Ecosystem Update

2/6/23

Core Engineering Updates

There are many more merges and in-progress pull requests to check out. We recommend heading to https://github.com/AleoHQ for a full weekly review.

• Merges:
  • snarkVM
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1358: Fixes Integer::shr_wrapped
  • snarkOS
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2236: Feat: introduce the metrics crate
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2234: A few further tweaks
  • leo
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2253: Fix: minor typo
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2252: Update the license headers
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2250: Restrict returning records from functions
• In-Progress
  • snarkVM
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1354: [Tracking] testnet3 Phase 3 upgrades
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1348: Optimize field-from-bits gadgets
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1343: Reduce SonicPC::VeriferKey serialized size by avoiding prepared G2 elems
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1340: Prototype for flagged_division
  • snarkOS
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2231: Update the license headers
    • ‣: Implement Deploy and Execute CLI commands
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2238: Update snarkVM release to 0.9.12
  • leo
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2256: Add support for full integration tests

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