Security is fundamental for any blockchain project that aims at mass adoption, and it is definitely a top priority for us!

Let's go over the core components of Aurora's cybersecurity strategy, with a focus on the Rainbow Bridge 🌈

🧵1/9 2/ Since its launch, Aurora has proven its excellency in providing a secure and hack-proof environment by resisting various hacker attacks. But how is it done?

1/ Aurora and @BrasilAurora are heading to @EthereumRio and supporting @ethsamba hackathon 🎊

👉 ethsamba.org

Check out Aurora bounties and come and build on Aurora to win prizes 🔥 2/ Aurora has launched the following bounties:

➡️ Word and Knowledge Game

➡️ AI + NFTs Bounty

➡️ Open Submissions

DeFi continues to grow on Aurora 💪

Let's take a closer look to some of the most interesting AMM DEXes and Orderbooks available on our ecosystem 👀

🧵1/ 12 2/ @finance_ref is one of the first DEXes to appear in the NEAR and Aurora ecosystem.

Apart from trading, swapping, farming, and staking, it allows for atomic transactions, customizable pool fee & more.

Check it out 👇
app.ref.finance/#linear-protoc…

https://twitter.com/finance_ref/status/1633516113991462913

After a turbulent 2022 we are approaching the end of the year with a NGMI feeling. In these moments, is important to remember the extraordinary achievements that our team has reached in 2022 to approach the future with optimism and determination.

Here're a few highlights 🧵1/16 2/ The #Aurora ecosystem witnessed astonishing growth in 2022. At the beginning of the year, a little over 10 dApps were building on Aurora, and only 2 regional communities were active. Currently, we count <200 dApps, & 13 regional communities, & 6 media groups 🔥

📍 Henry Ford said "Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success" 🏆
🧵 Last week-end, over 50 Aurora Labs members gathered for the biggest Aurora meeting ever.

#Aurora Community weekly upcoming activities

Nov, 21st - 27th 1. Workshops
✅ @AURORAAFRICA1 @AURORAAFRICA1 blockchain academy

Nov, 25th
7pm UTC
meet.google.com/oeg-dpga-dnb

✅ @AURORAAFRICA1 @AURORAAFRICA1 solidity training

Nov, 26th
1pm UTC

meet.google.com/oqr-ttox-rku

🧵 Four MAJOR Aurora technical updates were announced during NEARCON. Let's have a look! 🔥

📍 1) Rainbow Bridge NEAR-native token connector ➡ The Rainbow Bridge NEAR-native token connector is now live, announcing a new era in compatibility and connectivity between NEAR and Ethereum. With this launch, users will now be able to bridge any NEAR-native token to the Ethereum network! ✅

🧵 Let's take a deep dive into the four major Aurora+ updates released at NEARCON! 🔥

📍 1) Starting off slowly, we’re pleased to announce a makeover of the Aurora+ dashboard (1), as well as a number of important new features such as ⬇ 📍 2) Swaps

Aurora+' Swaps are now live and allow you to easily swap on the Aurora network or bridge directly from Ethereum and NEAR before swapping. It's an instant crypto exchange and the easiest place to swap tokens on Aurora.

🧵 Aurora Futures Token — AURORA_2211, a liquid, transferrable ERC-20 token representing the rights to AURORA tokens that are delivered in November 2022. 👇 Its purpose is two-fold — allowing the broader community to access AURORA that is planned to be unlocked in November and ease selling pressure associated with that planned unlock.

📢 Aurora is Integrating @chainlink Price Feeds to Enable Rapid, #EVM-Compatible #DeFi Development.

aurora.dev/blog/aurora-is… Aurora is excited to announce that we are integrating the industry-standard #Chainlink #PriceFeeds into our turn-key, #Layer2 EVM solution for scaling the #Ethereum ecosystem.
data.chain.link

Aurora #DAO Approves $AURORA #IDO
We are happy to share the details of the IDO with our community.

Read blog: aurora.dev/blog/aurora-da…

Read thread: 👇 The sale will happen in three phases with the increasing amount of $AURORA tokens available for sale. The three chosen platforms (@SmartPad_launch, @bocachica_io, @skywardfinance) are on the @NEARProtocol to develop its ecosystem.

@SmartPad_launch announces a strategic partnership with Aurora - an EVM built on top of @NEARProtocol. Aurora offers its users an Ethereum-compatible, scalable, and high throughput platform, with quick block times and cheap transactions.
aurora.dev/blog/smartpad-… "Integration with Aurora takes us a step closer towards becoming a multi-cross-chain launchpad. In addition to the already existing Ethereum network, we are expanding access to Aurora’s protocol."

For last week's update we announced the following progress made.
aurora.dev/blog/2021-08-2…
🧵 👇🏼 Much of our engineering effort was spent fixing things. Not always what we want to be doing, but that's how it often goes with software! 😄

1/ The sale of 2.5% of $OCT token on @skywardfinance starts on Aug 22 at 00:00 UTC and will last for 7 days.

What is @oct_network about?
What will it bring to the @NEARProtocol ecosystem?
What role does @auroraisnear play in it?

Let's explore:
skyward.finance/octopus-networ…
🧵 👇🏼 2/ @oct_network is a multichain cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application-specific blockchains — appchains. An Appchain is a decentralized Web3.0 application in the form of an independent blockchain.

1/ Highlights of an informative thread by @moo9000
Explore the evolution of EVMs and solutions to their scaling. For more details, read this blog post: capitalgram.com/posts/scaling-…
Let’s go! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 2/ The first question we need to ask "why EVM?" There are nice highly scalable blockchains like @NEARProtocol, @solana and even @EOS_io out here. They provide more modern architecture than EVM and can do much better throughput and disk use. 💾