The protocol is still being forged.
Open any protocol for the deep dive — status, math, simulators, and the canonical community sources it stays synced against.
FCMP++
Today every spend hides among 15 decoys. FCMP++ replaces the ring with a zero-knowledge proof that the spent output exists somewhere in the full set of ~150 million — without revealing which.
Seraphis
Smaller signatures, ~40% faster verification, and a sane modular wallet model. Together with FCMP++ and Jamtis it's what the community calls 'Monero 2.0'.
Jamtis
95 characters of base58 noise become a 75-character format with meaningful spans, native sub-address tags, and a checksum that catches typos before money moves.
Carrot
A new wallet addressing protocol — compatible with FCMP++ era Monero — that allows strictly-bounded disclosure: incoming payments visible, outgoing spends and balance sealed forever.
Cuprate
Memory-safe Rust, modern tooling, faster initial sync — and the thing money networks actually need: no single client as a single point of failure.
Storm campaigns · dynamic block size under load · proof-verification pressure — with MoneroSpace, the beta chain's visual mempool, in the same Umbrel app repo. The chain is self-hosted — every node on it is somebody's own box.