Vinteum, a Brazilian nonprofit devoted to furthering Bitcoin analysis and improvement, has introduced its second grant recipient for protocol improvement, per a launch despatched to Bitcoin Magazine.
Davidson Souza will obtain Vinteum’s second grant so as to proceed offering implementations that enable wallets to the Rust Utreexo library. Then, Souza will combine the library with Spiral’s Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK). Additionally, Souza will develop bitcoin enchancment proposals (BIP) surrounding the implementations, assist in protocol improvement and contribute to different tasks corresponding to Rust Bitcoin.
Utreexo is a hash accumulator for Bitcoin initially proposed by Tadge Dryja, co-writer of the Lightning Network whitepaper. The hash accumulator is meant to serve instead database used to characterize a unspent transaction output (UTXO). The various dataset permits nodes to receive and confirm info associated to UTXO’s. In doing so, the knowledge supplied to nodes permits scalability advantages by reducing the quantity of storage full nodes want with out altering something relating to the safety of the Bitcoin protocol. The course of might additionally make working a node cheaper, pace up preliminary block downloads, and be used as an oracle for UTXO units for various tasks.
Souza initially attended some unofficial Venteum seminars which led to his involvement in Summer of Bitcoin, the place he met his future mentor Calvin Kim who is a grantee of Bitmex. Kim started mentoring Souza to port the Go Utreexo library to Rust in order that anybody can validate Utreexo proofs with Rust code.
“Davidson has been a strong performer during the Summer of Bitcoin program, demonstrating his knowledge of Bitcoin at the protocol level, and has been productive in grasping and implementing the Utreexo algorithms,” mentioned Kim.
Vinteum launched in August with the mission to practice and fund open-supply builders for the Bitcoin ecosystem in Brazil. The nonprofit introduced its first grantee at launch, Bruno Garcia, who additionally joined the group as a founding member.
