Bridge Working Group Update [2021-03-19]

[alexauroradev]

NEAR Bridge Working Group Update [2021-03-19]

The video of the call is available here
The forum discussion is available here

Agenda

• Status, current goal
• Updates
• Discussion
  • Info: bridge release + CLI guide
  • Info: bridge front end
  • Info: dashboard
  • Info: TG support channel
  • Info: wallet update
  • Ledger bug
  • ethashproof bug
  • bridgetonear.org landing page

Status, current goal

Gas limiting issue was solved, 2FA is working now on the FE, bridge was released, FE is available for usage!

Weekly update

Alex Shevchenko

• Bridge launch with Marcelo
• Adding metadata to bridged tokens
• Coordinating the rollout of the bridge & adjacent projects
• Finished triaging issues in all bridge repos with Marcelo

Marcelo Fornet

• Bridge launch operations
• Bug fixing, testing
• Bridge deployment to mainnet & Ropsten

Eugene Kapun

• Working on ethashproof bug:
  • own implementation for DAG generation; 0 epoch conisides

Kirill Abramov

• Working on ethashproof bug
• Support of the bridge deployment
• Working on pr for eth-connector
  • Marcelo to review
• Preparation of the eth-connector demo, similar to CLI guide
• Deployment of the eth-connector on Ropsten<>Testnet bridge

Pierre-Alain Ouvrard

• Lots of small things on FE
• Adding recovering & deleting functionality
• Wallet connect is working now

Matt Henderson

• Press release
• Preliminary review of the bridge FE
• AMM project with Bowen Shen & bootstrapping the liquidity

Discussion

• ethashproof bug:
  • Kirill: 100+ epochs gerenated, but for some epochs it panics!
  • Kirill: there's a divergence in DAG roots between ones that we have in file and the ones we generate with ethashproof
  • Evgeny: 20 min for epoch 0; 100 min for epoch 11, linear increase over the height of the epoch
  • 401 epoch DAG root diverged
  • Evgeny code: Epoch 511: 7a9010568819de327a24fa495029adcb
  • AI: Evgeny to upload the code somewhere
  • AI: Kirill to check the divergence on 401 epoch with the code from Evgeny
• Info: bridge release + CLI guide
• Info: bridge front end
• Info: TG support channel
• Info: dashboard
• Info: wallet update
• Info: faucet
• Ledger bug
• Should we do a bridge landing page on https://bridgetonear.org/ ?

Next week

• Alex Shevchenko: support the rollout of the bridge release, eth-connector
• Matt Henderson: big changes in the bridge FE + inclusion of the EVM