Here's a brief overview of #Aleo Blockchain's dev process as of today for the folks.

Merges:

snarkVM

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https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1576: commit_to_group, hash_many (placeholder), hash_to_group, and hash_to_scalar opcodes

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1577: Fix atomic checkpointing

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1585: Fix transaction benches to include fees

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1589: Adds counter for num_nonzeros

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1592: Fix atomic checkpointing and rewinds

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1594: [Feature] Support group::GEN as an operand

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1598: Switches out VecDeque for Vec in checkpointing

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1600: remove required cli flags, support multiple arguments, update readme

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1601: Add a test case for cli argument parsing

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1608: Reduce sizes in merkle_tree benchmarks

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1609: Adds a prelude on the synthesizer modules

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snarkOS

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https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2401: Update license file, file headers, and badges

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2406: Revert "logs: deduplicate peer IP"

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2408: Update the MSRV

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2409: Merge the staging branch

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leo

https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2399: Bump/snarkvm v0.11.4

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In-Progress

snarkVM

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https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1584: Prevent addition overflow

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1586: [Feature] Permutation Check

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1587: [Feature] Permutation Assignment

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1588: A test to display local storage breakdown

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1590: Adds sanity check on function sizes

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1593: Unifies proving of Transaction::execute into two proofs

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1599: [nit] remove impossible SynthesisError::AssignmentMissing

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1606: Speed up VM::from via parallelism

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1607: Construct finalize_root from Transactions

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snarkOS

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2410: Update clap to 4.3

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2413: Update snarkVM

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leo

https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2400: bump snarkvm v0.11.5

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That's all for today!

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Until the next update! LFG🚀