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Welcome to the latest edition of NEAR Dev NEWS!

Pull up a chair because your developer news is here. Updates include the announcement of a Bitcoin Light Client, the spinning out of NEAR One from Pagoda, the formation of a new Chain Abstraction Team, Protocol Update 69, and more. To get NEAR Dev News first each week SUBSCRIBE to our mailing list. Let's dive in!

News

  1. Bitcoin Light Client is Here Aurora Labs have recently created a Bitcoin Light Client enabling NEAR to verify Bitcoin transactions. This is set to further streamline multi-chain use cases in tandem with chain signatures. The light client is already being used by the Satoshi Bridge and Allstake. Read the full article 👉 LINK

  2. NEAR One and New Chain Abstraction Team NEAR One, which is developing the core NEAR blockchain protocol, is spinning out of Pagoda and a new Chain Abstraction Team is being formed. Because of this, Pagoda will be winding down with its projects moving to the Infrastructure Committee and team members moving to other ecosystem nodes. Read the full announcement 👉 LINK

  3. Major Protocol Upgrade As of the 15th of August NEAR has introduced stateless validation enabling NEAR to become a fully sharded blockchain 👉 LINK

  4. Testnet Explorer Selector https://explorer.testnet.near.org/ now hosts the explorer selector on testnet meaning tools can provide a transaction link where the user gets to decide which explorer they would like to use.

  5. NEAR Snapshot Did you know that Allnodes provides snapshots of NEAR that give the whole state of the blockchain? New snapshots are taken every 24 hours 👉 LINK

  6. Interact with any chain from your L2 Firat from Nuffle dropped a fire thread about how L2s can use chain signatures with NEAR DA to sign transactions on any chain 👉 LINK

  7. SourceScan Contract Verifier SourceScan has shared there most recent contract verifier frontend and contract deployment. You'll notice that the verifier contract is, itself, verified.

  8. dev.near.org Events Page A new Events page has been added to dev.near.org, check out what events (in person and online) are happening next 👉 LINK

  9. Chain Abstraction Community Call Recap Couldn't make it to the 3rd CA Community Call? Read the recap or checkout the recording.

  10. Race of Sloths Exciting Updates In the past couple of weeks Race of Sloths have released several updates to create a smoother and more fulfilling contribution journey, check out the new updates 👉 LINK

  11. DevHub Livesteams This week on DevHub Live we were joined by Nneoma to talk about [REDACTED] city nodes and then later by AVB to understand WTF is Chain Abstraction. If you missed WuASM this week catch up on YouTube, with Joe we see that, shipping software is more than just pushing code, it's a ton of tiny decisions along the way and as developers we should understand and evaluate our own perspectives.

In case you missed it

Chain Signatures Live on Mainnet Chain Signatures, which enables NEAR accounts and contracts to sign transactions on any chain, has launched on mainnet! This technology is unlocking the world of Chain Abstraction, DeFi on Bitcoin, multichain swaps, and more. Dive into the official release and learn more about the products launching that use this powerful tech 👉 LINK

Nearcore 2.0.0 The Nearcore 2.0.0 release looks to introduce protocol changes to introduce congestion control and stateless validation. Check out the full details and the voting dates in the release notes 👉 LINK

FASTNEAR adds RPC Endpoint for Testnet FASTNEAR has added a new RPC endpoint for testnet at https://test.rpc.fastnear.com. Check out other RPC providers in the docs 👉 LINK

Send EVM Transactions through Bitte Wallet Bitte has put out documentation for using the Bitte Wallet with EVM applications. Interact with EVM apps with your NEAR wallet by adding a little bit of code 👉 LINK

 

EVENTS

ONLINE

  • [REDACTED] Hackathon | September 5 - October 25 | Sign up
  • DevHub Live | August 13 @ 4PM UTC - Thursday Weekly | Add to calendar
  • Developer Office Hours | August 13 @ 11AM & 6PM UTC - Thursday Weekly | 11AM UTC & 6PM UTC
  • WuASM - Wake up and ship more | A few mornings a week | Youtube - Twitter - Twitch

North America:

ASIA:

If you are running a local NEAR event please register as a Hackbox host 👉 here.

 

Resources

New to NEAR?: Check out these resources 👨‍💻

  1. Docs 👉 Link
  2. DevHub 👉 Link
  3. Developer guide 👉 LINK
  4. Developer Telegram Group, ask any NEAR development questions 👉 LINK
  5. Office Hours, get personalized support 👉 LINK

PROJECT SUPPORT

  • 🏆 NEAR Bounty Booster Program: 🏆 The NEAR Bounty Booster initiative has been launched to support hackers who use the NEAR stack in non-sponsored hackathons, by matching winnings up to $5,000. The program applies to both Web2 and Web3 Hackathons ⭐️ Learn more
  • Web3 x AI equity-free accelerator program: HZN

 

NEAR Dev NEWS is curated by the NEAR Dev NEWS group, and maintained by @pivortex.near & @orangejoe.near. If you would like to submit an item to the newsletter please check out this page.

Thanks for reading, see you next week!