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Name: Liquid369-Aug-Oct24
Term: 3 Cycle
Cycle Amnt: 30,000
Total Amnt: 90,000
Author: Liquid369
Receiver: Liquid369
Address: D66LAo1cQmKJ3JoqeuSRrTL6hycLx7kKso
Created: 08-13-2024
Status: Active
Vote Hash: 55f737cb493bb1db985dcd74ee18799ad17b95ec8b51a53858d138c863098f06

Liquid369 Proposal

This proposal is outlining what has been done as an update to users and what will be continued in the next portions. It outlines some ideas for users and the responsibilities entailed overall.

Last Proposal Report

- Mempool updates from upstream for enhancing our services and better 'pending transaction' handling
Postponed while there are methods to code around this that were discovered
- Setting up plans with marketing and development on 6.0 testnet for the end of summer (tentatively)
Plans have started, we need to move code forward for testnet, and then we can advertise testnet and potentially apply for some incentives for users joining and finding issues. The goal in testnet is for a large amount of participation for adequately testing our changes to DMN and making sure it will be secure for the users, for example, we may want 150 MN, with 50 ipv4, 50 ipv6, and 50 tor. For this, we must work on getting more users or there could be more costs for us to purchase enough servers. Tor we can run multiple nodes per server, but ipv4/6 is what's most needed.
- Organizing infrastructure for testnet
We will need some budget for servers which we will explore costs and the idea is a minimal transition but for more masternode testing by the team. Incentivizing users will cut our costs and management of the infrastructure.
- Working with Business Development on integrations for some more use cases
Assisted in the following integrations for Exchange listings with Bitmart, Bitstorage, Koinbx, Xeggex, XT, Changelly, MEXC. I am also assisting with liquidity management with our Market Makers for better accessibility for PIVX.
- Organizing newcomers in the PIVX team and expanding Project Management
We have had several interested parties trying their hand at PIVX Core, but some are still working on their basics or ideas and familiarizing themselves with the codebase. There is not much to say here outside of when there is more to update we will have for new team members. We have started with marketing an idea of a referral bonus for users who help refer people to PIVX to work and will potentially get a payout for them working X amount of time minimum. Some polls are being posted on the official X account regarding what people would like to see as a referral bonus. After this cycle, we will implement due to the budget being needed for market-making this upcoming cycle(s).
- Establishing various team meetings for growth, participation, community, and progression of each team
In terms of bridging the gap between teams that worked more in isolation as we were smaller and dedicated, now as it grows we need to keep up with each other more and it helps to move ideas forward when more are aware. Scheduling meetings is difficult with a decentralized group as everyone is scattered across timezones, so the current proposal is meeting with groups in each timezone and then having meeting notes for the next timezone to update so on and so forth. If all team members' schedules permit we will be doing bi-weekly ish meetings for development, marketing, business development, open lobby voice chats for community updates, and lastly Core <> Labs coordination. This has been determined as a good model go-between from having few to no meetings to needing to have some to keep organization and cohesiveness. We shall see more in the upcoming month as we plan out the next meetings.
- Researching and implementing WebSockets into RustyBlox as MPW is now looking into more WebSocket usage to speed up sync
In development but on pause with some web socket work issues in MPW, I will use the findings there to update and finalize.

Updating PIVX PET4L Application:
These are submitted and maybe a few more adjustments before merging but allows for custom explorers to help users with issues that have cropped up recently in support with many unable to use PET4L at times. The other is to update the Python standard like what was done last cycle with PIVX-SPMT.


Responsibilities:

- Maintaining PIVX Core and Repositories under PIVX-Project organization
- Coordinating between Core and Labs
- Reviewing and testing code submissions in both Core and Labs (organization rules is 2 approvals and reviews needed for anything to be merged from non-authors)
- Research and improve current code for optimizations
- Research and improve backports for our perpetual updating to BTC Core
- Maintain networking infrastructure and build some analytics
- Maintain explorer servers
- Supporting Community/Exchanges/Services/DEX all in technical regards for PIVX
- Coordinating with Marketing to bring accurate technical representations and promotions for PIVX development
- Maintaining regtest network servers for testing and infrastructure for others to use in testing new features
- Maintaining testnet network servers for testing and infrastructure for wider community testing features and new implementations
- Making overall PIVX Project development updates
- Maintaining ElectrumX servers for DEX's
- Coordinating with Business Development to ensure smooth and timely listings to evaluate markets for optimal liquidity for PIVX health and market retention
- Assisting market makers alongside jeffrey with inventory verification, management as well as decision making
- Assisting exchanges and integrations with technical information, rpc integration and more to ensure proper integration of PIVX into their platform
- Vetting potential new members for development

