Happy New Year everyone!

December highlights:

• After another month of polishing, v1.6 is looking very shiny indeed. Stand by for Release Candidate 5.
• On chain metrics went wild in December, including a big jump for the ticket price to 191 DCR.
• Social media metrics are also taking off, with @decredproject breaking through a key resistance level.
• DCR was delisted from Upbit, causing the price to spike, and margin trading was added to several other exchanges.

Development

Unless otherwise noted, the work reported here has the “merged to master” status. It means that the work is completed, reviewed, and integrated into the source code that advanced users can build and run, but is not yet available in release binaries for regular users. …

November’s top stories:

• The v1.6 Release Candidates have been tested by the community and received many bug fixes and user experience refinements, problems are hard to find now so that usually means graduation to a full-fledged release will happen soon.
• dcrdex released a patch release with some edge case fixes and a stash of UI and backend improvements for the next release.
• Funding for continued development of mobile wallets and a new GoDCR desktop wallet was approved, the funding for GoDCR also includes sponsorship of the Gio library which it uses for the interface.
• VSPs are onboarding to vspd, and already four providers have upgraded to support the new account-less and optionally mixed tickets which Decrediton offers in v1.6. …

Treasury balance: 643,095 DCR (approx +11,982 DCR/month) — $11.8 million (+$221k/month) based on $18.41 DCR price

New proposals

GoDCR: GoLang Native Desktop Wallet

Published Nov 3 by raedah | edited Nov 5 |17 comments

This proposal requests a budget of $60,000 for 6 months of development funding for this new desktop wallet written in Go using the Gio library for the interface. GoDCR first appeared in a video trailer on Twitter, and when current work on vspd staking is complete an initial release is planned. The GoDCR team has four members who would be funded to continue working on it (plus Sep/Oct in arrears), @oshorefueled, @sirmorrison, @song50119, and @codemaestro64. The proposal also includes $1,000/month sponsorship for Gio, reflecting the collaboration and benefits being derived from Gio by GoDCR, with the intention that GoDCR becomes a hero application for Gio. …

Decred’s highlights in October:

• v1.6.0 had its first two release candidates, following community testing fixes and improvements are being rolled into a third release candidate which is coming soon.
• The initial release of the dcrdex MVP on mainnet accompanied the first v1.6.0 release candidate. CLI users can now add dcrdex to the installation by adding an extra argument to the install command.
• The attention of many community members has now turned to making the most of the proper v1.6 release when it happens, check the Outreach section to see what they’re planning.
• Politeia celebrated 2 years in production, congratulations to the people behind the 47 approved proposals and the stakeholders who voted for them. …

With the recent initial MVP release of DCRDEX, there are some people who would like to use it and are finding it difficult. I’m not so comfortable with command line apps myself, but managed to get on the DCRDEX without too much trouble (I found it easier than using CSPP), so thought maybe my perspective on where the stumbling blocks are could come in helpful.

There is an installer command which will do most of the setup for you, but you will still have to pull some levers manually to get everything ready. I’m going to talk through what the installer is doing in case it doesn’t work 100% for you, I had a minor issue with it myself because I had already made a start on the bitcoind sync. …

This report presents an overview of Politeia activity data for the second year of its operation (Oct 16 2019 to Oct 16 2020). I have kept the analysis quite similar to last year’s report, so most of the graphs can be be directly compared with the previous post.

In this time:

• 46 proposals have been published.
• 38 proposals have been voted on (not counting the 4 being voted on now).
• Of those, 21 have been approved and 17 rejected.
• Proposal votes have an average (mean) turnout of 27.9%, with a total of 431,496 ticket votes being cast.
• 6 proposals have been abandoned before voting started. …

Treasury balance: 644,710 DCR (approx +12,100 DCR/month) — $7.5 million (+$141k/month) based on $11.65 DCR price

New proposals

Decred Content and Asset Translation Proposal

Published Oct 14 by kozel | 7 comments

This proposal requests a budget of up to $40,000 for six months of translation work. It comes from the people who have been translating Decred content over the last several months, across Polish, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese languages. …

Decred’s highlights for September:

• The decentralize Treasury spending PR is finally merged, after a comprehensive review process.
• dcrdex is addressing many sophisticated trustless swap scenarios discovered in early testing, the first mainnet swap was conducted in early Oct and the MVP should be ready for general use soon.
• The first RFP proposal on Politeia, to change messaging on decred.org, was approved, and received 4 candidate proposals. Voting will begin on these soon.
• The dcronchain.com on-chain metrics site, as approved by a proposal in June, has now launched.
• The withdecred.org onboarding portal had its initial launch, and also had an associated proposal submitted to fund promotional giveaways, approved in early Oct. …