The last category of peer to peer exchanges that we have in the Monero ecosystem are atomic swaps. And this is something I think we've also briefly touched on before, but Yeah. It's essentially the technologically perfected version of the mediated swap where you don't actually need a mediator at all. You rely on the chains themselves, in this case, Bitcoin and Monero, to do all of the arbitration itself. Mhmm. So we're able to use Bitcoin to Monero. Unfortunately, Monero has no scripting language, so we use Bitcoin itself to actually handle the atomic swap logic to make sure that if you send your Bitcoin or you send your Monero, you will always either get the corresponding amount of Bitcoin or Monero back or you'll get the funds that you sent refunded back to you.

So what have we got on this episode? I know we're gonna get into p two p exchanges. We've got an absolute boatload of XMR chats. Anything else? Some updates in the space, a few software updates. It was a quieter month for the Monero ecosystem as I feel like most of the dev time has been going into getting ready for this upcoming protocol improvement slash hard fork. It's been relatively quiet, but there's definitely a few good items to go through here. So we'll keep it short and sweet.

And then last is something that a lot of the Monero community have been begging for for a while. But, essentially, the Monero core team, which I'll explain a little bit more in a minute, they published a transparency report. All that means is that there's a a general fund that people can donate Monero to that gets used for various things to help run the Monero ecosystem. It's managed by a group of people called the Monero core team, and they publish a report that just details exactly how much has come in, how much they've spent, all of the view keys are there to be able to prove what has been spent and what hasn't. And they published that.