114: Mobile wallet work funded 📲
Sep 07-13 2020
tl;dr
Ironbelly and Grin++ mobile wallet work funded
Jasper is back
Ignotus and Hashmap removed due to inactivity
Eliminating finalize step is insecure
News
More details shared about the coming Grin ASIC.
@jaspervdm announced his return to the project after some time off.
Dev
There are 92 open issues in /grin, and 48 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 5 in /grin | 1 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors
@jaspervdm progress update.
@antiochp progress update.
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
@paouky progress update.
@antiochp request for funding Q4 2020.
Approved @i1skn & @davidtavarez funding requests
Removed @ignotus as BDFL and @hashmap from core team due to inactivity
Updated the Code of Conduct
The forum thread to iterate on Grin’s governance structure has seen a lot of activity and a couple of constructive proposals.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Sep 22 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Research
Eliminate finalize step shown to be insecure by Beam’s @valdok, which led to @tromp’s idea for round minimisation also to be insecure.
@kurt proposes a reloaded variant to address the above issue.
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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“X-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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