- MAGIC Grants released Skylight Wallet version 1.0.3 with fixes and user experience improvements.
- A new job board, Monero.jobs/”>monero.jobs, offers employment paid exclusively in Monero (XMR).
- Two research papers detailed Qubic’s mining tactics and illicit activity investigation using Monero’s transaction structures.
- Monero’s network statistics as of December 17, 2025, show a block height of 3,567,500, a hash rate of 5.94 GH/s, and an average of 39 transactions per block.
- Monero’s price reached $432.88 with a nearly 10% weekly increase and a 97% rise over the year.
MAGIC Grants released version 1.0.3 of the Skylight Wallet, featuring several fixes and quality-of-life updates. This update aims to improve the wallet’s overall functionality for users. In the Monero community, member CR1337 launched monero.jobs, a job platform exclusively for companies and projects committed to paying employees in Monero (XMR).
Recent observations from contributor Rucknium noted the disappearance of spy nodes linked to the LionLink ASN from moneronet.info. Additionally, new research papers have been published: Lee and Kim’s study on Qubic’s mining campaign on Monero, and a framework for investigating illicit activity using Monero’s address-ring-transaction structures by Venturi and colleagues. Rucknium explained, “It concludes that Qubic did not achieve a 51% attack and Qubic’s block-orphaning strategy was usually less profitable than if they had just mined honestly.”
Monero blockchain statistics as of December 17, 2025, reported a block height of 3,567,500 and a hash rate of 5.94 GH/s. The network processes an average of 39 transactions per block and about 27,761 transactions per day on a 7-day moving average. The current block reward stands at 0.6 XMR. The hash rate pool distribution over the last 1,000 blocks was also visualized to analyze network mining concentration.
Monero’s market capitalization was approximately $8 billion, with a street price of $486.76 per XMR. On December 17, 2025, the price was $432.88, showing a 9.4% increase over the past week and a 97.2% rise year-to-date. The price also increased by around 15.9% against Bitcoin during the week, reaching ₿0.004976. Sources for this data include miningpoolstats.stream, bitinfocharts.com, and coingecko.com.
Community activities include the launch of a new European mining pool, EuroXMR.eu, aimed at decentralization with zero fees initially. The 2026 elections for the MAGIC Monero Fund committee are open from December 5 to December 31, with voting to occur in January 2026. The community also saw the launch of the second round of Monero fuzzing campaigns focusing on wallet, P2P, and FCMP++ endpoints. A New York City meetup by WebWipe and PubKey will take place on December 19. Fundraising campaigns continue for maintaining Revuo Monero Maintenance into 2026.
For those interested in volunteering, testing Monero Core software is encouraged. Instructions for building from source are available on the Monero GitHub page.
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