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Overview
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What is Aurora
Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine created by the team at the NEAR Protocol, delivering a turn-key solution for developers to operate their apps on an Ethereum-compatible, high-throughput, scalable and future-safe platform, with low transaction costs for their users.
- Full Ethereum compatibility
- High throughput and scalability
- Low transaction costs
- Features, Features, Features
- Trustless Bridging
- Base currency is ETH
DetailsIDO (Skyward Launchpad): Nov 17, 2021 - Nov 17, 2021IDO (SmartPad Launchpad): Nov 04, 2021 - Nov 06, 2021 IDO (BocaChica Launchpad): Nov 11, 2021 - Nov 11, 2021 Token supply: 1,000,000,000 AURORA Raised: 12,000,000 USD LegalBlockchain Platform: Near | Token infoTicker: AURORAToken price in USD: 1 AURORA = 1 USD Token distribution: 20% - Community Treasury 16% - Aurora Labs long term incentives 9% - Private round investors 3% - Distributed to NEAR ecosystem 2% - Early Aurora contributors 1% - Incentives for project advisors 1% - Bootstrapping the Aurora ecosystem 48% - DAO balance for future projects |
Aurora Roadmap
1
Done
Deploy Ethereum apps on Aurora
Transfer the NEAR token between Ethereum and NEAR
Transfer ETH and ERC-20 tokens beween Ethereum and Aurora
2
Q3 2021
Completion of Aurora fund-raising campaign
Filling of all AuroraDAO initial seats
3
Q4 2021
Fast token transfer
Gas fees denominated in ERC-20s
Simplified “Hide the Blockchain” UX.
4
2022
Horizontal scaling
Project team
![Alex Shevchenko](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Alex Shevchenko.jpg)
Alex Shevchenko
CEO
![Arto Bendiken](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Arto Bendiken.jpg)
Arto Bendiken
CTO
![Frank Braun](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Frank Braun.jpg)
Frank Braun
Head of Quality & Security
![Matt Henderson](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Matt Henderson.jpg)
Matt Henderson
Head of Product
![Yulian Lavysh](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Yulian Lavysh.jpg)
Yulian Lavysh
Head of Operations
![Michael Birch](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Michael Birch.jpg)
Michael Birch
Senior Engineer (Engine)
![Marcelo Fornet](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Marcelo Fornet.jpg)
Marcelo Fornet
Tech Lead (Apps & Partners)
![Joshua J. Bouw](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Joshua J.jpg)
Joshua J. Bouw
Team Lead (Engine)
![Ahmed Ali](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Ahmed Ali.jpg)
Ahmed Ali
Engineer (Apps & Partners)
![Kirill Abramov](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Kirill Abramov.jpg)
Kirill Abramov
Team Lead (Bridge)
![Evgeny Ukhanov](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Evgeny Ukhanov.jpg)
Evgeny Ukhanov
Senior Engineer (Engine)
![Aliaksei Papou](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Aliaksei Papou.jpg)
Aliaksei Papou
Operations Generalist
![Anton Paisov](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Anton Paisov.jpg)
Anton Paisov
Team Lead (Apps & Partners)
![Pierre-Alain Ouvrard](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Pierre-Alain Ouvrard.jpg)
Pierre-Alain Ouvrard
Engineer (Product)
![Dmitry Strokov](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Dmitry Strokov.jpg)
Dmitry Strokov
DevOps Engineer
![Alex Bendiken](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Alex Bendiken.jpg)
Alex Bendiken
Design & Front-End Development
![Jonathan Logan](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Jonathan Logan.jpg)
Jonathan Logan
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
![Karim Alabtakh](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Karim Alabtakh.jpg)
Karim Alabtakh
Engineer (Bridge)
![Andrew Bednoff](/wp-ico/img/new projects/Aurora/Andrew Bednoff.jpg)
Andrew Bednoff
Engineer (Engine)
Social media
MVP
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One Response
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