29 Sep 2025 [dev] [pinned]

Testers wanted: FCMP++/Carrot alpha stressnet v1 released

j-berman1 has released the first FCMP++2 and Carrot3 stressnet (v0.19.0.0-alpha.14) open to public live testing, in preparation for the October 3rd testnet hard fork:

The FCMP++ and Carrot alpha stressnet is scheduled to hard fork from the current testnet on October 3rd, 2025, at block 2847330! Included below is the software you can use to participate in the alpha stressnet. [..] We want as many people testing and reporting issues as possible to help prepare for a smooth launch of FCMP++ and Carrot. [..] Thank you and happy testing!

Detailed instructions for testers are included on the release page in the seraphis-migration/monero repository4.

Note: this is ALPHA software, and will likely have bugs. Please share bug reports that are as detailed as possible!5

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.

  1. https://github.com/j-berman/ ↩

  2. /kayabanerve-submits-ccs-proposal-full-chain-membership-proofs/, https://www.getmonero.org/2024/04/27/fcmps.html ↩

  3. https://github.com/jeffro256/carrot ↩

  4. https://github.com/seraphis-migration/monero/releases/tag/v0.19.0.0-alpha.1 ↩ ↩2

  5. https://github.com/seraphis-migration/monero/issues ↩