Monero (XMR) is expected to undergo a hard fork upgrade today

According to the official news, the open source privacy project Monero (Monero Coin) will undergo a hard fork upgrade today, and has now officially released Monero GUI 0.18.1.0 "Fluorine Fermi". Officials have called on its users, service providers, mining pool operators and trading platforms to run V0.18 in full preparation for the protocol upgrade expected on August 13. It is reported that the hard fork upgrade will upgrade the original algorithm to Bulletproofs+. The new algorithm reduces the trading size and increases the trading speed, and the overall performance is expected to increase by 5%-7%. At the same time wallet synchronization speed increased by 30%-40%, reduce cost fluctuations and improve the overall network security; Add critical security patches and improve the multi-signature function.