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+title: SyntheticBird Cuprate Arti integration and development (2 months)
+author: SyntheticBird
+date: March 9, 2025
+amount: 50.2
+milestones:
+  - name: April
+    funds: 50% (25 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: May and completion of Arti integration
+    funds: 50% (25.2 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+# Who
+
+I am [SyntheticBird](https://github.com/SyntheticBird), Cuprate contributor.
+
+# What
+
+Cuprate is currently in alpha version and a lot of features are planned on the roadmap up to beta phase. One of the features present on this roadmap, and that was [originally presented when announcing Cuprate](https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate/blob/fc9b077d946fe8b7746c45ae8b299a87b2014cbf/readme.md?plain=1#L57), is native support for Tor network. This CCS proposal intend to fulfill this milestone.
+
+I will work for an estimated 2 months, from April to end of May, on Cuprate with the goal of implementing native Tor support into `cuprated` through the `arti-client` crate and other miscellaneous improvements.
+At the end of this CCS, testers will be able to:
+- Bootstrap Tor network within Cuprate
+- Use Tor for outbound clearnet connections.
+- Natively connect to onion monero nodes.
+- Generate an onion service for accepting inbound Tor connections.
+
+# Tasks
+
+The set of tasks to complete can be separated into 3 categories:
+
+### 1. Outbound Tor support for P2P
+
+- Definition of a new `Transport` trait and `TcpTransport`, `TorTransport` implementations.
+- Adaptation of current P2P components to this new scheme.
+- Definition of a new `NetworkZone` `Tor` for connecting to onion service nodes.
+- Adaptation of `cuprated` to parse new config/flags, initialize Tor runtime/boostrap, make `IncomingTxHandler` and Dandelion related services *tor-aware* and capable of relaying on both network.
+- Add arguments and configuration for users. (override data directory path, enforce isolated circuits...)
+
+### 2. Inbound Tor support for P2P
+
+- Implement Onion service generation and launch in `cuprated`.
+- Implement P2P incoming connection listener (`--anonymous-inbound` equivalent).
+- Add arguments and configuration for users. (enable PoW)
+
+### 3. Documentation
+
+- Update Architectural book
+- Update User book
+
+# Additional work
+
+In the event that all guaranteed items are completed before the 2 months, I will spend my remaining time assisting (Issues, PRs and Reviews) on whatever is agreed is highest priority, or working on the following items:
+
+- Custom Allocator support (Performance improvements for Musl based linux distributions and potentially minor improvements on other OSs)
+- SOCKS5 proxy support for p2p
+- Fjall database integration
+- Related documentation
+
+# Milestones
+
+### 1. First month
+
+25 XMR
+
+### 2. Second Month and completion of main tasks
+
+25.2 XMR
+
+# Funding
+
+I will be working 30 hours per week during 8 weeks at 45\$/hr - 215\$/XMR.
+30×8=240 | 240×45=10800 | 10800÷215=50.2
+
+Total: 50.2 XMR