Here’s a recap of what happened this May in the Monero community:
Breaking
- LocalMonero/AgoraDesk announced plans to shut down on November 7 2024 due to ‘internal and external factors’ (X)
- Kraken announced plans to discontinue XMR support in Germany on July 10 2024 (X)
- Monero remote nodes were temporarily overloaded due to ‘dozens of large 150-input transactions’ (X)
- Rucknium: ‘raising the ring size is a more cost-effective strategy against a black marble attack than raising fees’ (X)
- HardenedSteel and retoaccess1 were first to experiment with public Haveno networks on Monero’s mainnet (X)
- tobtoht stopped maintaining XMRGuide.org (X)
R&D
- There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in May (X,X,X,X,X)
- The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 4 meetings (X,X,X,X)
- Four Cuprate meetings took place this month (X,X,X,X)
- 0xFFFC completed their first Monero dev work CCS proposal (X)
- Justin Berman completed his CCS after 480 hours of Monero and Seraphis dev work and posted a progress report for his new proposal (X,X)
- Haveno versions 1.0.3-1.0.6 were released with improved trade protocol ‘resilience’, fixes and improvements (X,X,X)
- Cake Labs released multiple Cake Wallet/Monero.com versions with support for Ledger and also a Windows 10/11 beta build starting with 4.18.0 (X,X,X,X)
- hinto-janai released Gupax v1.3.7/1.3.8 with bugfixes and remote node changes (X,X)
- jeffro256 posted a Monero/Seraphis dev report for April 2024 (X)
- MrCyjaneK posted the first progress report for their Unnamed Monero Wallet CCS proposal (X)
- Stack Wallet exited beta with the v2.0.0 release after ~1.6 years of development (X)
- BrandyJSon started working on a Feather Wallet fork with built-in COMIT XMR-BTC atomic swaps (X)
- Cyrix126 released Gupaxx v1.1.1 with fixes and updates (X)
- woodser released monero-java v0.8.27 (X)
- COMIT ‘xmr-btc-swap’ v0.13.0 was released with improvements and updates (X)
Funding
- selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until the end of July 2024, which was fully funded (X,X)
- Justin Berman submitted a new CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero and Seraphis dev work, which was fully funded (X,X)
- eyedeekay submitted a CCS proposal to ‘redesign and modernize’ Monero I2P support (X)
- hinto-janai submitted a CCS proposal to continue working full-time on Cuprate for 3 months, which was fully funded (X,X)
- ofrnxmr submitted a new CCS proposal to ‘empower and steward BasicSwapDex to production quality software’ (X)
- v1docq47 submitted a CCS proposal for 6 months of Russian voice-over and transcription work, which was moved to the funding stage (X,X)
- baldeagle submitted a CCS proposal to ‘create and manage’ a Matrix room for P2P XMR trading (X)
- rohanrhu submitted a CCS proposal to work full-time on the PokerUnicorn Infrastructure Project (X)
- fengzie submitted a CCS proposal to integrate Monero into the Mobazha marketplace (X)
- FreeRoss submitted a proposal to develop a new CCS platform (X)
- DiosDelRayo submitted a CCS proposal to ‘resurrect’ the MoneroSigner project (X)
Culture
- Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 11th & 25th (X,X)
- There were 4 MoneroKon 2024 Planning Meetings in May (X,X,X,X)
- The Monero Moon newsletter made a comeback after a 6 month hiatus with issues #65-67 (X,X,X)
- rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #194-197 (X,X,X,X)
- LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issue #104 (X)
- Monero Talk interviewed Associate Professor of Law J.W. Verret and software dev ‘Cryptocomicon’ (X,X)
- zia_tim launched LocalMonero alternative Trade in Monero (X)
- Monero Vegas launched the ‘first ever’ XMR-only sportsbook (X)
- anhdres announced the first public version of the Monero Garden educational website (X)
- XMRBazaar Monero P2P platform was ready for beta testers (X)
Community Messages (5/42)
- [ANN] [Feather Wallet] Incident report: Denial-of-Service (28 April 2024) (by chillband) (X)
- [ANN] Full-chain membership proof review (by Cypher Stack) (by rehrar) (X)
- [ANN] Are you actually using Monero? (by ki9) (X)
- [LFF] [10 XMR] Rottenwheel to MoneroKon 4 in Prague (by rottenwheel) (X)
- [WTS] [~6.15 XMR] Dell Precision 5550 Intel Xeon/32GB/500GB SSD/Quadro T2000 Max-Q Design (by RyzNL) (X)
My personal contributions
+81/+42 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+17 Meeting logs
+19 Calendar events
+4 Resources
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 42 Community Messages and 19 Calendar events (X,X), added 4 new Resources (X)
- uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 2024-05-01, MRL 2024-05-08, MRL 2024-05-15, MRL 2024-05-22, MRL 2024-05-29, Community 2024-05-11, Community 2024-05-25, MoneroKon24 2024-05-04, Monerokon24 2024-05-18, Seraphis 2024-05-06, Seraphis 2024-05-13, Seraphis 2024-05-20, Seraphis 2024-05-27 (X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X)
- Weekly
- Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #29 (April 2024) (X)
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
- 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 30th 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
