Monero Observer Blitz #37 - December 2024
Here’s a recap of what happened this December in the Monero community:
Breaking
- Brandon Goodell concluded that Generalized Bulletproofs are ‘suitable for use’ after reviewing security proofs (1)
- XMR registered a 2.5-year high of $218 after a ~31% surge at the beginning of the month (2)
- Rucknium discovered a critical privacy vulnerability in Wownero’s decoy selection algorithm (3)
- Haveno added support for buying XMR without security deposits (4)
- Gate.io dropped Monero ETF markets and delisted the XMRUSDT perpetual contract (5)
R&D
- There were 3 Monero Research Lab meetings in December (6,7,8)
- The Monero Tech workgroup held 5 meetings (9,10,11,12,13)
- Three Cuprate meetings also took place this month (14,15,16)
- SNeedlewoods completed their first part-time Monero dev work CCS (17)
- vtnerd completed their 2024 Q3 Monero dev work CCS (18)
- rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.1.9, Stack Duo v1.2.4 (19)
- Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.5.4 (20)
- Cake Wallet added ‘full support’ for XMR hardware wallets via Ledger (21)
- woodser released ‘haveno-ts’ v0.0.31 & v0.0.32 (22,23)
- 0xFFFC posted a November-December 2024 Monero dev report (24)
- hinto-janai completed their Cuprate RPC handlers CCS (25)
- P2Pool v4.3 was released with initial sync improvements (26)
Funding
- Kewbit posted a second ‘Haveno App’ CCS progress report amidst growing criticism (27)
- b4n6_b4n6 proposed two bounties for Stack Wallet bug fixes (28)
- FiatDemise submitted a CCS proposal to retroactively fund the XMRChat project (29)
- fullmetalScience submitted a CCS proposal for the NoShore project (30)
- j-berman completed his CCS and submitted a new proposal for 4 months of Monero dev work (31,32)
- v1docq47’s December-May 2025 CCS proposal was moved to the funding stage (33)
- 0xFFFC submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work (34)
- anon1337 proposed a bounty for a ‘haveno-ts’ Dart port (35)
- tobtoht submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Feather Wallet and Monero core dev work (36)
- 4rkal submitted a CCS proposal to develop and release ‘dmvp2p’ v1 (37)
- Dadybayo submitted a CCS proposal to integrate Monero into Unstoppable Wallet (38)
- rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain Revuo Monero in Q1 2025 (39)
- nisaba proposed a bounty for a PrestaShop XMR ‘payment integration’, which was declined (40)
Culture
- Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 7th & 21st (41,42)
- There were 3 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in December (43,44,45)
- BasedMoney Collective launched the Monerochan memecoin to ‘promote’ Monero (46)
- rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #220-222 (47,48,49)
- Cake Wallet partnered with Foundation to develop the ‘first 3rd-party app’ for Passport Prime (50)
- The Monero Moon newsletter made a comeback with Issue #75 after a short hiatus (51)
Community Messages (5/26)
- [ANN] RandomX 5 Year Anniversary (by Gingeropolous) (52)
- [ANN] MRL recommendation: Ban spy node IP addresses from connecting to your node (by Rucknium) (53)
- [ANN] MAGIC Monero Fund 2025 Election (by SamsungGalaxyPlayer) (54)
- [ANN] Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography (by SyntheticBird45) (55)
- [WTS] [$120+] ‘Fire The Empire’ artwork (by SIDARTA0) (56)
My personal contributions
+62/+26 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+4 Dev/Art reports
+16 Meeting logs
+18 Calendar events
+2/0 Resources/Blacklist
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 26 Community Messages and 18 Calendar events (61,62), added 2 new Resources (63)
- uploaded 16 meeting logs: MRL 241204, MRL 241211, MRL 241218, Community 241207, Community 241221, Cuprate 241203, Cuprate 241210, Cuprate 241217, Tech 241209, Tech 241216, Tech 241223, Tech 241230, MoneroKon25 241207, MoneroKon25 241214, MoneroKon25 241228 (64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78)
- Weekly
- Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #36 (November 2024) (88)
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 37th 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