Monero Observer Blitz #42 - May 2025

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

Breaking

• fluffypony’s ‘Tari’ went live on mainnet after almost 8 years of work (1)

R&D

• There were four Monero Research Lab meetings in May (2,3,4,5)
• The Monero Tech and Cuprate workgroups also held 4 meetings each (6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13)
• selsta posted a Monero dev report for April 2025 (14)
• SChernykh released P2Pool v4.5 & 4.6/4.7 with support for Tari merge mining donations and ‘Nano’ sidechain (15,16,17)
• hinto-janai released Gupax v1.3.11, Cuprate v0.0.3, and posted a CCS progress report (18,19,20)
• binarybaron posted a fourth progress report for their XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem CCS (21)
• Gupaxx added support for the new P2Pool ‘Nano’ sidechain (22)
• Cake Labs released Cake Wallet & Monero.com v4.28.0 & 5.0.0/5.0.1 (23,24)
• SyntheticBird45 posted their first progress report for the Cuprate/Arti CCS (25)
• j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 199 hours of dev work (26)
• 0xFFFC posted a Monero dev report for January 2025 (27)
• acx posted a second progress report for the Monfluo CCS (28)
• MrCyjaneK completed their Unnamed Monero Wallet CCS (29)
• rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.2.0 (30)
• Boog900 completed the third milestone for their Cuprate CCS (31)

Funding

• atsamd21 proposed a bounty for adding missing payment methods to the Haveno daemon (32)
• wikig submitted a CCS proposal to create Telegram XMR wallet ‘Moneropen’, then closed it due to lack of support (33)
• gnuteardrops was seeking funding to maintain Monero Graphics until 2027 (34)

Culture

• Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 10th & 24th (35,36)
• There were 5 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in May (37,38,39,40,41)
• John Foss published The Monero Moon issues #78-81 (42,43,44,45)
• rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #236-239 (46,47,48,49)

Community Messages (5/38)

• [ANN] Working on a new Monero P2P swap – would love early feedback (by Ok-Selection-639) (50)
• [ANN] MT #350: Tari Mainnet is Live (by MoneroTalk) (51)
• [LFF] [Bounty] Add Duress PIN Feature To Stack Wallet (by AnonXMRLover) (52)
• [LTT] No KYC crypto-to-crypto exchange service (by Trêvoid) (53)
• [ANN] Phishers Target Monero Users (by ditatompel) (54)

My personal contributions

+58/+38 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+5 Dev/Art reports
+15 Meeting logs
+19 Calendar events
+7/-2 Resources

• Daily
  • published 58 Monero Observer Reports (55) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (56))
  • updated Changelog (57) and XMR Stats (58)
• As needed/On demand
  • updated reports, listed 38 Community Messages and 19 Calendar events (59,60), added 7 new Resources and removed 2 (61)
  • uploaded 15 meeting logs: MRL 250507, MRL 250514, MRL 250521, MRL 250528, Community 250510, Community 250524, Cuprate 250506, Cuprate 250513, Cuprate 250520, Cuprate 250527, Tech 250505, Tech 250512, Tech 250519, Tech 250526, MoneroKon25 250503 (62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76)
• Weekly
  • published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 18-21, 2025) (77,78,79,80)
  • published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 18-22, 2025) (81,82,83,84,85)
• Monthly
  • published MO Blitz Report: #41 (April 2025) (86)

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 42nd 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