Weekly Monero News - October 11, 2026Weekly Monero News - October 11, 2026

Every big Monero thing that happened this week.

Monero Research Lab meeting — October 7, 2026Monero Research Lab meeting — October 7, 2026

The Monero Research Lab met on Wednesday, October 7. Most of the meeting centered on FCMP++/Carrot: j-berman reported that a fresh deep review pass by ack-j (plus AI-assisted reviews) found the earlier fix for a detectable inflation issue insufficient — the corrected fix, addressing CLSAG rings that could include Carrot outputs, is in PR #499. The team settled on gating the phase-3 tree-building code behind an off-by-default compiler flag until the upstream FCMP++ library is declared final; j-berman will also enable it for tests and bring more development-branch test coverage upstream.

• Fork grace period: Rucknium floated dropping the 24-hour "double fork" grace period at the upcoming network upgrade to make the transition safer, while j-berman preferred keeping it and making the interim code airtight. Roughly 100 stray transactions could be dropped if the grace period goes away — affected users would have to recreate payments.
• AI-review finding moot: the flagged "shared custom unlock_time makes one unbounded tree growth" concern is a non-issue — the timelock feature is being dropped, with the retroactive deprecation date already settled.
• Stressnet: the FCMP++ beta v3 stressnet hard forked; Rucknium's monitors are live, sech1 briefly filled 10 MB blocks with spam, and the two known v3 issues are GUI binary plumbing with fixes already scoped. ack-j will deep-scan closed FCMP++ PRs against master.

Beyond FCMP++: Rucknium re-ran 50-hour simulations of the "Are Unreachable Nodes Truly Safe? Fully Eclipsing Monero's P2P Network!" paper and reproduced its result — around 1,000 adversary-controlled peers get absorbed into an unreachable node's white_list — with a reproducibility write-up and suggested-changes PR planned within a day. Gingeropolous is speeding up Monerosim and investigating selfish-mining mitigations; vtnerd fixed monerod bugs, added proper address-book support to lwcli, and published updated wallet-encryption thoughts for the Carrot design.

• Haveno v1.10.0 released with minor bugfixes — woodser has released Haveno v1.10.0 with minor bugfixes: traders can now keep chatting until a trade is closed, completed-trade chat history is viewable in the History tab, and Linux users get persistent desktop notifications for trade updates and messages.
• woodser releases monero-java v0.8.62, monero-ts v0.11.20 — new versions of both Monero libraries ship with improved HTTP request rate limiting, stricter exception handling in block parsing, and other fixes.
• Monero Observer notification: PGP key expiry date extended, signed contact details updated — Monero Observer refreshed its signed contact details and extended the (escapethe3RA) PGP key's expiry by another year, now valid until 9 October 2027.
• j-berman submits CCS proposal for 3 months of part-time FCMP++ & Carrot dev work — j-berman is seeking 133 XMR (320 hours, 0.3 XMR/hr + $65/hr) to work part-time on FCMP++ & Carrot for 3 months while he ramps up on Serai; he notes the work is mostly in review phase, where extra full-time effort wouldn't speed up launch.
• Feather fork 'Biscuit Wallet' released for desktop with support for XMR, BTC and LTC — Herboristerie announced the initial release of Biscuit Wallet, a Feather fork for desktop that supports XMR, BTC and LTC in one window, with swaps via Trocador, beta atomic swaps (BTC↔XMR), built-in Tor, and Polyseed/BIP39 seeds.
• Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 14 October 2026 1700 UTC — the next MRL meeting is set for Wednesday, October 14 at 17:00 UTC in #monero-research-lab; Rucknium will chair, with the "Are Unreachable Nodes Truly Safe?" eclipse paper as the main topic.
• Monero v0.18.5.3 'Fluorine Fermi' released — a highly recommended release with a large batch of bug fixes: daemon P2P/relay improvements, wallet validation for cold and multisig signing, log-injection hardening, and GUI additions.
• Haveno v1.9.0 released with UI improvements, new payment methods, security fixes — Haveno v1.9.0 brings UI & speed improvements, 24 new payment methods, and broad security fixes; recommended (not mandatory) for all users, with arbitrators updating first.
• Cake Labs releases Cake Wallet & Monero.com v6.4.6 — Cake Wallet v6.4.6 lands with Monero enhancements and general fixes, including onionbalance Tor frontends in default node lists and Trocador's current onion exchange endpoint; a matching Monero.com release followed.
• Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 13 October 2026 1800 UTC — the next Cuprate meeting (the alternative Monero node implementation) is scheduled for Tuesday, October 13 at 18:00 UTC in #cuprate, moderated by Boog900.
• Dread's main onion private key exposed: 'Today is a sad day' — Dread administrators disclosed that the forum's main onion private key was accidentally leaked in a mis-uploaded GoBalance archive; whoever holds the key can now use the domain, opening "huge MiTM risks".
• Gingeropolous submits CCS proposal for Monerosim R&D and MRC hardware maintenance — a 53.6 XMR proposal (~6–8 months) to continue Monerosim research and development and maintain the Monero Research Computing cluster.
• ofrnxmr completes BasicSwapDEX CCS — the final milestone is done: 300+ PRs from 12 contributors since the last update (+68k/−22k LOC, largely security hardening), plus an AMM overhaul, Smart Buy beta, and 20-minute swap lock timeouts.
• Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 12 October 2026 1800 UTC — the next Monero Tech meeting is booked for Monday, October 12 at 18:00 UTC in #no-wallet-left-behind, with rbrunner7 chairing and Seraphis/JAMTIS, FCMPs and other long-term topics on the agenda.
• acx submits CCS proposal to maintain 'Monfluo' XMR wallet in Q4 2026 — an 8.8 XMR proposal (~3 months) covering Monfluo maintenance plus a "Monfluo Oxide" re-implementation on the new Rust libraries.
• PyXMR2025 submits CCS proposal for 3 months of part-time Monero dev work — PyXMR2025 (Jackie) proposes 18 hours/week (18.6 XMR) through the end of December 2026, focused on resolving long-standing TODOs and hunting bugs.

Sources: Monero Observer · MRL meeting logs