The Monero Standard #24: 12 October 2022 - 19 October 2022

Table of Contents

• Recent News
• Price and Blockchain Statistics
• Facts or Guides
• Merchants
• Notable Projects
• Funding
• Meme of the Week
• Study Time
• Donation and Contact

Recent News

• ANONERO releases a "black-box" Android wallet for Monero in alpha. Roadmap includes a default tor + proxy setting, no third-party services, no reuse of subaddresses, encrypted backups, offline mode, and more. Release
• Ora_pro_vivis previews a POS merchant client written in Electron and MoneroJS for processing Monero payments in person, including exporting sales, printing reciepts, and using local/remote nodes. Announcement
• The next Monero Research Lab meeting has been schedules for October 26, 2022 at 1700 UTC, taking place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #monero-research-lab channel. The unconfirmed agenda includes discussion about improvements to the decoy selection algorithm, advancements on Seraphis, and more.
• Monero will get more Russian voice-over and transcription support thanks to v1docq47's CCS proposal being fully funded. Roadmap
• Stack Wallet beta 1.5.7 has been released, including bug fixes and new features. Release
• Ethereum has failed. New blocks are now becoming OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) compliant and being censored by MEV relays. In the last seven days, 51% of (post-merge) Ethereum blocks were OFAC compliant, according to Mevwatch. Article

Price and Blockchain Statistics

Price Chart

Hashrate Distribution

Facts or Guides

• Since the network upgrade to a minimum of seven ring signatures, the amount of partially or fully-traced transactions has been nearly zero for over three years.
• The in-development Seraphis upgrade would allow for a 64+ ring size from the current 11, and improve key structures for view-only wallets, multisig, and more.
• The Monero Research Lab has been working on new decoy selection algorithms that would drastically improve the privacy of Monero transactions.

Merchants

For lists of merchants and businesses related to Monero, consider Monerica, official website's 'merchants' page and prior issues of this magazine.

Notable Projects

Haveno.exchange is an in-development noncustodial and decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies built on Tor and Monero. It also does not use any Javascript. It is planned to be ready by the end of 2022, and has major support from CCS. Website

Funding

CCS

Ideas:

• hinto - Gupax: GUI for P2Pool+XMRig
• plowsof - CCS Coordinator (6 months)
• mrcjanek - Develop selfhostable monero payment processor
• forgotsudo - Forgotsudo monero marketplace
• johnfoss67 - The-Monero-Moon-CCS-Proposal-August2022-John-Foss
• hinto - [monero-bash v2.0.0]

Funding Required:

• v1docq47 - monerokon and monerotopia voiceover and working on xmr.ru (42.8/42.8 XMR)
• Monero Garden (72.21/71 XMR)

Meme of the Week

What can they do?

Study Time

A basic explanation of how Ring Signatures work, and their (theoretical) limitations.

Donation and Contact

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Contact Me

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