Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 26 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 26th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Maintainers for the research-lab GitHub repo3
  
• FROSTLASS4
  
• ‘Veridise Logarithmic Derivative Review’5
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code6
  
• Release o … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 19 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 19th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code3
  
• Release of OSPEAD HackerOne and CCS milestone submissions4
  
• Possible intermediate hard fork before FCMP hard fork
  
• Research on sub … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 12 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 12th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code3
  
• Release of OSPEAD HackerOne and CCS milestone submissions4
  
• Possible intermediate hard fork before FCMP hard fork
  
• Research on sub … ⌘ Read more

Monero Observer Blitz #39 - February 2025
Here’s a recap of what happened this February in the Monero community:

• binaryFate published a long overdue February 2025 Monero General Fund transparency report ( 1)
  
• Rucknium publicly released all OSPEAD-related documents and code after 3+ years of research ( 2)
  

• **There were four Monero Research Lab … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 5 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 5th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code3
  
• Release of OSPEAD HackerOne and CCS milestone submissions4
  
• Research on subnet deduplication for peer selection to reduce spy node ris … ⌘ Read more

Meeting summary: Monero Research Lab, 19 February 2025
This is a comprehensive summary, with added reference links, of the MRL meeting1 from February 19th 2025, 1700 UTC.

The raw, unedited, full log file for this meeting:

250219-mrl.log (168 lines)

Note: it is possible that some relevant information may be missing from this summary; read the full log file for the complete, unedited discussion.

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Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 26 February 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 26th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code3
  
• FCMP research progress status4
  
• Fluffy blocks efficiency improvements
  
• Research on subnet deduplication for peer selectio … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 19 February 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 19th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code3
  
• Research on subnet deduplication for peer selection to reduce spy node risk4
  
• AOB
  

This meeting’s chairperson should be Ru … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 12 February 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 12th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code
  
• Research on Autonomous System (AS) peer connection rules to reduce spy node risk3
  
• Reliability of MRL technical note 00104
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Monero Observer Blitz #38 - January 2025
Here’s a recap of what happened this January in the Monero community:

• There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in January ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  
• The Monero Tech workgroup held 4 meetings ( [6](/monero-tech-me … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 5 February 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 5th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code
  
• v17 hard fork consensus rules to reject nonzero unlock time, large tx_extra, and v1 unmixable sweep transactions3
  
• Research on Autonom … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 29 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code
  
• Some preliminary results from OSPEAD research into improved decoy selection algorithm3
  
• Research on Autonomous System (AS) peer connect … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 22 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Generalized Bulletproofs implementation audit3
  
• FCMP++ tx size and compute cost4
  
• Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography[5](#f … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 15 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 15th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography3
  
• AOB
  

This meeting’s chairperson should be Rucknium4. The … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 8 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 8th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography3
  

This meeting’s chairperson should be Rucknium4. The full dis … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 1 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 1st 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Discussion: preventing P2P proxy nodes3
  
• Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography4
  

This meeting’s cha … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MRL recommendation: Ban spy node IP addresses from connecting to your node

The Monero Research Lab (MRL) has decided to recommend that all Monero node operators enable a ban list of suspected spy node IP addresses. The spy nodes can reduce the privacy of Monero users. cuprate developer Boog900 discovered these spy nodes and created an IP address ban list. Developers and researchers associated with MRL (list names) have indicated their approval of this list by signing it with their PGP keys.

Links:

• [https://github.com/m … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] Community communication about the spy node ban list

The Monero Research Lab (MRL) has decided to recommend that all Monero node operators enable a ban list of suspected spy node IP addresses. The spy nodes can reduce the privacy of Monero users. cuprate developer Boog900 discovered these spy nodes and created an IP address ban list. Developers and researchers associated with MRL (list names) have indicated their approval of this list by signing it with their PGP keys.

Links:

• [https://gist.github.com/Rucknium/76edd249c3 … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 11 December 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, December 11th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Carrot audit3
  
• Proposed Cypher Stack review of “On the Use of Logarithmic Derivatives in Eagen’s Proof of Sums of Points”4
  
• Making transaction weigh … ⌘ Read more

Monero Observer Blitz #36 - November 2024
Here’s a recap of what happened this November in the Monero community:

• LocalMonero/AgoraDesk closed down on November 7th ( 1)
  
• The MoneroTopia 2024 conference took place in Mexico City on November 14-17 ( 2)
  

• There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in November ( 3, [4](/monero-research-lab-meet … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 4 December 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, December 4th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Carrot audit3
  
• Proposed Cypher Stack review of “On the Use of Logarithmic Derivatives in Eagen’s Proof of Sums of Points”4
  
• Making transaction weight a … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 27 November 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, November 27th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• FCMP++ tx size and compute cost and MAX_INPUTS/MAX_OUTPUTS3
  
• Making transaction weight a function of number of inputs, outputs, and tx_extra length instead … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 20 November 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, November 20th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• FCMP++ tx size and compute cost and MAX_INPUTS/MAX_OUTPUTS3
  
• Making transaction weight a function of number of inputs, outputs, and tx_extra length instead … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 13 November 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, November 13th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Monero Research Computing Server hardware needs
  
• FCMP++ tx size and compute cost and MAX_INPUTS/MAX_OUTPUTS3
  
• FCMP++ Optimization Competition4
  
• R … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 6 November 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, November 6th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Monero Research Computing Server hardware needs
  
• FCMP++ tx size and compute cost and MAX_INPUTS/MAX_OUTPUTS3
  
• FCMP++ Optimization Competition4
  
• Revi … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 30 October 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October 30th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Research Pre-Seraphis Full-Chain Membership Proofs3. Reviews for Carrot.4
  
• CCS proposal: Audit monero-serai and monero-wallet5
  
• Monero Researc … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 23 October 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October 23rd 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Research Pre-Seraphis Full-Chain Membership Proofs3. Reviews for Carrot.4
  
• CCS proposal: Audit monero-serai and monero-wallet5
  
• Monero Researc … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 16 October 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October 16th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Stress testing monerod3
  
• Research Pre-Seraphis Full-Chain Membership Proofs4. Reviews for Carrot.5
  
• AOB.
  

This meeting’s chairperson should be … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 9 October 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October 9th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Stress testing monerod3
  
• Research Pre-Seraphis Full-Chain Membership Proofs4. Reviews for Carrot.5
  
• 10 block lock discussion6
  

This meet … ⌘ Read more