Flux Exchange is a decentralised spot and perpetual exchange that aims to replicate a traditional centralised exchange experience to settle the world’s high-volume demands on-chain, decentralised, and non-custodially. It combines AMM Liquidity Pools with an order-book UI, enabling Liquidity Providers to earn yield and traders to engage in familiar order-book trading strategies supporting market, limit, and stop. 

Flux Exchange will be both cross-chain and multi-chain enabling users to seamlessly trade native assets between blockchains — or trade assets native to one specific blockchain with low swap fees and zero price impact trades.



Flux Exchange

Radom Network is building the world’s first blockchain-based payment gateway. With Radom Network, Web3 companies and DAOs can access critical services required to operate their business without ever having to off-ramp. 

Underpinned by a decentralised protocol for service discovery and authentication, sellers can on-board through the Radom dApp (decentralised application), and sell access to their internet-connected assets, such as cloud servers, API servers, proof-of-work miners or databases with on-chain and on-demand payments in stablecoins.

Radom Network

Rango Exchange is the most powerful multi-chain platform for DEX and bridges all around the crypto world, based on reachability and support of top blockchains. It doesn’t matter where the user is and where he or she wants to go, Rango will be able to find the most secure, fast, and easy path for it. We currently support more than 40 blockchains, 100 DEXes, 10 bridges, and 6 different wallets, with a modern and user-friendly UX in the market.

Unlike most of the other “multi-chain” products in the market, we are not limited to any specific type of blockchain. Rango supports most of the top EVM-based, Cosmos-based, Solana and UTXO blockchains, and will soon tame Near, Polkadot, Cardano, and many more.

What makes Rango unique is to integrate top on-chain services in the market to provide the best liquidity and user experience at the same time and remove the need to use multiple services with different interfaces. All wallets can be connected to Rango to check for any tokens in any blockchains and they can be swapped to each other no matter where the source or destination is.

Rango Exchange

Kolibrio is the first BEV Relay (Broadcaster Extractable Value) that allows transaction broadcasters like RPC providers, non-custodial wallets, cross-chain bridges and dApps to offer better user experience, enable MEV-cashback, optimize infrastructure and improve the bottom line.

Kolibrio

Ref Finance is a community-led, multi-purpose DeFi platform built on NEAR Protocol. Ref Finance takes full advantage of Near’s low fees, one-to-two second finality, and WebAssembly-based runtime (hello, Rust smart contracts!).

In addition to the advantages of being built on top of NEAR, Ref Finance provides:

- Multiple pools in one contract
- Atomic transactions
- Customisable pool fee

Ref Finance

Trisolaris is a one-stop trading platform for the NEAR blockchain, running on NEAR’s Aurora engine. It is the first DEX on Aurora, enabling a seamless trading experience similar to native Ethereum for a fraction of the cost, taking advantage of the great underlying architecture provided by the Aurora engine.

Trisolaris

Burrow is a decentralized, non-custodial pool-based interest rates platform that enables users to supply assets to earn interest, and to borrow against them to unlock liquidity. Burrow is similar in nature to Aave, Compound, and other pool-based protocols.

Burrow runs natively on the NEAR blockchain, a layer 1, proof-of-stake, sharded blockchain with a WebAssembly runtime. The Burrow protocol's smart contracts are written in Rust.

Burrow aims to unlock liquidity for interest-bearing assets, particularly layer 1 staking derivatives such as stNEAR and stETH. Users of Burrow will be able to deposit stNEAR as collateral, then borrow more NEAR to create a leveraged staking position, or borrow a stablecoin to create a self-repaying position.

Burrow

Meta Pool is the liquid staking solution for NEAR and wNEAR token holders. 

Users staking NEAR and wNEAR with Meta Pool receive in exchange a NEP-141 standard token, stNEAR (staked NEAR). The stNEAR token simultaneously accrues staking rewards and unlocks users’ liquidity enabling them to participate in DeFi activities (e.g. lending, farming, borrowing) on NEAR and Aurora.

Meta Pool solves the problems associated with PoS networks staking (illiquidity, immovability and accessibility) and also aims to distribute staking in multiple validators to improve censorship-resistance of the NEAR network.

