Monero Observer Blitz #29 - April 2024
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
Update: fixed report title.
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