95: Binary Slates 🧾

Covering April 20-26 2020

tl;dr

• New binary slate format with armoring comparisons to JSON.

• Parallel IBD RFC draft up that aims to improve syncing.

• Armored slates RFC encoding the slates to an easy-to-share format.

• How to use NRD Kernels for payment channels.

News

• The Grinnode.live Node Challenge has finished! Details for how winners can claim their prizes, by @mcm-mike

Dev

• There are 103 open issues in /grin, and 31 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 3 in /grin | 7 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors

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

  • General information

  • Planning issue

  • Development milestones: Node // Wallet

• @tromp posted to mailing list outlining the planned use of NRD kernels for payment channels asking for feedback.

• New RFC: Parallel IBD, by @jaspervdm.

• New RFC: Armored slates, by @j01tz.

• @antiochp weekly update.

• @yeastplume weekly update.

• A new binary slate format was introduced by @yeastplume leading to further space savings. Here’s a comparison of the armor output for JSON and binary variants.

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

Governance

• The last governance meeting discussed a new structure of keybase teams, and reviewed the open RFCs.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue May 05 @ 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]

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

• NEW! - Parallel IBD [node-dev]

Open

• QA Team [core]

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

• Compact Slates [wallet-dev]

• New! - Armored slates [wallet-dev]

Final Comment Period

• General fund spending guidelines [core] - disposition to Merge, FCP extended to May 05.

Accepted

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Closed

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