1 Nov 2025 [blitz]

Monero Observer Blitz #47 - October 2025

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

Monero v0.18.4.3 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released with enhanced protection against spy nodes (1)
MyMonero announced plans to shut down on January 6 2026 (2)
XT started delisting all XMR ‘financial products’ on October 31 2025 (3)

The Monero Research Lab held 5 meetings in October (4,5,6,7,8)
There were also 4 Monero Tech and 2 Cuprate meetings (9,10,11,12,13,14)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for September 2025 (15)
r4v3r23 completed the Anonero v1.0 rewrite CCS (16)
acx released Monfluo v0.9.1 (17)
Cuprate v0.0.7 ‘Molybdenite’ was released (18)
j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 381 hours of dev work (19)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet & Monero.com versions 5.5.0-5.5.2 with Trezor support (20,21,22)
woodser released ‘monero-cpp’ v0.8.16, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.39 & ‘monero-ts’ v0.11.6 (23)
atsamd21 released Haveno Android app versions 0.4.11.0 & 0.4.12.0 (24,25)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.4.0 (26)
ajs-xmr released XMRpos v1.0 & v1.1 (27,28)
MAGIC Grants was getting ready to release ‘Skylight Wallet’ (29)
felipebrunet released Monero Point of Sale app v1.0.4 (30)
freigeist-m released Monero Multisig GUI v0.1.1 (31)

jpthor submitted a CCS proposal to integrate Monero into THORChain (32)
Boog900’s ‘Cuprate’ CCS was moved to the funding stage (33)
4rkal cancelled their ‘MoneroOS’ CCS proposal (34)
redsh4de submitted a CCS proposal to implement the planned Getmonero.org redesign (35)
perfect-daemon submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work (36)

Three Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 4th, 11th & 25th (37,38,39)
MoneroTopia 2026 conference was scheduled to take place February 12-15 in Mexico City (40)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero Issues #248-249 (41,42)
Monero Talk interviewed THORChain co-founder ‘jpthor’ and part of the CypherStack team (43,44)
recanman proposed organizing MoneroKon 2026 in Serbia (45)
John Foss published ‘The Monero Moon’ Issue #82 (46)

+58/+27 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+14 Meeting logs
+17 Calendar events
+3/-4 Resources

Daily
- published 58 Monero Observer Reports (52) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (53))
- updated Changelog (54) and XMR Stats (55)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 27 Community Messages and 17 Calendar events (56,57), added 3 new Resources and removed 4 items (58,59)
- uploaded 14 meeting logs: MRL 251001, MRL 251008, MRL 251015, MRL 251022, MRL 251029, Community 251004, Community 251011, Community 251025, Tech 251006, Tech 251013, Tech 251020, Tech 251027, Cuprate 251021, Cuprate 251028 (60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73)
- created the Monero Observer Lounge (74)
- extended PGP key expiry date (1y) (75)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 40-43, 2025) (76,77,78,79)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 40-43, 2025) (80,81,82,83)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #46 (September 2025) (84)

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 47th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

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-escapethe3RA

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