Engineering Weekly Update - 2021-11-01

Development Engineering Updates
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Brief Summary

  • Testnet release of nearcore 1.22.0 that enables sharding is complete!
  • Check out the new docs on running an RPC node;
  • NEARCON was great, check out the talks below;
  • Consider upgrading your NFT contracts to use the NFT events standard;
  • If you need access to Explorer database reach out on Zulip, since public access reached its limits;

Progress

  • Node Interfaces have done quite a lot of work on RPC errors schema and RPC tests, for near-jsonrpc-client-rs release;
  • Node Interfaces released Indexer for Explorer 0.10.3-rc.1 with nearcore 1.22.0-rc.2 which enabled sharding;
  • Node Interfaces also added mega-/kilo- for storage display in Explorer and sped-up the search;
  • Contract Runtime team has updated nearcore to Rust 2021 / rustc 1.56;
  • Contract Runtime team fixed compilation for M1 chips;
  • Node Experience moved us out of the Azure;
  • Node Experience have made lots of cleanups of Python tests;
  • Node Experience also did a major revamp of Terraform scripts;
  • Core released a PR that will limit number of Wasm functions in a contract to 10k;

Full Reports

NEARCON | Alpha

It was a blast. Check out the talks here:

Day 1

  • 00:00 Day 1 Kick Off
  • 19:00 MC: Mildred Idada – Opening remarks: NEARCon kick off
  • 20:05 Yessin Schiegg & Wouter Crul – NEAR, the Carbon Neutral Protocol
  • 34:15 Frederick Fournier – Open Forest Protocol – Bridging Climate and Blockchain
  • 45:15 llia Polosukhin – Near Inc. – Keynote: The World Reimagined
  • 1:30:15 James Young & Caleb Gates – Colabland – WeFi -Communities x Media x DAOs (VIDEO)
  • 1:42:00 Break
  • 3:37:00 Mildred Idada – OWC – Introduction of 2nd half day: Creatives and a Peak into the NEAR Ecosystem
  • 3:37:42 Peter De Paulo, Mally Andersen – Satori – Building crypto products for artists
  • 3:55:45 Ed Young – NFTs/Creatives – From Music To Politics – New Consumer Adoption
  • 4:14:18 Carolin Wend & Nate Geier – Mintbase – Pioneering the Utility Purposeful NFTs
  • 4:30:22 Alexander Dettke – Wilde Möhre GmbH – The festival is NEAR
  • 4:38:50 Jason Schadt (Vandal) – DAO Records – DAOifying the Music Industry
  • 4:56:15 Peter Salomonsen – Web Assembly Music – WebAssembly Music on NEAR
  • 5:21:50 Minting Music Guild
  • 5:36:56 Jordan Gray – Astro Launch – Astro on NEAR for Mainstream DAOs
  • 5:51:20 Kendall Cole – Proximity Labs/Ref – The State of NEAR’s DeFi Ecosystem
  • 6:18:04 Sasha Hudzilin – Human Guild – Future of Gaming

Day 2

  • 00:00 Day 2 Kick Off
  • 16:53 MC: Ozymandius – Opening
  • 21:14 Josh Quintal – NEAR Inc – Developer Console - What’s New in Developer Tooling? Introducing Dev Console
  • 42:18 Sofia Kachula Vasilya Rafikova – Open Web Sandbox – Co-founder - OWS: Enabling NEAR community through decentralised leadership
  • 1:05:15 Erik Trautman – Near Foundation – CEO - Key Note
  • 1:43:44 MC: Matt Hussey
  • 1:47:32 Dr Steven Waterhouse – Fabric/NEAR – Fireside Chat with Erik
  • 3:11:18 Maksym Zavershynskyi – NEAR Inc – Sharding and Things to Come
  • 4:00:18 Adrian Brink – Anoma – Resilience, Sovereignty & Privacy to save the future
  • 4:23:20 Alex Shevchenko – Aurora – Token consistency: Solving the interconnected blockchains problem
  • 5:11:38 Ajit Tripathi & Marc Zeller – Aave – The path to deploying aave on NEAR
  • 5:33:53 Adam Fuller – The Graph – Indexing and querying layer of the decentralized web
  • 5:55:27 Lane Rettig and Illia – Fireside Chat – The worse (except for all the others): the promise and pitfalls
  • 6:39:24 Richard Muirhead (Fabric VC), Jake Brukham (CoinFund), David Gan ((OP Fund)), Erik Trautman (NEAR Foundation) – Panel: Web3 Founder’s Journey & QA
  • 7:35:33 Ending Remarks
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