# Aurora Update [2021-06-18]

The recording is available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHQCDIBAwFI

## Summary
TBD

## Agenda
- Status & current goal
- Last week
- This week
- Discussion
- Rainbow Bridge website outage due to DDoS
- Sporadic Testnet transaction issues
- Next week

## Status & current goal
- Contracts for ETH & ERC-20 connectors fully released on Testnet (transfers between Ethereum <> NEAR <> Aurora):
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/releases/tag/1.3.0
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/releases/tag/1.4.0
- Testnet faucet UI is updated: https://testnet.aurora.dev/faucet
- Testnet bridge video is release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSJee846gv0
- Testnet Rainbow Bridge deployment now auto-finalizes transfers from Ethereum to NEAR (ERC-20)
- This fixes the problem with Ledger-protected accounts on NEAR
- To be delivered to the Mainnet today

## Last week
https://hackmd.io/@arto/HkbS9skiO

## This week

### Ahmed Ali

Working on:
- [aurora-relayer#22](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-relayer/pull/22)
- [lollyswap#1](https://github.com/lightyagamoon/lollyswap/pull/1)
- [aurora-examples#0c456ae](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-examples/commit/ca99e6b53ec7de1a580a185a6028e665fadfa04f)
- [doc.aurora.dev#21](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/doc.aurora.dev/pull/21)
- [eth-connector#19](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/eth-connector/issues/19) still WIP.

PR Reviewes:

- [doc.aurora.dev#22](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/doc.aurora.dev/pull/22)
- [eth-connector#20](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/eth-connector/pull/20)

Researching:
- What are the alternatives for minimizing `Aurora->Ethereum` transaction finality (< 4hrs) with lower gas fees. More info will be added to this [discussion thread](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/rainbow-bridge/discussions/569).

### Alex Shevchenko
- Working on funding round
- Finishing investor meetings
- Gathering feedback from the investors
- Communication of the updated term sheet
- Reimagine v9.0 Panel discussion with DODO and Arbitrum
- Arab blockchain week:
- A talk [Aurora: a solution to extend Ethereum economy](https://arabblockchainweek.events.whova.com/Agenda/1752258)
- Panel discussion [Investing in Blockchain](https://arabblockchainweek.events.whova.com/Agenda/1754689)
- Spin out management matters
- New hire: Dmitry, DevOps to join Aurora in July :tada:
- Discussions around new bridges in NEAR ecosystem:
- Dragon bridge: NEAR <> BSC
- ?????? bridge: NEAR <> Polygon

### Arto Bendiken
- Supported the review and release of the ETH & ERC-20 connectors.
- Reviews and release management for two Aurora Engine releases:
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/compare/1.2.0...1.3.0
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/compare/1.3.0...1.4.0
- Troubleshooted and fixed bugs in collaboration with Ahmed.
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-relayer/issues/19
- https://doc.aurora.dev/develop/changelog
- Investigated issues on Testnet:
- https://api.aurora.dev
- Continued work on setting up BlockScout for Aurora Testnet:
- Sorted out dependency hell to make the app work:
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/blockscout
- https://github.com/poanetwork/ex_abi/pull/58
- Tested the different RPC compatibility modes
- Added support for needed nonstandard RPC methods:
- Geth's `txpool` APIs:
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-relayer/issues/20
- Parity's equivalent APIs
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-relayer/commits/master
- Reviewed the Berlin and London HF situation with Joshua.

### Evgeny Kapun
- Resolving issues with the Math API PR with Joshua.
- Ethereum uses different ways to verify signatures in different places

### Evgeny Ukhanov
Completed [aurora-dao-ui](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-dao-ui) adoption to aurora-dao (sputnik-dao-v2) smart contract functionality. What currently included:
- DAO creation
- DAO's list
- DAO info
- DAO Proposals list
- Proposal info
- Proposal voting
- Proposal creation:
- Add Member To Role
- Change Config
- Remove Member From Role
- Transfer
(*Another kind of proposal seems redundant for ui, and can be operated via `near cli`. But it's easy to add a new one*)
- Deployed to:
- http://aurora-dao.ukhanov.org.ua (*for tests reason only*)
- http://dao.aurora.dev (currently for unknown reason **web access denied** (but `curl` command is work))

### Frank Braun

- Setup Slack with Slack Connect for Aurora Labs. Please sign up if you haven't done so.
- A lot of infrastructure work (-> Monday call).
- Interviewing candidates.
- Respond to DDoS on Thursday and bring bridge frontend back up (with Marcelo).