Voting

Qt GUI wallet users can use the built-in DAO page to cast their votes.

For console users, use one of the below commands.

To vote yes:
mnbudgetvote many 55f737cb493bb1db985dcd74ee18799ad17b95ec8b51a53858d138c863098f06 yes

To vote no:
mnbudgetvote many 55f737cb493bb1db985dcd74ee18799ad17b95ec8b51a53858d138c863098f06 no
 
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Liquid has been instrumental with all ongoing exchange listings by providing technical assistance as well as coordinating efforts when I am not available. Our timezones compliment eachother in the way that we will always have a PIVX rep online to answer their questions.

Thank you for all your assistance. Looking forward to working alongside you as always.

My support 100%
 
Hey.

Mayaswell ask for some info as nothing seems to be mentioned or seen on github.

I assume there are private repositories as there has been 0 commits for 2 months from "core" yourself and @fuzzbawls . Can you confirm this and give some info of what has been going on.

Rusty blox was started before last Christmas? Why is an explorer taking so long?

Cheers
 
Hey.

Mayaswell ask for some info as nothing seems to be mentioned or seen on github.

I assume there are private repositories as there has been 0 commits for 2 months from "core" yourself and @fuzzbawls . Can you confirm this and give some info of what has been going on.

Rusty blox was started before last Christmas? Why is an explorer taking so long?

Cheers

Absolutely can update you. Sorry for the delay have been sick the last few days and am just getting to a head space to work and check more actively.

There has been updated to the two pull requests above for more things that were changed/reviewed.

I have another pull request that's in the works to open for SPMT to fix the issues for some users with SSL after updating, but there is a current bug I am isolating because one RPC call fails while the others all work and it takes time to identify.
https://github.com/PIVX-Project/PIVX-SPMT/pull/73 this refers to this pull request and we will have a follow up one because there's some tiny things that seem to be working oddly from the overall updates of Python that changed their core dependancies and we are trying to work around that issue for others.

There was a pull request I opened also recently to Core to assist for the guys working on MPW and other items.

Rusty-Blox I have updated quite a few times on the status, you have great timing cause the day after MPW 2.0 is launched you ask about Rusty-Blox again lol. I had spoken about before my need for someone to assist in the front end development. We had limitations with only one front end person and them working on MPW 2.0, there were far greater issues that needed to be fixed in MPW vs the rusty box backend. That took priority, and now that we have accomplished this hurdle we can move forward into the coordination on the frontend work for it to be finally seen. If you had noticed my proposals had it not listed as that was work not being done while we had to organize ourselves and prioritize work that can be done within the resources that we have.

Alongside, most developers are now returning, which means work can ramp up more since we will be able to review Core more effectively and efficiently.

My other focus has been trying to get us further up the Ledger chain because of our recent ledger live delisting is causing people to think we are entirely delisted from Ledger which is not the case. There was a fair bit of research into the process for Ledger to make sure we weren't just wasting time trying to get to a higher up in Ledger because their support channels are just mainly automated and you get no one. I have linked us with Security Audit teams, and working on a video meeting with the Ledger CEO. I have some contacts to get this meeting going, it's just taking time due to my contacts schedules and current situations for those I am trying to meet with. If all else fails, I have found us direct lines where we can cold call/mail Ledger but that is a last resort in this case.

Regarding Fuzz, he has been working on these pull requests testing and giving feedback, he has recently opened some new PR's in regards to updating stuff for MacOSX (GitHub likes to change this stuff a lot and it breaks our stuff), but again for DevOps less commits from him the better because it means his current work, works lol.
 
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