21 Aug 2026 [dev] [CCS]

j-berman posts CCS progress report after 562 hours of dev work

j-berman1 has published a third progress report2 for his full-time 2026 CCS proposal (part 13)3 after 562 hours of Monero/FCMP++ and Carrot dev work:

All FCMP++ integration PR’s from the Phase 1 audit have been merged into the Monero repository. [..] FCMP++/Carrot beta stressnet v3 is coming soon, with complete hot/cold wallet functionality expected, and with some major changes to the tx relay v2 implementation.

Work overview

Merged PR's:
* crypto: ed25519 -> Wei conversion
* FCMP++: Rust FFI + crypto conversion selene_scalar_from_bytes
* crypto: derive key image generator & separate {un}biased hash to ec
* FCMP++: account for n tree layers in verID - #443
* txpool: re-relay txs that haven't been relayed and need to be
Other tasks:
* Reviewed @jeffro256's FCMP++/Carrot hot-cold wallet implementation
* tx relay v2: significant improvements
* txpool: Don't queue dup txs for relay in strand
* blockchain: limit offsets cache size [..]

Consult GitLab3 to learn more about Justin’s CCS.

The full dev update is available on Gitlab in !6742.

  1. https://github.com/j-berman ↩

  2. https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/674#note_37219 ↩ ↩2

  3. https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-4months-full-time-13.html ↩ ↩2