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OSPEAD - Optimal Ring Signature Research
New research funded by the Monero community provides a method of optimal defense against statistical analysis of ring signatures. However, the research also suggests greater privacy risks in the current Monero protocol.
Gönderen Rucknium | 5 April 2025
Privacy Advocates and Hackers to Gather for Annual Monero Conference & Hackathon in Prague
MoneroKon is to take place at Paralelní Polis, Prague from 7th to 9th June 2024. The conference & hackathon is dedicated to Security, Privacy, & Decentralization.
Gönderen ajs | 23 May 2024
Full-Chain Membership Proofs Development
A CCS to develop Full-Chain Membership Proofs has been successfully funded.
Gönderen Luke "Kayaba" Parker | 27 April 2024
Post-Mortem of 10-Block-Old Decoy Selection Bug
Emprical analysis of the high severity vulnerability within the reference wallet. Updating to the latest version is strongly advised.
Gönderen jeffro256 | 8 June 2023
Developer Opportunities at the Monero Project
Join the Monero dev community to implement the two brand-new technologies Seraphis and Jamtis
Gönderen René Brunner (rbrunner7) | 2 February 2023
Monero will undergo a network upgrade on 13th August, 2022
Announcement of the upcoming network upgrade (13th August, 2022)
Gönderen sethforprivacy | 20 April 2022
This Year in Monero - 2022
A snapshot of statistics and social media posts to highlight Monero's growth in its 8th year.
Gönderen reemuru | 18 April 2022
What is Seraphis, and Why Should You Care?
Seraphis is a next-generation transaction protocol abstraction, and a candidate for Monero's next tx protocol.
Gönderen koe | 22 December 2021
Monero P2Pool is now live
P2Pool decentralized pool for Monero mining is live on the mainnet
Gönderen QuickBASIC | 5 October 2021
Post-Mortem of Decoy Selection Bugs
Patched in official wallet, update highly recommended
Gönderen Justin Berman (j-berman) | 20 September 2021
Bitcoin <-> Monero atomic swaps are now live
COMIT's tool to swap BTC <-> XMR is live on Mainnet.
Gönderen ErCiccione | 20 August 2021
General Fund 2020/2021 report
Report from the Core Team about the usage of the General Fund for the years 2020 and 2021
Gönderen binaryFate (Core Team) | 24 June 2021
This Year in Monero - 2021
A snapshot of statistics and social media posts to highlight Monero's growth in it's 7th year.
Gönderen sethforprivacy | 24 April 2021
Getmonero.org is now available in Norwegian
Getmonero has been translated into Norwegian and is now available in 14 languages
Gönderen ErCiccione | 2 April 2021
Bulletproofs+ in Monero
Bulletproofs+ code is completed and ready for a security audit
Gönderen Sarang Noether, Ph.D. | 24 December 2020
A note on scheduled protocol upgrades
Elaboration of the reduction in frequency of scheduled protocol upgrades.
Gönderen dEBRUYNE, Justin Ehrenhofer, and community members | 1 September 2020
Triptych accepted for publication
Triptych, a zero-knowledge proving system for confidential transactions, is reviewed and accepted for publication
Gönderen Sarang Noether, Ph.D. | 22 August 2020
Monero will experience a network upgrade on 17th October 2020
Announcement of the upcoming network upgrade (17th October)
Gönderen ErCiccione | 18 August 2020
CLSAG audit results
Results of an external security audit of the CLSAG signature construction
Gönderen Sarang Noether, Ph.D. | 31 July 2020
General Fund Transparency Report (2019 - June 2020)
A report on the usage of XMR in the General Fund managed by the Core Team. Covers the years 2019 and the first half of 2020.
Gönderen binaryFate | 30 June 2020
Another privacy-enhancing technology added to Monero: Dandelion++
Dandelion++ has been integrated and will be available in the next release
Gönderen ErCiccione | 18 April 2020
Migration of the monero-site repository from Gitlab to GitHub
The repository of getmonero.org was migrated to GitHub
Gönderen ErCiccione | 13 April 2020
About supply auditability
Information on supply auditing and how it relates to assumptions and tradeoffs
Gönderen Sarang Noether, Ph.D.; Justin Ehrenhofer | 17 January 2020
An update from the Core Team on some technical responsibilities
Update on who is responsible for certain part of development, release and infrastructure
Gönderen The Core Team | 16 December 2019
The Funds Travel Rule and Monero
Monero as a platform does not interfere with the Funds Travel Rule regulatory requirements
Gönderen Monero Compliance Workgroup | 5 December 2019
A message from the Core Team about the General Fund
On General Fund and related matters, from the core team
Gönderen The Core Team | 3 December 2019
Network upgrade and release 0.15
Tentative schedule for network upgrade and release 0.15
Gönderen dEBRUYNE / ErCiccione | 1 October 2019
Long Payment ID Deprecation
Announcement of the deprecation of long payment IDs
Gönderen dEBRUYNE / Fluffypony | 4 June 2019
Monero Adds Blockchain Pruning and Improves Transaction Efficiency
Monero adds pruning and reduces range proof verification time with forthcoming upgrade
Gönderen Justin Ehrenhofer | 1 February 2019
Introducing the Monero Malware Response Workgroup Website
Gönderen Justin Ehrenhofer | 26 September 2018
Introducing the Monero Malware Response Workgroup Website
Gönderen Justin Ehrenhofer | 26 September 2018
Response to "An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain", Version 2
A response to Malte Möser, et al.
Gönderen Justin Ehrenhofer (SamsungGalaxyPlayer, sgp) | 29 March 2018
A Scheduled Network Upgrade is Planned for April 6
A scheduled network upgrade is planned for April 6. To be sufficiently prepared, please run CLI v0.12.0.0 or GUI v0.12.0.0
Gönderen dEBRUYNE / fluffypony | 28 March 2018
Core Team Announcement
Small elaboration on the Core Team's role and an announcement on its membership
Gönderen The Core Team | 1 March 2018
PoW change and key reuse
Monero will tweak Cryptonight, and how key reuse can compromise your privacy
Gönderen dEBRYUNE, dnaleor and the Monero project | 11 February 2018
Workgroups and Resources
A brief overview of workgroups in Monero and the resources that are provided for them to succeed.
Gönderen rehrar | 13 November 2017
A Scheduled Protocol Upgrade is Planned for September 15
To be sufficiently prepared, please run CLI v0.11.0.0 or GUI v0.11.0.0
Gönderen dEBRUYNE / fluffypony | 13 September 2017
Overview and Logs for the Community Workgroup Meeting Held on 2017-06-18
The very first community workgroup meeting
Gönderen Justin Ehrenhofer (sgp_) / afighttilldeath / el00ruobuob | 18 June 2017
An Unofficial Response to "An Empirical Analysis of Linkability in the Monero Blockchain"
A community-drafted response to Andrew Miller, et al.
Gönderen Justin Ehrenhofer (SamsungGalaxyPlayer) and the Monero community | 19 April 2017
Announcing the Monero Celebrity Center
Providing rapid assistance to the heaviest of Monero's users!
Gönderen Monero Core Team | 1 April 2017
A Statement on the MWR Labs Disclosure
Clarifying some misconceptions and statements
Gönderen Riccardo Spagni (fluffypony) | 21 September 2016