Weekly update 2020-12-11

[alexauroradev]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQ_gPVgPIw&t=3414

Current goal

No cache feature was leaked not related to nearcore through EVM merge; fixed. Working on proxy JSON-RPC. Working on meta transactions. Working on the testing.

Weekly update

Alex:

• Partner survey finished with @artob
• Brainstorming on EVM toolset with @artob

Arto:

• Hiring to EVM and Wallet teams
• Work on PetShop tutorial
• Finishing the work on Anemone
• Took over JSON-RPC proxy (link)
• Berlin hardfork is on schedule; OpenEthereum version that will support this is 3.1.*...
  • The number of OpenEthereum nodes is rising in the Ethereum network

Bo:

• Doing refactoring of meta-tx PR
• Finished RLP decoding from the function args

Eugene:

• Plans to work on benchmarking

Frank:

• Finished work on CryptoZombies, extended the tests of the EVM, some tests to be added
• Onboarding with nearcore codebase

Mike:

• Network config put into the near-web3-provider
• Added the creation of testing accounts to near-cli
• Updated the PetShop readme
• Some clean up needs to be done with Balancer core

Discussion

• Chain_ID specification needs to be added to the building scripts of nearcore?
  • Chain_ID needs to be added @mikedotexe to create a task on this.
• Management of the projects
  • Alex AI: try ZenHub and report next week
• Movement to Discord is done!
• Structured error messages from nearcore
  • @bowenwang1996 to rebase PR and include this into the scope of Q1
• Bo is moving to the other team starting January