tl;dr

• PayJoins might be very suitable for graph obfuscation in Grin

• Q1 transparency + New burn-rate & runway reports published

• Rapid experimentations on compact slate branch in grin-wallet

• Transaction building method comparisons

• RFC Proposal for e2e encrypted slates over http(s)

Dev

• There are 104 open issues in /grin, and 31 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 6 in /grin | 4 in /grin-wallet | 5 unique contributors

• Grin v4.0.0 Network Upgrade (HF3), expected ~ July 15, 2020:

  • General information

  • Planning issue

  • Development milestones: Node // Wallet

• Following the recent attention given to PayJoin, @antiochp observed that the graph obfuscation technique would be very suitable for Grin, as interactivity is already a requirement for transaction building.

• The wallet repo now has a compact slates branch that is being exposed to all kinds of transaction slate experimentation and trickery by @yeastplume.

• New RFC: e2e encrypted slates over http(s), by @DavidBurkett.

• @antiochp weekly update.

• A comparison of tx-building methods and trade-offs.

• The last Dev meeting reviewed v4.0.0 status, discussed Grin’s stance towards soft forks, and post v5.0.0 network upgrades.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Apr 28 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Q1 2020 Financial Transparency Report is up.

• New financial report created: Burn-rate and Runway

• Template for funding requests, created by @Niels86.

• A funding request for BLS research was raised by @DrazenV, and was later halted, after feedback from the community, to be re-opened at a point in the future.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue Apr 21 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

• Create a Moderation team [core]

• Slate Serialization [wallet-dev]

• NEW! - e2e encrypted slates over http(s) [wallet-dev]

Open

• QA Team [core]

• No Recent Duplicate (NRD) Kernels [node-dev]

• Compact Slates [wallet-dev]

Final Comment Period

• General fund spending guidelines [core] - disposition to Merge, by April 21.

Accepted

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Closed

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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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