**The Relayer 2 is now live 🎉** The Aurora team is thrilled to release a new version of the Aurora public relayer and a complete full update of our own infrastructure. But before we get into the details on the Relayer 2 let us provide you with some context. Aurora implements the EVM and Ethereum compatible state as a smart contract on top of the NEAR. This makes it necessary to translate the NEAR blockchain events and transactions into an Ethereum compatible format. The relayer implements this requirement: Index the NEAR blockchain, extract Aurora-related activities, create Ethereum compatible data and make it available through the familiar Ethereum/web3 RPC APIs. Furthermore, the relayer turns standard Ethereum transactions into embedded metatransactions to be executed on the NEAR protocol, providing Ethereum compatible access to the Aurora system. Over one year ago the Relayer V1 was released and since then the Aurora team has worked on supporting and enhancing it. Now, we are taking an even bigger step with a complete rewrite of the relayer. The new Relayer was rewritten in Go and supports multiple ingestion indexes, that is, the ability to follow multiple deployments of Aurora in one instance. The multiple ingestion indexes is a new key component that allows us to serve testnet, mainnet, and any [Aurora Cloud](https://auroracloud.dev/) silos (dedicated blockchain instances) from one installation and database. The new Relayer 2 offers two new important features: ▻ Better scalability: ~10x requests served; ▻ Multi-silo support: Allows mainnet, testnet, additional Aurora Cloud instances to be served from one install. In short, the Relayer 2 is now able to provide higher scalability, reliability, security and a better deployment experience while still providing full Ethereum compatibility. [Source](https://twitter.com/auroraisnear/status/1641776017328021506) 💚 [Aurora Twitter](https://twitter.com/auroraisnear) | [Telegram](https://t.me/auroraisnear) | [Blog](https://aurora.dev/blog) | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/auroraisnear) | [Community Dashboard](https://auroradao.club/) 💚