Brief Summary

• We have updated nearcore ownership to speedup PR reviews;
• We now have high-level contract examples for JS SDK, see status message and counter. They look very DevX friendly!
• We have launched NEAR Lake Framework which has lots of advantages over the existing Indexer Framework. Check out the tutorial;
• Consider providing feedback on removing payable check for non-mutable functions;;

Results

• Developer Tools are working on cleaning up the logic of how receipts are handled in nearcore. This is important for future DevX improvements of the protocol;
• Developer Tools are adding fast-forward feature to workspaces-rs which is important to achieve feature-parity with Truffle/Ganache;
• Developer Tools are replacing state-cleanup with state-replacement contract;
• Data Platform team are changing explorer backend from Postgres to SingleStore, which should increase the stability of explorer;
• Data Platform added a new table to near-analytics for burnt gas;
• Infrastructure team refactored Terraform configs to enable resizing disks on the fly. This is very important for cost reduction;
• Infrastructure team have kicked off Operational Readiness Review for the Developer Console;
• Node Experience added documentation on migrating staking pool;
• Node Experience added compressed genesis on Testnet and Betanet;
• Developer Console are figuring out AstroDAO integration;
• Developer Console did lots of improvements of appearance;

Blockers and Challenges

• Many people and teams have been affected by the ongoing world events;

Full Reports

• Data Platform;
• Developer Tools;
• Indexer;
• Infrastructure;
• Node Experience;
• Developer Console;

Hi @nearmax! great updates and a lot of work being done! I hope everyone is keeping safe !

nearmax:

…changing explorer backend from Postgres to SingleStore

Can you please comment on how (and if) this change may have an impact on overall costs (tx fees) for using the NEAR network? In the end, any network cost ties into the tx fees.

The Indexer is a free-service (for now) but I’m not sure if the move to NEAR Lake (and components upgrades such as the above) will lead into a SaaS model in the future?

Thanks!
Matias

waldmatias:

Can you please comment on how (and if) this change may have an impact on overall costs (tx fees) for using the NEAR network? In the end, any network cost ties into the tx fees.

This change is affecting only how easily RPC nodes can serve queries, not how quickly the protocol can process transactions. It does not change tx prices, which is a protocol-level thing.

waldmatias:

The Indexer is a free-service (for now) but I’m not sure if the move to NEAR Lake (and components upgrades such as the above) will lead into a SaaS model in the future?

We are developing paid services that will provide availability and other guarantees, along side maintaining an ability for community members to run their own infrastructure at their own cost. The details are still being figured out. CC @tiffanygyj who is our Data Platform PM.

Hi @waldmatias Thank you for your interest and question.
NEAR Lake is a tool we design to serve as an easier and much cheaper way for developers to build their own indexers based on their specific data needs.
As Max mentioned, we are figuring out details on how to best serve community’s data needs with great availability, stability and experiences and with different options on cost implication.
We will publish updates and progress and welcome all feedbacks.