Issue 246: August 17 - 26, 2025

Table of Contents:

Recent News

Monero 0.18.4.2 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ Point Release has been tagged. CLI; GUI. Binaries for both CLI and GUI should become available in the next few days. As well, you may compile Monero from source in the meantime.

Previous Monero Core Team member and XMR lead maintainer for its initial years, Riccardo ‘fluffypony’ Spagni created a new MRL issue going over Detective Mining PoW hardening proposal amidst all ongoing discussion post-Qubic “attack”. Have a read and chime in if you have anything to add here. Hat tip to @AJ_1337 on X. X thread.

Monero contributor known for his sci-fi XMR-centric stories, the ‘No Wallet Left Behind’ initiative for smooth wallet(s) migration from CLSAG addresses to FCMP++ feat CARROT addresses, rbrunner7, has a brand-new Reddit thread titled Everything you ever wanted to know about hashrates, or, what is all the fuss about 51%? Find it here.

Another day, another one bites the dust for Monero. In this case, it was Kraken and Canada, eh? Reddit thread. CoinCards X thread on the matter.

P2Pool v4.9.1, a small point release upgrading dependencies; and fixing a Tari-related bug.

Cake v5.3.0 and Monero.com v5.3.0 [Beta] released with DOGE support; silent payments improvements; and a bunch of UI/UX, QoL enhancements all over. How to join the testers group. Feedback? Right there in the forum; create a new thread, or leave a reply if someone has beaten you to it!

Gupaxx development goes “on-the-go” and Kuno! Peep the new, ongoing Kuno fundraiser to sustain Gupaxx maintenance and further development here. GitHub repository.

Our good friend from RIAT, parasew, put up a call in a Reddit thread to pile up all XMR FUD and help reach out to make corrections where necessary. Help if you can, every bit helps! GitHub repository.

Upcoming Events

August 26, 2025 (Tuesday) - 18:00 UTC

Cuprate Workgroup Meeting - #cuprate IRC channel; Matrix room.

August 27, 2025 (Wednesday) - 18:00 UTC

Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel; Matrix room.

August 30, 2025 (Saturday) - 17:00 UTC

MoneroKon 6 Meeting - #monerokon IRC channel; Matrix room.

CCS Proposal Ideas

Below you can find some CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.

Finality Layer Book by kayabaNerve.

Find more here. Posting comments in favor of, or against proposals is encouraged.

CCS Proposals Need Funding

Full-time 2025 q3 by vtnerd.

Raised 80.14 of 105.77 XMR (75%)

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 3486029

Hash rate: 4.93 GH/s

Average txs. per block: 32.37

Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: 25126

Block reward: 0.6 XMR

Data taken on August 26, 2025.

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $4,903,067,657.

Street Price: $302.94.

Monero (XMR) Price

08/26/25 Week Month Year
USD $265.76 -2.42% -18.18% +61.57%
EUR €228.30 -2.31% -17.43% +55.21%
BTC ₿0.002410 +1.60% -12.28% -5.98%

Data taken on August 26, 2025.

XMR Price Graph

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.

Test Monero Core Software

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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