Monero Observer Blitz #38 - January 2025

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

R&D

• There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in January (1,2,3,4,5)
• The Monero Tech workgroup held 4 meetings (6,7,8,9)
• Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.7.0-1.7.2 (10)
• everoddandeven released Monero Daemon GUI v1.1.0 (11)
• Boog900 completed their latest Cuprate dev work CCS (12)
• woodser released Haveno v1.0.18, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.34, and ‘monero-ts’ v0.11.2 (13,14)
• sukunetsiz created a Monero marketplace script, Kabus (15)
• selsta posted a December 2024 Monero dev report (16)
• Rucknium completed the second milestone for their OSPEAD CCS (17)
• ofrnxmr completed the third milestone for their BasicSwapDEX CCS (18)
• binarybaron posted a third progress report for their XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem CCS (19)
• j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 169 hours of Monero/FCMP++ dev work (20)
• antichainalysis created a Monero ‘churner’ tool, moneroc (21)
• Cake Wallet added XMR/WOW passphrase restore support in v4.23.0-RC (22)
• selsta posted a to-do list for the upcoming Monero v0.18.4.0 release (23)

Funding

• everoddandeven proposed a bounty for a monero-cpp Python bindings module (24)
• 0xFFFC, j-berman, tobtoht CCS proposals were fully funded (25)
• napoly, deverickapollo submitted a CCS proposal to develop a Monero plugin for BTCPay Server 2.0 (26)
• jeffro256 completed their 2024 Q4 CCS and submitted a new proposal for 3 months of Monero/Carrot dev work (27,28)

Culture

• Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 4th & 18th (29,30)
• There were 5 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in January (31,32,33,34)
• rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #223 and 224 (35,36)
• An anonymous contributor donated ~23 XMR to the Monero General Fund (37)

Community Messages (5/29)

• [ANN] [CCS] Draft: New years resolutions (by plowsof) (38)
• [ANN] Happy 7th Birthday to PiNodeXMR (by shermand100) (39)
• [ANN] El Monero is looking for active Spanish community members (by rottenwheel) (40)
• [ANN] Attacks on onion monero nodes with HSDirSniper (by jackintosh157) (41)
• [ANN] Ross Ulbricht Pardoned (by Groundbreaking_Put39) (42)

My personal contributions

+50/+29 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+19 Meeting logs
+20 Calendar events
0/+2 Resources/Blacklist

• Daily
  • published 50 Monero Observer Reports (43) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (44))
  • updated Changelog (45) and XMR Stats (46)
• As needed/On demand
  • updated reports, listed 29 Community Messages and 20 Calendar events (47,48), added 2 new Blacklist items (49)
  • uploaded 19 meeting logs: MRL 250101, MRL 250108, MRL 250115, MRL 250122, MRL 250129, Community 250104, Community 250118, Cuprate 250107, Cuprate 250114, Cuprate 250121, Cuprate 250128, Tech 250106, Tech 250113, Tech 250120, Tech 250127, MoneroKon25 250104, MoneroKon25 250111, MoneroKon25 250118, MoneroKon25 250125 (50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68)
• Weekly
  • published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 1-4, 2025) (69,70,71,72)
  • published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 1-4, 2025) (73,74,75,76)
• Monthly
  • published MO Blitz Report: #37 (December 2024) (77)

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 38th 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