tl;dr
Request for proposals on new governance structures
Proof of concept of Grin running on a raspberry pi
New transaction fee structures proposed
Governance meeting tomorrow to remove Ignotus and inactive core members
News
There was a meetup for the Chinese Grin community in Hangzhou yesterday.
Proof of concept for a Grin node running on a Raspberry Pi 4 by Grinnode.live
Dev
There are 91 open issues in /grin, and 48 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 1 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 1 unique contributor
Last week’s dev meeting covered discussed the fix DAA and fee RFCs, unscheduled hard forks, and assignment of PIBD dev task.
New pull request by @jaspervdm: Refactor p2p reader
New RFC by @tromp proposing new tx fee structure.
The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Sep 15 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
Request for Proposals to replace the core team and existing governance structure by @lehnberg.
Two requests for funding will be discussed in tomorrow’s governance meeting:
@davidtavarez, for Grin++ mobile wallet development
Proposal to remove Ignotus as BDFL and @hashmap and @jaspervdm from core team due to inactivity in tomorrow’s governance meeting.
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
Mimblewimble Non-Interactive Transaction Scheme, by Gary Yuu
Revelio / Performance Trade-offs in Design of MimbleWimble Proofs of Reserves, by Suyash Bagad and Saravanan Vijayakumaran.
@phyro on interactive / non-interactive transaction building trade-offs.
RFCs
Draft
Eliminating finalize step [wallet-dev]
Parallel IBD [node-dev]
NEW! fix-fees [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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“Urchie Mimble” 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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