3/07/22

Community Update

Core Engineering Update

Merges:
- snarkVM
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/680: Testnet2] Fix indexing error for create_proof_no_zk (Raychu86)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/682: [Testnet2] Change backing storage of SparsePolynomial to BTreeMap (Raychu86)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/684 [Testnet2] Prevent merkle tree leaf selection overflows (Raychu86)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/687: Bump aleo-std from 0.1.10 to 0.1.12 (Howard Wu)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/688: [Testnet2] Integer overflow protection (Raychu86)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/689: Apply Testnet2 security updates to Testnet3 (Howard Wu)
- snarkOS
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1662: Feat: network based crawler implementation. (Howard Wu)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1663: Squash a few perf TODOs (Howard Wu)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1664: Introduce a notion of trusted peers (Howard Wu)
In-Progress:
- snarkVM:
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/690: Update AleoAmount to Amount and introduce standard operations (ryanchu86)
- snarkOS:
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1661: line arise logic in the peers module (Niklaslong)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1668: Improve the crawler, add a related test. (Ijedrz)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1669: Bump dependencies (Niklaslong)

We officially announced the Aleo Ambassador Program! There will be two steps to the submission process. The first will be a VERIFICATION form that will take place on March 9 at 12pm ET. The second will be the actual submission which will come in email form to those that verified themselves. Please see the blogpost (below). There is very important information about questions, timing, and the process.
- https://www.aleo.org/post/aleo-ambassador-program
Stay tuned for more information about the ZPrize initiative that Aleo is participating in. We’ll be officially announcing it this week.
We've transferred over 99% of the Universal and Outer NFT contributions.
Currently, we are minting Inner setup NFTs (for those who have contributed via CLI) and will transfer those in the near future.
We have been actively reviewing applications for the Grants Program and will be reaching out to the projects that we see fit. Due to the sheer number of applications, we can’t respond to all of them unfortunately!
We will be holding office hours for 1 hour this Thursday from 1pm to 2pm ET. You can find the info for joining here. Viv (Head of Community) and Anthony (Head of Growth) will hang out and invite people to speak and ask questions. Join us!