Infura to Support Aurora
Infura to Support Aurora, NEAR’s EVM-compatible network, for contribution to building a multi-chain future for Web3.
Aurora also maintains NEAR’s interoperability through the Rainbow Bridge, which facilitates the permissionless transfer of tokens and data between Aurora, NEAR, and Ethereum.
At its core, Aurora addresses the scalability challenges that the Ethereum mainnet faces, while providing Ethereum developers and users a smoother onboarding experience to the NEAR ecosystem.
Key Benefits of Building On Aurora with Infura
Since the Aurora implementation is a smart contract, it has the same benefits as working with the NEAR layer one protocol. Those benefits include:
- Higher transaction throughput, up to 1000x lower transaction fees
- Faster transaction finality
- Horizontal EVM scaling through NEAR’s Nightshade Sharding
What makes Aurora efficient is that devs don’t have to leave the Ethereum network to build on NEAR: smart contracts run on Ethereum transfers effortlessly to NEAR through the Rainbow Bridge. This means devs can deploy to both networks simultaneously.
All the tools Ethereum developers already know work on Aurora. For example, Truffle is still compatible for making smart contract projects, while MetaMask can handle all transactions. And now that Infura offers compatibility with Aurora, devs can build projects with more observability and better security using custom RPC URLs.
About Aurora
Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) created by the team at the NEAR Protocol. Aurora provides a similar developer experience to Ethereum on top of the NEAR protocol. Aurora’s EVM compatibility ensures that any project built there can be easily transferred to Ethereum, without having to change a single line of code.
About Infura
Infura is the World’s Most Powerful Blockchain Development Suite.
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