Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 51 2024: 13 PRs, 11 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 (11)
monero-project/monero:
[ANN] Brave Wallet poll: ‘Should Monero be integrated?’ - Go vote!
Link: https://farside.link/nitter/lukemulks/status/1870239086231044598
u/Unimamo (Reddit) ⌘ Read more
Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 51, 2024
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.
tobtoht submits CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Feather Wallet and Monero core dev work
tobtoht1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 to continue full-time dev work on Feather Wallet 3 and Monero core codebase4 for the next 3 months:
I want to start off the year by clearing out a good chunk of the small-to-medium size issue/feature backlog for Feather. At the same time, making sure pending build system PRs5 for Mon … ⌘ Read more
Gate.io drops Monero ETF markets, plans to delist XMRUSDT perpetual contract on December 26 2024
Crypto CEX Gate.io 1 has announced plans2 to delist the XMRUSDT 3 perpetual contract from their platform on December 26 2024 at 8:00 UTC, after silently closing leveraged Monero ETF markets ( XMR3L and XMR3S 4) earlier today:
Gate.io will cease trading of the leveraged tokens XMR3L and XMR3S on December 20, 2024, at 10:00 UTC. [..] **Gate.io … ⌘ Read more
Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 21 December 2024 1600 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 21st of December 2024 at 16:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 2’3 channels.
Discussions should be focused on community highlights, CCS updates and workgroup reports. plowsof4 will moderate the meeting.
Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.
_This is an ongoing story a … ⌘ Read more
Enhance build security and reach SLSA Level 3 with GitHub Artifact Attestations
Learn how GitHub Artifact Attestations can enhance your build security and help your organization achieve SLSA Level 3. This post breaks down the basics of SLSA, explains the importance of artifact attestations, and provides a step-by-step guide to securing your build process.
The post [Enhance build security and reach SLSA Level 3 with GitHub Artifact Attest … ⌘ Read more
[ANN] PiNodeXMR v6.24.12 update available - (Ban Lists)
Hi all, here at PiNodeXMR we’ve been following along with the MRL ban list discussion and have re-added the function to pull-in a ban list of IPs. In the name of decentralisation/anti-censorship, the ban lists are optional for PiNodeXMR users. You can find the new options in your terminal setup menu under “Extra Network tools”.
Links:
Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 7 January 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, January 7 2025 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 rep … ⌘ Read more
Haveno adds support for buying XMR without security deposit
woodser1 has released Haveno2 version 1.0.153 with support for buying Monero (initial purchases XMR) without security deposits4, which greatly simplifies the onboarding process for new traders:
Support buying XMR without deposit using passphrase
Increase limits: crypto to 528, very low risk to 132, pay by mail to 48
Support USDC
Show available Moner ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/haveno-v1.0.15-released-support-buying-monero-without-security-deposit/)[LTH] [Bounty] [10 XMR] Apple Developer ID certificate and notarization for Feather Wallet
To continue supporting macOS, Feather Wallet is looking for an organization or individual to provide us with the ability to code-sign and notarize the application. We are not looking to publish Feather Wallet on the App Store - We will only distribute verifiably reproducible releases
Links:
… ⌘ Read more
‘The Monero Moon’ newsletter makes comeback with Issue #75 after short hiatus
John Foss1 has published Issue #752 of The Monero Moon curated weekly newsletter after a ~3.5 month hiatus:
After a few months’ hiatus due to life commitments ( wedding bells), we’re back! Explore this week’s edition for an update on all the latest Monero (XMR) news, developments, and entertainment!
