Thread by @AdrianDobrita

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Neo banking, Web3 data brokerage, #web3payments, immersive VR, all running on metaverse-scale blockchain technology.
Weekly #elrondtech 🛠️

1/ Metastaking underwent rigorous public testing with invaluable help from the community, who diligently tested each feature of the new product, helped us find & fix remaining issues, & brought a lot of constructive feedback & ideas. Deployment on the mainnet to follow soon.

2/ The Elrond <> Ethereum Bridge v2 went through the first round of public testing, where again the community were extremely helpful & relentless in their efforts, helping us identify an important topic & subsequent fix.

3/ The testnet has been upgraded to T1.3.8.0. This major release includes a new Elrond-VM, scheduled transactions, trie storage improvements, NFT storage optimizations, a new gas schedule v6, & several other improvements & optimizations, soon available on the mainnet.

4/ Other notable achievements:- Developed a new staking smart contract for LKMEX - will be used with the Metabonding SC
- Finished development & testing on Metabonding SC, which will give weekly rewards to users that have EGLD and/or LKMEX staked

5/ - Upgrades on Price Discovery smart contract - added an option to have a minimum price + option for adding some extra reward tokens for users that contributed to the pool
- Progress on Growth 2.0 API
- Upcoming MetaStaking & SafePrice smart contracts tests & concept validation

6/ - Started working on an innovative way for nodes to share their shard membership at connect time. This knowledge will be selectively used by the other nodes on the new heartbeat v2 sub-system
- Heartbeat v2 bughunt, bugfixes & flag for old message deactivation

7/ - Transaction push notification system in api.elrond.com
- Integrated transaction “fully completed” flag
- Safe price algorithm updated for an adaptive & improved price determination
- Added interactions for the Metabonding SC

8/ - Continued development on the Rust Fuzz Testing for the DEX locked-asset SC
- ‘Promises’ fixes after review & tests & frozen account spec
- Governance SC finish implementation & tests & erdpy snipets & base devnet testing & docs

9/ - Experimented with a mechanism that allows swapping for locked assets instead of real assets for a configurable amount of time in Pair SC & wrote tests
- Started internal audit for the elrond-ethereum bridge (relayer code)

10/ - Changes for the freeze account feature - refactoring & adapting to latest specs
- Worked on staking v4 integration in nodes coordinator: moving highest top-up nodes from Auction list to Waiting list, handling of shuffled out nodes according to staking v4 specs

11/ - Completed mini-blocks partial execution implementation for the validator, proposer & metachain notarization; started implementation in the bootstrap process (start in epoch, start from storage)

12/ - API Sockets infrastructure preparation
- Expand formatter (incl. number pretty print)
- Started working on Wrapped/Bridged USDC Smart Contract
- Hotfixes for the new latest Elrond-VM version, in preparation for its release

13/ - Elrond <> Ethereum bridge microservice monitoring improvements
- Test URI rewrite solution to reduce number of required load balancers
- Bug fixes on the indexer v1.2.x, which is now ready for deployment in production

14/ - Implemented an optimization on how transactions, smart contract results, & logs are saved in the Elasticsearch in order to return a transaction with all the details with a single request in the Elasticsearch database

15/ - Fixed some node's API endpoints when the node is starting or syncing data from the network
- Finished the elrond-proxy's mechanism that updates the observers list based on their sync state

16/ - Started the implementation of a mechanism that handles timeouts for node's API
- Price discovery SC review & audit
- Metabonding staking SC review & audit
- Integrated Metabonding staking SC into Maiar Exchange service
- Deployed new Maiar Exchange setup on testnet

17/ - Improvements & new releases for erdpy & erdjs
- Working on erdjs-snippets (new repo), a base for contract interaction snippets
- Elrond IDE - minor improvements, general cleanup
- Ramp-Up on Lending SC
- Additional internal audit on Eth-Elrond bridge

18/ - Additional metrics for Elrond <> Ethereum bridge service monitoring
- Headers verification implementation, latest fixes & updates on node, proxy & erdgo sdk
- Cleaned up mandos tests & the VM testing contracts infrastructure
- Log topics can be provided as multi-value

19/ - Working on notifier-go refactoring: containerized environment setup update; components decoupling
- Cleaned up mandos tests & the VM testing contracts infrastructure
- Price discovery SC review & audit
- Metabonding snapshots running on devnet

20/ - Compilation flags in the elrond-wasm SC framework that guard access to the EI version, helping developers target the mainnet or testnets more predictably, & to the heap allocator, preventing developers from accidentally including it in their contracts

21/ - Cleaned up mandos tests & the VM testing contracts infrastructure
- Log topics can be provided as multi-value
- Added support for view annotations for MapMapper in the elrond-wasm-rs framework
- Metabonding SC review & audit - fixed an issue with the signature verification

22/ - NFT Collection process definition
- Internal security audit for bridge relayers
- Add caching for Collections on nft service & bugfixes
- Investigations regarding the gas usage & processing time during import-db

23/ - Added a set of tests & changed requirement of how SIGSEGV is handled in new WASMER
- Final reviews for the code which got into the new release on elrond-go
- New specification document for Price discovery contract & for bridged wrapped token contract

24/ “Stay Hungry Stay Foolish” & tune in soon for more of the #elrondtech which powers the @ElrondNetwork ecosystem. Check our progress & get involved 👇
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