21 Feb 2023 | Updated 22 Feb 2023 [bounties]

defeatoverseer proposes bounty for 'Overseer Attack' countermeasures research

defeatoverseer1 has proposed a bounty2 for conducting research on countermeasures for the Overseer Attack3:

Need a quantifiable counter measure for preventing the Overseer Attack. Will be paying for this research.4

Total Bounty: 1.5 XMR (to date)

To increase the bounty you can contribute some XMR to the address posted by the Monero Bounties Bot.

To start working on the project yourself, you should make your intentions public by posting a comment in the bounty’s thread2.

This topic is currently being discussed in #monero-research-lab5.

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.


Update: bounty increased from ~1.1 to 1.5 XMR.


  1. @defeatoverseer:matrix.org 

  2. https://bounties.monero.social/posts/76  2

  3. https://www.zfnd.org/blog/blockchain-privacy/#overseer 

  4. https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-research-lab/20230220#c207967 

  5. (Matrix) https://matrix.to/#/#monero-research-lab:matrix.org, (IRC/Libera) irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-research-lab