Litecoin’s Mimblewimble-based privacy efforts are finally in progress. David Burkett, the developer behind the subproject, has announced the completion of the first month of development. He posted to Litecointalk on Dec. 29 that the development of the Mimblewimble extension block has officially started.

Almost one year was used to plan this project. Plans for private transactions were announced in January 2019, by Litecoin creator, Charlie Lee.

Fungibility is the only property of sound money that is missing from Bitcoin & Litecoin. Now that the scaling debate is behind us, the next battleground will be on fungibility and privacy.



I am now focused on making Litecoin more fungible by adding Confidential Transactions. 🚀 — Charlie Lee [LTC⚡] (@SatoshiLite) January 28, 2019

In August, David Burkett, who develops Grin++, a wallet and implementation for Grin, was recruited by the project.

Updates on MimbleWimble progress:@davidburkett38, the main developer of Grin++, is now working with @ecurrencyhodler and I on the design. We've been ironing out the mechanism of getting LTC in and out of MW/EB. Also figured out how to handle MW fees in a clean way.



Asparagus! pic.twitter.com/MimlpNbclT — Charlie Lee [LTC⚡] (@SatoshiLite) August 20, 2019

Burkett announced in early December that he had redesigned Grin++ for easier integration with Litecoin. He also mentioned that the feature would be integrated through Litecoin’s extension blocks, eliminating the need for a time-consuming hard fork. He further introduced Tor and CoinJoin as extra privacy features.

In the recent update, Burkett revealed that he has restructured and standardized parts of the project. He added that, in January, he is going to determine a build method, define Litecoin models, migrate database implementations, and speed up sync time.So far, Litecoin’s community has donated $18,500 in crypto to a development fund, which it intends to grow to $72,000. The project is arguably spending a lot of money on a minor side feature. However, its efforts could be of tremendous benefit to Mimblewimble. Grin and Beam, the two largest Mimblewimble coins, are both not among the top 100 coins by market cap.

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