Meta Pool

With over 13M+ wallets created in four months, the Sweat Wallet is the fastest growing DApp of all time. SWEAT powers the Sweat Wallet App, which is a new Web3 portal for millions of users. Demand for SWEAT comes from i) utility – staking for rewards and yield (net deflationary), gamification, and platform token benefits and ii) buy and burn, which is funded by Sweat Foundation revenue.

With no initial investment, any user can download the app and literally ‘walk into crypto’. The Sweat Wallet can become the first crypto wallet for millions of users, which unlocks massive potential for revenue generation via advertizing and transaction fees on in-app features (purchasing crypto with fiat, crypto-crypto exchanges, NFT marketplaces, and more). This revenue will be used to buy and burn the token on the secondary market.

Sweat Еconomy

LandToEmpire is a play-to-earn mobile ready strategy game on Near Protocol. The game is set in a fantasy world where the player is the lord of the land. In LandToEmpire, players have to upgrade their land using resources gained from attacking other players lands or producing them on their land. To attack, players train different types of troops using resources. The main resources are gold and elixir. Players can unite into clans, which can then participate in clan battles, and communicate with each other.

A premium GEM token is used to speed up construction and upgrades. GEMs can be obtained by passing levels and completing various tasks.

Players can trade game tokens on the exchange, withdraw and deposit them into the game.

To trade units in the game built NFT-marketplace.

The game team supports the Proof-of-Game standard - this means that the creators of the game will not trade tokens and NFT, all tokens put up for sale will come from real players with a link to their land. The team's earnings are royalties from p2p NFT trading. Everything else is the players' earnings.

LandToEmpire

Battlemon is a competitive third-person shooter. A variety of weapons, use the attachment modules to your taste. Each character in the game is unique and is an NFT. Exciting battles 1vs1, 5vs5, Free for all.

Customization, the ability to rent your characters and much more awaits you.
The project is built on Unreal Engine 5 and NEAR blockchain, which will provide amazing performance and instant work!

BATTLEMON

At playEmber we’re all about taking that initial ember of an idea and making it into a roaring hit of a game! With years of knowledge in the hyper casual and casual gaming space we're in a perfect position to slingshot games to millions of players and keep them profitable.

With Ember Coin our Web3 arm to the business: Utilising our 100 Million Downloads to date and our mobile gaming expertise, we will add a Play & Earn element to our mobile games along with allowing external F2P game studios the tech to join the P&E EmberCoin ecosystem.

PlayEmber

HackenProof is a Web3.0 bug bounty platform trusted by the crypto market that connects its customers with the global hacker community to uncover security issues in their products.

HackenProof

The Marketing DAO allocates funding to NEAR ecosystem marketing initiatives seeking grants under $10K USD. The Marketing DAO is made up of globally distributed marketing professionals, creatives and NEAR enthusiasts.

The Marketing DAO began during the summer of 2021 to empower active members of the NEAR Community to use marketing activities to further the overall growth and expansion of the NEAR ecosystem. 

The origins of the Marketing DAO date back to the original Sputnik DAO. We were among the first to migrate to AstroDAO when it launched and to this day are amongst the most active DAOs. 

The MarketingDAO has, over the course of its time in operation, incrementally assumed responsibility for: 

- Monitoring the Forum for proposals and Community comments related to the Marketing DAO
- Reviewing proposals from Community members (guilds, DAOs, entrepreneurs, creatives and service providers) in depth to understand and evaluate their strength and value to the NEAR Community and its overall growth
- Asking questions and giving feedback with the goal and intention of allocating funds to active members of the Community aiming to deploy high-quality marketing activities to grow and expand the NEAR ecosystem
- Providing clear explanations for decisions
- Offering additional advice, support and strategic feedback via the Forum, individual meetings and other direct communications as needed to support Community members in the success of their proposals 
- Tracking the review process and council decisions regarding proposals with transparency

In addition to the above activities, we regularly request and review reports detailing metrics and analytics, as well as other supporting documentation (receipts, cost estimates, etc.) to ensure responsible allocation of Community funds.

