# Dev Update 19 October 2026

**URL:** <https://talk.neptune.cash/t/dev-update-19-october-2026/409>\
**Category:** News and Announcements\
**Created:** [October 20, 2026, 4:01am UTC](https://talk.neptune.cash/t/dev-update-19-october-2026/409 "2026-10-20T04:01:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 4:01am UTC](https://talk.neptune.cash/t/dev-update-19-october-2026/409/1 "2026-10-20T04:01:37Z")

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# Dev Update

## 1. Last Week by the Numbers

- [neptune-core](https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core)
  - Pull Requests: 1 opened, 2 merged
  - Commits: 30 merged into master

## 2. Stand-up Summary

- **Thorkil Værge**

- **Alan Szepieniec**

## 3. Technical Discussion

- **Succinctness Architecture & Upgrade Strategy** : The team established a soft-fork model to implement succinctness in software while keeping the existing transaction throughput limit intact. Future throughput enhancements will be managed via hard forks to ensure the recursive proof chain remains preserved. Additionally, extra programs will be integrated into the block program structure as soft forks.
- **Audit Findings** : An LLM-generated audit uncovered an out-of-range difficulty bug occurring within the recursive setting.
- **Documentation Technical Correction** : Identified that the guessing step was incorrectly specified as memory-hard in the technical documentation; updates are planned to correct this definition.

## 4. Updates and Announcements

- An LLM-generated audit successfully flagged an out-of-range difficulty bug in the recursive setting.
- The security researcher’s findings were deemed valid for a security bounty, which will be paid out exclusively in native currency on the Neptune core main chain.
- [Lentern.io](http://lentern.io) reached block proposal generation speeds down to 39 seconds.
- [NPTmining.com](http://NPTmining.com) now accounts for nearly 15% of found blocks as the second-largest mining pool.
- Both major mining pools continue to correctly distribute payouts as time-locked coins.
- A new community-developed [Google Chrome extension wallet](https://github.com/avotrom/escanour-neprune-wallet-with-sub-wallet-/releases/tag/v0.23.4) was released.
- A technical review of recent network difficulty increases confirmed that there are no indicators of malicious activity or network exploits.