130: The immutable era 🪨
Covering Jan 11-17 2021
News
On its second birthday, Grin forked successfully and with this, the final of the scheduled hard forks is now in the past and the consensus layer is defaulting to being immutable. Congratulations to all the contributors for achieving this significant milestone in the project’s history!
The first known exchange of Grin for BBQ took place when @Goonyer placed a mouth watering order on the forum.
The list of active exchanges that support Grin transactions has been updated by @bluimes
“Grin - the crypto that became a work of art”, article by Alex PromoTeam
Artwork celebrating Grin and Tor working together on the forums.
Dev
There are 103 open issues in /grin, and 65 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 0 in /grin | 5 in /grin-wallet | 2 contributors
Ironbelly wallet update by @i1skn
Add ideas to the Post 5.0.0 wish list, a noncommittal list for things to be prioritised moving forward.
Last development meeting made final preparations for the hard fork and brainstormed what priorities should be next.
The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 26 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Research
Proposal for a bounty program for a trustless aggregator by @deev
Daily aggregator (Partial transactions) by @antioch
Governance
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 19 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
RFCs
Draft
Early payment proofs [wallet-dev]
Safe cancel [wallet-dev]
Payjoins support [wallet-dev]
Open
QA Team [core]
Final Comment Period
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Accepted
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Closed
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“Swishing 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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