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j-berman’s Monero/Seraphis dev work CCS proposal ready for funding
j-berman1’s CCS proposal2 to continue full-time development work on Monero and the Seraphis wallet library for 3 more months is ready for funding:
Funding needed: 376 XMR
To support this proposal, you can donate any XMR amount to the address listed on its Gitlab Funding Required 3 page.
Consult the previous Monero Observer report4 to learn more about this story.
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Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 22 May 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, May 22nd 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.
- Updates. What is everyone working on?
- Potential measures against a black marble attack3
- Research Pre-Seraphis Full-Chain Membership Proofs4
This meeting’s chairperson should be Rucknium5. The … ⌘ Read more
Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 25 May 2024 1500 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 11th of May 2024 at 15:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 2’3 channels.
Discussions should be focused on community highlights, CCS updates and workgroup reports for Matrix and IRC channels. plowsof4 will moderate the meeting.
Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.
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Stack Wallet out of beta with v2.0.0 release
rehrar1 has released Stack Wallet2 stable version 2.0.0 (build_222)3, exiting beta after ~1.6 years of development.
Exiting beta!
Added Bitcoin Frost multisig
Added Bitcoin taproot support
Updated Flutter version (1.3.19)
Finished networking overhaul (it all works now!)
Added Solana (not tokens yet)
Added Peercoin
Added Tor support for Tezos, Stellar, and Solana
Lots of Firo fixes and optimizations
Perf ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/stack-wallet-out-of-beta-v2.0.0-release/)rohanrhu submits CCS proposal to work full-time on ‘PokerUnicorn Infrastructure Project’
rohanrhu1 has submitted a CCS proposal2 looking to continue full-time development work on the PokerUnicorn Infrastructure Project 3:
I’ve already published the game server and client. It has
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HardenedSteel, retoaccess1 experiment with first ever public Haveno networks on mainnet
HardenedSteel1 and retoaccess12 have separately started running the first two ever public Haveno3 networks4’5 on Monero’s mainnet, only 48 hours after woodser6’s quick start guide 7 was published:
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retoaccess1’s “haveno-reto”:
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Seraphis Wallet Workgroup meeting scheduled for 20 May 2024 1800 UTC
The next Seraphis Wallet Workgroup 1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, May 20 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the IRC/Libera #no-wallet-left-behind 2 channel and the bridged Matrix room3.
Consult the project’s wiki4 page to learn more about Seraphis, Jamtis, and wallet3.
Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.
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John Foss1 has published Issue #662 of The Monero Moon curated weekly newsletter:
The Monero Moon is a curated newsletter covering all the latest news within Monero (XMR). We are excited to return, driven by a compelling need to champion both freedom and financial privacy!
The publication includes news about:
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- General News
- Events
- Exchanges and Merchants
- Community Crowdfunding
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baldeagle submits CCS proposal to ‘create and manage’ Matrix room for P2P XMR trading
baldeagle1 has submitted a CCS proposal2 looking to create and manage a KYC-free peer-to-peer XMR trading room within the Monero Matrix Space 3:
This proposal is for myself to create and manage a peer-to-peer trading room on Matrix for people wanting to buy and sell Monero for fiat with no KYC.
jeffro256 posts April 2024 Monero/Seraphis dev update
jeffro2561 has posted a second progress report (M2/April 2024)2 for their Monero/Seraphis dev work CCS proposal3:
This month I spent a lot less time writing code, and a lot more time reviewing proposals and planning.
selsta’s May-July 2024 Monero dev work CCS proposal fully funded
selsta1’s CCS proposal2 to continue working part-time on Monero development for 3 more months, until the end of July 2024 is now fully funded:
18 contributors raised 159.1 XMR (100%+)
To learn more about selsta’s work, consult my previous report3.
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Monero Talk interviews J.W. Verret: ‘privacy is pro-national security’
In this Monero Talk episode1’2, Douglas Tuman3 interviews George Mason Univeristy 4 Associate Professor of Law J.W. Verret5:
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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 19 2024: 10 PRs, 5 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.
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monero-project/monero:
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MrCyjaneK posts first progress report for Unnamed Monero Wallet CCS proposal
MrCyjaneK1 has posted the first progress report2 for their Unnamed Monero Wallet 3 dev work CCS proposal4:
hello hello, this is episode S01E01 of general work update, here you can see more important things that happened over last week
hinto-janai releases Gupax v1.3.7
hinto-janai1 has released Gupax 2 version 1.3.73 with a bugfix for Windows:
Not starting on Windows if CPU does not support >= OpenGL 3.3 (thanks @Cyrix126 #78)4
The full changelog, sources, SHA256SUM and .asc files can be found on Github3 and on the gupax.io website5.
Consult hinto-janai’s CCS proposal6 to learn more about the project.
