Monero Observer Blitz #46 - September 2025
Here’s a recap of what happened this September in the Monero community:
Breaking
- DataHoarder published a timeline of the historical Monero 18-block reorg from September 14 2025 (1)
- Monero Konferenco 2026 was cancelled: ‘this is not the end of Monerokon’ (2)
- Testers wanted: FCMP++/Carrot alpha stressnet v1 was released (3)
R&D
- There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in September (4,5,6,7)
- The Monero Tech workgroup held 5 meetings (8,9,10,11,12)
- BawdyAnarchist created ‘Monero PoW Simulator’ (13)
- SyntheticBird45 completed their Cuprate dev work CCS (14)
- Cake Labs released Cake Wallet version 5.4.0-5.4.2 (15,16)
- SChernykh released P2Pool version 4.10-4.11 (17,18)
- d4ndox released ‘Monero Named Pipes’ v0.1.5-0.1.6 (19,20)
- jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for July 2025 (21)
- kivirnz created a Gupax P2Pool statistics tool (22)
- j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 202 hours of dev work (23)
- ki9 created the ‘karmine’ script to counter the selfish mining threat (24)
- woodser released haveno-ts v0.0.38-0.0.39 and Haveno v1.2.1-1.2.2 with ‘reorg protections’ and native ARM64 support (25,26,27
- Cyrix126 released Gupaxx v1.11.6/1.11.7 (28)
- tevador proposed the ‘Share or Perish’ selfish mining mitigation (29)
Funding
- Boog900 completed their latest Cuprate dev work CCS and submitted a new proposal (30,31)
- rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain ‘Revuo Monero’ in Q4 2025 (32)
- selsta’s September-November 2025 Monero dev work CCS was funded (33)
- kayabaNerve’s ‘finality layer’ book CCS was moved to the funding stage (34)
- acx submitted a CCS proposal to maintain the Monfluo XMR wallet in Q4 2025 (35)
Culture
- Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 6th & 20th (36,37)
- There were also three MoneroKon 6 Meetings in September (38,39,40)
- CypherGoat published ‘This Week In Monero’ Issues #2-3 (41,42)
- Monero Talk interviewed Monero Matteo (43)
Community Messages (5/32)
- [ANN] MT #361: If It Isn’t PoW, It Isn’t Decentralized w/ Dr. K (44)
- [ANN] Monero community input needed: Temporary rolling DNS checkpoints (45)
- [WTS] Telegram and Discord (new) premium/nitro subscriptions for BTC/LTC/XMR (46)
- [ANN] Monero’s 18-block reorg: What happened, why it matters, and what does it have to do with the annoying 10 block lock? (47)
- [ANN] Edge x Let’s Exchange Monero Mayhem: Winner Takes All (48)
My personal contributions
+51/+32 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+14 Meeting logs
+15 Calendar events
+4/-4 Resources
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 32 Community Messages and 15 Calendar events (53,54), added 4 new Resources and removed 4 items (55,56)
- uploaded 14 meeting logs: MRL 250903, MRL 250910, MRL 250917, MRL 250924, Community 250906, Community 250920, Tech 250901, Tech 250908, Tech 250915, Tech 250922, Tech 250929, MK6 250906, MK6 250913, MK6 250920 (57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70)
- Weekly
- Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #45 (August 2025) (79)
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 46th 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