Monero Observer Blitz #45 - August 2025

Here’s a recap of what happened this August in the Monero community:

Breaking

• Monero v0.18.4.2 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released with a privacy leak fix (1)

R&D

• There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in August (2,3,4,5)
• The Cuprate and Monero Tech workgroups also held 4 meetings each (6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13)
• woodser released haveno-ts v0.0.37, monero-java v0.8.38 (14,15)
• Cake Labs released Cake Wallet version 5.2.0, 5.3.0 (16,17)
• acx released Monfluo v0.8.1 (18)
• rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.3.2 (19)
• selsta posted a Monero dev report for July 2025 (20)
• d4ndox released ‘Monero Named Pipes’ v0.1.3, 0.1.4 (21,22)
• SChernykh released P2Pool version 4.9.1 (23)
• binarybaron and einliterflashche completed their XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem CCS (24)
• everoddandeven released ‘Monero Daemon GUI’ v1.3.0/1.3.1 (25)
• Cyrix126 released Gupaxx v1.11.0-1.11.2 (26)

Funding

• j-berman completed his CCS and submitted a new proposal for 4 months of FCMP++ and Seraphis dev work (27)
• acx, Gingeropolous, rottenwheel, Rucknium, vtnerd CCS proposals were fully funded (28)
• jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal to continue Carrot/FCMP++ dev work in Q3 2025 (29)
• jhonreb submitted a CCS proposal to build the ‘MoneroSwap.ai’ platform, which was closed (30)
• kayabaNerve submitted a CCS proposal to write a ‘finality layer’ book (31)
• v1docq47 submitted a CCS proposal for 6 months of Russian voice-over and transcription work (32)
• jeffro256, j-berman, hinto-janai CCS proposals were moved to funding stage (33)
• selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until the end of November 2025 (34)

Culture

• Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 9th & 23rd (35,36)
• There were also five MoneroKon 6 Meetings in August (37,38,39,40,41)
• rottenwheel published Revuo Monero Issues #245-246 (42,43)

Community Messages (5/29)

• [ANN] Monero Under Attack - MONERO MONTHLY 08 (44)
• [ANN] FCMP++ Optimization Competition Results (45)
• [ANN] Monero Re-org & Qubic (46)
• [ANN] Edge launches Everyday Anon campaign: Privacy for everyone (47)
• [ANN] MRL: Selfish mining mitigations (Publish or Perish) (48)

My personal contributions

+54/+29 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+5 Dev/Art reports
+17 Meeting logs
+19 Calendar events
+3/+2 Resources/Blacklist

• Daily
  • published 54 Monero Observer Reports (49) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (50))
  • updated Changelog (51) and XMR Stats (52)
• As needed/On demand
  • updated reports, listed 29 Community Messages and 19 Calendar events (53,54), added 3 new Resources and 2 new Blacklist items (55,56)
  • uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 250806, MRL 250813, MRL 250820, MRL 250827, Community 250809, Community 250823, Cuprate 250805, Cuprate 250812, Cuprate 250826, Tech 250804, Tech 250811, Tech 250818, Tech 250825, MK6 250809, MK6 250816, MK6 250823, MK6 250830 (57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73)
• Weekly
  • published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 31-35, 2025) (74,75,76,77,78)
  • published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 31-35, 2025) (79,80,81,82,83)
• Monthly
  • published MO Blitz Report: #44 (July 2025) (84)

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 amazing designs
• hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 45th 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