Monero software fix on October 16: What it means for the Monero price

Published on 10/27/2026 at 07:05 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Network hashrate reached 7.12 GH/s on October 26. The Monero price stands at 593.08 USD as of October 27, 2026, down 2.11 percent.

Network updates and market risk

On October 16, 2026, Monero released version 0.18.5.4 with fixes for DNS validation and software interfaces.
Network hashrate reached 7.12 GH/s on October 26, 2026, while three mining pools represented 60 percent of the estimate.
The Monero price stands at 593.08 USD as of October 27, 2026, 2.11 percent below the UTC daily close of October 26, 2026.
Monero futures open interest surpassed 300 million USD on October 21, 2026, according to CoinDesk.

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Monero (XMR) released version 0.18.5.4 on October 16, a maintenance update that fixed network and software interface bugs. The release was described as a minor bug-fix update by Yahoo Finance, which reported corrections to DNS record verification and a restored data-conversion behavior in the remote procedure call interface.

The Monero price stands at 593.08 USD as of October 27, 2026, down 2.11 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 26, 2026. The network update and the market reading are separate developments.

October 16 update repairs two network interfaces

Version 0.18.5.4, known as Fluorine Fermi, corrected how Monero nodes verify DNS records used for checkpoints, peer blocklists and update checks. It also restored string-to-integer conversion in JSON requests through the remote procedure call interface. Crypto.news reported that developers plan to remove that behavior in version 0.19, making the maintenance release a defined step before a later breaking change.

The update did not establish a mainnet date for the next major privacy change. The same report said six commits added 35 lines of code to the maintenance release.

Hashrate reaches 7.12 GH/s on October 26

Monero's hashrate, the computing power used to secure its proof-of-work network, reached 7.12 GH/s on October 26, 2026, according to Bitcoin.com News. SupportXMR, Nanopool and Kryptex accounted for 60 percent of the estimated total, with reported readings of 1.87 GH/s, 1.23 GH/s and 1.17 GH/s.

A separate market risk is leverage. CoinDesk reported on October 21, 2026, that Monero futures open interest surpassed 300 million USD and reached 515,730 XMR, a five-week high. The report also linked a similar January buildup with a 66 percent plunge during that period.

Monero price data shows a 11.17 billion USD market cap

According to Investing.com, the Monero price is 593.08 USD as of October 27, 2026. It is 2.11 percent below the UTC daily close of October 26, 2026, with a daily high of 595.00 USD and a daily low of 562.36 USD on the UTC day. Market capitalization is 11.17 billion USD, ranking Monero 12th, while 24-hour volume is 105.87 million USD and circulating supply is 18.82 million XMR.