### Joshua J. Bouw
- Supported Kirill during release to ensure that his last PRs were good to go.
- Supported exit-precompiles.
- Hiring
- Been working with Evgeny Kapun on the last parts of the Math API [nearcore#3954](https://github.com/near/nearcore/pull/3954)
- Got EIP-2565 into the release for Berlin. [aurora-engine#138](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/138)
- Updated near-blake2 lib with changes to support Kapun's concerns. [near-blake2#4e2427](https://github.com/near/near-blake2/commit/4e24273b0feb24b835f00a2606fe1287bec3b557), [near-blake2#29a15a](https://github.com/near/near-blake2/commit/29a15a1ffa3bfb7baa54318c89ee6cfebaf4d590).
- Been working on a plan to update Sputnik VM upstream which is the preface for the Berlin changes. Need to get their team happy with that direction.
- Reviews. [aurora-engine#136](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/136), [aurora-engine#142](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/142), [aurora-engine#147](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/147), [aurora-engine#146](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/146)

### Kirill Abramov
- PRs:
- Created [aurora-engine#141](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/141)
- Created [aurora-engine#146](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/146)
- Created [aurora-engine#147](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/147)
- Created [aurora-engine#148](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/148)
- Created [aurora-engine#150](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/150)
- Created [aurora-engine#153](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/153)
- Commited to [eth-to-near-event-relayer #6](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/eth-to-near-event-relayer/pull/6)
- Commited to [eth-connector#21](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/eth-connector/pull/21)
- Reviewed [rainbow-token-connector#53](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/rainbow-token-connector/pull/53)
- Reviewed [aurora-engine#142](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/142)
- Reviewed [aurora-engine#143](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/143)
- Reviewed [aurora-engine#145](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/145)
- Reviewed [aurora-engine#149](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/149)
- Reviewed [aurora-engine#151](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/151)
- Support the release of ETH-connector and exit-precompiles.
- Implementation of ERC-20 exits Hardhat tests & storage regression tests: WIP.
- eNEAR: debugging, working on bugs fixes and new functionality.
- Event-relayer improvements, healthness and liveness probes, refactoring: WIP.
- Event-relayer: researching different issues appeared.
- Eth-connector scripts: some improvements, prepare scripts for Mainnet deployment.
- Many discussions with members of the team.

### Marcelo Fornet

- Attend & Resolve incident with the hosting of ethereum.bridgetonear.org (With @FrankBraun)
- Release of aurora with support for external ERC20 and Eth transfers:
- [Rainbow-Token-Connector](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/rainbow-token-connector/pull/53)
- Reased and deployed on NEAR Testnet
- [Aurora-Engine](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/51)
- Testing workflows for transfers [WIP]
- Building docker images to interact with bridge + aurora
- [WIP](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/bridge-ops/pull/10)
- Relayer to finalize transactions Ethereum -> (NEAR / AURORA)
- DevOps
- [Support for eNEAR connector](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/eth-to-near-event-relayer/pull/6)
- [Start review of NFT connector](https://github.com/near/rainbow-non-fungible-token-connector/pull/2)
- Misc
- Giving support in external channels:
- [SO](https://github.com/near/near-cli/issues/793)
- [Contribute to etherjs](https://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js/pull/1687)

### Matt Henderson
- **Not done**: Hoped-for bridging UI of ETH & ERC-20 tokens between Ethereum and Aurora, as some of the infrastructure dependencies were still outstanding.
- **Done**: The faucet UI is done and integrated. Remaining todos for publication:
- **Done**: Added Google Analytics to the site, and removed Google Tag Manager, as it was unused and breaking some client-side navigation methods, causing full refreshes.
- **Done**: Added author attributes to the blog articles, with links to Twitter.
- Discussion with Pierre about how we can do NEAR <> Aurora bridging.
- Miscelleaneous administrative meetings and issues, including around support systems and knowledge base process, and how our team works in Basecamp.

