This Week In Monero #14: 4 Dec 2025 - 11 Dec 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
- WebWipe and MoneroTalk are hosting a Monero holiday meetup in New York City, New York, on December 19, from 5-10pm. Details
- The MAGIC Monero Fund has opened a crowedfunding round for a second round of implementing fuzz testing in the Monero wallet, P2P layer, and FCMP++ upgrade code. Details
- omarespejel has released a prototype implementation of a trustless atomic swap protocol between Monero and Starknet. Repository
- Version v5.6.2 of Cake Wallet and the Monero.com wallets have been released. It includes bug fixes and improvements. Release
- Version v0.1.9 of monero-named-pipes has been released by d4ndox. It includes minor changes. Release
- The next Cuprate meeting has been scheduled for December 16, 2025 at 1800 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #cuprate channel.
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $7.53 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,684,946 XMR |
| Price | $402.27, -0.80% in 7 days |
| Suggested Transaction Fee | 20 piconero per byte |
| Block Height | 3,562,966 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.03028 ($254.06) |
| Inflation | 0.87% |
| Hashrate | 6.18 Ghash/s -1.53% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 7.7% |
Price Chart
Technical Analysis
| Indicator | Value | Signal |
|---|---|---|
| RSI (14) | 57.0 | Neutral |
| MACD | Bullish | Strong |
| 20-EMA vs 50-EMA | 359.04 vs 333.58 | Uptrend |
| Bollinger Bands | Price Middle | Stable |
Chart Pattern
No clear pattern detected.
Support around 269.89; next resistance near 458.97.
Outlook
Momentum: bullish. Short-term trend: uptrend. As long as XMR stays above 269.89, setup favors bulls. A close below 264.49 would weaken the setup.
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
Tutorial: How to use Monero from a Live USB (Beginner’s Guide)
Merchants
For lists of merchants and businesses related to Monero, consider Monerica, XMR.directory, and the official website’s ‘merchants’ page.
Notable Projects
Provably fair Monero “Over & Under” game
Funding
Ideas:
Funding Required:
- j-berman full-time development (4 months)
- vtnerd full-time 2025 q4
- selsta part-time monero development (3 months) (19)
- emsczkp research Bulletproofs*
- Getmonero.org Redesign Implementation (15.78 / 40 XMR)
- v1docq47 - monero konferenco 2025 voice-over and working on xmr.ru (0.16 / 15.6 XMR)
- Monero Python Maintenance (0.16 / 23.43 XMR)
Meme of the Week
Study Time
Inside Qubic’s Selfish Mining Campaign on Monero: Evidence, Tactics, and Limits
Donation and Contact
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