SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Proximity Labs, a private incubator and research firm focused on the ecosystem of the NEAR Protocol, have recently seen the completion of funding rounds for two of the projects they incubated. Ref Finance, a community-led, multi-purpose decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, and Octopus Network, a sidechain network to host Web3.0 application-specific blockchains, aka appchains, raised over 1.7 million NEAR and some DAI and ETH valued at over $15 million in today’s pr