Weekly update 2021-04-16

[artob]

Weekly update 2021-04-16

The weekly update on the forum is at:
https://gov.near.org/t/2021-04-16-evm-update/1311

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

Summary

• This week, we published EVM developer documentation updates, improved the Geth compatibility of our Web3 RPC endpoints, improved the CLI tool and client library for interacting with the EVM, designed the initial ERC-20 bridging architecture, and planned our Q2'21 objectives and roadmap.
• Next week, we are planning to substantially revamp our developer documentation to help people get started with the EVM, further improve compatibility for our Web3 RPC relayer endpoints, support the first partners onboarding to the EVM, and benchmark gas utilization of the EVM with the aim of providing analytics for improving the runtime. We will also publish our Q2’21 roadmap.

Agenda

• Current goal
• This week
• Discussion
  • ERC-20 bridging
  • Runtime benchmarking
• Next week

Current goal

• EVM release on MainNet during Q2'21

This week

Alex

• Management of the upcoming Aurora release.
• Designed an initial ERC-20 bridging architecture.
• Troubleshooted Bridge issues to do with the Berlin HF.

Arto

• Q1'21 review and Q2'21 planning with Alex, Matt, et al.
• Improved the Aurora CLI and the Aurora.js client library:
  • Fixed bugs and DevX issues reported by the team.
  • https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora.js
  • https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-cli
• Worked on improving the Aurora Relayer towards production:
  • Simplified the implementation substantially.
  • Improved Geth compatibility of RPC responses.
  • Validated supported methods one by one.
  • https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-relayer
• Set up DNS for the public relayer endpoints.
• Added and improved CI for Aurora projects.
• Supported the team with questions and PR reviews.
• Working on documentation updates:
  • https://docs.near.org/docs/develop/evm/introduction
• Working on an Ansible playbook for managing Aurora infrastructure:
  • https://github.com/aurora-is-near/aurora-playbook
• Working on supporting the first partners who wish to use the EVM.

Evgeny

• Completed NEP-141 testing for the ETH Connector.
• Fixed bugs related to EIP-712.
• Planned scope for integration tests currently ~80% complete.

Frank

• Bully sends chain/block boundaries.
• Exponential backoff for transactions.
• Found and fixed a bug in the NEAR API JS.
• https://github.com/aurora-is-near/evm-bully
• Need better error messages from the EVM.
• Need to still transfer genesis state to begin the run.

Joshua

• Got bn128 lib using latest libs and modernised
• Got bn128 tests running again (something other libs hadn't done)
• Mostly complete no-std on bn128

Michael

• Reviewed code and the ETH Connector PR.
  • EVM tokens deposit & withdraw aurora-is-near/aurora-engine#24
• Submitted additions
• Troubleshooted the size bloat of the contract:
  • Reduce contract size aurora-is-near/aurora-engine#7

Discussion

ERC-20 bridging

• https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lJyoV8I=/

Next week

• Publish roadmap and OKRs for Q2'21.

Runtime benchmarking

• Align with Illia and the Contract Runtime team (Bo, Nikolay, Aleksey).
• Collect benchmarking data for runtime improvements aurora-is-near/aurora-engine#31

Relayer deployment

• Relayer deployment for TestNet and BetaNet.
• Need to finish Aurora Relayer improvements.
• Servers, load balancers, and DNS ready to go.

Documentation updates

• Move documentation to subdomain of aurora.dev.