Check out this thread on the work behind the scenes done by the Berry Pickers and the Contract Runtime teams!

CORE

Chain

• Routing table computation is now 200x faster than before;
• Check out our whiteboard session with Proxima on Urkel Trees;

Node Public Interfaces

• We exposed JSON RPC method EXPERIMENTAL_protocol_config to fetch latest Protocol Config (this is different from EXPERIMENTAL_genesis_config, since our protocol is upgradable);

Berry Pickers

• Check out our contract review of Wrapper NEAR here;
• near-sdk 3.0.0-pre-release is published check out the new features here;

Infra

• Graylog and Elastic Search are now operational on all networks;
• We have discovered huge cost optimization opportunities for our cloud instances;

AURORA

Bridge

• Check out this low-level guide for testing Ropsten bridge.
  • ETH to NEAR transfer takes ~80k ETH Gas and 64 NEAR TGas, or 20 USD at the moment of writing.
  • NEAR to ETH transfer takes ~281k ETH Gas and 13 NEAR TGas or 93 USD at the moment of writing. We are working on reducing these costs even further.
• Fixed a tricky bug with Ropsten bridge;

EVM

• We extracted our EVM stress-testing tool into evm-bully repo
• We did a bunch of work on adding necessary host functions to NEAR runtime for EVM, see: RIPEMD-160, BLAKE2b, ecrecover and alt_bn128.