Issue 253: December 17, 2025 - February 27, 2026
Table of Contents:
Recent News
Monero v0.18.4.5 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ Point Release binaries have been released. CLI; GUI. Remember to verify hashes; how-to guides at the bottom of each blog post. As well, you may compile Monero from source.
Monfluo Wallet v0.9.4 running Monero v0.18.4.5.
P2Pool v4.13.
Is Monero less quantum resistant than Bitcoin these days? According to this post in Stacker News it might be. Let’s review what jeffro256 from MRL proposes with Post-quantum Turnstile Design for Carrot/FCMP++ Enotes.
New year? New Monerujo, or should we say… Moneroju? Work-in-progress by gunthermakers; they decided to say goodbye to everything from the past and start from scratch. More? soon.monerujo.app; Reddit thread. It has a thing for merchants, looks interesting.
Cake Wallet v6.0.0 (Beta) with brand-new UI/UX and Bitcoin Lightning support, along with several quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. F-Droid repository; Forum.
The well-known Free Software Foundation received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD, both made to the foundation in the cryptocurrency Monero! Read more here. Donors preferred to remain anonymous. ;)
Remember MoneroKon in Prague last year? The whole archive is up. Playlist on YouTube is up-to-date with all edited videos. Find it here.
There is a new version of the MRL ban list. The spy nodes changed their IP addresses. Raw list file; Reddit thread. If you use Docker to run your Monero remote node, Seth for Privacy’s docker repository works with the new ban list.
MAGIC Monero Fund Elections results are out! Check them out.
New Monero report from TRM Labs. Monero in 2025: Persistent Use and Emerging Network-Layer Insights here.
ProbeLabs published a deep dive into the Monero network topology. Peep it here. X thread by MAGIC Grants.
MoneroKon 2026 announcement, by OrangeFren. Reddit thread. Konferenco 6 will take place June 5-7th in Warsaw, Poland.
New month? New Monero Monthly by Ungovernable Misfits with Max, Seth for Privacy, and… Riccardo Spagni. Tune into No price, just privacy for Monero Monthly 013. Audio; Website. XMRChat.
Monero Talk took a break while they put together MoneroTopia down in Mexico city. Expect the talks videos to be uploaded to YouTube and the likes in the near future, to catch up! Follow along over at monerotopia.com.
Upcoming Events
March 2, 2026 (Monday) - 18:00 UTC
Monero Tech Meeting - #no-wallet-left-behind IRC channel; Matrix room.
March 4, 2026 (Wednesday) - 18:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel; Matrix room.
CCS Proposal Ideas
Below you can find some CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.
Site and CCS UI/UX, Transitions & Animations work (4 months) by SyntheticBird.
Integrate FCMP++ into monero-inflation-checker by dangerousfreedom.
Full-time 2026Q1 by jeffro256.
Find more here. Posting comments in favor of, or against proposals is encouraged.
CCS Proposals Need Funding
None; all funded for now. Consider supporting Revuo Monero!
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 3619514
Hash rate: 5.37 GH/s
Average txs. per block: 37.42
Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: 31145
Block reward: 0.6 XMR
Data taken on February 27, 2026.
XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks
Price & Performance
XMR Market Cap: $6,225,030,854.
Street Price: $369.66.
Monero (XMR) Price
| 02/27/26 | Week | Month | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $337.49 | +1.17% | -28.16% | +61.63% |
| EUR | €285.57 | +0.87% | -27.32% | +42.41% |
| BTC | ₿0.005118 | +4.02% | -2.78% | +106.40% |
Data taken on February 27, 2026.
XMR Price Graph
Sources: miningpoolstats.stream; bitinfocharts.com; coingecko.com; localmonero.co blocks; haveno.markets.
Volunteer Opportunities
If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren't sure how, check out some volunteer opportunities.Anyone with moderate technical ability is encouraged to try to build and run Monero nightlies. Do not trust it with your Monero, but feel free to open an Issue on GitHub as problems arise. Instructions to build on your OS of choice can be found here.
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