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 🛒
The full in-depth legal review of Particl and BasicSwap has now concluded and we're working on a series of steps to solidify Particl long-term.
Consequently, the desktop and marketplace-related development has gone towards this objective for the week.
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 📈
Decred Integration ✅
We've successfully completed the Decred integration and have had successful swaps, on mainnet and in a production version, of Decred with Particl, Litecoin, and Monero.
However, we would like to take a few days more to test for edge cases and ensure beyond doubts that everything works as expected.
Once that is done, we'll announce the official end of the integration process, and it'll be possible for you to update BasicSwap and add Decred to your list of enabled coins.
Here is the relevant progress report in regards Decred:
☑️ 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
☑️ Add adaptor signature swap tests
☑️ Complete a successful secret hash swap (regtest/simnet)
☑️ Add secret hash swap test
☑️ Complete a successful adaptor signature swap (regtest/simnet)
☑️ Add Decred to test_xmr_persistent
☑️ Add Decred to basicswap-run
☑️ Add Decred to basicswap-prepare setup script
☑️ Start Decred wallet with full functionality into DEX
☑️ Port test_010_txn_size for Decred
☑️ Add Decred wallet to RPC console page and remove CLI option
☑️ Ensure that DCR works with wallet encryption 🔺
☑️ Add Tor support for Decred Wallet 🔺
☑️ Add a series of Decred tests 🔺
🔳 Test Decred swaps more extensively (e.g., edge cases)
Decred is now available on the dev branch on Github. If you would like to test this new coin integration before it makes it into the master branch, you can change your active BasicSwap branch to the dev branch (using git checkout dev) and updating BasicSwap as you would typically do for a regular update.
If you come across any issue or bug with the Decred integration, please let us know so that we can rectify it before pushing the changes to the master branch.
Work on New Website Continues ✅
We've continued work on the new Particl.io website which is now the main area of focus for our front-end and designer Crz.
The purpose of the new website is to simplify and precise the messaging to better communicate Particl's mission and the goals it set out to achieve.
Particl and BasicSwap Media 📺
Upcoming Privacy Roundtable 🗣️
Don't miss our upcoming Privacy Roundtable with our friends from PIVX and Firo this coming Wednesday (05-06-2024) at 1PM UTC.
In this episode, we receive special guest John Winter Murphy from Wownero as we discuss how to transition to P2P spending of private crypto and dive deeper into Wownero, a coin currently being integrated into BasicSwap by community contributor Ofrnxmr.
Join us for our next #PrivacyRoundtable with our friends from @_PIVX, @firoorg, and @BasicSwapDEX with guest speaker @j_winter_m from @W0wn3r0!
— Particl (@ParticlProject) May 28, 2024
🗓️ Date: June 5th, 2024
🕘 Time: 9AM EST / 1PM UTC
📍 Topic: Transitioning to P2P spending of private crypto: from speculation to… pic.twitter.com/gBxmnkL5Dp
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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