#37: The Lone Red 🚨

Covering Feb 18 - Feb 24 2019

GrinWorld3d by @elevan

News

• Grin v1.0.2 has been released! Anybody with a node running behind NAT should see more stable behavior in terms of number of outbound connections. Go check it out.

• There was price analysis by the investment community:

  Arianna Simpson @AriannaSimpson

  In a sea of green, $GRIN is the lone red today. Result of the inflation schedule? Hmmm 🤔K

  

Dev

• There are 139 open issues in the Grin repo. 

• 12 pull requests were merged in the past week, by 5 unique contributors.

• Meeting notes from latest Dev meeting, release planning for v1.0.2, scope for v1.1.0, and error management discussed.

• WIP PR by @JeremyRubin to switch to CuckooCache data structure.

• WIP PR by @McDallas to add webhooks for network and chain events.

• Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Mar 5 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

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Governance

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Feb 26 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Ecosystem

Any mention of a project in this section should not be seen as an endorsement. 

• Grin++ went live on windows, the C++ implementation by @DavidBurkett.

• SuperGrin, an open source GUI wallet for macOS by @rheza.

• Innosilicon announced pre-orders for their ASIC miner with little specs.

• Facebook live video from last week's Bangkok meetup where @garyyu presented.

Research

• Zether, a fully-decentralized, confidential payment mechanism compatible with Ethereum and other smart contract platforms. Paper by @bbuenz et. al.

• Blockstream / @apoelstra announced MuSig: A new multi-sig standard.

• Paper on VDF functions from Supersingular Isogenies and Pairings by De Feo et. al.

Upcoming events

• Mar 26, Amsterdam, NL: Grin Amsterdam Meetup

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