As the week ends, let's take a moment to look back at what we've achieved in the past few days and see what we've got to look forward to in the week to come.
Particl Marketplace Update 🛒
We have continued, this week, a full in-depth review of the current design of Particl Marketplace, to determine its viability within the current context and whether design changes need to be brought to it.
With this in mind, we will be carrying all considerations made here into the design of the new marketplace (tentatively being referred to as "Particl Marketplace V2"), which is being designed as a more open-ended, accessible, and user-friendly iteration.
As such, we are deferring work on marketplace features as well as the TAILS and Tor deliverables until after we complete our reassessment.
Particl Desktop Update 🖥️
As we're progressing through the wallet-related improvements planned for Particl Desktop, we've pushed, earlier this week, a new Particl Core update to the desktop client.
To run the new Core version, simply launch Particl Desktop, or restart it if it's already running, and the update will automatically start.
Particl Core 🔗
Core Codebase Maintenance 🛠️
tecnovertAs always, we consistently stay up-to-date with Bitcoin's latest version by regularly incorporating upstream updates into Particl Core. You can monitor these changes by visiting this link.
BasicSwap 📈
We've been working through a series of back-end and general improvements to the BasicSwap DEX codebase, some of which having been completed throughout the week, as defined in the list below.
☑️ Update Litecoin Core to 0.21.3
☑️ Fix LTC trying to use MWEB outputs for proof of funds
☑️ Fix offer rate + get updating send amount
🔳 Remove protobuf and encode/decode the binary format directly
🔳 Allow setting wallet file name for multi-wallet coins
🔳 Work around LTC MWEB spends not detected after import
Decred Integration ✅
We're still working on integrating Decred into BasicSwap and have made progress this week. Here is the relevant progress report in regards to that specific deliverable:
☑️ Collect Decred chain parameters
☑️ Encode and decode Decred addresses
☑️ Call Decred RPC commands
☑️ Start and manage DCR daemon from BasicSwap
☑️ Start and manage DCR wallet from BasicSwap
☑️ Validate Decred seed and wallet restoration
☑️ Add extkey class to get from seed to account pubkey
☑️ Add CTransaction class
☑️ Sign Decred transactions
☑️ Compute Decred sighash
☑️ Build CSV tests
☑️ Build watch-only tests
☑️ Build gettxout, getProofOfFunds, verifyProofOfFunds tests
🔳 Add Decred to basicswap-prepare setup script
🔳 Start Decred wallet with full functionality into DEX
🔳 Add a series of Decred tests
Wownero Integration ✅
The Wownero integration is nearly ready and can be tested by switching to the wownero_full branch on Github, although there may still be issues with it.
The next step is for the BasicSwap team to review the integration and run a few tests before merging. Although we are currently busy working through the Decred integration, we will try to find some time for this shortly.
☑️ Collect Wownero chain parameters
☑️ Enable encode and decode of 2 byte address prefixes
☑️ Call WOW RPC commands
☑️ Start and manage WOW daemon from BasicSwap
☑️ Start and manage WOW wallet from BasicSwap
☑️ Validate WOW seed and wallet restoration
☑️ Add price fetching from CoinGecko
☑️ Add WOW to basicswap-prepare setup script
☑️ Start WOW wallet with full functionality into DEX
🔳 Add a series of WOW tests
🔳 Sign WOW transactions (currently under review)
User Interface 🖥️
tecnovertThe GUI 3.0.0 was officially pushed to the master branch earlier this week, meaning that you can now enjoy the latest and most recent GUI version by updating your BasicSwap DEX instance.
Work on New Website Resumes ✅
Now that the 3.0.0 version of the BasicSwap GUI has been released, we've resumed work on the new Particl.io website which is now the main area of focus for our front-end and designer Crz.
As always, we thank you immensely for your passion and dedication to Particl and what it's working towards achieving. None of it would be possible without you all!
We wish you a great weekend we'll see you all back on Monday! 👋
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