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103: Bulletproofs+ šŸ”«

Jun 15-21 2020

Daniel Lehnberg
Jun 22, 2020
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tl;dr

  • testnet forked to v4.0.0 successfully

  • academic research on Grin and bulletproofs

  • new community driven twitter account

  • antiochp & lehnberg funding requests

Twitter avatar for @MWgrinGrin @MWgrin
Is Grin the most popular? No. Is Grin the most private? No. Is Grin the most user friendly? No. Is Grin the most yellow? Fuck yes.

June 18th 2020

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Dev

  • There areĀ 78 open issuesĀ in /grin, andĀ 36 open issues in /grin-wallet.

  • Merged PRs:Ā 2 in /grinĀ |Ā 6 in /grin-walletĀ | 3 unique contributors

  • Grin v4.0.0 Network Upgrade (HF3)Ā is expected around July 15, 2020.

    • Node: beta2, Wallet: beta3

    • Floonet hard forked successfully

    • Testing instructions and results forĀ NodeĀ andĀ Wallet, promising so far.

    • General HF3 info

  • Discussion in the forum about potentially making Coinbase outputs indistinguishable from other outputs, for some added obfuscation benefit.

  • The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled forĀ Tue Jun 23 @ 15:00Ā UTCĀ inĀ grincoin#devĀ on Keybase. You canĀ add topics to the agenda.

Research

  • On the Confidentiality of Amounts in Grin
    Suyash Bagad and Saravanan Vijayakumaran
    Utilizing the knowledge of public coinbase reward outputs to create upper bound limits of Grin UTXOs.

  • Bulletproofs+: Shorter Proofs for Privacy-Enhanced Distributed Ledger
    Heewon Chung, Kyoohyung Han, Chanyang Ju, Myungsun Kim, Jae Hong Seo
    Optimization using the Weighted Inner Product argument to reduce the size of a bulletproof by 14.3%.

Governance

  • The following funding requests have been submitted and will be decided on in the Jun 30 governance meeting (those interested should participate):

    • @antiochp, Q3 2020

    • @lehnberg, Q3 2020

    • @yeastplume, Q3 2020

  • New community driven twitter account - @MWgrin šŸ‘ˆ be sure to follow.

  • The last governance meeting reviewed Open RFCs and discussed post-4.0.0 planning.

  • The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled forĀ Tue Jun 30 @ 15:00Ā UTCĀ inĀ grincoin#generalĀ on Keybase.Ā You canĀ add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

  • Parallel IBDĀ [node-dev]

Open

  • QA TeamĀ [core]

  • Deprecate HTTP(S) TransactionsĀ [wallet-dev]

Final Comment Period

  • SlatepackĀ [wallet-dev] - disposition to be merged on Jun 30.

Accepted

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Closed

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ā€œFreckled Grinā€ Artwork in this edition is byĀ @LovelyGrin.

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 orĀ find me on Keybase.

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