# All Hands Meeting Minutes 10/01/2022

## Alpha testnet
- The testnet has finished. Thank you to everyone who participated
- The learnings have been very valuable to the development team, I'm sure everyone here learned a lot.
- Rewards will be available to claim by the end of next week. Hinchy has volunteered to build out the smart contract to reward all the participants, and we will reward people who gave their best efforts to complete the testnet, if things weren’t working for you but you completed other tasks we will make sure you are still rewarded. Rewards total $75 with the current token price.
- Thanks to the community members who stepped up in this time. Tuesdays, Rush, Hunt, Rake, Super, everyone who stepped up to help with tech. Support, lots and lots of hours were put in.

## New Team Members
- Martin, an experienced Java Card dev with an impressive background has joined the project.
- Thank you to Hinchy for finding Martin and for Justin and Dan for bringing him onboard
- Martin is responsible for developing v2 of the phonon applet
- The DAO is actively recruiting a security engineer to help us with our Certificate Authority, more on that later. Rake has been instrumental in that.

## Protocol Updates
- based on testnet findings, community feedback and Martin's suggestions the core dev team is currently evaluating a number of improvements
- The first goal is to ensure we have a protocol spec that reflects a clear vision for the protocol. The Dev team is now undergoing a comprehensive documentation overhaul.
- The second goal is to make sure phonon transfers are user friendly and developer friendly. Currently evaluating if both the sender and recipient are required to be online.
- native phonons to be removed for the protocol
- ideas for more complex transfers are to be discussed and outlined, some of them may be included in a future roadmap, though our focus right now is to keep things as simple as possible.

**Certificate Authority**
- most likely need to recruit some expertise from outside of the DAO.
- a certificate allows the DAO to decide which parties are allow to issue devices that can send and receive phonons.
- parties might be a hardware manufacturer, an issuer (issuer means the people installing software onto the secure hardware), and the DAO.

## Streamlining the Dev Team

- The Grid Plus core dev team, lead by Dan, is tasked with finalising the protocol specification with input from the DAO's lead community dev, Hinchy, and Martin.
- More protocol discussion will be moving into the DAO's public discord channels
- Boop is going to act as GridPlus’s liaison, he’s working on getting documentation off the ground, setting up a weekly call to discuss development activities and building a stronger community bridge.

## Timelines
- Martin estimates applet development will take approximately 8 - 12 weeks.
- Additional requirements such as updating the phonon client and the certificate authority are still being estimated.
- The feeling is that capacities have greatly increased from a development standpoint for the DAO and overall protocol and that progress could begin to speed up very soon.

## Channel vs Message Based Protocol
- The protocol is moving largely from a channel-based system to a messaging-based system
- The biggest change is that both users do not need to be online like it was seen on the Alpha Test.
- There is still some debate based on feasibility on this massive change, but it is also wildly exciting from an increased real-world use case.