Monero Konferenco 2025
who it's for
monero protocol developers, privacy researchers, network engineers, cryptographers, wallet developers, security auditors, compliance and legal strategists
topics
Nym Rust mixnet; spy node detection; FCMP tree root in block; optimal ring signatures; post-quantum ZK-STARK transactions; RandomX prefiltering; subnet deduplication; p2p eclipse attacks; Monero fee market FCMP++; Monero payment channels Grease; proxy leak detection for anonymity; mnemonic seed risk mitigation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How NymVPN works: A decentralized privacy-first VPN and mixnet | Harry Halpin | 43m |
Nym runs a Rust mixnet that adds fake traffic and uses per-packet routing so each packet takes independent paths, claiming better resistance to a global… | ||
| Defeating Spy Nodes on the Monero Network | Rucknium, Boog900, xenu | 25m |
Network scans find spy nodes on roughly 31% selection probability of candidate peers (1,843 spy IPs among ~4,67 reachable addresses), concentrated in a few /24… | ||
| Planned and speculative block changes in Monero | jeffro256 | 28m |
Monero plans to add an FCMP tree root in block so SPV wallets can verify curve-tree membership proofs without trusting a daemon; embedding the root prevents… | ||
| Monero After DAC8: Building Anonymous Off-Ramps | Martin Arness | 33m |
EU rules like DAC8/CARF force exchanges and platforms to report crypto holdings and link to chain‑analysis firms, which drives centralized off‑ramps for Monero… | ||
| Rings and trees: how to prove coin ownership | Aaron Feickert | 28m |
Compares three concrete ownership proofs: CLSAG (Monero today) uses linkable ring signatures with size and verification linear in ring size (e.g., a 16-member… | ||
| OSPEAD: Optimal Ring Signatures | Rucknium | 19m |
Claims that timing alone boosts correct real-spend guesses from 6.25% to 23.5% on 16-member rings, and that changing decoy selection cuts that to 7.6%. Uses… | ||
| The Value of P2P Networks | Robert Blinov | 27m |
Peer-to-peer systems reduce single points of failure and can bypass DNS censorship by ICANN but require adoption; Handshake and Namecoin offer blockchain TLDs… | ||
| Hooks & Loops | anhdres | 53m |
Argues Monero adoption needs more hooks and loops: actively post, invite, or create small tasks so newcomers earn value rather than receiving freebies — don't… | ||
| Post-Quantum Anonymous Transactions without Signatures | Alan Szepieniec | 30m |
Claims that funds are spendable without signature keys by replacing signatures with commitments plus an interactive opening protocol that becomes a… | ||
| FCMP Divisors: The Inside Scoop | Luke Szramowski | 30m |
Cypher Stack researchers identify that the original divisor derivation assumes classical calculus and that eighth-dimensional calculus is required to make the… | ||
| Overview of the Last Year of Audits, Reviews, and Proofs | Justin Ehrenhofer | 21m |
Magic Grants funds and contracts specific security work: Veradise produced divisor security proofs (May–Jun 2024) and did formal verification of… | ||
| How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Connect to Privacy and Crypto | deki | 30m |
Argues that Rand’s objectivism maps onto crypto by treating money and identity as extensions of individual sovereignty and claiming Monero and privacy coins… | ||
| The FCMP++ Monero Fee Market – Post-Emission Fee Market Implications | Francisco "ArticMine" Cabanas | 30m |
FCMP++ raises typical transaction weight from ~2,200 bytes to ~5,000 and pushes the reference weight from ~3,000 to ~10,000, so the penalty‑free zone increases… | ||
| Tari: The challenges with P2pool and merge mining Monero | stringhandler | 19m |
Implemented P2Pool for Tari while merge mining Monero and hit concrete limits: 3.3 GH RandomX merge-mined contributes heavily to Monero’s bump to ~6.5 then ~5… | ||
| Fellow Monerites, are we lost? | Juraj B. | 38m |
Argues Monero is a digital hill-tribe — a too small to fail strategy modeled on Zomia (100–130 million people across an area the size of Europe) that makes… | ||
| Beyond the FGC9: Shaping the Next Steps of True Liberty | Joseph The Parrot | 38m |
Summarizes legal landscape inside and outside the USA, frames a New Second Amendment as an actionable idea to make self‑defense uncensorable, and defines three… | ||
| Reviving EVM-based Monero Atomic Swaps | hbs | 31m |
Working code implements an EVM-side smart contract plus a Python CLI called Monero Swap CLI (MIT on Codeberg) and a Gnosis Chain deployment that integrates… | ||
| SocksTrace: A Proxy Leak Detector for Anonymity-Focused Network Applications | Jeremy Rand | 20m |
SocksTrace intercepts network syscalls using seccomp user space notifications to flag and optionally block connections that bypass Tor, and it can perform… | ||
| Grease: a mimimal payment channel implementation for Monero | CJ, Sean Coughlin | 47m |
Grease is a minimal bidirectional payment‑channel proof‑of‑concept for Monero that runs now and closes channels with only the funding and final on‑chain… | ||
| We allowed cyberpunk dystopia without the good stuff | Marcel Plch | 31m |
Argues that money is already digitized and controlled by states and mega‑corporations, fiat is eroding, and the real danger is mass surveillance and data… | ||
| Eclipse attacks on Monero peer-to-peer network | Yu | 29m |
Collected TCP flow peerlist data from three global monitors (US, Europe, Singapore) over three weeks and validate a connection-inference algorithm that uses… | ||
| Mnemonic seeds for risky situations | Aaron Feickert | 39m |
Critiques grid-based Border Wallets for using a non-cryptographic PRNG, shuffling all 2,048 BIP39 words (lossy and nonstandard), and relying on low-entropy… | ||
| Unleashing the Flood: Stress-Testing the Monero Network | afungible | 31m |
On 2022-08-12 a low-cost stress test floods Monero so that dynamic block sizing activates for the first time, with a peak of ~61k transactions and about… | ||
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