Grin and Ironbelly
@i1skn
Ivan Sorokin
- Grin contributor
- Creator of Grin Mobile wallet Ironbelly
- Co-organizer of Grin Berlin meetup
Grin
- In-progress implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol written in Rust
- No: ICO, CEO, DevCo, premines, pre...
- Funded by donations, open source, community driven
- Launched days ago, market cap ~ $M
Key features
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography
- Confidential transactions
- Fungibility
- Scalability
but there are some challenges to overcome
Interactive transactions
Grin aims to be a minimal implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol, so an ecosystem is assumed to be built by the community
November 2018
- Couple of months till the launch
- No mobile wallet
- Official CLI Grin wallet written in Rust
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Ironbelly
Named after a species of dragon - Ukranian Ironbelly. One of them guarded some of the oldest and deepest vaults in Gringotts.
Grincon0, Berlin, 9 Nov 2018
Rust + React Native
- Both are cross platform (iOS & Android)
- I have experience with React Native
- Fast UI/UX experimenting
Short overview
- Open source
- Uses official `grin-wallet` source code
- iOS version is available in TestFlight
- Android version will be released soon
- Withdrawal using File / HTTPS methods
- Depositing using File only method
DEMO
Challenges
- Some exchanges run outdated node/wallet software
- Some exchanges support only HTTPS withdrawal
- Files manipulation on iOS is hard :(
- Interactive transaction is hard to understand for majority of the users
- I'm no designer, so the app looks hm... :)
- Project contributors list is very short