MarketingDAO



Isn’t it quite ironic that in over ten years of blockchain technology being around, we’re still heavily reliant on web2 technologies? Show us a single web3 project that doesn’t use Twitter to share announcements or an NFT project that doesn’t host their community on Discord.

Of course, there are good reasons to use these tools. The audience is large, and the platforms are intuitive (ok, except for discord). Everyone and their grandma a can figure out how to use Facebook. When Elon bought Twitter, some hoped things would improve. Unfortunately, anyone who’s recently been rugged on a Twitter space or retweeted by an army of bots will be able to confirm that systemic issues due to centrilsation are as present as ever.

**TL;DR**

1.  While Polygon has Lens Protocol and Ethereum has Mirror—on NEAR, a team of devs is quietly building out [NEAR social](http://near.social), a crucial part of enabling the user-owned Open Web.
2.  Existing Web2 social media platforms (like Twitter) have a single point of failure, raise privacy concerns and don’t allow users to own their data, which is monetized. On the other hand, decentralised social networks like [near.social](http://near.social) aim to provide solutions for these problems through peer-to-peer networks for social interactions, content creation and distribution.
3.  In essence, [NEAR Social](http://near.social) offers a new platform for innovation, with widgets that can be combined, forked and created by anyone. Users own their data and developers can easily access public data to create their own apps. [near.social](http://near.social) has over 1400 registered profiles and is a space that brings together the brightest minds in the NEAR ecosystem.

**What’s wrong with web2 social media?**

Here is one of the biggest problems with current social: even though users create data, the data isn’t owned by them. Users’ data is monetised by selling it to advertisers. Moreover, developers who want to build using such data will need to negotiate with corporations and get API access if they are lucky — albeit within a limited capacity.

Beyond that, there is a whole array of privacy concerns with centralised social networks. Their single point of failure is an issue: When Meta’s servers go down, so does service for everyone. And if this data is to be breached, then millions of users are affected.

Fortunately, web3 is starting to spearhead viable alternatives to these platforms.

**A Decentralised Social**

Broadly speaking, decentralised social networks (DeSo) are peer-to-peer networks for social interactions, content creation, and distribution. They enable users to protect their privacy while enhancing data security through decentralised storage. By doing so, decentralized social media aims to protect users from exploits and malicious use of their data: when every transaction is on-chain, it becomes a lot harder to try and sell user data to advertisers. DeSo platforms are also censorship-resistant and open to anyone. Users won’t have to fear being banned or de-platformed by accident, as seems to often happen these days.

While Polygon has Lens Protocol and Ethereum has Mirror, on NEAR, a team of devs is quietly building out [NEAR social](http://near.social), a crucial part of enabling the user-owned Open Web.

**A bit of background on NEAR social**

NEAR social didn’t start natively on NEAR. Its first iteration lived on Mastodon, an open-source software for running self-hosted social media sites. People could use their near wallets to connect and interact with each other. However, Evgeny and the team driving NEAR social quickly realized that this wasn’t a long-term solution as it still had a single point of failure and was not censorship-resistant.

From creating a database to host social interactions (SocialDB), the project eventually evolved into an open space for people in the NEAR ecosystem to explore an open-source, decentralized alternative to Twitter.

**Getting into NEAR social**

On NEAR social users own their data, and developers can easily tap into the power of accessible public data to create their own apps. This enhances network effects as better data leads to better algorithms and, eventually, a better experience for everyone involved.

**Widgets**

When you go to the NEAR social site, pretty much everything you see is a widget. Widgets are open-source software components that can be combined, forked, and created by anyone with some coding knowledge. Widgets are prettty similar lego blocks, waiting to be turned into whatever you want them to be. An added benefit is that they can be updated and improved without recompiling all dependent widgets — making the process faster and saving computation.

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*jToYq-0Bd9XkqMNE)

NEAR social already has all the widgets necessary to offer an experience similar to Twitter, where you can create and customize your own profile, follow others, chat and create polls. They can be small things like a simple button or the entire home screen of the NEAR social app.

