Forum user @Grumpy took it upon themselves to submit an application to Binance. š„
News
The hard fork that will see the Grin network upgrade to v2.0.0 is happening at time T minus two days or so. Hereās a handy countdown timer provided by the folks at CoinGecko. Version 2 will put transaction incompatibility behind us (permanently hopefully), and will see a a lot of fixes and improvements, and provide a more stable ground for future upgrades. If youāve not yet upgraded your node or wallet to v2.0.0, do so ASAP.
Tomorrow Tuesday thereās the 4th Grin Meetup in London. @yeastplume, @jaspervdm, and yours truly will be there alongside some of the other 86 grinners who are planning to attend, come join us! šāāļø
@nijynot has been working on aĀ redesign of the grin websiteĀ and a new visual language for Grin. š©āšØ
And if a scheduled hard fork isnāt enough action for you, thereās also been yet another Grin fork / Grin clone announced! Technically "Epic Cash" was announced, not that it's actually a fork of the grin codebase. ć
Dev
There areĀ 113 open issuesĀ in /grin, andĀ 29 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs:Ā 5 in /grinĀ |Ā 2 in /grin-walletĀ | 6 unique contributors
Last week'sĀ development meetingĀ covered the creation of the wallet and node sub teams, an update on the work following our security audit work from @jo1tz, and planning for Grin v2.0.1 and v2.1.0.
@antiochpĀ simplified handling of the txhashset zip.
@hashmapĀ had a CPU performance improvement mergedĀ that uses blocking IO.
@yeastplume is working on aĀ wallet rework/refactoring and RFC. Read more in hisĀ weekly update.
The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled forĀ Tuesday Jul 23 @ 15:00Ā UTCĀ inĀ grin/DevĀ on Gitter. You canĀ add topics to the agenda.
Governance
TheĀ wallet development sub teamĀ has been discussing how to self-organise, you can join the discussion in the Keybase team.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled forĀ Tue Jul 16 @ 15:00Ā UTCĀ inĀ grin/LobbyĀ on Gitter.Ā You canĀ add topics to the agenda.
Ecosystem
Any mention of a project in this section shouldĀ notĀ be seen as an endorsement.Ā
For those using Grin Gold Miner, there's been someĀ hard fork information announced.
Vite wallet is also ready for 2.0.0.
The next monthly ecosystem meeting is scheduled forĀ Tue Aug 13 @ 17:00Ā UTCĀ inĀ grin/EcosystemĀ on Gitter.
Upcoming events
July 16, London, UK:Ā 4th Grin Meetup
July 23, Seoul, KR:Ā Grin Meetup
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This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.
Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop me a line on daniel.lehnberg-at-protonmail.com orĀ find me on Gitter.
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