Ecosystem Update

06/06/22

Core Engineering Updates

• Merges:
  • snarkVM
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/819: Reduce the number of constraints for Field and Scalar comparison operations (HowardWu)
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/821: Add diagram for our Marlin construction (Pratyush)
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/826: Refactors into account and program, in circuit and console (HowardWu)
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/827: Refactor Pedersen circuit to be bounded by NUM_BITS (HowardWu)
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/835: Adds Inject and Eject to account circuits, adds additional account derivation (HowardWu)
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/837: Adds collections module with Merkle tree (HowardWu)

  • snarkOS

• In-Progress
  • snarkVM
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/822: Snapshot testing for constraint counts (d0cd)
  • snarkOS:
    • ‣: Feature: iterator for get blocks functions for testnet 3 (IAvecilla)

Community Announcements

• On Wednesday at 1pm ET, Alex Pruden will join our Aleo AMA with a Tech Talk. He will discuss more technical aspects of Aleo and we'll open the floor to community questions.
• The team will be at Consensus! A good amount of us will be arriving on Thursday and staying through the weekend. DM Viv if you're around!
• We will be holding our monthly call (for ambassadors only) on Tuesday at 1pm ET in Discord. If you're an ambassador, this is required.
• A new community competition will launch tomorrow, June 7!! Stay tuned and head to the #competition channel for updates.
• Thank you to everyone who submitted in the second round of the Ambassador Program. We have started reviewing applications and will have an update in about one month