### Michael Birch

- NEAR Bootcamp presentation
- EIP-2565 support assistance:
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/138#pullrequestreview-683035131
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/138/commits/066dca6e564d4ad0ccbe0e2ec1071cd918cde38a
- Enforce style guid in docs via CI:
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/doc.aurora.dev/pull/22
- Bridge tutorial video
- Testing `ExitToNear` precompile with ETH
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/151
- Minor refactoring:
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/142
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/149
- PR reviews:
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/125#pullrequestreview-681885690
- https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-engine/pull/136#pullrequestreview-681961342

### Pierre-Alain Ouvrard
- Client libs refactoring
- Aurora-NEAR draft from rainbow-bridge-frontend and discussion with Matt
- Work on the new faucet with Alex
- Exit ETH from Aurora: client + frontend

### Yulian Lavysh
- spoke to potential BD and Social media candidates
- identified a few founders interested in participating in a Fundraise
- spoke to Dani about including Aurora in some events so we have a spot (co-sponsoring?) at a Dinner with SushiSwap
- experimenting with 2 contractors on media/ops side
- research of esteemed colleagues' twitter accounts and most popular hashtags
- evaluating Discord and identifying needed bots nad channels
- working on creating on-going marketing campaigns (check basecamp)

## Discussion

### Rainbow Bridge Frontend outage due to DDoS

### Sporadic Testnet transaction issues

## Next week
- Ahmed Ali:
- Continue working on
- [eth-connector#19]()
- Adding my proposal to this [discussion thread](https://github.com/aurora-is-near/rainbow-bridge/discussions/569).
- More docs.
- Alex Shevchenko:
- Finalising the round
- DAO formation
- Support with ETH & ERC-20 connetor relase on Mainnet
- Arto Bendiken:
- Hiring and interviews.
- Backfill and index the historical block data.
- Finish the the block explorer roll out.
- Finish the edge infrastructure roll out.
- Support the ETH & ERC-20 connector Mainnet roll out.
- Evgeny Kapun:
- Keep working on the Math API
- Evgeny Ukhanov:
- TBD, work on Aurora DAO
- Frank Braun:
- Mostly infrastructure & security work (tons of tasks in Basecamp)
- CI (sync with Michael)
- Sync with Marcelo
- Sync with Arto regarding infrastructure
- Work on high level quality & security strategy
- Joshua J. Bouw:
- Continual Berlin HF support.
- Will have a plan by Monday on how we will be tackling it on Sputnik.
- Math API finalisations.
- Kirill Abramov:
- Finish precompile-exits Hardhat tests & storage regression test, add to CI.
- Support ETH & ERC-20 connector release on Mainnet.
- Event-relayer: continue on healthness, liveness probes and refactoring.
- Aurora-engine reviews.
- Marcelo Fornet:
- Test workflows for tokens between networks (build these tests and them to CI)
- Fix CI for rainbow-bridge + rainbow-token-connector
- Merge (& close) open PR in both repositories
- Continue with testing setup for bridge + aurora
- Continue reviewing NFT connector
- What to do with the frontend for this?
- Matt Henderson:
- ETH/ERC-20 Bridging UI
- DAO first actions (delayed from last week)
- Look into HelpScout setup
- Michael Birch:
- NYC Crypto presentation/demo
- New tests for exit precompiles (following up PR #151)
- Berlin HF support? (need to sync with Joshua)
- Other refactoring
- Pierre-Alain Ouvrard:
- Aurora exits (ETH + ERC20)
- NEAR <> Aurora bridging
- Yulian Lavysh:
- Wrapping up the round
- Working with Matt on HelpScout
- Setting up the analytics on the project
- Kickcing off first marketing campaigns
- Continue recruiting