Monero Observer Blitz #39 - February 2025
Here’s a recap of what happened this February in the Monero community:
Breaking
- binaryFate published a long overdue February 2025 Monero General Fund transparency report (1)
- Rucknium publicly released all OSPEAD-related documents and code after 3+ years of research (2)
R&D
- There were four Monero Research Lab meetings in February (3,4,5,6)
- The Monero Tech and Cuprate workgroups also held 4 meetings each (7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14)
- tobtoht posted a Monero/Feather dev report for January 2025 (15)
- m2049r released Monerujo v4.1.6 with Exolix fixes (16)
- Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.8.0-1.8.2 (17)
- selsta posted a Monero dev report for January 2025 (18)
- woodser released ‘monero-cpp’ v0.8.13, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.36, and ‘monero-ts’ v0.11.3 (19)
- acx released the first beta for Mysu Wallet fork ‘Monfluo’ (20)
- jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for January 2025 (21)
- Rucknium completed the second milestone for statistical research CCS (23)
- Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.23.2 and Monero.com v1.20.2 (24)
- j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 368 hours of Monero/FCMP++ dev work (25)
Funding
- SNeedlewoods submitted a CCS proposal for ~4.5 months of part-time Monero dev work (26)
- jeffro256, rottenwheel, SNeedlewoods CCS proposals were fully funded (27,28)
- hinto-janai submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Cuprate, Monero/FCMP++ work, which was moved to the funding stage (29)
- Boog900 submitted a CCS proposal for 4 months of full-time Cuprate dev work, which was moved to the funding stage (30)
- FiatDemise’s ‘XMRChat’ CCS proposal was overfunded (31)
- vtnerd submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work, which was moved to the funding stage (32)
- hbs submitted a CCS proposal to partially fund MoneroKon 2025 (33)
- spirobel submitted a CCS proposal to develop Monero Payment Links, Browser Wallet, and a multisig companion app (34)
- Walletverse submitted a CCS proposal to integrate Monero into their ‘community-driven crypto wallet’ (35)
Culture
- Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 1st & 15th (36,37)
- There were 4 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in February (38,39,40,41)
- rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #225-228 (42,43,44,45)
- John Foss published The Monero Moon issues #76 & #77 (46,47)
- v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for December 2024 - January 2025 (48)
- plowsof posted a second progress report for their fifth CCS coordinator term (49)
Community Messages (5/24)
- [ANN] Monero’s dominance in OrangeFren.com search stats (by OrangeFren) (50)
- [ANN] Shutting down xmr.volt-mine.com (by Volt-Mine) (51)
- [ANN] LocalMonero Clone (openmonero) is now open source (by OpenMonero) (52)
- [ANN] CVE-2025-26819: Public XMR nodes should update to ‘release-v0.18’ branch until 0.18.4.0 is out (very soon) (by anon) (53)
- [ANN] MT #341: Is Monero keeping Bitcoin’s Cypherpunk dream alive? With Boaz Sobrado (by MoneroTalk) (54)
My personal contributions
+57/+24 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+18/+1 Meeting logs/summaries
+18 Calendar events
+3/0 Resources/Blacklist
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 24 Community Messages and 18 Calendar events (59,60), added 3 new Resources (61)
- published a meeting summary (62) and uploaded 18 meeting logs: MRL 250205, MRL 250212, MRL 250219, MRL 250226, Community 250201, Community 250215, Cuprate 250204, Cuprate 250211, Cuprate 250218, Cuprate 250225, Tech 250203, Tech 250210, Tech 250217, Tech 250224, MoneroKon25 250201, MoneroKon25 250208, MoneroKon25 250215, MoneroKon25 250222 (63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80)
- Weekly
- Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #38 (January 2025) (89)
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 39th 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