Almost everything that happened in the Monero community in May 2023.

Here’s a recap of what happened this May in the Monero community: Breaking

  • tevador released a security advisory for a ‘medium severity’ vulnerability in Monero wallets that can be exploited by malicious remote nodes (1)

  • jeffro256 posted a vulnerability disclosure highlighting a ‘high severity’ bug that was patched in Monero v0.18.2.2 (2)

  • KuCoin temporarily suspended XMR deposits and withdrawals due to ‘node maintenance’ (3)

  • Binance was getting ready to delist XMR in France, Italy, Poland and Spain due to ‘local regulatory requirements’ (4)

R&D

  • There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in May (5,6,7,8,9)

  • The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 3 meetings (10,11,12)

  • The ETH-XMR atomic swap beta release v0.2.1 was deployed on mainnet (13)

  • The Nym team announced a new mixnet integration with the Monero network (14)

  • selsta posted a Monero dev report for April 2023, finalizing their CCS proposal (15)

  • SChernykh released P2Pool v3.4 with several bug fixes and improvements (16)

  • m2049r released Monerujo v3.1.3 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ & v3.2.0 ‘Decoy Selection’ (17,18)

  • LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.1.1-1.1.4 were released with several bug fixes and improvements (19,20,21)

  • Cake Labs announced the first Cake Wallet beta release for Linux and ‘Cake 2FA’, a new security feature (22,23)

  • Haveno versions 0.0.5 & 0.0.6 were released with binary installers for live test network and support for gold and silver (24,25)

  • hinto-janai released Gupax v1.2.2 with fixes, UI improvements and remote node changes (26)

  • rehrar released Stack Wallet versions 1.7.7-1.7.11 with support for Trocador.app and various fixes and updates (27,28,29,30)

  • lukeprofits released ‘Monero Subscriptions Wallet’, as promised (31,32)

  • keef1337 released noderowallet v1.1.0-1.1.2 (33)

  • pokkst released Mysu Wallet v0.4.3 with ‘high priority’ fixes (34)

  • tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.4.9 with security fixes (35)

  • ANON v0.4.1 updated to Monero 0.18.2.2 (36)

Funding

  • selsta submitted a new CCS proposal for 3 more months of part-time Monero dev work, which was fully funded (37,38)

  • valldrac submitted a CCS proposal to develop a Monero Wallet SDK for Android (39)

  • jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 4 months of full-time Monero dev work (40)

  • VostoEmisio submitted a CCS proposal to create an animated video explaining Monero’s Tail Emission (41)

  • john_r365 proposed a bounty for the review of a Trezor PR to the core Monero codebase (42)

  • plowsof will continue working as CCS coordinator for 3 months after their proposal was fully funded (43)

  • Justin Berman completed his latest Monero dev work CCS proposal (44)

  • CryptoGrampy completed his HotShop CCS proposal (45)

  • Lovera posted a CCS progress report for April 2023 (46)

  • moneromooo-monero was planning to work on Townforge after completing 520 hours of Monero dev work (47)

Culture

  • There were 4 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in May (48,49,50,51)

  • A Community Workgroup Meeting took place on the 27th (52)

  • Monero Magazine interviewed ‘Katie The Russian’, Juraj Bednar, Nam Sardar and ‘Mano Crypto’ (53,54,55,56)

  • Monero Talk interviewed crypto-anarchist Pavol Luptak (57)

  • rbrunner7 published a new Monero-themed fictional short story titled ‘RingCT’ (58)

  • rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #169-172 (59,60,61,62)

  • LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #52-55 (63,64,65,66)

  • Ledger came under fire for its controversial ‘Ledger Recover’ firmware update (67)

Community Messages (10/51)

  • [AFH] Foreign Language Teacher: Spanish and Portuguese (by pedrosfreitas) (68)

  • [ANN] Rucknium Monerotopia 2023 Presentation (by Rucknium) (69)

  • [ANN] Results after 4 months of mining (Jan - Apr 2023) (by SeaFailure) (70)

  • [ANN] Os Moneristas - Brazilian community project (by OsMoneristas) (71)

  • [ANN] The next nautilus update will remove support for monero (by fossephate) (72)

  • [LTH] C++ developer to enchant a project (by Nico) (73)

  • [WTB] [~45 XMR] NLJD (Non-linear Junction Detector) & [1-2.25 XMR] IR Thermal Camera (by freQniK) (74)

  • [WTB] [US] 1/10oz Gold Coin with crypto (BTC/XMR) (by ValleyEliminator) (75)

  • [WTS] [~180€ XMR/BTC] OLED PS Vita with Minecraft (by derBehr98) (76)

  • [WTS] [35 USD] Schmidt Hammer (by burntbooks) (77)

[escapethe3RA’s] personal contributions

Daily

  • published 75 Monero Observer Reports (78) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (79))

  •  updated Changelog (80) and XMR Stats (81)

As needed/On demand

  • updated reports, listed 51 Community Messages and 14 Calendar events (82,83) & added 5 new Resources (84)

  • published Meeting summary: Monero Research Lab, 3 May 2023 (85) and uploaded 13 meeting logs (MRL 2023-05-03, MRL 2023-05-10, MRL 2023-05-17, MRL 2023-05-24, MRL 2023-05-31, Community 2023-05-27, MoneroKon23 2023-05-06, Monerokon23 2023-05-13, Monerokon23 2023-05-20, Monerokon23 2023-05-27, Seraphis 2023-05-15, Seraphis 2023-05-22, Seraphis 2023-05-29) (86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98)

Weekly

  • published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 18-21, 2023) (99,100,101,102)

  • published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 18-21, 2023) (102,103,104,105)

Monthly

  • published MO Blitz Report: #21 (April 2023) (106)

Credits/special thanks to:

  • everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports

  • the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages

  • gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art and plowsof for the consistent pings

  • all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors

  • hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community