tl;dr

• Grin obituaries launched

• New service to check for wallets online via Tor

• The last governance meeting reviewed open RFCs

News

• Following the death announcement last week, Grin obituaries are collecting more stories stories of the casualty as they break. RIP Grin.

• There was a heated discussion on Reddit a while back on a similar note that had I missed to include back then.

• @davidtavarez built a service that checks whether a Tor wallet address is reachable.

Dev

• There are 74 open issues in /grin, and 32 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 8 in /grin | 5 in /grin-wallet | 5 unique contributors

• Grin v4.0.0 Network Upgrade (HF3), expected ~ July 15, 2020, betas expected ~ June 2nd:

  • General information

  • Planning issue

  • Development milestones: Node // Wallet

• @antiochp status update.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue May 26 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• In the last governance meeting there was a review of the open RFCs.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jun 02 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Parallel IBD [node-dev]

Open

• QA Team [core]

• Deprecate HTTP(S) Transactions [wallet-dev]

• Slatepack [wallet-dev]

Final Comment Period

• General fund spending guidelines [core] - disposition to Merge, FCP extended until Jun 02

• No Recent Duplicate (NRD) Kernels [node-dev] - disposition to Merge, FCP extended until Jun 02

• Compact Slates [wallet-dev] -disposition to Merge, FCP closed May 21

Accepted

-

Closed

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

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“Bloody Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

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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