Monero stressnet release on October 26: what it means for the Monero price

Published on 10/29/2026 at 13:22 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Version 3.1 adds network safeguards. The Monero price is 593.08 USD on October 29, 2026, down 2.11 percent versus October 28, 2026.

Network testing and market data

On October 26, developers released a beta stressnet update with new safeguards for Monero testing.
Network computing power reached 7.17 GH/s on October 26, 2026, 4.9 percent below its January peak.
The Monero price stands at 593.08 USD as of October 29, 2026, 2.11 percent below the UTC daily close of October 28, 2026.
The test network forked on October 5, 2026, at block 3,102,800.

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Monero (XMR) received version 3.1 of its FCMP++ and Carrot beta stressnet on October 26, 2026, adding changes for transaction relay and inflation protection, according to GitHub. The Monero price stands at 593.08 USD as of October 29, 2026, down 2.11 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 28, 2026, according to Investing.com. Network computing power reached 7.17 gigahashes per second on October 26, 2026, according to EconoTimes.

Version 3.1 adds safeguards to the beta network

The GitHub release describes version 3.1 as software for the FCMP++ and Carrot beta stressnet. FCMP++ means Full-Chain Membership Proofs, a proposed privacy design that would replace Monero's current ring signatures with proofs covering the broader chain. The release includes a change intended to prevent detectable inflation through Carrot outputs in ring signatures and a denial-of-service prevention change for transaction relay version 2, according to GitHub. A denial-of-service attack attempts to make a network or service unavailable by overwhelming it with requests.

The same release records that the beta stressnet forked from the current testnet on October 5, 2026, at block 3,102,800. The event concerns a public testing network rather than the live Monero network, and the release also lists updated seed nodes, faster wallet scanning and interface fixes, according to GitHub.

Hashrate reaches 7.17 gigahashes per second

Hashrate is an estimate of the computing power used to process and secure a proof-of-work network. EconoTimes reported a Monero reading of 7.17 gigahashes per second on October 26, 2026, and compared it with a 7.54 gigahashes-per-second peak recorded on January 16, 2026, leaving the reading 4.9 percent below that peak, according to EconoTimes. The October 26 software release therefore sits alongside ongoing network testing and a dated computing-power reading, while the live network and the beta stressnet remain separate environments.

Monero price stands at 593.08 USD

The Monero price is 593.08 USD as of October 29, 2026, according to Investing.com. It is down 2.11 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 28, 2026. The daily high is 595.00 USD and the daily low is 562.36 USD for the UTC day. Market capitalization is 11.17 billion USD, ranking Monero 12th, while 24-hour volume is 105.87 million USD. Circulating supply is 18.82 million XMR.