diff --git a/networks/monero/primitives/src/lib.rs b/networks/monero/primitives/src/lib.rs
index 783275fb..0b6ed790 100644
--- a/networks/monero/primitives/src/lib.rs
+++ b/networks/monero/primitives/src/lib.rs
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ pub fn keccak256_to_scalar(data: impl AsRef<[u8]>) -> Scalar {
   // This library acknowledges its practical impossibility of it occurring, and doesn't bother to
   // code in logic to handle it. That said, if it ever occurs, something must happen in order to
   // not generate/verify a proof we believe to be valid when it isn't
-  assert!(scalar != Scalar::ZERO, "ZERO HASH: {:?}", data.as_ref());
+  assert!(
+    scalar != Scalar::ZERO,
+    "keccak256(preimage) \\cong 0 \\mod l! Preimage: {:?}",
+    data.as_ref()
+  );
   scalar
 }
 
diff --git a/networks/monero/ringct/bulletproofs/src/plus/mod.rs b/networks/monero/ringct/bulletproofs/src/plus/mod.rs
index 6b7eb820..465b878a 100644
--- a/networks/monero/ringct/bulletproofs/src/plus/mod.rs
+++ b/networks/monero/ringct/bulletproofs/src/plus/mod.rs
@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ impl BpPlusGenerators {
   pub(crate) fn reduce(&self, generators: usize) -> Self {
     // Round to the nearest power of 2
     let generators = padded_pow_of_2(generators);
-    assert!(generators <= self.g_bold.len());
+    assert!(
+      generators <= self.g_bold.len(),
+      "instantiated with less generators than application required"
+    );
 
     BpPlusGenerators { g_bold: &self.g_bold[.. generators], h_bold: &self.h_bold[.. generators] }
   }