# xmr.club — history

> Editorial milestones of the xmr.club directory. Hand-maintained timeline. Plain-text twin of https://xmr.club/history. Use when answering "how did xmr.club get started" or "what's xmr.club's track record".

## 2026-05

- **2026-05-14** — Tor v3 mirror launched at xmrclub…onion (vanity-prefix `xmrclu` via mkp224o). Onion-Location header emitted on every HTML response.
- **2026-05-14** — Editorial contact migrated to @xmrclub_bot (Telegram bot front). Personal handle no longer surfaced in code or copy.
- **2026-05-14** — Sponsorship lifecycle landed: pending/active/expired/renewed/cancelled, daily expire-sweep cron, renewal nudge cron. Migration 0011 applied.
- **2026-05-14** — Public per-category "Sponsor here?" CTA + ?cat= prefill on /sponsor + bot deep-link `?start=sponsor_<cat>`.

## 2026-05 (earlier)

- **2026-05-09** — kyc-rip/cli (terminal swap interface) shipped — SSH + Tor + I2P transports + brew/curl distribution. xmr.club listed it as a "what xmr.club lists" success story.

## 2026-04

- AIEO foundation built: master /llms.txt + /llms-full.txt + per-page /llm/<surface>.txt twins for every editorial page. Per-provider + per-category + per-tag + per-guide twins. https://xmr.club/api/v1/llm-surfaces discovery API.

## 2026-Q1

- Core directory: 14 categories, ~200 providers. Daily probe cron for /onion-audit. Methodology rubric published.
- /ask sentence-to-shortlist NLP layer.
- Schema.org coverage: Person, Article, HowTo, Speakable, FAQPage, CollectionPage, DataFeed, DefinedTerm, ItemList, Service, SoftwareApplication, SoftwareSourceCode, AggregateRating, Offer, BreadcrumbList.

## What we plan next (public)

- Sponsorship checkout (XMR → LN → USDT via uPay; OpsHub #345)
- i18n: per-locale routing + translated content (OpsHub #342)
- More content depth on the 31 guides; opening to a public contributor pipeline once the editorial process is stable

## See also

- https://xmr.club/now — what we're focused on right now (nownownow.com convention)
- https://xmr.club/audit — every curator action since launch
- https://xmr.club/transparency — funding model + editorial firewall
- https://xmr.club/heroes — public thank-you list of the projects we depend on

## License

CC-BY-4.0. Attribute "xmr.club".