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Yes! There is also OpenSats, HRF, Maelstrom, and many more, as you can see in this screenshot taken from the BOSS program's website:
I'm currently participating in it, thanks to #1299187.
do you have a suitable X?
Working on it! What I've done so far (and mentioned above) is nowhere near what I would use to apply for a grant.
@ajonas has given me many different ideas, but I'm really interested in lightning, especially finding vulnerabilities like Matt Morehouse. In his first blog post from 2023, he mentioned this:
Because in the end it doesn’t matter how feature-rich and easy-to-use the Lightning Network is if it can’t keep user funds safe.
That really resonated with me. I think there are still not many focusing on security in lightning.[1] At least I only know Matt Morehouse who consistently finds stuff. He's also involved in the spec process to find vulnerabilities before they get implemented. Sounds pretty important if you ask me!
However, to be helpful enough to be worthy of a grant, I first need to understand the protocol suite really well. From my experience, the best way for me to learn something is to write code, so I'm writing my own lightning implementation here. I'm having fun, but not sure if that will get a grant. I would have to at least differentiate it clearly from existing lightning implementations. I'm thinking about "exposing all the things" (in a way that's still easy to understand) as the angle, to make it easier for people to understand what is going on in a lightning node, but let's see.
Security should be on everyone's mind, though. I don't think security is possible if only a few people feel responsible for it. But yeah, not everyone can focus on security to find pretty involved vulns. Specialization still makes sense. ↩
Doesn't Spiral have grants that you can propose? Like, you say: "I want to make X, can I have some cash?" and if they like it, they do?
Assuming they do, do you have a suitable X?