yet to have strong higher use cases for Meta Pool $47M
investors such as Gaming, Derivatives, Synthetic or Asset
Management. NearPad $18M

We will see the TVL in the Near Ecosystem continue to

skyrocket in 2022. Vaporwave $6M

Pickle Finance $1.2M

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 Stablecoins in Near Ecosystem (on Rainbow Bridge)

Since using Rainbow Bridge is the only way to onboard stablecoin, tracking stablecoins on Rainbow Bridge is a good way to track the attraction of the
Near Ecosystem.

At the end of 2021, there was $288M in stablecoin on Rainbow Bridge.

nDAI

$9M
nUSDT

$288M $150M

nUSDC

$129M

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GAMING / NFT

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 Top Collectibles in Near Ecosystem
The Collectible sector in the Near Ecosystem is growing rapidly,

“ONE OF A KIND” and most Collectibles are traded on Paras. “NEARPunk”

collection by collection by
monztre.near monztre.near

“F(r)iendz” “Citizen”
collection by collection by
“Metamon Pre nearbits.near creepy.near “The Architect’s
-Launch Drop”
collection by ?? Devices”
collection by
metamon.near mtvrs.near

“NEARSkull_Punk” “NearFox”
collection by collection by luda.near
pandahao.near

“Metamon Reveal
Nearians
“Too Rich City”
Day Drop”
collection by
collection by
nft.hhsviewer.near
metamon.near

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GameFi in Near Ecosystem

GameFi in the Near Ecosystem is just starting to grow. Most games are
under development phase, and and only some of them have big backers
behind. For example:

● OPGames: Republic Crypto, Ascensive Assets, Mechanism Capital, Krypterra

Polygon Studios, OKEx Blockdream Ventures, GFS Ventures, Defi
Alliance,...
● Vorto Gaming: Flow Ventures, LD Capital, Near Foundation, ArkStream
Capital, GFS Ventures, OWC,...

GameFi in the Near Ecosystem is underdeveloped at the moment.

However, given that NEAR Foundation and the partnering VCs will invest up
to $100 million in gaming and metaverse projects building on Near, 2022 will
be an exciting year for GameFi in the Near Ecosystem.

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OTHERS

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Guilds in Near Ecosystem

NFT Flying Human Minerall

4NTS INC4
Club Rhino Guild Guild

Near Ecosystem has a strong community in forms of Guilds. Those guilds

S2
have many different functions, and all of them are heading towards the
development of Near Ecosystem.
Legal Octopus Sankore NEAR NEAR Learn
Guild Guild 2.0 WEEK Games NEAR
In the first year of forming and operating guilds, they are well-supported by
the Near Foundation. We can see this as an interesting move by the
foundation to bootstrap the ecosystem, to attract builders and community
members to Near. Create NEAR Silicon The
OWS NIA
base Hispano Craftsmen Corpsemen

Swine The Cypherpunk Hype Wizard MarmaJ

Guild Merchants Guild DAO Guild Foundation

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EDUCATION PLATFORM Figment Learn
Figment Learn is the education and onboarding platform for Web 3
development.

Learn NEAR Club

Learn NEAR Club is a collection of learning materials for NEAR Protocol.

NEAR Academy
NEAR Academy is an interactive course for exploring blockchain
integration with Apps.

The Open Web Sandbox

The Open Web Sandbox is an open-source community for everyone to
learn about the Near ecosystem.

NEAR in Minutes
NEAR in Minutes is a NEAR Community Owned and Operated Project.

Near.dev
Near.dev is a curated list of great demos and starter apps built with
NEAR Protocol.

Near Certified Developer Program (NEAR CDP)

NEAR CDP is a course about smart contracts on the NEAR platform.

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Airdrops in Near Ecosystem
Upcoming Potential Airdrops

Airdropping tokens to early users and supporters is an

excellent way to marketing projects, attracting people to Wannaswap
research these projects (to decide whether to dump or to pump),
and also to show the appreciation to the early supporters.

Many projects in the Near Ecosystem have use this way to

develop their community: Ref Finance, Paras, Trisolaris and
Empyrean.

In 2022, as many new protocols appear and launch their tokens,

Announced Airdrops
there are many retroactive opportunities in the Near Ecosystem.

Trisolaris

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2022
PREDICTIONS

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 About 2022 Predictions

2021 has been a year of developing fundamentals for the Near Ecosystem in all aspects. After the launch of all important infrastructures, we believe
the ecosystem will skyrocket in 2022. This sector is a series of ideas about what comes next in 2022 for the Near Ecosystem based on what Near has
achieved and its recent moves.

To summarize, from an investor point of view, there are some niches that we think are the most potential for Near Ecosystem in 2022, including:

● Higher DeFi layers (Derivative, Asset Management, Aggregator)

● Gaming/NFT

Disclaimer: Opinions are entirely based on Near Ecosystem status and what the ecosystem has done and is doing. Other factors like the Crypto
market in general are not included. Everything in this sector is only our opinion and is not considered investment advice, please DYOR before
investing.

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 DeFi in Near Ecosystem in 2022

We strongly believe in the future of DeFi, and the DeFi on Near Ecosystem has just started.
However, DeFi would not happen on Near, but rather on Aurora instead. This is because of the
EVM-base of Aurora which allows Dapps to seamlessly scale and run on Aurora, thus increasing
the number of Dapps and developers on the platform.

As some fundamental projects are being formed (with DEXs, Launchpads and bridges are
already in place), other basic elements such as lending protocols and higher layers (Derivative, Trisolaris
Aggregator, Asset Management,...) will be the center of development in 2022.

However, native Dapps on Near would still develop as they have high quality builders, such as
Proximity Labs - the lab behind Ref Finance, Burrow Cash,...

Wannaswap

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 Gaming/NFT in 2022 in Near Ecosystem

With the $100 million fund for Gaming/NFT/Metaverse projects in the Near Ecosystem, it is hard
to be pessimistic about the future of this category on Near.

At the moment, there are just a few gaming projects and NFT collectibles on Near, but they will
soon appear as 2022 starts.

The attention in GameFi are being paid to those with VCs behind: OP Games, and Vorto Gaming.

OP Games Vorto Gaming

$8.6 M - Seed $4 M - Seed

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CLOSING THOUGHTS

It’s so exciting to watch and participate in a growing industry year by year, month by month, or even week by week.
It’s our honour to be here with all of you to witness these victorious moments of the crypto market.

Thank you for spending time for our 2021 report.

Hope you’ve enjoyed reading the report, gained insights about the market and made some theses for your own investing strategies in 2022.

We wish you a successful year in the crypto market!

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Thank you
Dec 2021

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