#58: Six months of Mainnet 🎂

Covering Jul 15-21 2019

News

• At block #262,080, Grin successfully hard forked successful. Congratulations to the community for pulling off what was a very uneventful network-wide upgrade! 🎉

• A day before the hard fork marked the six month anniversary of Grin’s Mainnet. I gave an overview of what’s been accomplished in this brief period at last week’s London Meetup. The slides are now online [PDF], and also includes an introduction to the recent governance changes and RFC process.

• David Vorick announced that Obelisk has cancelled their GRN1 ASIC miner. @photon provides interesting commentary further down in the forum thread.

• The Token Talks podcast about Grin that I appeared on a few months back has now gone live.

• Paradigm Daily (not to be confused with Paradigm.xyz) published a bi-weekly update about Grin on Telegram.

• Looks like Grin has a comparatively healthy Github activity compared to other projects in the space:

Macツ 🧙‍♂️ @MacMopsus

1/ $GRIN has the 7th most subscribed Github repo based on 1499 #cryptocurrencies 👀 yet it's ranked 98th based on current market cap. All projects with more subscribers have billion-dollar market caps.e

Dev

• There are 114 open issues in /grin, and 32 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 3 in /grin | 1 in /grin-wallet | 4 unique contributors

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jul 23 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Last week's governance meeting adopted the RFC process, the sub-teams proposal, and had updates on website redesign and security audit.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 16 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Adopted

• RFC-0001: RFC Process [core]

• RFC-0002: Grin Governance [core]

Proposed

• Security Process Update [core]

• Combine MMR Roots [node-dev]

Ecosystem

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

• @i1skn did the first Grin iOS <-> Android transaction using the Ironbelly wallet.

• @nijynot announced the first release of his Wimble wallet for Grin.

• The next monthly ecosystem meeting is scheduled for Tue Aug 13 @ 17:00 UTC in grin/Ecosystem on Gitter.

Upcoming events

• July 23, Seoul, KR: Grin Meetup

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