The publication includes news about:
- Development, Releases, and Technology
- General News
- Eve … ⌘ Read more
Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:11:27 average pace, 00:35:33 duration
Cake Wallet adds ‘full support’ for XMR hardware wallets via Ledger
Cake Labs1 has released Cake Wallet v4.22.02 with full support for Monero hardware wallets via Ledger3 (Flex, Stax, and Nano X) on Android and iOS:
This release of Cake Wallet includes full Monero hardware wallet support via Ledger, including USB + Bluetooth on Android and Bluetooth on iOS. It also contains a bevy of bug fixes and quality of life improvements, including proper seed … ⌘ Read more
Beta 1 of iOS 18.3, MacOS Sequoia 15.3, iPadOS 18.3, Released for Testing
Apple has released the first beta versions of iOS 18.3, MacOS Sequoia 15.3, and iPadOS 18.3, for users enrolled in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. The upcoming updates are now in beta testing, and are expected to focus on bug fixes and security enhancements as usual. Some new features are likely to … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/12/17/beta-1-of-ios-18-3-macos- … ⌘ Read more
Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 24 December 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, December 24 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 co … ⌘ Read more
Cake Wallet partners with Foundation to develop ‘first 3rd-party app’ for Passport Prime
Cake Wallet1 has announced2 a new partnership with Foundation3 to develop the first 3rd-party app for their recently launched hardware wallet device Passport Prime 4:
Keeping crypto safe can be simple (and sexy!) [..] This means best in-class, open source Monero cold storage in 2025. We’ll also support Prime in Cake Wallet.
Cake is also w … ⌘ Read more
3 Anti-White Discrimination Lawsuits Pending Against IBM & Red Hat
One year after the explosive IBM & Red Hat leaks, we look at each lawsuit… ⌘ Read more
anon1337 proposes bounty for haveno-ts Dart port
anon13371 has proposed a bounty2 for porting the Haveno TypeScript Library 3 to Dart:
Total Bounty: 0 XMR (to date)
No specific details (requirements/deliverables) were provided for this bounty.
To start working on the task yourself, you should make your intentions public by posting a comment in the bounty’s thread.
To increase the bounty you can transfer some XMR to the address posted by the … ⌘ Read more
Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 15 2024: 11 PRs, 15 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 (6)
monero-project/monero:
Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 50, 2024
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.
Cyrix126 releases Gupaxx v1.5.4
Cyrix1261 has released Gupaxx 2 version 1.5.43 with lots of UI improvements and various bugfixes:
[UI] Use fixed size of fonts, do not resize them
[UI] Rework Top/Bottom bar
[UI] Rework widgets/fonts
[UI] Status: human friendly display of hashrate with right metrics
[Internal] Bundle: bump version of XMRig to 6.22.2
[Internal] deprecate support for mac os 12
[Docs] improve grammar and syntax of various doc files
[Fix] when n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/cyrix126-releases-gupaxx-v1.5.4/)MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 28 December 2024 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, December 28th 2024 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.
The meeting’s discussion topics should be available on agenda.monerokon.org 3.
Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer4.
_Note that the upcoming event will take place in Prague on June 20-22 20 … ⌘ Read more
M5PaperS3: A 4.7″ E-Ink Display with Touch Support Based on ESP32-S3
The M5PaperS3 is a low-power e-ink development kit built around the ESP32-S3 microcontroller. This lightweight device features a 3.7V 1800mAh LiPo battery and a MicroSD card slot, designed for use in applications such as IoT monitoring, smart home systems, electronic labeling, and data logging. The device incorporates the ESP32-S3R8 chip, offering 8MB of PSRAM, paired […] ⌘ Read more
rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23221”>#221**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2212’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers December 5-12 2024 news:
Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support
To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.
Rucknium discovers critical privacy vulnerability in Wownero’s decoy selection algorithm
MRL1’s Rucknium2 has discovered3 a critical privacy vulnerability in Wownero4’s decoy selection algorithm after performing a simple empirical analysis of the blockchain data.
It apparently affects the current version (0.11.2.0)5 of wownero-wallet-cli, wownero-wallet-rpc and _the majority of non-mining transactions confirmed o … ⌘ Read more
0xFFFC submits CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work
0xFFFC1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 to continue working full-time on Monero development for 3 more months (480 hours in total):
The bulk of my focus will be on opportunities related to performance improvement. To find out performance improvement opportunities a performance test suite is necessary for the Monero project. [..] A special thanks to all community members who are always available to help me wi … ⌘ Read more
[ANN] Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography
Link: https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/131
@syntheticbird:monero.social (Matrix) ⌘ Read more
v1docq47’s December-May 2025 CCS proposal ready for funding
v1docq471’s CCS proposal2 for 6 more months (December 2024 - May 2025) of Russian voice-over and Monero content transcription work is now ready for funding:
Funding needed: 45.6 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 … ⌘ Read more
j-berman completes CCS proposal after 483 hours of Monero and Seraphis dev work
j-berman1 has published a third and final progress report2 for his full-time 2024 ( part 8) Monero (FCMPs++ integration) and Seraphis wallet library dev work CCS proposal3:
Work overviewUpdate 3: 483 hours [..] FCMP++ wallet tree sync (via building the tree locally) is set up and integrated into wallet2.
