This Week In Monero #12: 20 Nov 2025 - 27 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
- Recent News
- Price and Blockchain Statistics
- Facts or Guides
- Merchants
- Notable Projects
- Funding
- Meme of the Week
- Study Time
- Donation and Contact
Recent News
- monerobull has made a public service announcement regarding targeted FUD campaign against open-source P2P DEXs. Announcement
- Version v0.0.8 of Cuprate has been released. It includes killswitch removal, bug fixes, and improvements. Wallet sync is planned to be included in v0.1.0, noted as the first beta release. Release
- Version v5.6.0 of Cake Wallet and the Monero.com wallets have been released. It includes bug fixes, improvements, and better air-gap support. Release
- Version v6.25.11 of PiNodeXMR has been released by shermand100. It includes various bug fixes and improvements. Release
- The next Cuprate meeting has been scheduled for December 2, 2025 at 1800 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #cuprate channel.
- The next Monero Tech meeting has been scheduled for December 1, 2025 at 1800 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #no-wallet-left-behind channel.
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $7.65 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,679,481 XMR |
| Price | $409.73, 23.80% in 7 days |
| Suggested Transaction Fee | 20 piconero per byte |
| Block Height | 3,553,856 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.01621 ($252.50) |
| Inflation | 0.89% |
| Hashrate | 6.68 Ghash/s +17.84% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 4.9% |
Price Chart
Technical Analysis
| Indicator | Value | Signal |
|---|---|---|
| RSI (14) | 64.3 | Neutral |
| MACD | Bullish | Strong |
| 20-EMA vs 50-EMA | 345.50 vs 324.25 | Uptrend |
| Bollinger Bands | Price Near upper band | Caution |
Chart Pattern
No clear pattern detected.
Support around 266.04; next resistance near 458.97.
Outlook
omentum: bullish. Short-term trend: uptrend. As long as XMR stays above 266.04, setup favors bulls. A close below 260.72 would weaken the setup.
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
Developer Setup for BTCPay Monero Plugin
Merchants
For lists of merchants and businesses related to Monero, consider Monerica, XMR.directory, and the official website’s ‘merchants’ page.
Notable Projects
Bitcart is a FOSS self-hosted payment processor with native XMR support
Funding
Ideas:
- 39C3 Support
- emsczkp research Bulletproofs*
- j-berman full-time part 12 (4 months)
- selsta part-time monero development (3 months) (19)
Funding Required:
- jeffro256 full-time development 2025Q4 (86 / 96 XMR)
- anon: full-time on daemon and fcmp (66.28 / 150 XMR)
- Getmonero.org Redesign Implementation (13.65 / 40 XMR)
- acx part-time work on Monfluo 2025Q4 (0.01 / 10.5 XMR)
- v1docq47 - monero konferenco 2025 voice-over and working on xmr.ru (0.15 / 15.6 XMR)
- Monero Python Maintenance (0.09 / 23.43 XMR)
Meme of the Week
Study Time
MoneroTopia26 privacy tech sponsor CypherGoat + Price, News! | EPI 241
Donation and Contact
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