Chain

• We have extracted near-memory-tracker into a separate repository! Consider using it. It has lower performance overhead than Valgrind, it can track linked C/C++ dependencies, and it can dump memory without affecting the process.
• We have added block ordinal in addition to block height which enables implementation of the light speed sync;

Berry Pickers

• Check out community call on the Fungible Token Standard;
• Join discussion on the Account Registration Standard;

Bridge

• We have finished the monitoring infrastructure and can now collect the metrics. This is needed so that we can provide SLA/SLO for our users;
• We are now also discussing adding BLS signatures for validators;

EVM

• We onboarded two more developers together with the Bridge team!
• We have also added many more CryptoZombie tests;

Contract Runtime

• We merged the code that adds IO costs to our gas fees;
• Wasmer 1.0 support is so close!

Node Interfaces

• Structured error messages are underway for NEAR node RPC;

Infra

• We released nearup 0.8.1 with MacOS support, automatic restarts, see full list of improvements here;
• We have added MacOS X release pipeline.