Monero Observer Blitz #31 - June 2024
Here’s a recap of what happened this June in the Monero community:
Breaking
- P2Pool hardfork was scheduled for October 12th 2024 at 20:00 UTC (1)
- Trocador was struggling to contain ‘non-stop DDoS attacks’ (2)
- spackle-xmr published the first progress report for the Monero ‘Stressnet’ project (3)
- The fourth edition of Monero Konferenco took place in Prague on June 7-9 (4)
R&D
- There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in June (5,6,7,8)
- The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 3 meetings (9,10,11)
- Four Cuprate meetings took place this month (12,13,14,15)
- selsta posted a Monero dev report for May 2024 (16)
- woodser released ‘monero-java’ v0.8.28-0.8.31 (17,18)
- hinto-janai completed the first milestone for their ‘Cuprate’ CCS proposal (19)
- nahuhh released ‘basicswap-bash’ v0.13.2-dev/0.13.4-master (20,21)
- Haveno v1.0.7/1.0.8 were released with support for Tails and various payment methods (22,23)
- MrCyjaneK posted a third progress report for their ‘Unnamed Monero Wallet’ CCS proposal (24)
- Cake Labs released ‘Cake Wallet’ v4.18.2 with support for ‘Cake Pay’ (25)
- COMIT ‘xmr-btc-swap’ version 0.13.1 was released (26)
- fullmetalScience released TradeOgre terminal interface ‘OGRE’ v0.1.0 (27)
- spackle-xmr, Rucknium released ‘Monero Stressnet Node’ v250.18.3.3.1-250.18.3.3.2 (28,29)
- jeffro256 posted a Monero/Seraphis dev report for May 2024 (30)
- rehrar released ‘Stack Wallet’ v2.1.0/2.1.1 with support for Polyseed, Tor (31,32)
- Boog900 completed the first three milestones for their ‘Cuprate’ CCS proposal (33)
- 0xFFFC posted a Monero dev report for May 2024 (34)
- binarybaron released UnstoppableSwap GUI v0.6.1/0.6.2 (35)
- DiosDelRayo completed the first milestone for their CCS and released ‘XmrSigner’ v0.4 (36,37)
- Cyrix126 released ‘Gupaxx’ version 1.2.0 with support for ‘Xmrig-Proxy’ (38)
Funding
- PrivacyOG proposed a bounty for building a Haveno DEX Android app (39)
- rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain ‘Revuo Monero’ for 3 months, which was fully funded (40)
- v1docq47’s June-Novemeber 2024 CCS proposal was fully funded (41)
- jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work, which was fully funded (42,43)
- Anon proposed bounties for ‘Lnp2pBot’ and ‘RoboSats’ forks based on Monero (44)
- Boog900 submitted a CCS proposal to continue working full time on ‘Cuprate’ for 3 months (45)
- rehrar submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero ‘non-dev’ work (46)
Culture
- Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 8th & 22nd (47,48)
- plowsof posted a progress report for their fourth CCS coordinator term (49)
- New Monero knowledge aggregator project ‘LIBERECO’ beta went live (50)
- John Foss published The Monero Moon issues #68 & #69 (51,52)
- Cuprate, MIC, Spoke and Walletudo won the first ever Monero hackathon (53)
- rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #198-200 (54,55,56)
- ditatompel open sourced the code for their ‘Public Monero Remote Nodes’ aggregator website (57)
- v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for April-May 2024 (58)
- umbrelOS added support for Monero (59)
Community Messages (5/41)
- [ANN] [CCS] [Video] VOSTOEMISIO - RandomX (by VostoEmisio) (60)
- [ANN] Moner.ooo: new Feature for Office (Excel, Calc) (by luke) (61)
- [ANN] I just created a Monero imageboard (monero.land) (by monero_lover) (62)
- [LFF] [70 XMR] Continued work on Monerochan.news and Monerochan.cash (by spirobel) (63)
- [LFF] [6.5 XMR] Revuo Monero code enhancements and rebranding. Please consider chipping in! (by rottenwheel) (64)
My personal contributions
+72/+41 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+5 Dev/Art reports
+11/+1 Meeting logs/summaries
+15 Calendar events
+11/+2 Resources/Blacklist
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 41 Community Messages and 15 Calendar events (69,70), added 11 new Resources and 2 new Blacklist items (71,72)
- published Meeting summary MRL 240619 (73) and uploaded 11 meeting logs: MRL 240605, MRL 240612, MRL 240619, MRL 240626, Community 240608, Community 240622, Seraphis 240603, Seraphis 240617, Seraphis 240624, Cuprate 240604, Cuprate 240625 (74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84)
- Weekly
- Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #30 (May 2024) (95)
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 cool designs
- hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community
That’s it for the 31st 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