Practice › Ecosystem
Useful resources
Official sites, repositories, research, block explorers and community
In short
The essentials: the official site getmonero.org, the code at github.com/monero-project, the book "Zero to Monero" for a deep dive, and block explorers — preferably via Tor or your own.
Official
- getmonero.org — the project site: downloads, news, guides, release hashes.
- docs.getmonero.org — documentation: technical specs, RPC, nodes, wallets.
- github.com/monero-project/monero — the main repository (node, CLI wallet, wallet-rpc).
- github.com/monero-project/monero-gui — the graphical wallet.
- github.com/monero-project/research-lab — Monero Research Lab: research and discussions (including FCMP++).
- github.com/monero-project/meta — developer meetings, minutes, organisational matters.
- ccs.getmonero.org — the Community Crowdfunding System: how the community funds developers and research.
FCMP++, Carrot and new protocols
- monero-oxide — the Rust implementation of FCMP++ (Luke Parker et al.).
- jeffro256/carrot — the Carrot specification.
- Curve Trees — the paper by Campanelli, Hall-Andersen, Kamp.
- tevador/polyseed — the Polyseed specification.
Books and learning
- Zero to Monero (koe, Kurt Alonso, Sarang Noether) — a free book with the full math of Monero transactions. The best next step after this site.
- Mastering Monero (SerHack, Monero Outreach) — a book for a broad audience, with a free online edition.
- monero.stackexchange.com — Q&A, many answers from developers.
- monerooutreach.org — educational materials and translations.
Block explorers
A Monero explorer shows less than a Bitcoin one: amounts and addresses aren't visible. It's useful for checking whether a transaction made it into a block and for studying structure (rings, key images, sizes, fees).
| Explorer | Notes |
|---|---|
| xmrchain.net | The classic, built on onion-monero-blockchain-explorer; can check your outputs with a view key (which reveals them to the service!) |
| exploremonero.com | A friendly interface, charts |
| blockchair.com/monero | A multi-coin explorer with an API |
| p2pool.observer | P2Pool statistics: shares, miners, payouts |
| onion-monero-blockchain-explorer | Run your own — on your own node, with no leaking of queries |
Privacy when using them
An explorer sees your IP and which transaction you're looking up. Open it via Tor, or better, run your own. Don't enter your view key on other people's sites. More in staying anonymous.
Mining
- P2Pool — a decentralised pool; needs your own
monerod. - XMRig — a RandomX CPU miner.
- miningpoolstats.stream/monero — hashrate distribution across pools.
Community
- r/Monero and r/xmrtrader.
- Matrix/IRC (Libera):
#monero,#monero-dev,#monero-research-lab— links at getmonero.org/community/hangouts. - monero.observer — ecosystem news.
- Revuo Monero — a weekly digest.