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Weekly #multiversxtech 🛠️

1/ The capabilities of the MultiversX Network are now leveraged by the two most popular digital assets, BTC & ETH. The added support in the Ethereum bridge also opens up opportunities for new integrations and compelling products that make use of them.

2/ The recent mainnet upgrades, next major ones, the Devnet Phoenix Day and a general update on the WIP protocol improvements have been the main topics of the latest Validators Community Call, which ended in an inquisitive Q&A session.

3/ Further guaranteed tickets SC fine tuning, new contracts integration in the xLaunchpad service and KYC service heavy testing, as well as multiple testing rounds for the new implementation with energy tiers.

4/ Other notable achievements:

- Released the T1.5.8.0 & D1.5.8.0 on testnet & devnet that address some minor issues found
- Research on abstract execution patterns on smart contracts
- Added support for RelayedV2 transactions in sdk-py-core

5/ - Add floor price on analytics db
- Router enable swap by user with multiple tokens integration in xExchange backend
- Sovereign: fixes for sdk, lots of debugging and system test setup for incoming scrs from mainchain

6/ - Deploy analytics indexer on staging
- Further optimizations and setup research for sovereign shards. Adding sovereign shard factory SC
- Testing & bughunt on the branch that will upgrade the go compiler & libp2p libraries to the latest versions

7/ - Fix for snapshot state edge case
- Tests on router enable swap by user with multiple tokens integration
- Mystery Box SC discussions & optimizations
- Continued testing on the concentrated liquidity SC

8/ - Update roles on collections display
- Finished the implementation of full archive messenger feature
- Updated the metrics for the managed keys while in multikey mode
- Continued refactoring the state package

9/ - Delegation factory for sdk-py-core
- Guardians: removed encoded QR code from register response on TCS and conducted extra testing on latest changes
- Started digging around new system tests framework
- Testing/load testing on TCS

10/ - New utility VM endpoints
- Added support for remainingUnbondPeriod on nodes
- Testing on Guardians implementation within xLaunchpad, MultiversX Wallet and xPortal
- Sovereign chain refactor

11/ - Added new unit tests on API
- Load testing for Guardians service redis caching; updated redis integration to work with redis setup with sentinel
- Finished websocket observer connector integration for notifier service

12/ - New microservice setup
- Updates on nodes coordinator refactoring in order to fetch nodes configuration per epoch from storage if not available in memory or cache
- Explicit enum format in the ABI, used for OperationCompletionStatus

13/ - Jenkins pipelines improvements
- Major cleanup and refactoring of the smart contract communication with the VM. Removed several APIs and features
- Fix an edge case on guardians feature that could cause a panic

14/ - Refactor & audit fixes for the Guardians service
- Mxpy v7 preparations, docs and release
- Sdk-py additions (token operations factory)
- Sdk-js additions (token operations factory)
- e2e testing guardians

15/ - Liquid-staking contract rust tests and fixes
- Minor fixes on contracts - mx-contracts-rs repo
- Wrap-up smart contract templating
- Review and audit on liquid locker SC, launchpad SC

16/ “Stay Hungry Stay Foolish” and tune in soon for more of the #multiversxtech which powers the @MultiversX ecosystem.

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