Issue 235: April 6 - 28, 2025
Table of Contents:
Recent News
FCMP++ Optimization Competition is live! Find rules; prizes; and more on getmonero.org. Guess what? They start accepting submissions… today, April 28th, through June 30th. Spread the word, turn in your submission.
Monfluo v0.7.0 with stability improvements; tap-to-hide balance (A.K.A. street mode); new logo; sync status and txs. status notifications; and more. F-Droid repository.
Reddit user atsamd21 teased a Work-In-Progress Haveno (Android) mobile application. Reddit thread; GitHub repository.
RetoSwap v1.1.1 with user experience enhancements; bug fixes; and more.
Stack Wallet v2.1.11.
Reddit user Techtoshi shared a new web tool to create a valid OA1 TXT record for any given domain. Web tool; Reddit thread; GitHub repository.
Cake v4.27.0 and Monero.com v4.27.0 released with substantial background sync improvements; settings to have background sync feature work Wi-Fi only, charging only, among others; incoming and outgoing txs. status notifications; and more. How to join the testers group.
MAGIC Grants cryptocurrency scholarship applications are open! Undergraduate students are encouraged to apply by July 14, 2025. Details and how to apply here.
Monero Talk brought Seth For Privacy on to talk about Monero’s 11th birthday; a walk through recent Cake Wallet’s newly introduced features and improvements; FCMP++ schedule for mainnet; and more. Peep it: Video; Audio.
Upcoming Events
April 30, 2025 (Wednesday) - 18:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel; Matrix room.
May 3, 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.
Working at MoneroCN and Bilibili Video in the Q2 of 2025 by zhangyijia2022.
Haveno App (Cross Platform) by NorrinRadd.
CCS Proposals Need Funding
jeffro256 full-time development 2025Q2 by jeffro256.
Raised 0 of 117 XMR (0%)
Monero Browser Wallet by jeffro256.
Raised 0 of 335 XMR (0%)
BTCPay Server Monero Plugin by Deverickapollo & Napoly.
Raised 0.08 of 273 XMR (0%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 3400272
Hash rate: 4.63 GH/s
Average txs. per block: 38
Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: 35073
Block reward: 0.6 XMR
Data taken on April 28, 2025.
XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks
Price & Performance
XMR Market Cap: $4,667,134,627.
Street Price: $218.99.
Monero (XMR) Price
| 04/28/25 | Week | Month | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $253.49 | +17.81% | +18.65% | +97.93% |
| EUR | €222.10 | +18.84% | +13.06% | +85.53% |
| BTC | ₿0.002681 | +8.83% | +3.53% | +33.17% |
Data taken on April 28, 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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