News

• At block height #524,160 the network successfully upgraded to v3.0.0, successfully completing Scheduled Hard Fork #2 (HF2). 🎉

• Details of CVE-2020-6638, a medium severity vulnerability that was patched as part of v3.0.0 has just now been published. No action required.

• Grin forum has moved. The new address is: https://forum.grin.mw

• Last week also marked Grin’s one year anniversary. 🎂 Crytponomist is reporting in an article.

• Grin Amsterdam teased with a follow up to their successful 2019 event, with a sponsorship confirmed by the Litecoin Foundation.

Dev

• There are 115 open issues in /grin, and 30 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 5 in /grin | 7 in /grin-wallet | 6 unique contributors

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• All you need to know about Grin difficulty, C29, C31 fade out and C32, by @lolliedieb

• Some discussion in the forum about BLS signatures pros and cons.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Jan 21 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Some updates made to the Grin2020 roadmap RFC after feedback.

• In last week’s governance meeting, my funding request for Q1 2020 was approved. Thanks for your support. In addition, 2020 roadmap and forum migration was also discussed.

• Request for funding: Free educational book for blockchain

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 28 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Ecosystem

• Innosilicon published an announcement cancelling their planned ASIC miner.

• Grin++ creator @DavidBurkett has introduced a relay for Tor users that enables them to receive grin from exchange via http and https as an alternative to hedwig, ngrok, and other forwarding methods. Open for all grin wallet users to use.

• Niffler v0.5.0 released with Grin v3 support.

• Ironbelly mobile wallet v3.x supports Grin v3 as well, iOS and Android.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

Open

• Grin 2020 Roadmap [core]

Final Comment Period

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Accepted

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Closed

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“Be Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/81-grin-300-

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

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News

• GRINOIRE book review: Those of you who are curious to find out more about the contents of this magical (and extremely heavy) tome of cypherpunk lore, look no further.

Dev

• There are 112 open issues in /grin, and 27 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 3 in /grin | 0 in /grin-wallet | 0 unique contributor

• The v3.0.0 network wide upgrade is taking place this week on Jan 15 2020. Every user should upgrade to v3.0.0 of node and wallet.

• Last week’s development meeting covered initial v3.1.0 planning, integration tests, and the /packaging repo.

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• @alexbyrnes made a pre-release of Grinbot, a self-hosted keybase and telegram bot wallet for Grin.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jan 21 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Both dev and governance meetings have now been moved to Keybase, with an action to improve visibility of our Keybase community on the main website.

• There is a new funding section up on the grin website.

• Initial draft of Grin2020 roadmap RFC published.

• @lehnberg (yours truly) request for funding for Q1 2020 will be covered in the next Governance meeting. 

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 14 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

Open

• [NEW!] Grin 2020 Roadmap [core]

Final Comment Period

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Accepted

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Closed

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“Radio Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/80-hard-fork-imminent-

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop me a line on daniel.lehnberg-at-protonmail.com or find me on Keybase.

News

• A video posted on the forum shows how $77m Grin was mined in 2019, making for an impressive first year where Grin was able to stand its own against other POW coins.

• As was feared, the old domain grin-tech.org has fallen into unknown hands. DO NOT TRUST this site and for donation addresses to the General Fund ONLY USE THOSE LISTED IN THE GRIN-PM REPO.

Dev

• There are 112 open issues in /grin, and 25 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 2 in /grin | 3 in /grin-wallet | 1 unique contributor

• Version 3.0.0 of node and wallet was released. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

• The v3.0.0 network wide upgrade is scheduled to take place in less than ten days on Jan 15 2020. Read more about it and timelines here.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jan 07 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Both dev and governance meetings have now been moved to Keybase, with an action to improve visibility of our Keybase community on the main website.

• @lehnberg (yours truly) request for funding for Q1 2020 ended up being contentious, with some forum participants challenging the request. The request will be decided on in the Jan 14 governance meeting, those interested are welcome to participate.

• There are new community and governance sections up on the grin website.

• 2019 Q4 financial transparency report published.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 14 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

Open

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Final Comment Period

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Accepted

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Closed

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“Naturalistic Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/79-77m-worth-of-grin-mined-in-2019

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop me a line on daniel.lehnberg-at-protonmail.com or find me on Keybase.

News

• Grinnodes.org: Open source mapping of running Grin nodes worldwide, by community member @xbbdjj

• TMGOX announced their transparency report for December 2019, and a
  0.28 BTC donation to the general fund.

• Forum discussion of Confidential Assets proposal by researchers at QTUM and Beam.

DEAR READERS: GrinNews is taking a break over the holiday season and will be back again in full force in 2020. 🎇

Dev

• There are 111 open issues in /grin, and 24 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 2 in /grin | 1 in /grin-wallet | 2 unique contributors

• The v3.0.0 network wide upgrade is scheduled to take place on Jan 15 2020. Read more about it and timelines here.

• Beta3 was released for the node this week.

• Floonet, Grin’s testnet, hard forked successfully and so far everything appears to be running smoothly.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jan 07 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Both dev and governance meetings have now been moved to Keybase, with an action to improve visibility of our Keybase community on the main website.

• @lehnberg request for funding for Q1 2020.

• In last week's Governance meeting: Yeastplume's funding request was approved, Meetings were moved to Keybase, distribution of backup shares for grin.mw domain was agreed, and we rescheduled meetings over the holiday period.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 14 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

Open

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Final Comment Period

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Accepted

• Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]

• Enable faster sync [node-dev]

Closed

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Artwork in this edition is from TMGOX.

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/78-floonet-hard-fork-successful-

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

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News

• With Cuckatoo31+ rewards having reached 51%, Grin is now more ASIC Friendly than ASIC Resistant.

Dev

• There are 110 open issues in /grin, and 24 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 7 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 4 unique contributors

• v3.0.0 network upgrade, Jan 15 2020:

  • Planning issue with milestones

  • Upgrade timelines and more info

• There's been code freeze for v3.0.0, full focus on producing the best possible release candidate in time for the scheduled upgrade. Beta 2 was released earlier this week for the node.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Dec 24 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Funding request from Yeastplume for full time development during Q12020, to be covered in tomorrow’s Governance meeting.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Dec 17 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

Open

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Final Comment Period

• Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]

• Enable faster sync [node-dev]

Accepted

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Closed

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“Grin Pancakes” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/77-asic-friendly-resistant-

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop me a line on daniel.lehnberg-at-protonmail.com or find me on Gitter.

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