Monero Observer Blitz #43 - June 2025

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

Breaking

• Monero Konferenco 5 took place in Prague on June 20-22 (1)
• OpenMonero was hacked, reported ‘all funds stolen’ (2)

R&D

• There were four Monero Research Lab meetings in June (3,4,5,6)
• The Monero Tech and Cuprate workgroups also held 4 meetings each (7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14)
• valldrac released Monero Wallet SDK for Android v1.0.0 (15)
• jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for April 2025 (16)
• everoddandeven released Monero Python Library v0.0.1-alpha (17)
• rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.2.2 (17)
• XMRig v6.22.3/6.24.0, XMRig Proxy v6.24.0 were released with improved IPv6 support (18,19)
• Cuprate version 0.0.4 ‘Molybdenite’ was released (20)
• Haveno v1.1.2 was released with major UI changes (21)
• nahuhh released basicswap-bash v0.14.5 (22)
• woodser released haveno-ts v0.0.36, monero-cpp v0.8.14, monero-java v0.8.37, monero-ts v0.11.4 (23,24)
• ditatompel released xmr-remote-nodes v0.2.2 (25)
• UnstoppableSwap GUI 2.0.0 was released with a ‘breaking protocol change’ (26)
• P2Pool versions 4.8/4.8.1 were released with security fixes (27)
• binarybaron postsed a fifth progress report for the XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem CCS (28)
• Deverickapollo and napoly posted the first progress report for the BTCPay Server Monero plugin CCS (29)
• j-berman posted a second CCS progress report after 325 hours of Monero/Seraphis dev work (30)
• Monerujo v4.1.7 was released with fixes, translations update (31)
• Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v5.1.0/5.1.1 with experimental support for embedded Tor (32)
• UkoeHB posted the first progress report for their Seraphis CCS (33)

Funding

• selsta submited a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until end of August 2025, which was fully funded (34)
• MoneroKon proposed a bounty for a XMRpos remote backend (35)
• Gingeropolous submitted a CCS proposal to create a Monero ‘network simulation tool’ (36)
• BobbyBullRun submitted a CCS proposal to produce and promote a ‘Monero-themed’ anthem, which was closed (37)
• hinto-janai completed their CCS, submitted a new proposal for 3 months of full-time Cuprate, FCMP++ work (38,39)
• acx submitted a CCS proposal to continue developing the Monfluo XMR wallet for 3 months (40)

Culture

• Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 7th & 21st (41,42)
• There were also 2 final MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in June (43,44)
• rottenwheel published Revuo Monero Issue #240 (45)
• Monero Talk interviewed CypherStack founder Diego Salazar on the status of FCMP++ (46)
• v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for April-May 2025 (47)

Community Messages (5/32)

• [ANN] P2P Markets Exploding - MONERO MONTHLY 06 (by Ungovernable Misfits) (48)
• [ANN] MAGIC Grants: Monero FCMP++ audit report (by SamsungGalaxyPlayer) (49)
• [ANN] XMRPC v0.3.0-beta released (by fullmetalScience) (50)
• [ANN] [Live] MoneroTopia at Porcfest 2025! (by MoneroTopia) (51)
• [LFF] [60 XMR] Support XmrBazaar’s Mission to Grow the Monero Circular Economy (by chowbungaman) (52)

My personal contributions

+59/+32 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+4 Dev/Art reports
+13 Meeting logs
+15 Calendar events
+2/+4 Resources/Blacklist

• Daily
  • published 59 Monero Observer Reports (53) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (54))
  • updated Changelog (55) and XMR Stats (56)
• As needed/On demand
  • updated reports, listed 32 Community Messages and 15 Calendar events (57,58), added 2 new Resources and 4 Blacklist items (59,60)
  • uploaded 13 meeting logs: MRL 250604, MRL 250611, MRL 250618, MRL 250625, Community 250607, Community 250621, Cuprate 250603, Cuprate 250610, Cuprate 250617, Cuprate 250621, Tech 250602, Tech 250609, Tech 250616, Tech 250630 (61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74)
• Weekly
  • published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 22-26, 2025) (75,76,77,78,79)
  • published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 23-26, 2025) (80,81,82,83)
• Monthly
  • published MO Blitz Report: #42 (May 2025) (84)

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 43rd 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