Ecosystem Update

05/09/22

Core Engineering Updates

Merges:
- snarkVM
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/782: Reduce constraint counts for MulWrapped (howardwu)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/784: Update Merkle tree benchmarks (howardwu)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/792: Mirror hash opcode changes to commit opcodes (howardwu)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/793: Implement BHP commitment gadget, implement BHP hashing and commitment instructions (howardwu)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/797: Modify commitment gadgets to only take in Scalars (howardwu)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/799: Refactor DenseOrSparsePolynomial to be less verbose (Pratyush)
- snarkOS
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1754: Update pea2pea to 0.37, run cargo update (ljedrz)
In-Progress
- snarkVM
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/785: feat: impl bytecode instructions Shl, Shr, Ternary (amousa11)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/791: Add unchecked Canonical{Serialize,Deserialize} (Pratyush)
- snarkOS:
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1753: Feature: iterator for get_blocks function (IAvecilla)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1757: Add a block dump utility test (ljedrz)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1759: Feature: get all the ciphertexts from the LedgerState ****(IAvecilla)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1760: Feature: get ciphertexts improvement (IAvecilla)
  - https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1764: Feat: inbound message count metrics (niklaslong)

Community Announcements

Community Competitions are underway! Join the #competition channel to participate in Aleo’s Sports Competition, hosted by one of our community members.
This week’s Aleo Ask Me Anything will be held on Twitter on Thursday at 1pm ET. We’ll talk shop about all things Aleo. The Discord Q&A link will also be open to questions.
We have been hard at work onboarding the newest members to our Ambassador Program! They have a purple username and can be found in almost any channel in the Discord! Ask your questions away, they’ll be there to answer.
For anyone interested in running a community competition, DM Viv or Nick with specifics about the competition. We’re looking for one community member to run a competition each month.