Monero Observer Blitz #48 - August 2026
Here’s a recap of what happened this August around the Monero community:
Breaking
- BTCPay Server disclosed a ‘critical’ vulnerability which may result in loss of funds (1)
- 13,689 Trezor customers were affected by a ShipMonk data breach (2)
- Farside redirecting gateway was shut down (3)
- X Corp. demanded the ‘permanent takedown’ of Nitter (4)
R&D
- The Monero Research Lab held 4 meetings in August (5,6,7,8)
- There were also 4 Monero Tech and 4 Cuprate meetings (9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16)
- Cuprate beta version 0.1.0-preview ‘Kesterite’ was released (17)
- nowi333 created XMR network dashboard ‘monerometrics’ (18)
- woodser released ‘monero-cpp’ v0.9.2-0.9.4, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.54-0.8.56 & ‘monero-ts’ v0.11.13-0.11.15 (19,20)
- Boog900 posted a final progress report for their Cuprate RPC wallet support CCS (21)
- selsta posted a Monero dev report for July 2026 (22)
- acx released Monfluo version 0.9.6 (23)
- P2Pool v4.18 was released with support for 100K Stratum connections (24)
- Crypto-Steer released a native Android XMR miner (25)
- Cake Labs released Cake Wallet & Monero.com versions 6.4.1-6.4.3 (26,27)
- pivacy released ‘Custardy-XMR’ Raspberry Pi Zero W appliance for generating and verifying Monero wallets (28)
- KaraZajac released the peer-to-peer proximity commerce protocol ‘DUCAT’ (X29)
- Trail of Bits reported ‘zero high, medium, and low-severity findings’ after a Monero FCMP++ crypto implementation audit (30)
- j-berman posted CCS progress report after 562 hours of Monero dev work (31)
- rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.7.1 (32)
- tevador was getting ready to relicense Polyseed under Apache 2.0 in order to ‘facilitate Monero integration’ (33)
- THORChain was ‘a few weeks’ away from complete Monero integration (34)
- inorooot created a email monitoring tool for XMR P2Pool miners (35)
- nahuhh released ‘basicswap-bash’ v0.18.5 (36)
- DangerousFreedom1984 completed their Monero Inflation Checker FCMP++ support CCS (37)
- everoddandeven released ‘Monero Python Library’ v0.9.3 (38)
Funding
- Boog900 submitted a CCS proposal to integrate FCMP++ into Cuprate (39)
- acx submitted a CCS proposal to maintain ‘Monfluo’ XMR wallet in Q3 2026, which was fully funded (40,41)
- UkoeHB’s Monero research and development CCS was overfunded (42)
- jeffro256’s Q2 2026 Carrot/FCMP++ dev work CCS was moved to the funding stage (43)
- Francois Villon submitted their first CCS proposal to develop a Monero plugin for Shopify (44)
- jpk68’s Monero dev work CCS was moved to the funding stage (45)
Culture
- Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 8th & 22nd (46,47)
- XMRChat celebrated its second anniversary (48)
- Monero Talk interviewed Cake Wallet’s Seth For Privacy (49)
- XMR bulls printed a $520 monthly close after a successful retest of the June 2026 resistance zone above $400 (50)
- P2Pool celebrated its 5-year anniversary (51)
- Monero-powered ‘Stasher News’ platform entered open beta on stagenet (52)
Community Messages (5/37)
- [ANN] [PR #11002] Add an AI policy (53)
- [ANN] XMR-SYNC: Monero companion app - price ticker, mining stats, node monitor, and news (54)
- [ANN] SafePal hw wallet discloses unauthorized access to customer order information (55)
- [ANN] Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license ‘vibe code’ into Free Software? (56)
- [ANN] SCAM ALERT: SplitNOW (57)
My personal contributions
+64/+37 Reports/Community Messages
+5 Monero Dev reports
+15 Meeting logs
+19 Calendar events
+19/-53 Resources
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 37 Community Messages and 19 Calendar events (62,63), added 19 new Resources and removed 53 items (offline) (64,65)
- uploaded 15 meeting logs: MRL 260805, MRL 260812, MRL 260819, MRL 260826, Community 260808, Community 260822, Tech 260803, Tech 260810, Tech 260817, Tech 260831, Cuprate 260804, Cuprate 260811, Cuprate 260818, Cuprate 260825 (66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79)
- created PrivSec.Guide project (80)
- added Breaking news section + RSS feed, consolidated dark theme, other CSS improvements (81,82)
- Weekly
Credits/special thanks to:
- everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
- the cypherpunks for the encrypted 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 around the Monero community
That’s it for the 48th 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
PS: Can’t believe its been 5 years already.. Onward.