Here’s a recap of what happened this April in the Monero community:
Breaking
- Monero v0.18.3.3 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released (1)
- Anons donated ~6500 XMR to the Monero General Fund (2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
- kayabaNerve submitted 2 CCS proposals for ‘Full-Chain Membership Proofs’ research and development, which were fully funded (9,10,11)
- Kraken announced plans to delist XMR in Belgium, Ireland on June 10 2024 (12)
R&D
- There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in April (13,14,15,16)
- The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 5 meetings (17,18,19,20,21)
- selsta posted a Monero dev report for March 2024 (22)
- Justin Berman posted a progress report after 368 hours of dev work (23)
- jeffro256 posted a Monero dev report for March 2024 (24)
- LocalMonero/AgoraDesk versions 1.1.31-1.1.35 were released with bug fixes and various improvements (25,26,27)
- woodser released monero-cpp v0.8.8-0.8.10 and monero-java v0.8.22-0.8.26 (28,29,30)
- Haveno v1.0.0 (0.0.21) was released (31)
- Cake Labs released Cake Wallet/Monero.com versions 4.15.4+4.15.5/1.12.2+1.12.3 (32,33)
- mainnet-pat was teasing the BCH-XMR atomic swaps wallet ‘Monujo’ (34)
- Cyrix126 released ‘Gupaxx’ v1.1.0 (35)
- Everywhere Finance was planning to launch a Wrapped Monero (XMRT) ERC-20 token in ‘early June’ (36)
- XMRig v6.21.3 was released with a RandomX bug fix (37)
- d4ndox released ‘Monero Named Pipes’ v0.1.0 (38)
- ANON v0.9.5 was released with ‘Stealth Mode’ (39)
- tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.6.6/2.6.7 with a critical bug fix (40)
Funding
- rehrar/Cypherstack submitted a CCS proposal to develop security proofs for ‘Generalized Bulletproofs’, which was fully funded (41,42)
- ofrnxmr submitted a nonstandard CCS proposal to ‘take over the world’ (43)
- detherminal submitted a CCS proposal to develop the new mobile Monero wallet ‘Droplet’ (44)
- r4v3r23 submitted a CCS proposal for the rewrite of ‘ANONERO’ v1.0, which was fully funded (45,46)
- plowsof’s, Rucknium’s CCS proposals were fully funded (47)
- v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for February-March 2024 (48)
- 0xFFFC reopened their May-July 2024 Monero dev work CCS proposal, which was later fully funded (49)
- tired_turtle proposed a bounty for the integration of I2P into ‘Neroshop’ (50)
- DangerousFreedom1984’s CCS proposal for Seraphis wallet dev work was fully funded (51)
- The Monero Graphics project was fully funded until 2025 (52)
- MrCyjaneK’s ‘Unnamed Monero Wallet’ dev work CCS proposal was overfunded by 85.42 XMR (53)
- shortwavesurfer2009 proposed bounties for Monerujo accessibility and UI improvements (54)
- Janaka-Steph submitted a CCS proposal to ‘rewrite’ the Getmonero.org website (55)
- moneroguides submitted a CCS proposal to produce a ‘How to mine Monero’ mini video series (56)
Culture
- Moneranoj celebrated a decade of Monero on the 18th (57)
- Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 13th & 27th (58,59)
- There were 4 MoneroKon 2024 Planning Meetings in April (60,61,62,63)
- Revuo Monero made a comeback after a 5 month hiatus with issues #192-193 (64,65)
- LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #100-103 (66,67,68,69)
- Monero Talk interviewed Vasilii Rogin, Andrey Sabelnikov, Luke Parker, and Aaron Day (70,71,72,73)
Community Messages (5/43)
- [ANN] Samourai devs arrested is a wake up call for crypto (by rottenwheel) (74)
- [ANN] Seed encryption and plausible deniability (by tevador) (75)
- [LTH] [0.000789 XMR/word] Spanish-Chinese/English-Chinese translator (by jorgesumle) (76)
- [LTT] New Cashapp for Monero AgoraDesk Vendor (by No1change) (77)
- [WTS] Goldbacks, Precious Metals, Energy Bars for XMR (by xmr808) (78)
My personal contributions
+81/+43 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+15 Meeting logs
+15 Calendar events
+10 Resources
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 43 Community Messages and 15 Calendar events (83,84), added 10 new Resources (85)
- uploaded 15 meeting logs (MRL 2024-04-03, MRL 2024-04-10, MRL 2024-04-17, MRL 2024-04-24, Community 2024-04-13, Community 2024-04-27, MoneroKon24 2024-04-06, Monerokon24 2024-04-13, Monerokon24 2024-04-20, Monerokon24 2024-04-27, Seraphis 2024-04-01, Seraphis 2024-04-08, Seraphis 2024-04-15, Seraphis 2024-04-22, Seraphis 2024-04-29 (86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100)
- Weekly
- Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #28 (March 2024) (109)
Credits/special thanks to:
- everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
- the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
- all MO loyal readers and supporters
- the generous anon that funded the MO 2024 Q2 CCS
- gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the cool designs
- plowsof for the sensible pings
- hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community
That’s it for the 29th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.
Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.
Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!
–escapethe3RA
