151: Quietly Leading The Pack🎖

Research

• Building offline transactions a proposal by MarekRenzokuken

News

• As the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery- while Grin gets an honorable mention in the recent Coin Bureau recap video for its role building the Mimblewimble protocol, other projects have begun to catch onto the value that privacy and scalability hold in digital transactions, showing what many following the project may already know- that Grin is quietly leading technology development in the field (Grin shout-out @14:30 minute mark)

• Thanks to more great work done by the grinnode.live team, network transaction count statistics are now publicly available to view as a plot-graph; aggregate in all-time, yearly, monthly, and 3-day views. This is an addition to their already released live global node map, network health chart, and node user agent viewer- making grinnode.live not only an essential tool for reliable node API connectivity but also network statistics and awareness

  

Development

Rustlang

• PIBD [WIP] - Finalize PIBD download and move state to chain validation

• PIBD - Tree sync via network and kill/resume functionality

• PIBD - PMMR Reassembly from Segments

• TOR bridge + TOR Proxy + migration config_file_version

• Merged PRs: 2 in/grin | 1 in/grin-wallet | 2 unique contributors

Ecosystem

• Grin++ Wallet and Node v1.2.7-beta.2 update from -beta.1

• Grin++ Android v0.3.2 running beta.2 node

Governance

• In last weeks community meeting

  • Community miners update

  • @Dtavarez funding request

The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Feb 15 @ 10:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda & review past meeting notes

Request For Comment

Draft

• Payjoins Support by Phyro

• Safe Cancel by Tromp

• Early Payment Proofs by Tromp

Open

• Multiple Named Wallets by Sheldonth

• Multisignature Outputs by GeneFerneau

• Atomic Swaps by GeneFerneau

• Manual Confirmation of Transaction by DavidTavarez

Artwork in this edition "untitled" is from forum contributor u/grinsun

This newsletter is curated by Jank Claus. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

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