[Blog] Meeting 2024-08-06 highlights

[Blog] Meeting 2024-08-06 highlights

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+title: "Cuprate Meeting 2024-08-06 highlights"
+description: "Cuprate Meeting 2024-08-06 highlights"
+pubDate: 'August 06, 2024'
+heroImage: '/blog-placeholder-2.jpg'
+type: 'meeting'
+---
+
+Highlights of the Cuprate meeting of August 06 2024:
+
+## Updates:
+
+- **fluorescent_beige**: Wrapping up Hot-swappable database issue ([PR 209](https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate/issues/209)) (WIP at [PR 242](https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate/pull/242))
+- **boog900**: Have been still working on the tx-pool. Also plan on making changes to dandelion++ crate, most notably by making its usage of the tx-pool more efficient. Finally started writing additional issues and future tasks for Cuprate, in an attempt to improve clarity on the current code state and help contributors discuss tasks.
+- **hinto-janai**: Finishing up the RPC section in the architecture book, have upstreamed RPC documentation fixes to `monero-site` and finished the rpc interface crate resulting in a limited but working RPC server.
+- **yamabiiko**: Closed it's CCS for feeling unable to deliver the quality expected, due to unfortunate life circumstances. The team send them love and support.
+
+## What is next:
+
+FWIW we are also missing some major components like the txpool for the node so a wrapped node in dart is not currently possible without a lot of dev work to build them in dart 
+
+binary strings (https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/9422), I'm planning to push/implement changes for `monerod` hopefully by the end of my next CCS, if the proposal doesn't move forward, I believe Cuprate would fall back to writing a custom serialize function and not supporting deserialization
+
+There has been short discussion around the txpool and binary strings serialization issue. The Txpool implementation is still missing major components.
+- hinto-janai proposed an upstream fix for `monerod` to deprecate custom serialized binary strings, in an attempt to avoid having to build
+custom serializer/deserializer for cuprate (which needless to say, is both a regression over standard crates and requiring extra-cautions as parser are inherently dangerous). 
+
+## Ecosystem
+
+*jbabb* is a newcomer in the cuprate channel that plan on building a flutter library around cuprate.  
+
+## Reference:
+
+You can find all meetings logs here: https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/1047