vtnerd submits CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work in Q3 2025

Lee Clagett (vtnerd¹) has submitted a new CCS proposal² looking to continue full-time development work on Monero components for 3 months (Q3 2025):

Work primarily on monerod, wallet, monero-lws, and lwsf. [..] There is intentionally more work than time allows - to ensure there is always something to work on in the proposal.

Total funding proposed: 99.36 XMR (USD 65/hr).

ETA: 3 months (480 hours).

Tasks overview

• Code reviews of monero core PRs
• monerod/monero-lws bug fixes and HackerOne mitigations
• Keep existing PRs up-to-date
• Find (possible) memory leak in weak_ptr PR
• Complete work necessary to merge DANE/TLSA in wallet2/epee
• Adding trust-on-first-use support to wallet2
• Add msgpack support to monerod-ZMQ
• monero-lws work
• lwsf (LWSF-frontend) work

vtnerd is the creator of Monero Light Wallet Server³ and has been an active⁴ Monero contributor since 2016, with one MAGIC Grant⁵ and six CCS⁶ proposals completed to date. Read the dev’s most recent update⁷ to learn more about their work.

To share your feedback, ask questions and support this CCS, consult !594².

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.