Image: Overflow Dissipation by @saender

Happy Birthday, Decred!

Behind are five years of non-stop development and delivery on the promise of decentralization, one pragmatic step at a time. January was no different:

• v1.6 is out, check the Hidden Hydra section below for details of the release.
• Ticket price and Proof of Stake participation continued rising to hit new highs.
• The turnout record for a Politeia proposal was broken in January, and again already in February, going all the way to 70% participation!
• Continued funding for DCRDEX was almost unanimously approved, Decred in Depth and the Decred Arabia team also had…

Treasury balance: 643,645 DCR (approx +11,500 DCR/month) — $39 million (+$694k/month) based on $60.40 DCR price

New proposals

Decred Arabia Communications and Content Creation

Published Jan 17 by arij | edited Jan 21 | 25 comments

This proposal requests a budget of $6,200 for 6 months, for the Decred Arabia team (@arij, @zakaria) to continue putting on events, and to produce 3 new videos about Decred. The proposal provides links to the previous content generation and event reports by the Decred Arabia team since 2018. Comments on the proposal are almost universally positive, except for a selection from @atweiden which argue against…

Since my first report about the Decred blockchain data, I have descended into its depths in an effort to understand what we can learn about the network. This work has progressed in three directions that have some overlap:

• Clustering Decred’s addresses to see which addresses spend funds or buy tickets together, thus probably belonging to the same wallet.
• Looking at exchanges and how to identify exchange-related transactions — these are key platforms within the ecosystem so it is important to be able to identify them in the data.
• Looking at the mixing process and the DCR which engages in it.

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…