Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
Copyright (c) 2014-2024, The Monero Project
Monero is a private, secure, untraceable, decentralised digital currency. You are your bank, you control your funds, and nobody can trace your transfers unless you allow them to do so.
Privacy: Monero uses a cryptographically sound system to allow you to send and receive funds without your transactions being easily revealed on the blockchain (the ledger of transactions that everyone has). This ensures that your purchases, receipts, and all transfers remain absolutely private by default.
Security: Using the power of a distributed peer-to-peer consensus network, every transaction on the network is cryptographically secured. Individual wallets have a 25 word mnemonic seed that is only displayed once, and can be written down to backup the wallet. Wallet files are encrypted with a passphrase to ensure they are useless if stolen.
Untraceability: By taking advantage of ring signatures, a special property of a certain type of cryptography, Monero is able to ensure that transactions are not only untraceable, but have an optional measure of ambiguity that ensures that transactions cannot easily be tied back to an individual user or computer.
This is the GUI for the core Monero implementation. It is open source and completely free to use without restrictions, except for those specified in the license agreement below. There are no restrictions on anyone creating an alternative implementation of Monero that uses the protocol and network in a compatible manner.
As with many development projects, the repository on Github is considered to be the "staging" area for the latest changes. Before changes are merged into that branch on the main repository, they are tested by individual developers in their own branches, submitted as a pull request, and then subsequently tested by contributors who focus on testing and code reviews. That having been said, the repository should be carefully considered before using it in a production environment, unless there is a patch in the repository for a particular show-stopping issue you are experiencing. It is generally a better idea to use a tagged release for stability.
Monero is a 100% community-sponsored endeavor. If you want to join our efforts, the easiest thing you can do is support the project financially. Both Monero and Bitcoin donations can be made to donate.getmonero.org if using a client that supports the OpenAlias standard.
The Monero donation address is: 888tNkZrPN6JsEgekjMnABU4TBzc2Dt29EPAvkRxbANsAnjyPbb3iQ1YBRk1UXcdRsiKc9dhwMVgN5S9cQUiyoogDavup3H (viewkey: f359631075708155cc3d92a32b75a7d02a5dcf27756707b47a2b31b21c389501)
The Bitcoin donation address is: 1KTexdemPdxSBcG55heUuTjDRYqbC5ZL8H
GUI development funding and/or some supporting services are also graciously provided by sponsors:
There are also several mining pools that kindly donate a portion of their fees, a list of them can be found on our Bitcointalk post.
See LICENSE.
Do you speak a second language and would like to help translate the Monero GUI? Check out Weblate, our localization platform, at translate.getmonero.org. Choose the language and suggest a translation for a string or review an existing one. The Localization Workgroup made a guide with step-by-step instructions for Weblate.
If you need help/support or any info you can contact the localization workgroup on the IRC channel #monero-translations (relayed on Matrix) or by email at translate[at]getmonero[dot]org. For more info about the Localization workgroup: github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-translations
Status of the translations:
Packages are available for
nix-shell -p monero-guiguix package -i monero-guibrew install --cask monero-walletPackaging for your favorite distribution would be a welcome contribution!
Note: Qt 5.12 is the minimum version required to build the GUI.
Note: Official GUI releases use monero-wallet-gui from this process alongside the supporting binaries (monerod, etc) from the CLI deterministic builds.
Note: The convenience targets in the project Makefile require the Ninja build system. Other CMake generators can still be used by invoking CMake directly. Ninja builds in parallel by default. To limit or set the number of parallel build jobs, set CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL, for example CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL=4 make release.
Install Docker https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/
Clone the repository
git clone --branch master --recursive https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui.git* master - replace with the desired version tag (e.g. v0.18.5.2) to build the release binaries.
Prepare build environment
cd monero-gui
docker build --tag monero:build-env-windows --build-arg THREADS=4 --file Dockerfile.windows .* 4 - number of CPU threads to use
Build
docker run --rm -it -v <MONERO_GUI_DIR_FULL_PATH>:/monero-gui -w /monero-gui monero:build-env-windows sh -c 'make depends root=/depends target=x86_64-w64-mingw32 tag=win-x64'* <MONERO_GUI_DIR_FULL_PATH> - absolute path to monero-gui directory
* Set CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL to control the number of parallel build jobs, e.g. add -e CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL=4 to the docker run command
Monero GUI Windows static binaries will be placed in monero-gui/build/x86_64-w64-mingw32/release/bin directory
Install Docker https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/
Clone the repository
git clone --branch master --recursive https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui.git* master - replace with the desired version tag (e.g. v0.18.5.2) to build the release binaries.
Prepare build environment
cd monero-gui
docker build --tag monero:build-env-linux --build-arg THREADS=4 --file Dockerfile.linux .* 4 - number of CPU threads to use
Build
docker run --rm -it -v <MONERO_GUI_DIR_FULL_PATH>:/monero-gui -w /monero-gui monero:build-env-linux sh -c 'make release-static'* <MONERO_GUI_DIR_FULL_PATH> - absolute path to monero-gui directory
* Set CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL to control the number of parallel build jobs, e.g. add -e CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL=4 to the docker run command
Monero GUI Linux static binary will be placed in monero-gui/build/release/bin directory
(Note) This process is only for building monero-wallet-gui, monerod has to be built separately according to the instructions in the monero repository.
(Optional) Compare monero-wallet-gui SHA-256 hash to the one obtained from a trusted source
docker run --rm -it -v <MONERO_GUI_DIR_FULL_PATH>:/monero-gui -w /monero-gui monero:build-env-linux sh -c 'shasum -a 256 /monero-gui/build/release/bin/monero-wallet-gui'* <MONERO_GUI_DIR_FULL_PATH> - absolute path to monero-gui directory
Install Docker https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/
Clone the repository
git clone --recursive https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui.gitPrepare build environment
cd monero-gui
docker build --tag monero:build-env-android --build-arg THREADS=4 --file Dockerfile.android .* 4 - number of CPU threads to use
Build
docker run --rm -it -v <MONERO_GUI_DIR_FULL_PATH>:/monero-gui monero:build-env-android* <MONERO_GUI_DIR_FULL_PATH> - absolute path to monero-gui directory
* Set CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL to control the number of parallel build jobs, e.g. add -e CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL=4 to the docker run command
Monero GUI APK will be placed in monero-gui/build/Android/release/android-build directory
Deploy
adb install build/Android/release/android-build/monero-gui.apkadb devices -l
adb logcatdocker run -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb --privilegedmkdir /usr/tmp
cp build/Android/release/android-build/monero-gui.apk /usr/tmp
docker run -d -v /usr/tmp:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro -p 8080:80 nginxhttp://<your.local.ip>:8080/QtApp-debug.apk(Tested on Ubuntu 17.10 x64, Ubuntu 18.04 x64 and Gentoo x64)
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