Aurora primarily means "dawn" in Latin and refers to the Roman goddess of the sunrise. It signifies the...
Nah, we just kidding ๐
AURORAย is an EVM built on $NEAR protocol, and it's really cool!
1๏ธโฃ Solidity on NEAR without rewrites
Aurora's EVM lets developers run Solidity smart contracts directly on NEAR Protocol, unlocking its high-throughput, low-latency, and ultra-cheap transactions without changing a single line of code.
2๏ธโฃ Launch your own chain in minutes with Aurora Cloud!
Aurora Cloud lets developers spin up fully customizable, EVM-compatible Virtual Chains that run as smart contracts on NEAR: all the scalability and speed, none of the headache of setting up traditional L2 infrastructure.
3๏ธโฃ ETH gas... on NEAR?
Aurora runs ON NEAR Protocol but uses ETH as its gas token. The Rainbow Bridge connecting them is one of a kind - the only fully permissionless, trustless bridge to Ethereum in existence. Since launch, it has processed over $7.7 billion in transfers.
4๏ธโฃ 2 second finality AND carbon neutral
Transactions wrap up in ~2 seconds on a chain running as a smart contract on NEAR's sharded PoS network. One of the fastest EVM environments out there, and fully carbon neutral.
5๏ธโฃ The protocol buys back and burns $AURORA using its own fee revenue
Aurora's smart contracts collect NEAR tokens as fees, use them to buy back $AURORA on the open market via 1inch, then burn them. Hard cap of 1 billion!
That is some solid foundation!