0xFFFC submits CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until end of November 2024

0xFFFC¹ has submitted a new CCS proposal² to continue working full-time on Monero development for 3 more months (September, October, November 2024):

The bulk of my focus will be on opportunities related to performance improvement. To find out performance improvement opportunities a performance test suite is necessary for the Monero project. [..] A special thanks to all community members who are always available to help me with technical questions.

Funding proposed: 111 XMR.

ETA: ~3 months (480 hours).

Tasks overview

• Dynamic BSS (block-sync-size)
• Bandwidth-Efficent Transaction Propagation Usage
• Spend time on finding the root cause of OOM
• Cleanup the sleepwait
• Sync time estimation
• Performance benchmarks
• Completion of Read/Write Lock PR
• Seraphis wallet LMDB storage [..]

The complete list of tasks is available on Gitlab².

0xFFFC started contributing to Monero/Seraphis last year³’⁴’⁵ and this is the dev’s third CCS proposal. To learn more about 0xFFFC’s work, consult their most recent progress report⁶.

To read the full proposal, share your feedback, ask questions and support this CCS, consult !487².

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.

Update 24/8/27: moved to funding stage⁷.

Update 24/8/31: 37 XMR transferred from GF⁸.

Update 24/9/3: fully funded (17 contributions).