#53: Governance Proposal ⚖️

Covering Jun 10 - Jun 16 2019

Governance

• The big news from last week is that a proposal was made to iterate on Grin’s governance model. A wide-ranging proposal, it proposes an RFC process and new sub-teams. To be discussed on Tuesday’s Governance meeting. Give it a read and feel free to participate in the conversation tomorrow.

• Tomorrow’s Governance meeting will also discuss putting later POW phaseouts on hold, which will have a big impact on ASIC manufacturing. Stakeholders and other interested parties are invited to participate.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue Jun 18 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

News

• Binance Labs interviewed @hashmap about Grin payment processor Knockturn Allee.

• Coingecko created a countdown timer for the scheduled hard fork to upgrade the network to Grin v2.0.0.

Dev 

• There are 120 open issues in /grin, and 42 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 5 in /grin | 3 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors

• With less than 30 days left for the scheduled hard fork, v2.0.0 milestones for node and wallet are almost complete. Beta binaries are due to be released and we are on track to run a private testnet this week.

• The last dev meeting covered v1.1.0 evaluation, v2.0.0 planning, and project branching model.

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• New bulletproof rewind scheme by @jaspervdm merged.

• Proof of work change by @tromp introducing Cuckarood for the hard fork merged.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jun 25 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

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Research

• Revelio, a new privacy-preserving proof of reserves protocol for Grin exchanges. 

Upcoming events

• July 16, London, UK: 4th Grin Meetup

• July 23, Seoul, KR: Grin Meetup

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