96: The final Cuckoo has hatched 🐣

Covering April 27 - May 03 2020

tl;dr

• Grin’s last PoW tweak has been announced.

• Discussion ongoing to deprecate http(s) transaction building for v5.0.0.

• Ongoing BLS research and review of previous papers.

Dev

• There are 102 open issues in /grin, and 32 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 announced details of Cuckarooz, the last ASIC-resistant PoW tweak.

• @yeastplume weekly update.

• @jaspervdm weekly update.

• Last week’s development meeting reviewed the status of v4.0.0 items, discussed http(s) deprecation, and priority for future PayJoin work.

• The ongoing discussions of deprecating http(s) triggered a new RFC and the intention is to reach a conclusion for next dev meeting.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tue May 12 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue May 05 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Research

• On the security of EC pairings / BLC sigs, by @DrazenV

• Review of the GandalfThePink BLS paper, by @DrazenV

• Research related to Halo-style recursive proof compositions

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]

• Parallel IBD [node-dev]

Open

• QA Team [core]

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

• Compact Slates [wallet-dev]

• Armored slates [wallet-dev]

• NEW! - Deprecate HTTP(S) Transactions [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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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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