Engineering Weekly Update - 2021-08-16

nearmax · August 16, 2021, 5:59pm

Brief Summary

DevRel launched office hours! Jump in if you have any technical questions on NEAR. It will be hosted in the #dev-support Office Hours channel under DEVELOPMENT on our Discord server.
- 12-2PM PST - Tuesdays
- 9-11AM PST - Fridays
NEAR node 1.21.0-rc is going to be released on ~~2021-08-16~~ (UPD: 2021-08-23). If you are using indexer, you might want to recompile it based on new commit before ~~2021-08-18~~ (UPD: 2021-08-25) to avoid it getting stuck. For any questions write here;
NEAR Data Center is launching;
Check out discussion on “sandboxing” smart contracts;
Core is making steady progress with sharding, runtime is parallelized and node syncing is underway together with state sharding;
You can now see USD value of tokens in Wallet;

Explorer got Chinese and Vietnamese languages thanks to @that86, @IsQiao , and @robertyan ;
Indexer for Explorer 0.8.0 was released, adding historical circulating supply feature;
Developer Platform merged several optimizations into Rust SDK;
Node Experience did lots of performance optimizations to Nayduck latency;
Node Experience added --disable-rpc flag to NEAR node;
Core and Contract Runtime teams fixed param estimator issue related to lto and cargo profile;
Core wrote documentation on how our Trie works . It is a non-trivial design and it is great that we started building documentation for it;
Core merged parallelization of chunks and started working on parallelization of catch-up!
Core implemented ShardLayout and ShardConfig structures;
Network added Python wrapper for RPC used for network testing;
Wallet now displays NFT tokens in wallet;

Please contribute to Explorer self-identification here!
Contract Runtime team is still reworking fee estimator, lots of issues were found. Also, we have previously updated our fees only a little bit, so a major refactoring is underway by @Longarithm to enable clean large updates;
Wallet team is considering adding a contract to all accounts created through coin-op, this can add work to Developer Platform, Developer Relations, and Node Interfaces teams. CC @jim , @josh , @frol ;