Engineering Weekly Update - 2021-09-07

[nearmax]

Brief Summary

• Grain is about to release SDK for NEAR;
• We took over @frol 's personal project for near-cli and we are making it into our official near-cli;
• Check out this post if you are interested in validating one of our shards;
• Check out updated protocol roadmap;

Results

• Core team made some refactoring for state splitting, which is important for sharding;
• Core team is about to wrap up the work on new routing exchange;
• Core team also found out that Testnet does not restrict top level account creation;
• Node Interfaces team did lots of cleanup of JSON RPC and refactoring of the primitives;
• Node Interfaces did lots of work on near-api-rs;
• Developer Platform team improved how we expose execution result on JS side;
• Node Experience migrated NayDuck to use SQLAlchemy;

Challenges and Blockers

• Node Interfaces team got blocked on integrating NFT support into explorer by NFT standard mismatch;
• We created a project board to track the task of unblocking Aurora;

Full Reports

• Core;
• Developer Platform;
• Node Interfaces;
• Node Experience;
• Developer Relations.