#81: Grin 3.0.0 🟢
Covering Jan 13-20 2020
News
At block height #524,160 the network successfully upgraded to v3.0.0, successfully completing Scheduled Hard Fork #2 (HF2). 🎉
Details of CVE-2020-6638, a medium severity vulnerability that was patched as part of v3.0.0 has just now been published. No action required.
Grin forum has moved. The new address is: https://forum.grin.mw
Last week also marked Grin’s one year anniversary. 🎂 Crytponomist is reporting in an article.
Grin Amsterdam teased with a follow up to their successful 2019 event, with a sponsorship confirmed by the Litecoin Foundation.
Dev
There are 115 open issues in /grin, and 30 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 5 in /grin | 7 in /grin-wallet | 6 unique contributors
@yeastplume’s weekly update.
All you need to know about Grin difficulty, C29, C31 fade out and C32, by @lolliedieb
Some discussion in the forum about BLS signatures pros and cons.
The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Jan 21 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
Some updates made to the Grin2020 roadmap RFC after feedback.
In last week’s governance meeting, my funding request for Q1 2020 was approved. Thanks for your support. In addition, 2020 roadmap and forum migration was also discussed.
Request for funding: Free educational book for blockchain
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 28 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Ecosystem
Innosilicon published an announcement cancelling their planned ASIC miner.
Grin++ creator @DavidBurkett has introduced a relay for Tor users that enables them to receive grin from exchange via http and https as an alternative to hedwig, ngrok, and other forwarding methods. Open for all grin wallet users to use.
Niffler v0.5.0 released with Grin v3 support.
Ironbelly mobile wallet v3.x supports Grin v3 as well, iOS and Android.
RFCs
Draft
Relative kernels [node-dev]
Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]
Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]
Open
Grin 2020 Roadmap [core]
Final Comment Period
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Accepted
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Closed
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“Be Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.
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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.
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