David Burkett is a famous Litecoin and Grin++ developer who is again in the cryptocurrency news – this time for a new update on the LTC coin integration. We are talking about the Litecoin Mimblewimble integration, which now claims that a testing framework has been build and the codebase integration has started.
Burkett now says that he has built a functional testing framework and started to integrate the development work done so far in the Litecoin codebase. A report shared on May 1 on the Litecoin talk forums shows that the project will implement the Mimblewimble (MW) privacy enhancements to the coin and has reached an important milestone with the build of a test-bed. Burkett claims that he has also run some end-to-end validation tests through the entire framework.
“I’ve built out a functional testing framework that builds valid headers, blocks, and transactions. I’ve now got some (mostly) complete end-to-end block validation tests,” he said.
Aside from the Litecoin Mimblewimble integration, there are many other nice developments in the Litecoin news. Burkett also predicted that MW would be running on the LTC testnet by the end of the summer – which is indeed a very significant step towards the goal.
What we can also see in the update is the fact that the work with the Litecoin codebase has started, initially focusing on the ConnectBlock logic. This part of the code is known for validating blocks before adding them to the chain.
Burkett also gave an update on the Grin++ project, which achieved the candidate v1.0.0 status, marking the “first non-beta version.” Grin++ featured the first implementation of the Mimblewimble privacy protocol back in January 2019.
The protocol aims to improve blockchain privacy, scalability and fungibility by combining transactions in a Coinjoin. Aside from the Mimblewimble integration which focuses on other things, Grin++ wants blocks on the network to comprise a full list of all input, output and signature data, obscuring transaction information for any third party that is monitoring the network.
Meanwhile, Litecoin (LTC) is still the 7th most valued cryptocurrency on the markets, right above Binance Coin (BNB) and right under Bitcoin SV (BSV). With a price of $47.37 now, the next price target for this coin is $50 and its $3 billion market cap today looks stable after the 2% increase overnight.
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