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*udaRvBaqXdVO8SEK)

Other available widgets / applications include an event planner, polls, Astro DAO’s bounties, a tool to keep track of new years’ resolutions, the pagoda console, a meme generator, and a tool to mint your own social avatars and use them as your pfp.

Funnily enough, at the moment a popular thing to do on NEAR social is poking. Each poke requires a transaction, so the more poking, the higher the transaction volume on NEAR.

**NEAR Social’s Impact on the NEAR Ecosystem**

The vision behind [NEAR social](http://near.social) is to build the foundation for an open web where people have real identities that go beyond just being a wallet. It’s already bringing together builders in the NEAR community and has over 1400 registered profiles.

However, NEAR social is a lot more than just a social network. It’s also a layer for innovation where developers can go wild with their ideas. As the [Ready Layer One](https://twitter.com/ready_layer_one) team has demonstrated with their idea of adding push notifications; it took them less than a day to have a first beta running.

**A Glimpse into the Future**

NEAR Social is a space that brings together the brightest minds in the NEAR ecosystem. It enables anyone to try their idea on a small scale and provides dApps ways to explore how they can integrate with DeSo.

For instance, DEXs like REF are building their own widgets to enable direct swapping for users. And near.social is not limited to NEAR dApps either — anyone can connect widgets to external ecosystems. This means that NEAR social can easily turn into the go-to entry and access point for web3 as a whole.

With the recent launch of the [mintbase affiliate links](https://twitter.com/mintbase/status/1617579220070277121?t=6GZszL8bXgA_FEAkpgyg2g&s=19), NEAR social could even turn into a more web3 native place to discover new NFTs while giving those who shared the NFT an incentive to curate.

As more and more devs get on NEAR social, the platform will improve and users will be able to find more ways to customize their interface. The barrier for someone with zero coding knowledge to do more than a few simple changes is still high — but it won’t remain this way. The more people build widgets and interfaces, the easier it’ll be to choose templates you like. There might even be drag-and-drop editors and no-code tools to empower everyone to build their own social experience.

Since its beginnings as a social database, NEAR social has come a long way. It’s definitely exciting to witness the progress it’s made in just a few months, adding social features and new widgets. So if you’re a dev, give it a shot and create a simple widget. And for those of us with less JS knowledge, set up your account and start poking back.

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/507/0*1DU4VVbn7iFyOg98)

For more on the vision and background story of the NEAR social development, you can also check out the recent [Twitter Space](https://twitter.com/NEARWEEK/status/1616421686026567682?s=20&t=CQuBxFS-8GiMwGWFk20OuQ) we held with Evgeny, the leading dev behind [near.social](http://near.social).

Who knows, maybe we will soon be having NEAR Spaces instead?

Written by [@NEAR\_intern](https://twitter.com/near_intern?s=20&t=Ogx6QnLu8ZgTzVy7lWxkXw)

Edited by [@achildhoodhero](http://twitter.com/achildhoodhero)



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### YouMinter Mainnet Release — Just Look Inside

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*gY1taoLWLFHgOfts)

The Genesis sale was a great success, thanks to your support and belief in our pioneering Web3 social app that aims to disrupt the industry in 2023. All the lucky giveaway winners, plus users who bought the CameraBox from secondary marketplaces, will finally get their promised early access to the YouMinter app. Even better, they’ll now transform their old, non-NFT posts into NFTs.

But the fun and YouMinter NFT experience doesn’t end there. We have a series of events following the Mainnet launch to help us achieve our vision of onboarding millions of users. Here is everything you need to know and anticipate.

### Mainnet Release: What it Means for YouMinter

The long-awaited Mainnet event is finally here, ushering in a new year for YouMinter users and the greater NFT community as a whole. Several months of hard work and getting bogged down by Apple’s restriction have finally paid off. We can’t wait to see users immersing themselves in the full YouMinter NFT experience, especially after opening the CameraBox. It’s now time to find out whether you have a Сommon or Uncommon NFT Camera and start exploring how it sets your experience apart within the app.