Completed the task to start sync from arbitrary restore height N
Did ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/j-berman-completes-monero-dev-work-2024-part-8-ccs/)Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 17 December 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, December 17 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 co … ⌘ Read more
6.12.4: stable
Version:6.12.4 (stable)Released:2024-12-09Source:linux-6.12.4.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.12.4.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.4 ⌘ Read more
FiatDemise submits CCS proposal to retroactively fund XMRChat project
FiatDemise1 has submitted their first CCS proposal2 apparently looking to retroactively fund the XMRChat 3 project, partly using unclaimed funds from the Tipxmr.live CCS4:
XMRChat is website that provides content creators with a service, allowing them a way to receive messages and tips in Monero. [..] The tipxmr.live CCS, created 4 years ago, has expired, unclaimed funds. We’d … ⌘ Read more
Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 49 2024: 5 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.
Opened (4)
monero-project/monero:
b4n6_b4n6 proposes bounties for Stack Wallet bug fixes
b4n6_b4n61 has proposed bounties2’3 for fixing two recently reported Stack Wallet4 issues5:
#1 Add checksum check for mnemonic seed
Total Bounty: 0.5 XMR (to date)
#2 Diagnose and fix linux crash
Total Bounty: 0.5 XMR (to date)
To start working on the tasks yourself, you should make your intentions public by posting a comment in the bounty threads.
To increase the bounties you can … ⌘ Read more
MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 14 December 2024 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, December 14th 2024 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.
The meeting’s discussion topics should be available on agenda.monerokon.org 3.
Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer4.
_Note that the upcoming event will take place in Prague on June 20-22 20 … ⌘ Read more
Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 49, 2024
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.
![‘Monero … ⌘ Read more
6.12.3: stable
Version:6.12.3 (stable)Released:2024-12-06Source:linux-6.12.3.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.12.3.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.3 ⌘ Read more
rehrar releases Stack Wallet v2.1.9, Stack Duo v1.2.4
rehrar1 has released Stack Wallet2 version 2.1.93 and Stack Duo version 1.2.44 with various fixes and improvements.
Stack Wallet:
* Show Monero/Wownero tx private key option
* Fix Frost error
* Stack Wallet Backup fixes
Stack Duo:
* Added Monero churn options
* Paynym temporarily disabled while kinks worked out [..]
The release notes, binaries, and the SHA256 hashes can … ⌘ Read more
Kewbit posts second ‘Haveno App’ CCS progress report amidst growing criticism
Kewbit1 has posted a second progress report2 for their CCS proposal to continue development work on the Haveno App 3 project amidst growing criticism4 from the Monero community over various inconsistencies:
I am pleased to confirm that we have reached Milestone 2 (pending further testing) of the Haveno App enhancement project. [..] I respectfully request a 50 … ⌘ Read more
Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 7 December 2024 1600 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 7th of December 2024 at 16:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 2’3 channels.
Discussions should be focused on community highlights, CCS updates and workgroup reports. plowsof4 will moderate the meeting.
Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.
_This is an ongoing story and … ⌘ Read more
rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23220”>#220**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2202’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers November 28-5 December 2024 news:
Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support
To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.
SNeedlewoods completes first part-time Monero dev work CCS
SNeedlewoods1 has posted a Monero dev update2 after working part-time on Monero development for 1 month (~65 hours) during their first CCS proposal3:
Thanks for all the support from CCS coordinators, upvoters, donors and dev colleagues. It’s an honor to be able to work with you. [..] Will continue to work on the wallet API and will try to solve review comments ASAP, but since I’ll go take some days off … ⌘ Read more
[ANN] RandomX 5 Year Anniversary
Yes, it’s been 5 years on the same PoW. And the date came and went without much fanfare. For those perhaps trickling into monero because of the pRiCe, you may not be aware of how much of a milestone this is in the context of an industry that is ruthless when it comes to exploiting weak PoW algorithms for profit.
Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/comments/1h6e4nk/
gingeropolous (Reddit) ⌘ 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.