Hello everyone,
To make development progress easier to follow and keep all updates in one place, this thread will serve as a central log for monthly development reports. Each month, contributors involved in the project can post a summary of completed work.
Monthly updates will be added as replies to this thread.
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Summary - May 2026
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
- mimblewimble/grin-wallet
- mimblewimble/grin
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
Reviewed & Merged
- #748 - Save last scanned block info for wallet scanning
mimblewimble/grin
Reviewed & Merged
- #3836 - tui: show server initialization status and error
- #3825 - Migrate from lmdb-zero to heed
- #3843 - Change default IP address for P2PConfig to IPv6
- #3834 - Update Rust edition to 2021
Created & Merged
- #3846 - Add DNS Seeder fountainoffairfortune
- #3844 - Snap addition
- #3840 - Clarify the blinding factor range proof explanation and include remaining typo fixes
- #3839 - Telegram GGC channel
- #3833 - docs: update contributing process
- #3832 - ci: staging docker build
- #3831 - Test staging PR permissions
- #3829 - Include git information in Docker builds and display git reference in version output
Created
- #3847 - Add Telegram notifications for GitHub workflows
- #3835 - Improve PIHD sync and PIBD segment handling
Additional Topics
- Built a Docker-based test farm using Docker, Grafana, and Grin++/Grinffindor for testing and monitoring
Agenda - June 2026
grin-wallet (Review)
- #750 - Replace tor process with arti client
grin
- #3847 - Add Telegram notifications for GitHub workflows
- #3835 - Improve PIHD sync and PIBD segment handling
grin++
General
- Review and work through open issues
- Continue testing, reviewing, and maintaining the Grin ecosystem
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Summary - May - early June 2026
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
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mimblewimble/grin-wallet
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mimblewimble/grin
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
Updated
- #748 - Save last scanned block info for wallet scanning
Created
Tested
- #754 - Update contracts to current staging
mimblewimble/grin
Updated
Created
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#3829 - Include git info into docker build, show git ref at version
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#3832 - ci: staging docker build
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#3834 - Update Rust edition to 2021
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#3836 - tui: show server initialization status and error
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#3851 - Do not use workspace for submodules
Tested & Reviewed
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#3820 - Optimize PMMR segments to only include hashes at pruning boundaries
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#3835 - Improve PIHD sync and PIBD segment handling
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#3844 - Snap addition
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#3849 - propagate lmdb iterator page errors
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#3850 - PIBD: bound segment decoding allocations
Additional Topics
- Grim: ci macos runner, update grin submodules, tx repost fix, some UI fixes.
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Impressive work @wiesche and @ardocrat ! Keep it up ! 
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Summary - June 2026
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
mimblewimble/grin
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
Reviewed & Merged
- #748 - Save last scanned block info for wallet scanning
- #750 - Integrated Tor arti Client
- #755 - Update lmdb
- #758 - Node submodules
- #762 - Global Tor client state
- #763 - Optimize tor sync flow
Reviewed
- #754 - Update contracts to current staging + fix #729
mimblewimble/grin
Reviewed & Merged
- #3836 - tui: show server initialization status and error
- #3825 - Migrate from lmdb-zero to heed
- #3823 - PIBD peers fix
- #3851 - Do not use workspace for submodules
- #3860 - LMDB resize fixes
- #3868 - Fix TUI server startup shutdown handling
Created & Merged
- #3849 - propagate lmdb iterator page errors
- #3861 - Validate bitmap segment indices on decode
- #3862 - Improve seedcheck diagnostics and Windows cleanup
- #3863 - add dns seeder
- #3866 - Fix pool fuzz build
- #3875 - Harden PIBD segment retry and recovery
- #3877 - Improve macOS TUI support with crossterm backend
- #3878 - Notify Telegram on merged pull requests
- #3879 - add PIHD header segment protocol
- #3880 - avoid panic on invalid config migration
Created
- #3881 - Create API secrets at configured paths
- #3882 - Implement PIHD header sync
Reviewed
- #3820 - Optimize PMMR segments to only include hashes at pruning boundaries
General
Continue PIHD/PIBD implementation and testing
Review and work through open issues
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Summary - June - early July 2026
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
- mimblewimble/grin-wallet
- mimblewimble/grin
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
Updated
Created
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#762 - Global Tor client state
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#765 - Connection timeout
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#768 - Update deps
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#769 - Global config instance
Tested
- #754 - Update contracts to current staging
mimblewimble/grin
Updated
Created
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#3860 - LMDB resize fixes
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#3864 - Allow running multiple nodes from single IP
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#3865 - Optimize LMDB migration size check
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#3883 - Update API dependencies
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#3884 - Fuzz build fix
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#3885 - Fix tests using rustls
Tested & Reviewed
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#3820 - Optimize PMMR segments to only include hashes at pruning boundaries
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#3835 - Improve PIHD sync and PIBD segment handling
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#3861 - Validate bitmap segment indices on decode
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#3862 - Improve seedcheck diagnostics and Windows cleanup
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#3863 - Add dns seeder
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#3866 - Fix pool fuzz build
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#3875 - Harden PIBD segment retry and recovery
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#3877 - Improve macOS TUI support with crossterm backend
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#3879 - Add PIHD header segment protocol
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#3880 - Avoid panic on invalid config migration
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#3881 - Create API secrets at configured paths
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#3882 - Implement PIHD header sync
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#3904 - docs: accurate input/output linking in grin4bitcoiners.md
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#3905 - Migrate TUI from cursive to ratatui
Additional Topics
- Grim: optimize Tor, ipv6 setup for APIs, encrypt Slatepack for invoice with address, finalize over Tor, fix i18n for Chinese.
