#50: Elder channels 🧙♂️
Covering May 20 - May 26 2019
News
Missed this one last week - @quentinlesceller wrote a detailed expose on how GrinMint caught an attacker of their mining pool.
WeTrust’s Patrick Long looked into Grin’s governance structure.
Tim Ruffing ended up clarifying previous tweets following some misleading articles being published.
Dev
There are 108 open issues in /grin, and 36 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 6 in /grin | 5 in /grin-wallet | 5 unique contributors
@yeastplume’s weekly update.
@antiochp proposed Elder channels, a lightning-style layer 2 protocol for Grin. Over the week, we saw not one, not two, but three iterations of the mechanism. Promising.
@jaspervdm open-sourced his multi-party bulletproof builder ahead of the full GrinSwap crate.
The third brother Peverell, Cadmus, made an appearance recently. Here's a proposal to optimise (larger) syncs through parallelisation.
Slides from @hashmap's Mimblewimle introduction (in Russian) are now online.
Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday May 28 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
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Governance
Last week’s governance meeting covered payment to Coinspect for audit, project budget feedback, and wiki access control.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jun 04 @ 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 Vault, a grin wallet for Android, was announced and is in open beta (not open sourced yet).
Upcoming events
June 5, San Francisco, CA: Bay Area Grin Meetup - Why grin?
July 16, London, UK: 4th Grin Meetup
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