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Aurora Update [2021-06-04]

The recording is available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTfIUTzha2s&list=PL9tzQn_TEuFV2O7twBM-41lCDq5nr8nLm

Summary

TBD

Agenda

  • Status & current goal
  • Last week
  • This week
  • Discussion
    • AuroraDAO
    • NEAR->Ethereum slow transfers
  • Next week

Status & current goal

We've launched a faucet and a front end for the ETH bridging, block explorer launching later this week, we've announced a partnership with Injective protocol

Last week

https://hackmd.io/@arto/SkaXnQpK_

This week

Ahmed Ali

Alex Shevchenko

Arto Bendiken

  • Stood up a TestNet faucet:
  • Worked on deploying a block explorer (BlockScout).
  • Supported partners and early adopters, troubleshooting and fixing a number of issues.
  • Supported the team with numerous matters.
  • Organized tickets and logistics for EthCC[4] and submitted two talk proposals.
  • Interviewed candidates for open positions.

Evgeny Kapun

  • Transisioning to NEAR Core Team.
  • Continuing working on the host functions.

Evgeny Ukhanov

  • Eth-connector u128 json parsing bug-fix and additional tests PR #125.
  • SputnikDAOv2 research & investigation. CLI & UI testing.
  • Aurora-engine code reviews.

Frank Braun

Issued filed for all three testnet errors (reproducable with evm-bully replay-tx):

Joshua J. Bouw

  • Finished up Math API PR and worked with Bowen to complete it.
  • Started work on Berlin hard fork on Aurora Engine.
    • Cost changes are done
    • Reviewed upstream EVM what else needs to be done
  • Updated to latest EVM Core
  • Worked on unblocking Frank's issue, still pending.
  • Interviewed potential hires.
  • Various code reviews

Kirill Abramov

Marcelo Fornet

Matt Henderson

  • Testnet Bridge UI coordination, testing, and launch.
  • Began blog article about how the bridge works.
  • Began DAO app specification.
  • Internal and partner meetings around eNEAR liquidity.
  • Added the Ropsten & Aurora faucets to the Testnet Resources tab.

Michael Birch

Pierre-Alain Ouvrard

Discussion

AuroraDAO

  • General info on the DAO:
    • Member management
    • DAO can update itself
    • Control groups: RB contracts and Aurora contract
    • Token creation / attaching the existing token to a DAO
    • Token contract update
    • What additional functions are there in SputnikDAO
  • NEP-141 bridging to Aurora:
    • Update the vanilla implementation of bridged ERC-20 inside the Aurora
  • Aurora token to be bridged to NEAR or natively created on NEAR?
    • Custom Aurora token connector
    • Finalise ERC-20 connector for NEP-141 transfers
    • Two tokens with additional contracts to swap the tokens

Bridge stats

Relayers update

  • Idea: make relayers spend fixed budget instead of periodic transactions

Next week

  • Ahmed Ali:
    • Finalizing the Hardhat example.
    • Iterating with Arto on the metamask notification issue.
    • Troubleshooting other invalid argument issues.
    • More docs.
    • Shadowing Marcelo and Joshua in the interview.
  • Alex Shevchenko:
    • Legal setup
    • Invest round
    • Hiring
  • Arto Bendiken:
    • Faucet funding.
    • Document all the things.
    • Roll out edge infrastructure.
    • CLI for the ETH & ERC-20 connectors.
    • Hiring.
  • Evgeny Kapun:
    • Review of the host functions PR
  • Evgeny Ukhanov:
    • Continue research of SputnikDAOv2
    • TBD
  • Frank Braun:
    • support Joshua with evm-bully errors
    • if fixed, rerun
    • if idle, near-api-go improvements
  • Joshua J. Bouw:
    • Berlin HF (upstream contributions)
    • evm-bully errors fixing
  • Kirill Abramov:
    • support the release of the event-relayer on mainnet.
    • finish eth-connector precompiles and tests for it.
    • continue on storage regression tests.
    • aurora-engine reviews.
  • Marcelo Fornet:
    • Finalising the event-relayer and deploying it
    • Adding the monitoring for event-relayer
    • Finalising ERC-20 exit precompiles and releasing it
    • Clean ups in the repos
  • Matt Henderson:
    • Integrate faucet into the bridge UI
    • Continue with DAO specification
    • Try to get the UI going on Iteration 1
    • Finish bridge blog article
    • Support eNEAR liquidity next steps
  • Michael Birch:
    • Documentation
    • Testnet automated deploy (at least some work towards this probably won't finish)
    • sdk refactor (if there is time)
  • Pierre-Alain Ouvrard:
    • Transfer finalization checks to NEAR
    • Finish web3js -> ethersjs
    • Aurora exits ?