Hey everyone,

I wanted to take a moment to recognize and celebrate the 6th anniversary of LocalMonero/AgoraDesk! For those who have been in the crypto space for a while, you'll remember the early days when it was challenging to buy, sell, or trade Monero P2P. LocalMonero has played a crucial role in building the peer-to-peer Monero economy, making it more accessible for everyone. AgoraDesk extended the privacy-focused service beyond just XMR to let the Bitcoin community join in on the fun as well!🎈

• 🚀 In the past year we've managed to finally release our free and open source privacy-preserving mobile apps out of beta after a lot of hard work and testing. Our beta testing community was a huge help in ironing out the issues and helping us maximize the app's usability and accessibility;

• 🌍 We've also managed expand our global reach by translating both the website and the app into an additional 30 languages;

• 🇦🇷 Our Argentinian users got a fix with us switching to the unofficial 'dolar blue' rate of exchange for Argentinian Pesos, because the official government rate is almost not used;

• 📝 We've added the ability to add notes on other users, that are only visible to you. This helps buyers and sellers jot down important tidbits of information about their trading counterparty for future reference, such as their preferred way of payment;

• 🛡️ We've discovered and reported a type of malware that changes your crypto address not when pasting, but when submitting a form, making it much more difficult to detect. Our report was widely reposted in crypto media, and hopefully prevented people from getting burned. We've also added a countermeasure on our platform through the use of address books, where you record your address ahead of time and send to it;

• 📊 We've released an analysis that shows that the crypto swap rates you find on LocalMonero/AgoraDesk are often better than those of instant swap providers like ChangeNOW, while being arguably more private and having almost zero risk of shotgun KYC;

• 🎉 We've Added WOWNERO 🦄💜🚀

• 🔧 And many more minor fixes and features...

We once again thank everyone for your continued usage of our platform and hope we can keep serving you into the future

With Love 😊, The LocalMonero/AgoraDesk Team