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# Brink work update July 18th, 2022

- Vincent Proposal 2022-2023: shorturl.at/hMTV6

## Currently Working on

Most of my time in this period is focused to implement new features and bug fixing across core lightning and lnprototest.

In particular, in the last release that will be out soon of core lightning, I implemented some fixes related to some crashes reported by some users, and with the Oakland meeting, I was able to work in Sync with Rusty and Lisa to track a very long issue on lnprototest.

Now with this issue closed I can unlock my PR on lnprototest https://github.com/rustyrussell/lnprototest/pull/37.

The last thing on lnprototest project is that I'm thinking to release it as a library to make the integration of other implementations independent by the main repository. Simple because some of this support is done by people that are not currently the mantainers of the solution proposed.

In conclusion, I'm preparing the first release of the rust packages rust-clightning-rpc library https://github.com/laanwj/rust-clightning-rpc that implements an unofficial library for core lightning.

P.S: Talking with Wladimir regarding bip324.com because I was interested in this part.

### Mentoring 5 Summer of bitcoin

My mentor work takes me a lot of time to introduce the lightning to new people, but this is helping me to implement some ideas that I had in mind, but never implemented.

The projects are:

- lndart.cln: Powerful and cross-platform library for core lightning https://github.com/dart-lightning/lndart.cln to develop plugins
- lndart.cln_rpc: Experimental GRPC wrapper for core lightning https://github.com/dart-lightning/lndart.cln_grpc
- lndart.clnapp: Experimental mobile APP for core lightning, hope to override Spark :) https://github.com/dart-lightning/lndart.clnapp
- lnspec.py: https://github.com/lnspec-tools/lnspec.py Research project on how to write a decoding tool for lnmessages in order to automate the generation code directly from the spec, hope to achieve a proof of concept of the compiler
- ln-dashboard: https://github.com/clightning4j/ln-dashboard my draft idea to create a dashboard for the core lightning
- cln4go: Go wrapper to develop a plugin for core lightning https://github.com/vincenzopalazzo/cln4go because the actual tools are painful or unmaintained.
