7 Nov 2025 [dev] [CCS]

j-berman posts CCS progress report after 550 hours of dev work

j-berman1 has published a third progress report2 for his full-time 2025 CCS proposal (part 11)3 after 550 hours of Monero/FCMP++ and Seraphis dev work:

We are currently on v1.44 of the alpha stressnet5, working toward beta. OOM issues and reviewing tx relay v2 are the next major tasks I’m currently focusing on.

Work overview

Merged PR's:
* FCMP++ wallet: fix sporadic GUI / wallet API large tx construction failures
* wallet: CLI & RPC speed up refresh/show_transfers with large pool
* FCMP++ wallet: fix handling when restore height's prev block is reorged
* p2p: relay empty fluffy block on found block
* daemon: faster sync by verifying batches of FCMP++ proofs in parallel
* daemon: fix FCMP++ batch verification collection ver ID's
* FCMP++ Rust FFI: ASAN support
Other tasks:
* Reviewed @vtnerd's p2p SSL
* Reviewed a number of @jeffro256's PR's
* Investigated OOM issues in the stressnet
* tx pool: don't re-relay txs w/key image already spent in chain [..]

Consult the previous Monero Observer report6 to learn more about Justin’s CCS.

The full dev update is available on Gitlab in !6002.

  1. https://github.com/j-berman ↩

  2. https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/600#note_32851 ↩ ↩2

  3. https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-4months-full-time-11.html ↩

  4. https://github.com/seraphis-migration/monero/releases/tag/v0.19.0.0-alpha.1.4 ↩

  5. /fcmp++-carrot-alpha-stressnet-v1-released/ ↩

  6. /j-berman-monero-fcmp-seraphis-dev-work-4-months-ccs-proposal-part-11/ ↩