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*nyp8qZ462Tj0O9AH)

### Why You Should Start Your NFT Journey on YouMinter

YouMinter is leading the pack of platforms hoping into the Web3 social app space by breaking the barriers to entry for Web 2.0 users. Here are the benefits of starting your NFT journey on YouMinter:

**_Mobile one-stop for NFT creation and selling:_** The YouMinter app allows you to unlock all NFT functions and experiences under one app from the comfort of your mobile phone — sharing, minting, flipping, and much more.

**_Effortless onboarding and usage:_** You can get started with YouMinter in three easy steps — download, sign up, and create, regardless of your technical background. You only need the passion to start minting NFTs!

**_Available on iOS and Android:_** All Android and iOS platform users can download the app and plug into the NFT experience from the comfort of their mobile phones.

**_Integrated NEAR wallet:_** We create the NEAR wallet for you as you get started with YouMinter at the sign-up stage, saving you the hassle of going through the learning curve.

**_In-app community building:_** Make unique posts and attract other users to your timeline. If they like, share, and comment often, they will eventually follow you, enabling your profile to build an organic Web3 community.

**_Easy NFT Minting:_** The process of minting and creating NFTs in the app is simple and akin to making posts on your traditional social media platform. Just be unique and creative, and your minted NFTs will attract fans.

**_Feed & NFT history:_** You can discover new NFT collections in the feed area and leverage the NFT history tool to understand how the piece came into existence, its previous owners, as well as acquisition prices.

**_Multiple reward opportunities:_** The YouMinter app will be having various incentive programs to make the NFT experience worthwhile for you, including the Reward System based on Ownership Economy principles, staking, and referral programs.

Getting started with the YouMinter app also gives you the opportunity to finally look into your CameraBox and see which good tidings it brings. It can be a Сommon or Uncommon Camera — but either way, its rarity is unchallenged, and its value will keep growing.

### YouMinter Mission and Future Huge Plans

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*42vHz0ZV28vFB2IG)

YouMinter is on a mission to onboard the next millions of users into the NFT world from the comfort of their mobile phones. Unlike dubious NFT markets, you don’t need to buy your entry into YouMinter. In other words, we are breaking the barriers that hinder Web 2.0 users from exploring Web3. Our goal is to create a uniform experience with similar opportunities for everyone, and that’s why we hosted the Genesis Sale post this official launch on Mainnet.

In the course of Phase 1, we shall upgrade the platform with the reward’s system for user grading facilitate seamless flipping of NFTs among users. At the same time, the YouMinter team shall release more NFT collections for fans and collectors before rolling out the Global Ambassador program.

Phase 2 will be the time to upgrade your NFT Cameras for rarer experiences, as various attributes, such as lenses and filters, will be available in secondary marketplaces. Users who refer their friends and family to YouMinter shall also have something to smile for as the referral program gets deployed to Mainnet in the course of Phase 2.

The last by not least, Phase 4 is devoted to take the YouMinter in-app experience to the Metaverse with Augmented Reality (AR) integration.

### About YouMinter

YouMinter is a Web3 social network in an easy-to-use iOS and Android app with an NFT feed, followers, and likes that opens up the world of NFT to everyone and is owned by its users. By taking advantage of YouMinter, users can build their communities, follow bloggers and artists, and communicate with all of them in one single place and with the power of NFTs. Moreover, the more your community grows, the more project’s share you get. We call it Ownership Economy.

[Website](https://youminter.com/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/youminter) | [Discord](http://discord.gg/xXm2Db88n5) | [Telegram](https://t.me/youminter) | [Medium](https://youminter.medium.com/)



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### YouMinter Mainnet Release — Just Look Inside

YouMinter Mainnet Release — Just Look Inside



To help promote awareness of the benefits and great user experience of [Aurora+](https://aurora.plus/), we’re excited to announce the Aurora+ Referral Program!

Each [Aurora+](https://aurora.plus/) account holder will now find a unique “referral link” on the Aurora+ Dashboard, that can be shared with others. An account that shares a referral link is referred to as the “referrer”.

When someone accesses [Aurora+](https://aurora.plus/) through a referral link, and creates an Aurora+ account, that account is linked to the referrer account through a referral relationship, and is referred to as the “referree”.

