Everything about Monero

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: MoneroA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Anonymity-Enhancing Multi-Hop Locks for Monero-Enabled Payment Channel NetworksInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Los Moneros AntiguosThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero BlockchainCited 176 times
5. Go sideways: ZcashA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: CryptoNoteA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain

  Malte Möser, Kyle Soska, Ethan Heilman · 2018 · Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies · 176 citations

• Traceable Monero: Anonymous Cryptocurrency with Enhanced Accountability

  Yannan Li, Guomin Yang, Willy Susilo · 2021 · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing · 127 citations

• Security and privacy of mobile wallet users in Bitcoin, Dash, Monero, and Zcash

  Alex Biryukov, Sergei Tikhomirov · 2019 · Pervasive and Mobile Computing · 53 citations

• ZeroCross: A sidechain-based privacy-preserving Cross-chain solution for Monero

  Yuxian Li, Jian Weng, Ming Li · 2022 · Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing · 52 citations

• Blockchain networks: Data structures of Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash, Ethereum, Ripple, and Iota

  Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, Yulia R. Gel, Murat Kantarcioglu · 2021 · WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery · 38 citations

• MRCC: A Practical Covert Channel Over Monero With Provable Security

  Zhaozhong Guo, Liucheng Shi, Maozhi Xu · 2021 · IEEE Access · 26 citations

• Privacy Evaluation of Blockchain Based Privacy Cryptocurrencies: A Comparative Analysis of Dash, Monero, Verge, Zcash, and Grin

  Tao Zhang · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing · 21 citations

• MSCCS: A Monero-based security-enhanced covert communication system

  Liang Liu, Lin Liu, Beibei Li · 2022 · Computer Networks · 18 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Anonymity-Enhancing Multi-Hop Locks for Monero-Enabled Payment Channel Networks

  Xiaohu Wang, Chao Lin, Xinyi Huang · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 16 citations

• MBCT: A Monero-Based Covert Transmission Approach With On-Chain Dynamic Session Key Negotiation

  Zhenshuai Yue, Haoran Zhu, Xiaolin Chang · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Networking · 9 citations

• Monero With Multi-Grained Redaction

  Ke Huang, Yi Mu, Fatemeh Rezaeibagha · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing · 7 citations

• Accountable Monero System with Privacy Protection

  Yifan Zhang, Haixia Xu · 2022 · Security and Communication Networks · 2 citations

• De-Anonymizing Monero: A Maximum Weighted Matching-Based Approach

  Xingyu Yang, Lei Xu, Liehuang Zhu · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Los Moneros AntiguosRius · 2001
• EntramatDavid Duran Gisbert, Carles Monero Font · 2021
• EntramatDavid Duran Gisbert, Carles Monero Font · 2021
• Mastering MoneroSerHack · 2018
• monerojames bailey · 2002
• 📕Asuntos monerosJis · 2009
• 📕Monero Just Hodl ItSatoshi Nakamoto · 2018
• Los Moneros De Mexico (Obras De Rius)Rius · 2004

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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