Issue 238: May 11 - 18, 2025
Table of Contents:
Recent News
P2Pool developer and long-standing Monero contributor sech1 posted a new Public Service Announcement on P2Pool donations and development of the mining software moving forward. Reddit thread. TL;DR if you aren’t already merge mining Tari with v4.6 onwards, P2Pool will merge mine Tari and profits will fund P2Pool development and maintenance.
Gupaxx v1.10.0, updating to P2Pool v4.5 and enabling support for brand-new P2Pool Nano sidechain. Reddit thread. Note: Expect a new release soon, upgrading to P2Pool v4.6.
P2Pool v4.6 including the necessary changes for the donation and development PSA posted on Reddit; Tari merge mining support; and QoL fixes and improvements.
Cake v4.28.0 and Monero.com v4.28.0 [Beta] released with Bitcoin payjoin support; Monero enhancements; and QoL UI fixes, improvements. How to join the testers group.
The Monero network’s total hashrate broke a new all-time-high reaching 5.03 GH/s yesterday, May 17th, 2025. You can see it for yourself by zooming into the last few weeks on Revuo Moneroj’s chart. This may be partially justified with recent Tari mainnet launch, since they are merge mining XMR along the way.
Very impressive RetoSwap milestones reached and new things in place for everyone: no trading fees until end of year; exploding volume metrics; mobile application; and bi-weekly giveaways. Reddit thread.
Monero Talk chatted with technical analyst NorthstarCharts, to talk about gold; Bitcoin; and Monero; much more. Peep it: Video; Audio.
Upcoming Events
May 19, 2025 (Monday) - 18:00 UTC
Monero Tech Meeting - #no-wallet-left-behind IRC channel; Matrix room.
May 21, 2025 (Wednesday) - 18:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel; Matrix room.
May 24, 2025 (Saturday) - 17:00 UTC
MoneroKon 5 Meeting - #monerokon IRC channel; Matrix room.
CCS Proposal Ideas
Below you can find some CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.
Haveno App (Cross Platform) by NorrinRadd.
CCS Proposals Need Funding
BTCPay Server Monero Plugin by Deverickapollo & Napoly.
Raised 43.4 of 273 XMR (15%)
Monero Browser Wallet by Spirobel.
Raised 37.73 of 335 XMR (11%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 3414588
Hash rate: 5.39 GH/s
Average txs. per block: 41.85
Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: 23099
Block reward: 0.6 XMR
Data taken on May 18, 2025.
XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks
Price & Performance
XMR Market Cap: $6,288,521,590.
Street Price: $397.71.
Monero (XMR) Price
| 05/18/25 | Week | Month | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $340.75 | +1.07% | +56.29% | +150.74% |
| EUR | €305.27 | +1.87% | +59.24% | +144.39% |
| BTC | ₿0.003239 | -0.11% | +25.47% | +59.56% |
Data taken on May 18, 2025.
XMR Price Graph
Sources: miningpoolstats.stream; bitinfocharts.com; coingecko.com; localmonero.co blocks; haveno.markets.
Volunteer Opportunities
If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren't sure how, check out some volunteer opportunities.Anyone with moderate technical ability is encouraged to try to build and run Monero nightlies. Do not trust it with your Monero, but feel free to open an Issue on GitHub as problems arise. Instructions to build on your OS of choice can be found here.
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