Both the referrer and the referree can receive an AURORA airdrop, under the following eligibility conditions — described first in human terms, and second in lawyer terms:

### Human terms

> Share your referral link with a friend. If your friend creates an Aurora+ account through your link, and stakes 100 AURORA during a period of 30 days, you’ll both get a 10 AURORA airdrop.

### Legal terms

1.  Stake 100 AURORA tokens — The referree must stake a minimum of 100 AURORA tokens continuously for at least 30 days. If during those 30 days, the referree unstakes such that their staked balance drops below 100 AURORA tokens, eligibility is lost.
2.  Keep it staked for 30 days — The referree must stake the minimum of 100 AURORA tokens within seven days of account creation, otherwise eligibility is lost.
3.  Receive a 10 AURORA airdrop! — After the 30 days of uninterrupted staked eligibility, both the referrer and referree with each receive an airdrop of 10 AURORA tokens, directly staked in their Aurora+ accounts.

### Miscellaneous other terms and conditions:

1.  The referral program will be administered by Aurora Labs. At the same time, AURORA airdrop, AURORA Staking is provided by third parties, which is specified under the Aurora+ [Terms of Use](https://aurora.plus/terms).
2.  The referral program is provided “as is,” with all faults and without any warranties. Aurora Labs may not be held liable for Content, dApps, Staking, Airdrop, referral and other programs that are provided by other companies than Aurora Labs on behalf of Aurora Labs.
3.  A referrer can receive a maximum of 100 referral rewards (i.e. 1000 AURORA).
4.  It is strictly forbidden to abuse the Referral Program, for example, by referring accounts owned or controlled by the same entity.
5.  In order to protect against unforeseen methods of abuse (as experienced during the Aurora+ launch), Aurora Labs reserves the right to define at any time behavior it considers abusive and to deny referral rewards to any account or accounts it considers to be abusing the program.
6.  Aurora Labs reserves the right to pause or terminate the Referral Program at any time.
7.  These referral program will be in force until Aurora Labs terminates or changes any rights or obligations under these referral program.
8.  You agree to comply with any applicable laws and Aurora+ [Terms of Use](https://aurora.plus/terms). This referral program is void where prohibited by law.

#### About Aurora

Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) based on the layer 1 proof-of-stake blockchain NEAR Protocol. Aurora provides a solution for developers to deploy their apps on an Ethereum-compatible, high-speed, scalable, and future-proof platform with low transaction costs for their users.

[**Website**](https://aurora.dev/) **|** [**GitHub**](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine) **|** [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/auroraisnear) **|** [**Telegram**](https://t.me/auroraisnear) **|** [**Discord**](https://discord.gg/dEFJBz8HQV) **|** [**YouTube**](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5inYyvUO10iL65hBPFtpvg) **|** [**Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/auroraisnear/)

**Join the Aurora team:** [Open Positions](https://auroralabs.dev/)  
**Join our community:** [Community Guilds](https://aurora.dev/ecosystem?category=Community&subcategory=Regional+Communities+and+Community+media) | [Community Swag store](https://auroraonelove.com/)



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[Phoenix Bonds](https://phoenix.linearprotocol.org/), a novel bond protocol developed by the [LiNEAR](https://app.linearprotocol.org/) team was launched on January 16th. As the 15-day bootstrap period comes to an end, claiming is now available for users to realize gains. At the moment, Phoenix Bonds recorded a TVL of around US$1.5 million. Compared with normal NEAR staking, $pNEAR’s yield was amplified by 34 times, and the APR is currently over 310%.

Participating in Phoenix Bonds is like joining a game where you can use different strategies to level up your returns. Adopting the right strategy at the right time under the right conditions is crucial to maximizing profits. In this post, we are going to introduce three basic strategies you should know in order to maximize your earnings on Phoenix Bonds.

