Technical Update: Second Fortnight of May

Spotlight

• Reef Browser Extension Reimagined
• The brand new addition to the Reef DApp Academy: Binding an EVM Address (blog)

Ecosystem & Partners

• Final Selections of the ‘Reef Call For Artists’ campaign are now public.
• Reef has been featured in Binance’s Learn & Earn Round 4.
• One of the early NFT projects from the ecosystem, ’Private People Networks’ is open for minting.
• Denko Mancheski, our founder and CEO was one of the Capital2022 panelists for the ‘Building on Layer1’ talk at the CoinMarketCap conference.
• Reef’s Head of NFT, Phillip Galaviz spoke about ‘Graffiti Artists & NFTs’ in the NFTBerlin 2022.
• Derek Silva, Our Head of Content represented Reef in the AMA with Hypersign for the integration with FyreDrops.
• Multichain will be integrating with Reef EVM offering their best in the industry bridging solutions for the Reef community.
• An official look has been teased for the first-ever NFT marketplace on the Reef ecosystem, Sqwid.
• Reef attended the Web3 Growth Marketing Meetup hosted in Mumbai.
• $REEF staking program has been launched by Binance.
  

Tools

• Reef App

  • Graphical redesigning has been done for the Bonds(staking) page.
  • Dependent libraries and yarn.lock updated.
  • Token Creator got revamped with new contract data, customization of the token as mintable or burnable, license verification, and liquidity pool creation support.
  • The Swap page got updated with the options and fixes for liquidity adding/removal as well as real-time token prices.
  • Environment version and dependency updated to the newer version of reef-react-lib.

• Reef Explorer (Reefscan)

  • V13 went live which features additions of the following things:
    • *Contract transaction pagination.
    • Support for formatting as per the ^‘Short Number Format’ (example: 1000 will be shown as 1k).
    • Display of extrinsics/transactions transferring all REEF tokens to a new address (aka reaping of the older address due to 1 REEF existential deposit requirement).
  • V14 is now public featuring the following new items:
    • Formatting account transfers, account token balance in ^‘Short Number Format’ and shows symbols for every case.
    • Improved contract verification method.
    • Contract execution now processes arguments correctly reducing the loading time for the display of transactions.

• Reef Browser Extension

  • Introducing v1.0.x: Massive restructuring has been done to add ‘Tokens’, ‘Transfer’, ‘Swap’, ‘Dashboard (Accounts)’ panels within the extension.
  • Dependencies/ yarn.lock updated.
  • Deprecated ‘New Account’ preloader.
  • Minor fixes and optimizations included.

• Reef HardHat

  • Contracts will start compiling at the ‘integration test’ stage, reducing the total time required for the compiling.

• Reef JS SDK (reef.js)

  • Metadata updated.
  • New release v1.1.0: Supports Reef v9 upgrade.
  • Updated yarn.lock dependencies as per the v1.1.0

• Reef UI Kit (reef-react-lib)

  • Network selector functionality added.
  • Reef signer (extension) binding added.
  • Added support to fetch the Reefscan URL for contracts.
  • Pools’ logic, price estimator, and option to remove liquidity included.

Core Runtime

• Rust version updated from 1.53.0 to 1.59.0
• New Pallets
  • pallet-utility: A stateless module with helpers for dispatch management.
  • pallet_multisig: A module for doing multi-signature dispatches.
• ‘Created Event’ logic updated for EVM.

Relevant research resources:

* Contract transaction pagination: https://programtheblockchain.com/posts/2018/04/20/storage-patterns-pagination/
^ Short Number Format: https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire/6.5.2/doc/html/other/other_formatting_short_number_format.htm