Monero Observer Blitz #35 - October 2024
Here’s a recap of what happened this October in the Monero community:
Breaking
- Kraken delisted XMR in EEA on October 31 due to MiCA ‘regulatory changes’ (1)
- RINO was planning to close down on October 31 2024 after 2+ years of operation (2)
- Bit2Me announced plans to delist XMR on October 31 2024 (3)
- Consensus: Getmonero.org to switch to Astro with fresh design by rehrar (4)
R&D
- There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in October (5,6,7,8,9)
- Five Cuprate meetings also took place this month (10,11,12,13,14)
- The Monero Tech workgroup held 4 meetings (15,16,17,18)
- ki9 started working on an XMR price API with data from Bisq and Haveno-reto (19)
- Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.5.0 & 1.5.1 with monerod integration (20,21)
- selsta posted Monero dev reports for September and October 2024 (22,23)
- rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.1.7 and Stack Duo v1.2.3 (24)
- BrandyJSon released Feather Atomic v1.2 (25)
- tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.7.0 (26)
- vtnerd posted a Monero dev report for September 2024 (27)
- Rucknium completed the first milestone for their statistical research CCS (28)
- woodser released Haveno v1.0.12 with various fixes and improvements (29)
- Kewbit posted the first progress report for their Haveno App CCS (30)
- binarybaron posted the first progress report for their XMR-BTC atomic swaps CCS (31)
- j-berman posted a progress report after 195 hours of Monero dev work (32)
- ErikASD created a XMR payment processor that uses a PGP login system (33)
- m2049r released Monerujo v4.0.8 ‘Sidekick’ (34)
- ofrnxmr completed the first milestone for their BasicSwapDEX CCS (35)
- Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.20.0/4.20.1 and Monero.com v1.17.0 (36)
- XMRig v6.22.1 was released with bug fixes and improvements (37)
- everoddandeven released ‘monerod-gui’ v0.1.1-rc (38)
- Rucknium reviewed CypherStack’s ‘Uniformly Most Powerful Tests for Ad Hoc Transactions in Monero’ paper (39)
- m-a-x-c created a Monero churn timing tool (40)
- Boog900 posted a second progress report for their latest Cuprate CCS (41)
Funding
- SimplifiedPrivacy submitted a CCS proposal to create a ‘Carrot’ animated video (42)
- HardenedSteel’s and spirobel’s CCS proposals were fully funded (43)
- SNeedlewoods submitted a CCS proposal for 1 month of part-time Monero dev work, which was immediately overfunded (44)
- midipoet submitted a CCS proposal for ‘policy and regulatory framework’ research, which was apparently funded by ‘a private entity’ (45)
- jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal to get ‘Carrot’ reviewed by CypherStack, which was fully funded (46)
- Kewbit posted a bounty for fixing the MoneroWHMCS payment gateway (47)
- mainnet-pat submitted a CCS proposal to complete the XMR-BCH atomic swaps project, which was fully funded by PUP (48)
- MoneroKon proposed a bounty for a Monero POS Android app (49)
- DiosDelRayo’s offline signing library CCS proposal was moved to the funding stage (50)
Culture
- Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 12th & 26th (51,52)
- The Monero Website Workgroup held a meeting on the 27th (53)
- pluja launched an experimental ‘AI-driven’ weekly Monero podcast (54)
- rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #212-215 (55,56,57,58)
- v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for August-September 2024 (59)
- wiefix announced the launch of Bitrica ‘P2P platform’ with support for XMR and BTC (60)
Community Messages (5/35)
- [ANN] [CVE-2024-9680] Update Tor Browser & Firefox immediately (by anon) (61)
- [ANN] I am attemping to reboot Breaking Monero (by lordx3nu) (62)
- [ANN] FCMP++ Hard Fork Planning: Discussion Welcomed (by jeffro256) (63)
- [ANN] Malicious node IPs discovered (by Ammortel) (64)
- [LFF] [$255] My 3 months of server hosting is open for donations (by Rucknium) (65)
My personal contributions
+70/+35 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+17 Meeting logs
+17 Calendar events
+9/-1 Resources
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 35 Community Messages and 17 Calendar events (70,71), added 9 new Resources and removed one item (72)
- uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 241002, MRL 2401009, MRL 241016, MRL 241023, MRL 241030, Community 241012, Community 241026, Cuprate 241001, Cuprate 241008, Cuprate 241015, Cuprate 241022, Cuprate 241029, Website 241027, Tech 241007, Tech 241014, Tech 241021, Tech 241028 (73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89)
- Weekly
- Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #34 (September 2024) (98)
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
- anon group PUP for being the #1 donor to the MO 2025 independent funding campaign
- 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 35th 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