The team at blockchain platform NEO have released their January technical development monthly report.
As mentioned in the update:
“Having delivered the milestone Neo 3.1 version in the final weeks of 2021, the core development team began the New Year at a more relaxed pace. The planning of new updates and roadmap items took precedence, though several smaller improvements were still successfully completed in January.”
The Neo developers also revealed that the relatively low number of commits from the Neo core meant that community teams “would take the spotlight this month.” Neo’s globally distributed development communities made substantial progress in further refining available Neo infrastructure and tooling “across all supported languages.”
AxLabs and COZ offered various new solutions and resources for developers, “especially for those who are working on smart contracts.” In particular, new helper methods and similar conveniences across neow3j and Boa would “expose new areas of the Neo N3 platform to projects working on their own dApps.”
The update further noted:
“Neo’s alternate node implementation, NeoGo, received a large mix of improvements from Neo SPCC, the team responsible for its maintenance. Of particular note, upgrades to the consensus and storage subsystems would further accelerate the already highly performant node.”
Coming out of the holiday period, January was “a slower month for the core development team, though several enhancements to Neo repositories were still committed over the course of January, driven in part by Neo Global Development’s Digital Asset Unit.”
The update also noted that in the C# smart contract compiler, support for destructuring assignment to tuples “was completed, and the 160/256 bit UInt data types used in NeoVM received security improvements in the form of size checks.”
The update further revealed that the NGD Enterprise team “spent January exploring new web extension versions of the Visual DevTracker and other N3 Blockchain Toolkit components.” These integrations would “extend the reach of Neo’s tooling and integrate closely with existing web capabilities of VS and VS Code.”
The announcement also mentioned that the team “spent time working on the Visual Token Designer, including further integration with the Token Taxonomy Framework and prototyping for Carbon Market initiatives.”
For more details on this update, check here.