Seraphis VS research-lab

Seraphis is a next-gen transaction protocol abstraction, which means it defines various high-level rules for a concrete transaction protocol. RingCT can be thought of as the current tx protocol abstraction of Monero, even though the RingCT paper specified concrete proving structures directly without abstraction.

Anyway, you can check here and here.

Work is well under way to implement something you could call a "second-generation protocol" for Monero called Seraphis. You can find details on the author @UkoeHB 's GitHub here. In parallel @tevador designs a new addressing and wallet tiers scheme to be used with Seraphis called Jamtis that is currently documented and discussed here.

Anyway. The concern raised here may be rendered nearly moot by the upcoming Seraphis/JAMTIS upgrade. As I understand it, this upgrade will significantly speed up remote wallet scanning time, while also making remote wallets much more secure.

More information on Seraphis can be found here: https://github.com/UkoeHB/Seraphis

I get the gist of what he is trying to do and how the transactions function. https://github.com/UkoeHB/Seraphis/issues/3

One of many open research questions u/Rucknium has listed here (under "Reducing or eliminating 10 block lock with acceptable drawbacks"). There is a chance of it being reduced but its "complicated"

https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/raw/master/wh...

Welcome! I wrote this list of Monero's open research questions: https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/94

We also established an official list of topics we want to fund, expanding on the broad space of Monero. This is intended to help people realize actual tasks they may want to complete on behalf of Monero, rather than just the idea of tasks, and extends Monero's open research questions. We're further interested in security proofs, ensuring Monero's integrity, historic and present, and work on arithmetic-circuit based membership proofs. Arithmetic-circuit based membership proofs would remove ring signatures, and the statistical analysis possible on them, entirely, for complete privacy of which output you're spending.

There is actually something called a "truncated address", which is transparent by default. It is mentioned in the original CryptoNote whitepaper on page 8, but I don't think the official wallet software supports it. You could emulate it by calculating the view key manually as a = H(B).

Monero's privacy (i.e. fungibility) guarantees, while being extremely good, are still not mature enough to ossify the protocol yet, see here;