Monero Observer Blitz #49 - September 2026
Here’s a recap of what happened this September around the Monero community:
Breaking
- The FCMP++/Carrot beta stressnet v3.0 was released (1)
- Manizada released public exploits for decades-old Linux Kernel security flaws (2)
R&D
- The Monero Research Lab held 5 meetings in September (3,4,5,6,7)
- There were also 4 Monero Tech and 4 Cuprate meetings (8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15)
- Cake Labs released Cake Wallet & Monero.com versions 6.4.4/6.4.5 (16,17)
- d4ndox released ‘Monero Named Pipes’ v0.2.0-0.2.3 (18,19)
- ImL1s released ‘XMRig Multi’ v2.3.0 (20)
- jpk68 posted a Monero dev report for August 2026 (21)
- jeffro256 posted a Monero Carrot/FCMP++ dev update for August 2026 (22)
- MAGIC Grants released ‘Skylight Wallet’ v2.0.0 (23)
- P2Pool v4.18.1 was released with Tari merge mining fix (24)
- fujimoto44 released the source code for a ‘standalone’ XMR POS device (25)
- woodser released ‘monero-cpp’ v0.9.5/0.9.6, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.57/0.8.58 & ‘monero-ts’ v0.11.16/0.11.17 (26,27)
- acx released ‘Monfluo’ version 0.9.7 (28)
- Rosen Bridge was seeking ‘critical reviews’ of a proposed Monero integration (29)
- SNeedlewoods completed their 2026 Q3 Monero dev work CCS (30)
Funding
- Boog900’s Cuprate/FCMP++ CCS was moved to the funding stage (31)
- selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work, which was quickly funded (32,33)
- Jackie submitted a CCS proposal to update monerod HTTP Digest RPC authentication to RFC7616, which was closed (34)
- jeffro256’s 2026 Q2 Monero dev work CCS was fully funded (35)
- frstrtr submitted a CCS proposal for ‘c2pool’ mainnet deployment (36)
- SlowBearDigger submitted a proposal to take over the ‘Monero Integrations’ #3 CCS (37)
Culture
- Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 5th & 19th (38,39)
- XMR registered the best monthly close ever in August 2026 (40)
- XMRPod version 0.1.18 was released (41)
- Monero Talk interviewed Tari’s Naveen Spark (42)
- The free software community celebrated 43 years of GNU on September 27th (43)
Community Messages (5/45)
- [WTB] Buying XMR for USD — 94SPAZIO (44)
- [ANN] Moneso — looking for early marketplace feedback (45)
- [ANN] Coin Wallet: Transaction keys now visible in XMR transaction details (46)
- [AFH] Monero Graphics - Open for commissions (47)
- [ANN] nullsink: Privacy-first AI API access (48)
My personal contributions
+47/+45 Reports/Community Messages
+3 Monero Dev reports
+15/+1 Meeting logs/summaries
+16 Calendar events
+12/-4 Resources
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 45 Community Messages and 16 Calendar events (53,54), added 19 new Resources and removed 53 items (offline) (55,56)
- uploaded 15 meeting logs: MRL 260902, MRL 260909, MRL 260916, MRL 260923, MRL 260930, Community 260905, Community 260919, Tech 260907, Tech 260914, Tech 260921, Tech 260928, Cuprate 260901, Cuprate 260908, Cuprate 260915, Cuprate 260922 (57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71)
- published Meeting summary: Monero Research Lab, 9 September 2026 (72)
- Weekly
- Monthly
- published Monero Observer Blitz #48 - August 2026 (76)
Credits/special thanks to:
- everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
- the cypherpunks for the encrypted messages
- all MO loyal readers and supporters
- the MO Top Contributors: CypherGoat, Monero Graphics, Label Hub
- gnuteardrops for providing the amazing designs
- hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff around the Monero community
That’s it for the 49th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.
Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.
Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!
-escapethe3RA
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