Monero Observer Blitz #40 - March 2025
Here’s a recap of what happened this March in the Monero community:
Breaking
- Monero v0.18.4.0 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was tagged (1)
R&D
- The Monero Research Lab and Cuprate workgroups held 4 meetings each (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)
- There were also 5 Monero Tech meetings in March (10,11,12,13,14)
- SChernykh released P2Pool v4.4 (15)
- Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.23.3/4.24.0 and Monero.com v1.20.3/1.21.0 (16,17)
- everoddandeven released ‘Monero Daemon GUI’ v1.2.0 (18)
- John-Doggett released ‘Monerod Node Setup Scripts’ v0.4.0 (19)
- selsta posted a Monero dev report for February 2025 (20)
- Cuprate first alpha (v0.0.1 ‘Molybdenite’) was released after ~12 months of paid development (21)
- ditatompel released ‘xmr-remote-nodes’ v0.2.1 (22)
- j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 497 hours of dev work (23)
- r4v3r23 completed the second milestone for the ANONERO CCS (24)
- jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for February 2025 (25)
- tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.8.0 (26)
Funding
- acx submitted a CCS proposal to develop and maintain ‘Monfluo’, which was overfunded (27)
- plowsof submitted a proposal to continue working as CCS coordinator until the end of June 2025, which was fully funded (28)
- rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain Revuo Monero in Q2 2025, which was fully funded (29)
- selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until the end of May 2025, which was fully funded (30)
- b4n6_b4n6 and not-a-money-printer proposed bounties to make Monero GUI, RetoSwap, UnstoppableSwap ‘Whonix friendly’ (31)
- N1co1asB1ancon1 submitted a CCS proposal to develop and release ‘Monero Contract System’ v1, which was later closed (32)
- SyntheticBird45 submitted a CCS proposal to implement native Tor support into Cuprate through Arti, which was fully funded (33)
- Anon proposed a bounty for restoring Bisq’s ‘auto-confirm’ feature for Haveno (34)
Culture
- Three Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 1st, 15th & 29th (35,36,37)
- There were 5 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in March (38,39,40,41,42)
- rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #229-233 (43,44,45,46,47)
Community Messages (5/39)
- [ANN] Monero Konferenco 2025: Call for Presentations! (by monerobull) (48)
- [ANN] Public audit of XMR reserves on April 18th - MoneroRun (by MoneroFox) (49)
- [ANN] MoneroTop - Spasm-powered XMR forum (by MoneroTop) (50)
- [WTS] [0.14 XMR] Notesnook Pro (by edisondotme) (51)
- [ANN] MT #345: Growing our Monero Family w/ XMRfamily (by MoneroTalk) (52)
My personal contributions
+59/+39 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+5 Dev/Art reports
+19 Meeting logs
+21 Calendar events
+5 Resources/Blacklist
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 39 Community Messages and 21 Calendar events (57,58), added 5 new Resources (59)
- uploaded 19 meeting logs: MRL 250305, MRL 250312, MRL 250319, MRL 250326, Community 250301, Community 250315, Community 250329, Cuprate 250304, Cuprate 250311, Cuprate 250318, Cuprate 250325, Tech 250303, Tech 250310, Tech 250317, Tech 250324, Tech 250331, MoneroKon25 250301, MoneroKon25 250308, MoneroKon25 250329 (60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78)
- Weekly
- Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #39 (February 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 40th 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