Chain

• We managed to run 8 shards with 2k TPS. The next step is 4k TPS, the bottlenecks are mostly around suboptimalities of network communication, so nothing in protocol is fundamentally stopping us from growing TPS further. And we haven’t even started optimizing performance of a single shard. We are also now focusing more on the networking layer;
• Join discussion on adding secp signatures for validators;

Infra

• We added support for coredumps to allow us better diagnostics;
• We are working on Terraform configs that would allow anyone to launch their own RPC nodes;

EVM

• Join discussion on using native Ethereum token in NEAR EVM;
• We’ve been running EVM on betanet and Balancer contracts pass all the tests.

Bridge

• Join discussion on the new fungible token standard;
• Check out updated bridge UI;

Contract runtime

• We started working on making NEAR node run on Apple Silicon hardware natively;
• Join discussion on the future support and integration of AssemblyScript by NEAR;

Node Interfaces

• http://explorer.near.org/ Is now using the Indexer, which allows us to show more data;
• Working on adding strictly typed RPC errors so that if in the future NEAR updates dependencies we do not accidentally break user frontend that might be expecting specific string format of an error;

Berry Pickers (About Berry Pickers here)

• Fixed issues with EVM gas counting;
• Reviewed Bananaswap contract.

I love having this update because it gives some specific progress nuggets to pass on to the community. “Plain English” micro updates are very helpful. Thank you.

Thanks for posting these! Can also feed into weekly updates that @jlwaugh is working on …