Updates, updates, read all about them!!

## Community Announcements

- CALLING ALL ALEO POOL HOSTS:
- We would love if you could fill this survey out for info: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRgv6b5JZGx5LpV4hpESZNh3NJVrJMdF_kv1elDkGFFJza6w/viewform?usp=send_form]

- Community Call WEDNESDAY at 1:30pm ET
- This is a mandatory call for all ambassadors
- Points and role updates for the month of Jan are being updated this week! We will share the new leaderboard.
- Have a meetup you want to host? Fill out the form below! We’ll be aiming to host one community meetup each month IRL and we’re looking for you to help us [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKMcDk1EVxu_ADOa1uc9M_dH-co9H3rRyqXEaFBfGmKzLl3w/viewform?usp=sf_link]

- All Aleo pools are COMMUNITY RUN
- None are officially approved by Aleo
- You assume all risks by participating in a pool
- There will be another Ambassador Program application opening up at the end of February. Stay tuned for more information. All Ambassadors will be required to pass KYC. We follow strict KYC laws which are listed on Discord.

## Core Engineering Updates

There are many more merges and in-progress pull requests to check out. We recommend heading to [https://github.com/AleoHQ](https://github.com/AleoHQ) for a full weekly review.

**- Merges:
**
- snarkVM
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1346: Update the license headers
- snarkOS
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2236: Feat: introduce the metrics crate
- leo
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2256: Add support for full integration tests
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2253: Fix: minor typo

**- In-Progress
**
- snarkVM
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1364: Add is_valid methods for transactions
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1363: Improve marlin documentation
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1360: Fix CommitInstruction::output_type
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1358: Fixes Integer::shr_wrapped

- snarkOS
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2239: Implement Deploy and Execute CLI commands
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2238: Update snarkVM release to 0.9.12
- leo
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2263: [Feature] Visibilities for record members
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2262: [Feature] Function Inlining

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