112: Wallet funding requests 👛
Aug 17-30 2020
tl;dr
Two funding requests for mobile wallet projects received
Another scheme proposed to reduce transaction building trips
Never store your grins on exchanges
News
Qi Tian from Grin’s China community gave a talk at an online event.
Grin++ dev @davidburkett gave a talk on “Cutting-Edge Mimblewimble” at an online event. (YouTube link)
PSA: A community member lost their Grins at KuCoin exchange. Reminder to never store assets on exchanges. Not your keys, not your grins…
Dev
There are 90 open issues in /grin, and 47 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 9 in /grin | 0 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors
@yeastplume progress update.
@antiochp progress update.
The Aug 18 dev meeting covered v5.0.0 planning, slatepack docs, eliminating finalize step, and fee RFC / block size limit.
The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Sep 01 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
Two new requests for funding, that will be discussed in the next governance meeting:
@davidtavarez, for Grin++ mobile wallet development
@paouky’s weekly progress update.
The Aug 25 Gov meeting covered documentation updates and funding non-MW repo projects.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Sep 08 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Research
@tromp builds on previous ideas and proposes another scheme to minimise transaction building interactions, with payment proofs integrated in the solution.
@phyro on transaction interactivity in Grin.
@phyro thoughts on Mimblewimble linkability.
RFCs
Draft
Eliminating finalize step [wallet-dev]
Parallel IBD [node-dev]
Open
QA Team [core]
Deprecate HTTP(S) Transactions [wallet-dev]
Final Comment Period
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Accepted
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Closed
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“Klimblewimble” 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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