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Summary - July 2026
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
- mimblewimble/grin-wallet
- mimblewimble/grin
- mimblewimble/mwixnet
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
Reviewed & Merged
- #765 - Connection timeout
- #768 - Update deps
- #769 - Global config instance
- #773 - Wrong Slatepack address fix
- #779 - Use native TLS for client
Created & Merged
- #774 - Bump lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.18.1
- #781 - Expose Mwixnet onion APIs for external consumers
Created
- #777 - Update jayson and uuid
- #778 - RFC: Explore running a node and wallet in the same process
- #783 - Mwixnet wallet support
Reviewed
- #754 - Update contracts to current staging + fix #729
- #771 - Add interactive TUI mode for grin-wallet
- #772 - Revive node and wallet multi-process integration suite
- #780 - Optimize outputs scan and selection
mimblewimble/grin
Reviewed & Merged
- #3864 - Compare peer ports to allow multiple nodes from a single IP
- #3883 - Update API dependencies
- #3884 - Fuzz build fix
- #3885 - Fix tests using rustls
- #3886 - Add unit tests for the stratum server module
- #3911 - Use Tokio channel for REST shutdown signal
- #3912 - Install rustls provider at a single place
- #3914 - Keep preferred peers when enough outbound peers are connected
- #3917 - REST address bind fix
- #3920 - Better initialization of global variables
Created & Merged
- #3881 - Create API secrets at configured paths
- #3882 - Implement PIHD header sync
- #3913 - Show node runtime in status view
Reviewed
- #3876 - Refactor stratum server leak handling
- #3887 - Rewrite pool documentation for the current txpool/stempool design
- #3888 - Clean old txhashset snapshot archives
- #3889 - Stop stratum TCP connection leaks under reconnect load
- #3890 - Keep Node API responsive during txhashset creation
- #3891 - Claim state sync requests with compare_exchange
- #3892 - Throttle chain compaction with a wall-clock interval
- #3893 - Fall back to defaults for missing configuration keys
- #3894 - Improve readiness reporting while the node is syncing
- #3895 - Abort chain compaction cleanly on shutdown
- #3896 - Handle clock skew with FutureTimeLimit
- #3897 - Expose stratum mining statistics through the Owner API
- #3898 - Update peer difficulty on header and block receipt
- #3899 - Cache packed proof nonces for cheaper header and block hashing
- #3900 - Rebroadcast transactions recovered from the reorg cache
- #3901 - Prune dead stratum workers
- #3902 - Bound MerkleProof path length during deserialization
- #3903 - Wait for P2P send-buffer space on request responses
- #3905 - Migrate the TUI from cursive to ratatui
- #3906 - Speed up chain compaction and harden PIBD validation
- #3907 - Add optional TLS for P2P connections
- #3908 - Gracefully handle out-of-disk-space failures
mimblewimble/mwixnet
Created
- #34 - Restore compatibility with Grin staging
General
- Completed and merged the PIHD header synchronization implementation
- Started integrating Mwixnet support into grin-wallet
- Reviewed performance, storage, recovery, TUI, and API changes
- Continued reviewing and working through open issues
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Summary - July - early August 2026
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
- mimblewimble/grin-wallet
- mimblewimble/grin
- mimblewimble/mwixnet
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
Updated
- #768 - Update dependencies
- #769 - Global configuration instance
Created
- #773 - Wrong Slatepack address fix
- #779 - Use native TLS for client
- #780 - Optimize outputs scan and selection
- #782 - Make updater apis public
- #784 - Release 5.5.0
- #785 - Fix Github CI MacOS build
Reviewed
- #771 - Add interactive TUI mode
- #774 - Bump lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.18.1
- #777 - Update jayson and uuid
- #778 - RFC: Explore running a node and wallet in the same process
- #783 - Mwixnet wallet support
mimblewimbe/grin
Created
- #3911 - Use Tokio channel for REST shutdown signal
- #3912 - Install rustls provider at a single place
- #3914 - Keep preferred peers when enough outbound peers are connected
- #3917 - REST address bind fix
- #3919 - Fix peers monitor log message and prevent underflow
- #3920 - Better initialization of global variables
- #3922 - Get read limit from reader
- #3924 - Release 5.5.1
Tested & Reviewed
- #3820 - Optimize PMMR segments to only include hashes at pruning boundaries
- #3876 - Refactor stratum server leak handling
- #3886 - Add unit tests for the stratum server module
- #3889 - Stop stratum TCP connection leaks under reconnect load
- #3892 - Throttle chain compaction with a wall-clock interval
- #3895 - Abort chain compaction cleanly on shutdown
- #3905 - Migrate the TUI from cursive to ratatui
- #3906 - Speed up chain compaction and harden PIBD validation
- #3907 - Add optional TLS for P2P connections
- #3908 - Gracefully handle out-of-disk-space failures
- #3913 - Show node runtime in status view
- #3915 - Make the sparse PIBD segment optimization safe to apply
mimblewimble/mwixnet
Reviewed
- #34 - Restore compatibility with Grin staging
General
- Updated commons dependencies to fix possible vulnerabilities
- Fixed an issue to send big amount from grin-wallet optimizing outputs sync speed
- Created stable release for Grim GUI adding last changes from staging branches
- Prepared release 5.5.0 for wallet and 5.5.1 for node
- Started multisig reviewing AI suggestion as example
Took vacation till 1st September.
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