Explore more and start your bonding journey with Phoenix Bonds now:  
[https://phoenix.linearprotocol.org/](https://phoenix.linearprotocol.org/)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*GctbzViesqPWJx1j)

**Bond Strategy**

You bond $NEAR on Phoenix Bonds and start accumulating $pNEAR following the bonding curve. Now comes the question — when is the optimal time for you to claim the accumulated $pNEAR? Note that you can no longer cancel a bond to get back your $NEAR after claiming. Here’s what you can do to optimize your claiming and thus your profit:

1.  Monitor your break-even point. Your bond breaks even when the market value of the accumulated $pNEAR equals the $NEAR input;
2.  After surpassing the break-even point, you can either wait for a longer time to accumulate more $pNEAR, or claim your $pNEAR for profit.. After claiming, your can:
3.  Market sell your $pNEAR to take profit;
4.  Sell $pNEAR for $NEAR, rebond $NEAR, compounding your gains; Hold your $pNEAR and enjoy the perpetually amplified $NEAR staking rewards;
5.  Provide liquidity to the $pNEAR — $NEAR trading pair, to farm multiple rewards.

Note that the market price of $pNEAR fluctuates, which will affect the time needed to reach break-even, and thus your profit. But no need to worry, since Phoenix Bonds has your principal protected — you can always recover your bonded $NEAR before claiming $pNEAR. This also enables more flexible strategies, for example, users can borrow $NEAR using stablecoin as collateral, and bond the borrowed $NEAR with Phoenix Bonds. If they need to repay the debt anytime, they can always cancel the bonds, get back the borrowed $NEAR with no waiting period. Also, since $pNEAR has a fast-rising price floor, the downside is limited.

**Trading Strategy**

If you are a trader and want to make profit on the secondary market, a simple strategy is to arbitrage between $pNEAR and $NEAR. — You can buy $pNEAR when the market price of $pNEAR is close to its floor price (with a low premium), and sell $pNEAR when it is higher than the floor price (with a high premium). Claiming and rebonding will cause fluctuations in $pNEAR price, which provide opportunities for “arbitrage”.

Trading $pNEAR has limited downside risk because of the guaranteed price floor. However, this strategy does require close monitoring of the market and somewhat frequent operations. The yield generated from trading is also not as stable as the Bond Strategy.

**Liquidity Provision Strategy**

You can also choose to provide $NEAR/$pNEAR liquidity to earn trading fees and liquidity incentives. [Ref Finance](https://ref.finance/) will launchthe $NEAR/$pNEAR trading pair on February 1st and kickstart liquidity mining for all Phoenix Bonds users.

The liquidity incentive for $NEAR/$pNEAR comes from all staking rewards generated in the bootstrapping period, plus the 3% claiming fee generated every time a user claims their bonds. $pNEAR price is highly correlated with $NEAR price, meaning a much lower risk of impermanent loss to users.

These are just some of the strategies for Phoenix Bonds. You can even use a combination of them to create your own. **Phoenix Bonds’ product design has incorporated Game Theory, and it’s really a game of chicken. As long as you do it at the right time, other people’s opportunity cost will turn into your amplified yield, perpetually.**

Start the bonding game with Phoenix Bonds now and explore the strategies:

[https://phoenix.linearprotocol.org](https://phoenix.linearprotocol.org/)

_Disclaimer: Nothing in this blog constitutes investment advice, performance data or a recommendation for any individual._

If you are new to Phoenix Bonds, read the following articles to get yourself familiarized with how it works.

#### Introduction:

[LiNEAR Protocol to Launch Phoenix Bonds, a Principal-Protected Amplified Yield Product on NEAR](https://medium.com/nearprotocol/linear-protocol-to-launch-phoenix-bonds-a-principal-protected-amplified-yield-product-on-near-5d52d008f3b6)

#### Step-by-step guide:

[Getting Started on Phoenix Bonds — A Step-by-step Guide](https://medium.com/nearprotocol/getting-started-on-phoenix-bonds-a-step-by-step-guide-4ce7a4b74f76)

**About Phoenix Bonds**

Developed by [LiNEAR Protocol](https://app.linearprotocol.org/), Phoenix Bonds is a novel bonding mechanism that enables principal-protected amplified yield for end-users. Compared to the current ~10% average APY from $NEAR staking and liquid staking protocols, Phoenix Bonds can possibly amplify the yields potentially tenfold or even more.

Please follow the [LiNEAR-Phoenix Bond Twitter account](https://twitter.com/LinearProtocol) to get the latest updates.



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