News

• Grin's UTXO set continues to shrink, and has now been reduced by 35% over the past 10 days. Some proper wizardry right there. 🧙‍♂️

• Videos from the Grin Amsterdam talks are now up on Youtube. Thanks to Bitonic for doing the recordings and livestream.

• Nathaniel Whittemore outlines crypto narratives for Spring 2019, in which he writes that “the patina of the fair launch narrative has come off a bit after Grin”. Valid assertion? Maybe, I for one wouldn’t know. It does however beg the question of what exactly was supposed to have happened by now, three months into Grin’s mainnet existence. And one might also wonder how any of this would help justify a forced dev tax for other projects. ツ

Dev 

• There are 110 open issues in /grin, and 32 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 11 in /grin | 1 in /grin-wallet | 5 unique contributors

• The last dev meeting covered planning for v1.1.0, future I2P support, git branching models, and tx slate versioning.

• @yeastplume is working on invoicing support for wallet and has created a rust implementation of wallet seed sharding using Samir's Secret Sharing. Pretty cool stuff.

• @quentinlesceller has been hard at work getting Azure Pipelines properly set up as we move away from Travis.

• @antiochp asked for input on optimising Merkle Proofs by aggregation.

• Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday May 14 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

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Governance

• The first financial transparency report is up for 2019 Q1. Tl;dr - we spent money on devs and audit in Q1, we received some funds, but we could definitely do with some more. Consider contributing!

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue May 7 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Research

• Why Software Projects need heroes (Lessons learned from 1100+ projects), paper by Majumder et al.

Upcoming events

• May 16, Moscow, Russia: 1st Grin Meetup

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