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General
Tari goes live after being in development for eight years

• Lots of promises, very little functionality today
• Primarily focused on simple L1 transactions with privacy + scaling ATM
• Merge-mined with Monero via p2pool on both the Monero and Tari sides

Link: https://monero.observer/fluffypony-tari-live-mainnet-8-years-work/


RetoSwap growing like crazy

• Huge amount of interest in p2p Monero <> crypto and Monero <> fiat trades

+100% month-over-month growth in all time volume, with $40,000,000 RetoSwap recently crossedMore than 6,000 swaps have already been completed, and our mission to make P2P Monero trading private and permissionless is picking up serious momentum.

• Average trade size is ~200 XMR per trade

Links:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1knuw8s/big_retoswap_milestones_zero_fees_our_first/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1kdem7n/retoswap_avg_trade_size_up_600_since_jan/

Software updates


Cake Wallet v4.28.0 released

• Adds support for Payjoin v2 in Bitcoin, a vital tool for spending privacy!
• Improves Monero subaddress generation, rotating addresses the moment a received transaction is seen in the mempool instead of waiting for 10confs
• Fixes potential wallet corruption when renaming a wallet
• Fixes a common issues with wallet groups splitting apart

Link:

• https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet/releases/tag/v4.28.0
• https://blog.cakewallet.com/bitcoin-privacy-takes-a-leap-forward-cake-wallet-introduces-payjoin-v2/
• https://payjoindevkit.org/2025/03/31/payjoin-probing-attacks/

p2pool v4.5 and 4.6 released

• Better Tari support
• Automatic donations via Tari merge-mining

Links:

• https://monero.observer/schernykh-releases-p2pool-v4.6-tari-merge-mining-donations/
• https://monero.observer/schernykh-releases-p2pool-v4.5/
• https://libreddit.privacydev.net/r/MoneroMining/comments/1kkmm7r/psa_on_p2pool_donations_and_going_forward_with/

Cuprate v0.0.3 released

• Keeps getting more stable and compatible with the Monero network, but no huge changes!

Link: https://monero.observer/hinto-janai-releases-cuprated-v0.0.3-molybdenite/

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