15 Nov 2021 | Updated 14 Jan 2022 [dev]

j-berman submits PR to decrease wallet sync times

j-berman1 has submitted a pull request which aims to reduce wallet scanning times for new Monero transactions by 30-40%:

Add view tags to outputs to reduce wallet scanning time #80612

In tests on my machine, I saw reductions in scanning time upwards of 40% (and a minimum around 30%).

The code aims to implement view tags as proposed by Koe3 in MRL issue #734, as previously reported5.

After conflicts are resolved and the PR is merged, j-berman should also be able to collect the associated bounty6.


Update: add reference link to j-berman’s comment7; PR #8061 is now close to being merged.


  1. https://github.com/j-berman 

  2. https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8061 

  3. https://github.com/UkoeHB 

  4. https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/73 

  5. /proposal-decrease-wallet-sync-times-fueled-community-bounty/ 

  6. https://bounties.monero.social/posts/28 

  7. https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8061#issuecomment-1013368354