#65: Full Node Day 🌐

Covering Sep 16 - Sep 22 2019

News

• The Chinese community Gringotts 古灵阁 organised Full Node Day to encourage more users to run full nodes. Overview in English, and full details in Chinese.

• Photos and some details (if you squint) from an event booth about the Avalon Grin G1 Asic miner, allegedly due by end of October.

Dev

• There are 98 open issues in /grin, and 32 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 5 in /grin | 0 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors

• Next release: v2.1.0

  • Beta: Week of Sep 30

  • Release: Week of Oct 14

  • Milestones: Node | Wallet 

• Latest dev meeting notes: v2.1.0 development on track, audit findings have all been fixed, decision to add security canaries and therefore remove Igno from the security contact list, discussion about open RFCs.

• As part of transaction building research, we're collating research papers on mixnets and ACNs in one place.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Oct 01 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• The fundraising sub-team was announced, with @nass taking the lead on raising funds for long term continuity of Grin development. Feel free to participate and help!

• A dedicated repo for security was created to keep track of keys, incidents, audits, canaries, and more.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Sep 24 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

Open

• Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]

Final Comment Period

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Accepted

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Closed

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Events

• Oct 4-6 2019, Prague, CZ: @kargakis at #HCPP19

• End of Nov 2019 (date, venue, location tbd): grincon1

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