103: Bulletproofs+ 🔫
Jun 15-21 2020
tl;dr
testnet forked to v4.0.0 successfully
academic research on Grin and bulletproofs
new community driven twitter account
antiochp & lehnberg funding requests
Dev
There are 78 open issues in /grin, and 36 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 2 in /grin | 6 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors
Grin v4.0.0 Network Upgrade (HF3) is expected around July 15, 2020.
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 for Tue Jun 23 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can 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):
New community driven twitter account - @MWgrin 👈 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 for Tue Jun 30 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
RFCs
Draft
Parallel IBD [node-dev]
Open
QA Team [core]
Deprecate HTTP(S) Transactions [wallet-dev]
Final Comment Period
Slatepack [wallet-dev] - disposition to be merged on Jun 30.
Accepted
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Closed
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“Freckled Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.
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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