This year we'll try to be more active here on Bitcointalk. Alephium is open source, so you can always follow the development on: https://github.com/alephium/ but for everyone who doesn't have the time or bandwidth to do so, we'll post progress in this thread! Here's the first one for 2023:

🌐 Backend Team

• Add difficulty metrics
• Remove random execution of transactions
• Merge bug fixes from wormhole official repo
• Fix port boud bug
• Several security improvements for the bridge infrastructure
• More operational runbooks for the bridge infrastructure
• Upgrade the bridge to the latest dApp stack
• Add Router contract for DEX
• Design and implement the last missing parts of Leman upgrade
• Update ralph-vscode plugin
• Working on DEX contracts and UI. The UI now supports swap, add/remove liquidity, and add token pool.

🌍 Frontend Team

Desktop wallet v2.0 🖥️
• Fetching price from coingecko
• Implemented new side navigation
• Implemented simple notifications modal
• Started working on new addresses page layout

Explorer 🔭
• Fixed transactions table UI bug and deployed on testnet and mainnet: https://github.com/alephium/explorer/issues/158