{"id":53988,"date":"2021-12-02T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53988"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:55:04","slug":"aurora-protocol-developers-sign-partnership-with-consensys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/aurora-protocol-developers-sign-partnership-with-consensys\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora protocol developers sign partnership with ConsenSys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the second-level (L2) Aurora protocol from the NEAR Protocol team have signed an agreement with ConsenSys, which specialises in building solutions for the Ethereum ecosystem. Project representatives told ForkLog.<\/p>\n<p>Developers and users interacting with Aurora will gain access to ConsenSys&#8217; software development tools, including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a non-custodial wallet, MetaMask;<\/li>\n<li><span data-descr=\"application programming interface\" class=\"old_tooltip\">API<\/span> from Infura;<\/li>\n<li>the blockchain platform Quorum;<\/li>\n<li>the Truffle suite of development tools for decentralised applications;<\/li>\n<li>Codefi, a DeFi-transaction monitoring service;<\/li>\n<li>a smart contract auditing solution, Diligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aurora combines two core technologies: a fully functional Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and a cross-chain bridge based on <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/near-protocol-developers-launch-bridge-to-ethereum\">Rainbow Bridge<\/a>. The protocol <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/near-protocol-developers-launch-ethereum-layer-2-protocol\">launched<\/a> in May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>According to the announcement, the partnership aims to expand developers&#8217; capabilities by providing an efficient toolset. The parties believe that this will increase cross\u2011chain interoperability.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Developer interest in <span data-descr=\"Ethereum Virtual Machine\" class=\"old_tooltip\">EVM<\/span>-compatible scaling solutions is growing at the same pace as the rapid expansion of the Web 3.0 ecosystem. We believe they will only benefit from adding Aurora to Infura&#8217;s toolkit, as this will enable using the NEAR network with familiar EVM tools,&#8221; Infura said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the partnership&#8217;s near-term goals will be to advance the integration between MetaMask and Aurora.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, MetaMask wallet&#8217;s year-to-date transaction revenue <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/consensys-earned-twice-as-much-in-metamask-fees-this-year-as-curve-and-sushiswap-combined\">surpassed $200m<\/a>. This is twice the total fees earned by leading <span data-descr=\"decentralized exchange\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DEX<\/span> SushiSwap and Curve.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L2 Aurora developers from the NEAR Protocol team have signed an agreement with ConsenSys, which specialises in building solutions for the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[246,46,1216],"class_list":["post-53988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-consensys","tag-ethereum","tag-near-cryptocurrency"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53990,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53988\/revisions\/53990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}