j-berman full-time development (4 months)

What

Work full-time 4 months on:

• Work towards a test network that includes Full-Chain Membership Proofs++.
  • Continue optimizing building the FCMP++ curve tree to improve sync time both in the daemon and wallet.
  • Construct FCMP++ transactions via the CLI/RPC/GUI.
  • Verify FCMP++ transactions in the daemon.
  • Implement all consensus changes needed for FCMP++.
    • New unlock time logic.
    • Allowing new FCMP++ RCT type.
    • Implement a grace period for current tx types in the pool at the fork to make it into the chain.
    • Misc. necessary changes.
  • Update the cold wallet <> hot wallet integration and background syncing for FCMP++.
• Misc. high priority tasks as they arise.

Who

j-berman on github / jberman on matrix / IRC

My open PR for the WIP FCMP++ integration: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9436

My branch that includes the wallet sync integration: https://github.com/j-berman/monero/commits/fcmp%2B%2B-tree-sync-dev/

Past CCS's:

• https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-3months-full-time-8.html
• https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-3months-full-time-7.html
• https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-3months-full-time-6.html
• https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-3months-full-time-5.html
• https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-3months-full-time-4.html
• https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-3months-full-time-3.html
• https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-3months-full-time-2.html
• https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-3-months-full-time.html

Proposal

360 XMR

640 hours, 0.25 XMR/hr + $65/hr, $208/XMR from coingecko