jeffro256 completes 2025 Q3 Monero dev work CCS

jeffro256¹ has posted a third and final progress report² for their full-time 2025/Q3 Monero (Carrot³) development work CCS proposal⁴:

Since the last milestone update, I have spent a lot of time upstreaming Carrot/FCMP++ code and general fixes. The biggest single changeset I worked on was the mempool input verification cache⁵. This has had positive impacts on block propagation and reorg times in the stressnet. I have also been reviewing a lot of Berman’s fixes for the FCMP++ stressnet. I did a couple of bug fixes myself after a lot of time spent debugging live nodes. I am currently working a lot to improve foundation for HW device support for the Carrot integration.

Work overview

* WiP branches: carrot_core, carrot_impl, fcmp++-stage, fcmp++-stage-cold-hot
* Merged PRs:
  * [core #10156] cryptonote_core: rm confusing/redundant BP consensus rule
  * [core #10166] BlockchainDB: rm skip_coinbase in get_blocks_from()
  * [core #10170] epee: align container pod as blob serialization 
  * [carrot/FCMP++ #193] blockchain_prune: add FCMP tables and check DB version
  * [carrot/FCMP++ #196] blockchain_prune: add FCMP tables and check DB version [STRESSNET]

To learn more about jeffro256’s work consult the previous Monero Observer report⁶.

The complete dev update is available on Gitlab².