15 Jul 2025 [dev] [CCS]

j-berman posts CCS progress report after 501 hours of dev work

j-berman1 has published a third progress report2 for his full-time 2025 (part 10) Monero (FCMPs++) and Seraphis dev work CCS proposal3:

Work overview

[PRs]
* Destroy Rust FFI types correctly
* Fixed @ofrnxmr's reported FCMP++ failing transfer bug in wallet
* Require updated daemon on init wallet connection
* Faster / cleaner transparent amount commitment handling / dependency tree cleanup
* Improved / reviewed wallet subaddress lookahead handling in core Monero repo
[Other]
* Reviewed @jeffro256's PR's
* Reduce data stored per output in the FCMP++ tree
* Some memory safer code
* FCMP++ optimization contest management / submission review
* Continued locally on supporting high input FCMP++/Carrot txs

The dev is planning to work on FCMP++ contest4 management, >8-input txs support, Carrot integration review, PoW-enabled relay design, and various other tasks.

Consult the previous Monero Observer report5 to learn more about Justin’s CCS.

The full dev update is available on Gitlab in !5742.

  1. https://github.com/j-berman/ ↩

  2. https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/574#note_30753 ↩ ↩2

  3. https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-4months-full-time-10.html ↩

  4. https://github.com/j-berman/fcmp-plus-plus-optimization-competition ↩

  5. /j-berman-monero-fcmp-seraphis-dev-work-4-months-ccs-proposal-part-10/ ↩