Cake Wallet adds support for Ledger
Cake Labs1 has released Cake Wallet v4.16.02 with support for Ledger3 hardware wallet (for BTC/ETH/Polygon), various fixes and enhancements:
Changes overviewCake Wallet is unveiling a groundbreaking feature… support for Ledger directly within Cake Wallet! We have initial support for BTC, ETH & Polygon & will continue pushing the limits of what’s possible in an open source, privacy-first wallet.
Hardware wallets ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/cake-wallet-4.16.0-adds-support-ledger-hardware-wallet/)Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 19, 2024
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the _
v1docq47 submits CCS proposal for 6 months of Russian voice-over and transcription work
Monero contributor and XMR.ru1 mod v1docq472 has submitted a new CCS proposal3 looking to continue doing Russian voice-over work and transcribing Monero content for the next 6 months (June - November 2024):
This is our next CCS proposal for the new winter period for voiceover of Monerotopia 2023 and Konferenco 2023 videos into Russian, creating othe … ⌘ Read more
Haveno v1.0.3 released with improved trade protocol ‘resilience’
woodser1 has released Haveno2 version 1.0.33 with improved resilience of the trade protocol and various optimizations, updates, and fixes.
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Further optimizations based on congestion testing.
Arbitrator assigns trade fee address.
Improve resilience of trade protocol:
Reattempt wallet operations on failure.
Refactor error handling and wallet deletion.
Reset ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/haveno-v1.0.3-released-improved-trade-protocol-resilience/)```
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Monero remote nodes overloaded due to ‘dozens of large 150-input transactions’
Public Monero remote nodes1 were apparently overloaded today2 after someone started broadcasting dozens of large 150-input transactions 3, which were spotted by Rucknium4 (probably around blocks 3144650-31447005):
About an hour ago someone broadcasted dozens of large 150-input transactions. The txpool has many transactions waiting to be confirmed. In … ⌘ Read more
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Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 14 May 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, May 14 2024 at 18:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #cuprate channels.
Agenda overviewCuprate is an effort to create an alternative Monero node implementation.
Greetings
Updates: What is everyone working on?
Project: What is next for Cuprate?
Any other business
The meeting’s moderator should be boog9003. Consult the Cuprate code repository
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Kraken to discontinue XMR support in Germany on July 10 2024
Kraken1 has announced plans2 to discontinue support for Monero and other crypto assets, for clients in Germany, on July 10 2024:
Kraken powered by DLT Finance will support a slightly reduced set of assets and Opt-in Rewards services.
Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 15 May 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, May 15h 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.
- Updates. What is everyone working on?
- Potential measures against a black marble attack3
- Research Pre-Seraphis Full-Chain Membership Proofs4
This meeting’s chairperson should be Rucknium5. The … ⌘ Read more
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk to shut down on November 7 2024 due to ‘internal and external factors’
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk1 - the top P2P Monero trading platform - has announced plans2 to shut down on November 7 2024 due to a combination of internal and external factors, after almost 7 years of operation:
ofrnxmr submits CCS proposal to ‘empower and steward BasicSwapDex to production quality software’
ofrnxmr1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 looking to empower and steward BasicSwapDex3 to production quality software within 1 year:
BasicSwapDex has been mainnet for a while now, but is a beta / POC.
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Seraphis Wallet Workgroup meeting scheduled for 13 May 2024 1800 UTC
The next Seraphis Wallet Workgroup 1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, May 13 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the IRC/Libera #no-wallet-left-behind 2 channel and the bridged Matrix room3.
Consult the project’s wiki4 page to learn more about Seraphis, Jamtis, and wallet3.
Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.
_This is an ongoing story and the report … ⌘ Read more
hinto-janai submits CCS proposal to continue working full-time on ‘Cuprate’ for 3 months
hinto-janaiyo1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 looking to continue full-time development work on Cuprate 3 for 3 more months:
Cuprate is an alternative Monero node implementation, currently worked on by me and Boog900. The next large section that needs work is the RPC server.
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selsta’s Monero dev work CCS proposal ready for funding
selsta1’s CCS proposal2 to continue working part-time on Monero development for 3 more months (until the end of July 2024) is ready for funding:
Funding needed: 159 XMR
To support this proposal, you can donate any XMR amount to the address listed on its Gitlab Funding Required 3 page.
To learn more about the project, consult the previous Monero Observer report4.
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Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 11 May 2024 1500 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 11th of May 2024 at 15:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 2’3 channels.
Discussions should be focused on community highlights, CCS updates and workgroup reports for Matrix and IRC channels. plowsof4 will moderate the meeting.
Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.
_This is an on … ⌘ Read more
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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 18 2024: 6 PRs, 7 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.
Opened (5)
monero-project/monero:
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Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 18, 2024
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the _