Here’s a recap of what happened this May in the Monero community: Breaking

• tevador released a security advisory for a ‘medium severity’ vulnerability in Monero wallets that can be exploited by malicious remote nodes (1)
  

• jeffro256 posted a vulnerability disclosure highlighting a ‘high severity’ bug that was patched in Monero v0.18.2.2 (2)
  

• KuCoin temporarily suspended XMR deposits and withdrawals due to ‘node maintenance’ (3)
  

• Binance was getting ready to delist XMR in France, Italy, Poland and Spain due to ‘local regulatory requirements’ (4)
  

R&D

• There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in May (5,6,7,8,9)
  

• The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 3 meetings (10,11,12)
  

• The ETH-XMR atomic swap beta release v0.2.1 was deployed on mainnet (13)
  

• The Nym team announced a new mixnet integration with the Monero network (14)
  

• selsta posted a Monero dev report for April 2023, finalizing their CCS proposal (15)
  

• SChernykh released P2Pool v3.4 with several bug fixes and improvements (16)
  

• m2049r released Monerujo v3.1.3 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ & v3.2.0 ‘Decoy Selection’ (17,18)
  

• LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.1.1-1.1.4 were released with several bug fixes and improvements (19,20,21)
  

• Cake Labs announced the first Cake Wallet beta release for Linux and ‘Cake 2FA’, a new security feature (22,23)
  

• Haveno versions 0.0.5 & 0.0.6 were released with binary installers for live test network and support for gold and silver (24,25)
  

• hinto-janai released Gupax v1.2.2 with fixes, UI improvements and remote node changes (26)
  

• rehrar released Stack Wallet versions 1.7.7-1.7.11 with support for Trocador.app and various fixes and updates (27,28,29,30)
  

• lukeprofits released ‘Monero Subscriptions Wallet’, as promised (31,32)
  

• keef1337 released noderowallet v1.1.0-1.1.2 (33)
  

• pokkst released Mysu Wallet v0.4.3 with ‘high priority’ fixes (34)
  

• tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.4.9 with security fixes (35)
  

• ANON v0.4.1 updated to Monero 0.18.2.2 (36)
  

Funding

• selsta submitted a new CCS proposal for 3 more months of part-time Monero dev work, which was fully funded (37,38)
  

• valldrac submitted a CCS proposal to develop a Monero Wallet SDK for Android (39)
  

• jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 4 months of full-time Monero dev work (40)
  

• VostoEmisio submitted a CCS proposal to create an animated video explaining Monero’s Tail Emission (41)
  

• john_r365 proposed a bounty for the review of a Trezor PR to the core Monero codebase (42)
  

• plowsof will continue working as CCS coordinator for 3 months after their proposal was fully funded (43)
  

• Justin Berman completed his latest Monero dev work CCS proposal (44)
  

• CryptoGrampy completed his HotShop CCS proposal (45)
  

• Lovera posted a CCS progress report for April 2023 (46)
  

• moneromooo-monero was planning to work on Townforge after completing 520 hours of Monero dev work (47)
  

Culture

• There were 4 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in May (48,49,50,51)
  

• A Community Workgroup Meeting took place on the 27th (52)
  

• Monero Magazine interviewed ‘Katie The Russian’, Juraj Bednar, Nam Sardar and ‘Mano Crypto’ (53,54,55,56)
  

• Monero Talk interviewed crypto-anarchist Pavol Luptak (57)
  

• rbrunner7 published a new Monero-themed fictional short story titled ‘RingCT’ (58)
  

• rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #169-172 (59,60,61,62)
  

• LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #52-55 (63,64,65,66)
  

• Ledger came under fire for its controversial ‘Ledger Recover’ firmware update (67)
  

Community Messages (10/51)

• [AFH] Foreign Language Teacher: Spanish and Portuguese (by pedrosfreitas) (68)
  

• [ANN] Rucknium Monerotopia 2023 Presentation (by Rucknium) (69)
  

• [ANN] Results after 4 months of mining (Jan - Apr 2023) (by SeaFailure) (70)
  

• [ANN] Os Moneristas - Brazilian community project (by OsMoneristas) (71)
  

• [ANN] The next nautilus update will remove support for monero (by fossephate) (72)
  

• [LTH] C++ developer to enchant a project (by Nico) (73)
  

• [WTB] [~45 XMR] NLJD (Non-linear Junction Detector) & [1-2.25 XMR] IR Thermal Camera (by freQniK) (74)
  

• [WTB] [US] 1/10oz Gold Coin with crypto (BTC/XMR) (by ValleyEliminator) (75)
  

• [WTS] [~180€ XMR/BTC] OLED PS Vita with Minecraft (by derBehr98) (76)
  

• [WTS] [35 USD] Schmidt Hammer (by burntbooks) (77)
  

[escapethe3RA's] personal contributions

Daily

• published 75 Monero Observer Reports (78) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (79))
  

•  updated Changelog (80) and XMR Stats (81)
  

As needed/On demand

• updated reports, listed 51 Community Messages and 14 Calendar events (82,83) & added 5 new Resources (84)
  

• published Meeting summary: Monero Research Lab, 3 May 2023 (85) and uploaded 13 meeting logs (MRL 2023-05-03, MRL 2023-05-10, MRL 2023-05-17, MRL 2023-05-24, MRL 2023-05-31, Community 2023-05-27, MoneroKon23 2023-05-06, Monerokon23 2023-05-13, Monerokon23 2023-05-20, Monerokon23 2023-05-27, Seraphis 2023-05-15, Seraphis 2023-05-22, Seraphis 2023-05-29) (86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98)
  

Weekly

• published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 18-21, 2023) (99,100,101,102)
  

• published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 18-21, 2023) (102,103,104,105)
  

Monthly

• published MO Blitz Report: #21 (April 2023) (106)
  

Credits/special thanks to:

• everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
  

• the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
  

• gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art and plowsof for the consistent pings
  

• all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
  

• hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community