105: Ready for Grin 4 🎇
Jun 29 - Jul 05 2020
tl;dr
grin 4 has been released, hard fork ETA Jul 19
Bulletproof+ implementation by KZen Research
Q3 funding requests were approved in the last governance meeting
IRS published a request for information on how to trace Grin
News
A request for information (RFI) was published by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on how to trace several cryptocurrencies, including Grin.
Dev
There are 82 open issues in /grin, and 38 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 2 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors
Grin v4.0.0 Network Upgrade (HF3) is expected around July 19, 2020.
Forum post by @yeastplume announcing the release and changes
KZen Research open sourced v1.0.0 of their Bulletproof library, which includes implementations of Bulletproof+, work done by @suyashbagad.
Discussion continued on the forums about the pros/cons of having coinbase outputs behave identical to regular outputs.
Some early sketches on v5.0.0 prioritization in this planning issue.
The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 07 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
In the last governance meeting, funding requests for @yeastplume, @lehnberg, and @antiochp were approved, the Slatepack RFC was discussed, and there was mentioning of the ongoing reviews of documentation and code of conduct.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 14 @ 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
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Accepted
Slatepack [wallet-dev]
Closed
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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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