Aurora
Aurora is an EVM Layer 2 on NEAR Protocol, running as a smart contract that inherits NEAR's validators and one-second finality.
What is Aurora?
Aurora is an EVM Layer 2 deployed as a smart contract on NEAR Protocol, so it inherits NEAR's validators, consensus, and one-second finality without running a separate sequencer. The Rainbow Bridge moves assets between Ethereum, NEAR, and Aurora, and Aurora Cloud lets teams launch dedicated EVM chains called Virtual Chains. AURORA is the governance token, while ETH is used to pay gas on the base chain.
Web3 dapps and developer tools related to Aurora
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Saakuru
YEY Technologies
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B3
Developer resources from Alchemy
What is Arc? The economic OS for the internet, explained for developers
Arc is Circle's open, EVM-compatible Layer-1 for stablecoin finance. This guide covers USDC gas, deterministic finality, and what can break when you port a contract.
Launching support for account abstraction on Zora and Frax
We are excited to announce Account Abstraction support for Frax and Zora, two new layer 2 blockchains built on top of Optimism’s Superchain ecosystem.
How Goldsky kept transactions flowing with zero downtime
Goldsky migrated its Compose bundler and paymaster to Alchemy and built a provider abstraction layer that makes failover a single environment variable change—no code deploy, no downtime.
Aurora alternatives
Explore web3 competitors and apps like Aurora.
Base
Arbitrum
Metis
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