Hey PH 👌 I've been playing around with the NEAR ecosystem and they have just launched their Eth EVM & Bridge. Check it out 🚀 --- Aurora runs on NEAR Protocol and takes advantage of its many unique features, including sharding and developer gas fee remuneration. Aurora consists of two core components: the Aurora Engine runtime, which allows for the seamless deployment of Solidity and Vyper smart contracts, and the Aurora Bridge (based on the Rainbow Bridge technology), providing for the permissionless transfer of tokens and data between Ethereum and Aurora. Aurora provides a number of enhancements for developers: 🚀 Aurora fees are up to 1,000x lower than Ethereum’s. For example, the cost of transferring a ERC-20 token is below $0.01, while for Ethereum (at 50 Gwei and an ETH price of $3,000), it’s around $5.40. 🚀 Aurora is able to host thousands of transactions per second, representing an increase of 50x compared to Ethereum 1.0. 🚀 Aurora transaction finality inherits from the underlying NEAR Protocol, i.e. two NEAR blocks, or approximately two seconds—substantially lower even than a single block confirmation time of 13 seconds in Ethereum (which is not enough for transaction finality). Also, fast finality of NEAR blockchain reduces significantly the risk of frontrunning attacks. 🚀 Ecosystem growth on Aurora is future-proof: the sharding approach of the underlying NEAR Protocol provides for horizontal EVM scaling, with asynchronous communication between multiple Aurora shards. 🚀 Aurora offers a greener option for Ethereum users: full, uncompromising Ethereum compatibility on top of the decentralised and climate-neutral Proof-of-Stake L1 NEAR Protocol. Aurora solves the current and future computational challenges of the Ethereum ecosystem while preserving the existing engineering investment in both smart contracts and front-end code.

One of aurora biggest strengths is the fact that developers can port their existing projects on Ethereum onto the Aurora EVM without a change of code and get these apps to run flawlessly on aurora. Not to make users can still enjoy the native experience by paying for gas fees in ETH. Aurora is bridging the gap while allowing eth users to benefit from everything NEAR protocol has to offer (insanely cheap tx fees & lightening fast transaction finality, there's even more benefits in store for both users and developers ). Definitely one of the best projects in NEAR Ecosystem right now.

Great project, with Aurora, Ethereum users can work with familiar applications while benefiting from the efficiency of NEAR; as the transaction cost is several orders of magnitude cheaper than that of Ethereum.

The team has done an incredible job of keeping open communication in a weekly manner. Follow the blog here: https://aurora.dev/blog/2021-05-... The governance forum is open to all for discussions: https://gov.near.org/c/dev/auror...

The Aurora project is a very good example which shows what is possible with the NEAR protocol. Haven't heard of any similar. The NEAR team also shows how to get a large complexity under control in a short time. These are exactly the solutions a decentralized ecosystem needs to scale. Compliments to the team, I am impressed. Well done.

Very useful and simple to use. Great Product

Game changing product for dapps built on Ethereum