# Engineering Weekly Update - 2021-09-07

**URL:** <https://gov.near.org/t/engineering-weekly-update-2021-09-07/5445>\
**Category:** Engineering Updates\
**Tags:** weekly-updates\
**Created:** [September 7, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/engineering-weekly-update-2021-09-07/5445 "2021-09-07T18:25:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![nearmax](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/nearmax/32/13344_2.png) [@nearmax](https://gov.near.org/u/nearmax)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/engineering-weekly-update-2021-09-07/5445/1 "2021-09-07T18:25:35Z")

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# Brief Summary

- [Grain](https://grain-lang.org/) 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](https://github.com/near/near-cli-rs);
- Check out [this post](https://near.org/decentralize/) if you are interested in validating one of our shards;
- Check out [updated protocol roadmap](https://airtable.com/shr5C1rS95KoeTt7p/tblJZk0vjX6r3gqU5);

# 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](https://github.com/near/nearcore/pull/4112);
- 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](https://github.com/near/near-jsonrpc-client-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](https://near.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/295801-dev-developer-platform/topic/NFT.20standard.20mismatch);
- We created [a project board to track the task of unblocking Aurora;](https://github.com/orgs/near/projects/27)

# Full Reports

- [Core](https://github.com/near/community/discussions/95);
- [Developer Platform](https://github.com/near/community/discussions/94);
- [Node Interfaces](https://github.com/near/nearcore/discussions/4789);
- [Node Experience](https://github.com/near/community/discussions/93);
- [Developer Relations](http://gov.near.org/t/devrel-weekly-update-we-09-04-21/5466).