Monthly Update - July 2024

[boundless-forest]

Protocol Updates

• Enable and test the Async backing for runtimes. Deactivate async for Crab and Darwinia darwinia-network/darwinia#1537
• Upgrade polkadot-sdk to version 1.7.2. To polkadot-v1.7.2 darwinia-network/darwinia#1516
• EVM tracing now supports ethtx-forward transactions. Support evm-tracing for the ethtx-forward darwinia-network/darwinia#1541
• KTON DAO development is underway. Migrate KTON DAO stuffs darwinia-network/darwinia#1532
• Mutable distribution contract address for the staking pallet. Mutable contract address darwinia-network/darwinia#1548
• Fix eth_call and estimate_gas for older runtimes. Fix eth_call and estimate_gas for older runtimes darwinia-network/darwinia#1546
• Deprecate the BLS precompile. Deprecate precompile darwinia-network/darwinia#1511

Darwinia Ecosystem Applications and Infrastructure Updates

• Darwinia: A faucet has been added for the Koi test network. https://docs.darwinia.network/build/getting-started/networks/koi/
• Darwinia: Testing and deploying AragonDAO.
• Darwinia: Mimir is now live on the Darwinia chains! https://x.com/DarwiniaNetwork/status/1816015022839238977
• Msgport: The Msgport Scan is now live. https://scan.msgport.xyz
• Msgport: Improved Msgport Scan indexing strategy.
• Msgport: Monitoring Msgport message timeout through hyperindex.
• Msgport: Added PingPong Msgport example. https://github.com/msgport/msgport-examples
• Msgport: Included dapp remarks in the Msgport Scan.
• xAPI: The design of the xAPI has been confirmed.