Welcome to the Monero syllabus! Monero starts with many of the same principles of Bitcoin and takes privacy and decentralization further. However, unlike many projects, Monero is not based on Bitcoin’s code. It was instead forked from CryptoNote, which was created in early 2014.

Monero is one of the largest open-source projects in the world, with over 12,500 commits by over 300 contributors at the time of writing.