AURORA

EVM

• Matt Henderson joined our team!
• We tested ETH Connector from Ropsten to the NEAR Testnet;
• We streamlined our EVM stress testing tool to talk directly to NEAR JSON-RPC, instead of using Web3 emulation layer.

Bridge

• We made lots of incremental improvements to the bridge: added selection of networks to the UI, added various upgradability improvements, started working on NEP-141 standard integration, etc;

CORE

Berry Pickers

• We added contract standards into near-sdk-rs!
• Check out contract review of berry cards. We discuss the trick on efficiently using env::storage_*;

Transaction Runtime

• We first made our accounts to be versioned but then decided to revert it, because we broke some tests;

Chain

• We created simulator for the new validator selection algorithm;
• We tried optimizing our trie iterator using rocksdb batch reads but unfortunately it did not give us performance boost;

Network

• We are actively working on new routing table implementation, but don’t have any complete code to show, yet

Node Interfaces

• New endpoint experimental_protocolConfig is now exposed in near-api-js;
• New actix version broke some of our error propagation, but we managed to fix it.

Contract Runtime

• We made our Wasm VM benchmarks more sophisticated;
• We sped up simulation tests by adding contract caching.