Monero Observer Blitz #44 - July 2025

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

Breaking

• Monero v0.18.4.1 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released (1)
• MajesticBank exchange shut down: ‘every good thing has an end’ (2)

R&D

• The Monero Research Lab and Cuprate workgroups held 5 meetings each (3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12)
• There were also 4 Monero Tech workgroup meetings in July (13,14,15,16)
• selsta posted a Monero dev report for June 2025 (17)
• Cake Labs released Cake Wallet version 5.1.2 (18)
• jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for May 2025 (19)
• j-berman posted a third CCS progress report after 501 hours of dev work (20)
• Cuprate version 0.0.5 ‘Molybdenite’ was released (21)
• UnstoppableSwap rebranded to ‘eigenwallet’, GUI version 3.0.0-beta was released (22)
• P2Pool introduced reproducible builds with the v4.9 release (23)
• Rucknium completed their statistical research CCS (24)
• rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.3.1 (25)
• Haveno v1.2.0 ‘mandatory update’ was released with improvements, fixes (26)

Funding

• vtnerd submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work in Q3 2025 (27)
• freespirit-14 submitted a CCS proposal to create a Monero multisig wallet GUI, then canceled it (28)
• 4rkal submitted a CCS proposal to rebuild MoneroOS (29)
• hbs submitted a CCS proposal for EVM-based Monero atomic swaps dev work (30)
• everoddandeven submitted a CCS proposal for Monero Python library maintenance (31)
• Rucknium submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero statistical research (32)

Culture

• Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 12th & 26th (33,34)
• There were also two MoneroKon 5/6 Meetings in July (35,36)
• plowsof posted a progress report for their sixth CCS coordinator term (37)
• rottenwheel published Revuo Monero Issues #242-244 (38,39,40)

Community Messages (5/32)

• [ANN] Traceability Truth Hurts - MONERO MONTHLY 07 (by Ungovernable Misfits) (41)
• [ANN] Cypher Stack Livestreamed Research Meeting (by Diego) (42)
• [ANN] Guardarian have announced that they will be delisting Monero (by LivBoss) (43)
• [ANN] Qubic Monero Hashpower Share (by Rucknium) (44)
• [ANN] MT #358: Merged Mining and Proof of Useful Work - Security Implications for Monero. W/ Francisco Cabanas (by MoneroTalk) (45)

My personal contributions

+50/+32 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+17 Meeting logs
+19 Calendar events
+5/-2 Resources

• Daily
  • published 50 Monero Observer Reports (46) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (47))
  • updated Changelog (48) and XMR Stats (49)
• As needed/On demand
  • updated reports, listed 32 Community Messages and 19 Calendar events (50,51), added 5 new Resources and removed 2 items (52)
  • uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 250702, MRL 250709, MRL 250716, MRL 250723, MRL 250730, Community 250712, Community 250726, Cuprate 250701, Cuprate 250708, Cuprate 250715, Cuprate 250722, Cuprate 250729, Tech 250707, Tech 250714, Tech 250721, Tech 250728, MK6 250726 (53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69)
• Weekly
  • published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 27-30, 2025) (70,71,72,73)
  • published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 27-30, 2025) (74,75,76,77)
• Monthly
  • published MO Blitz Report: #43 (June 2025) (78)

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 44th 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