#78: Floonet hard fork successful 🔼

Covering Dec 16-22 2019

Daniel Lehnberg

Dec 23, 2019

News

Grinnodes.org: Open source mapping of running Grin nodes worldwide, by community member @xbbdjj
TMGOX announced their transparency report for December 2019, and a
0.28 BTC donation to the general fund.
Forum discussion of Confidential Assets proposal by researchers at QTUM and Beam.

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Dev

There are 111 open issues in /grin, and 24 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 2 in /grin | 1 in /grin-wallet | 2 unique contributors
The v3.0.0 network wide upgrade is scheduled to take place on Jan 15 2020. Read more about it and timelines here.
Beta3 was released for the node this week.
Floonet, Grin’s testnet, hard forked successfully and so far everything appears to be running smoothly.
The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jan 07 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

Both dev and governance meetings have now been moved to Keybase, with an action to improve visibility of our Keybase community on the main website.
@lehnberg request for funding for Q1 2020.
In last week's Governance meeting: Yeastplume's funding request was approved, Meetings were moved to Keybase, distribution of backup shares for grin.mw domain was agreed, and we rescheduled meetings over the holiday period.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 14 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin on Keybase. 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

Final Comment Period

Accepted

Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]
Enable faster sync [node-dev]

Closed

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