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AURORA

EVM

• We implemented raw_call for EVM support, which is a fundamental built-in for cross-contract calls in EVM;
• Eth-connector is a connectivity tissue between EVM and Wasm world in NEAR runtime. We have implemented, but not merged yet its no-std implementation;

Bridge

• We switched to NEP-141 standard for the fungible token support!
• Bridge front-end now also supports NEP-141!

CORE

Node Interfaces

• We released borsh-rs 0.9.0 with one non-backwards compatible change that you are unlikely to be affected by;
• We’ve done lots of fixes to nearcore and indexer to catchup with new protocol version upgrade and interface changes.

Infra

• We moved all CI scripts from nearcore into a private repository, for now;
• Follow our new near/local repository into which we will be adding Docker compose files for spinning up the entire NEAR stack locally;

Application Experience

• Check out live contract review on NFT with approvals + Marketplace;
• Check out the ongoing discussion about the improved NFT standard;

Contract Runtime

• We live-tested Wasmer 1.0;
• We experimented with rkyv serializer and it shows great performance improvement for contract loading. And it is not as crazy unsafe as abomonation;

Chain

• We found an issue related to how we store refcounts in Rocksdb and we are currently investigating it;
• We added versioning to the ValidatorStake structure. This is an important step for switching to the new block/chunk selection algorithm.

Network

• We found that the cause of occasional slowness of the new routing table computation algorithm is in iteration through routing table edges. We will be testing it more…