What is Monzero (XMZ)? The Monero fork, in figures

Monzero is a cryptocurrency built from the Monero codebase, with the ticker XMZ. The Cake Wallet patch this site describes calls it a fork of Monero v0.18.5.x. Its own README calls it an independent privacy-coin network derived from Monero, with its own genesis block, network identity, ports, address prefixes and monetary policy, and says it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Monero Project. Its first block is dated 25 August 2026: Monzero is a new chain that starts from a block of its own, not a copy of Monero's history.

The figures

Decimals. 11 decimal places: one XMZ is 100,000,000,000 atomic units. The chain specification says eleven is the most that a 100-million-coin emission allows in the 64-bit amount type the code uses; twelve would overflow it.

Addresses. Network prefixes 86 for standard addresses, 87 for integrated addresses and 88 for subaddresses. A standard address or a subaddress starts with F and is 95 characters long; an integrated address is 106 characters.

Blocks. A target of one block every 120 seconds, mined with RandomX, the proof of work Monero uses, which is built for ordinary CPUs.

Supply. A target primary emission of 100,000,000 XMZ, followed by a permanent tail emission of 3.26 XMZ a block. The specification records no hard-coded premine, and asks the team to disclose any coins it mined privately while bootstrapping the network.

Ports. 6174 for nodes talking to each other, 6175 for the RPC that wallets talk to, and 6176 for ZMQ. The public node is node.monzero.org, and its RPC is restricted and reached over plain HTTP; the nodes guide has what that means.

Seeds. The standard 25-word Monero mnemonic; the English list is the same 1626 words. Because the words and the keys behind them are Monero's, a Monero seed would open a Monzero wallet with the same keys — which is exactly what not to do, as the next section says.

Its own warning

Monzero's README calls v1.0.0 its current stable release, and adds that it has not been independently audited. It says not to use it for funds one cannot afford to lose, and never to reuse a Monero wallet file, private key or recovery seed with it. The last of those matters in Cake Wallet in particular, where a BIP39 phrase is derived the way Monero's is; the BIP39 guide explains why.

Versions, and where the code lives

Monzero's v1.0.0 release line moved the network to hard fork 17, with the LWMA-1 difficulty algorithm, at block 21,000, and the README of its source repository says every node and wallet must run v1.0.0 or later. The repository the Cake Wallet patch links to, Nightglass-Protocol1/monzero, showed as archived on GitHub on 6 November 2026. monzero.org points to Nightglass-Protocol1/Monzero-source instead, which holds the node, the command-line and desktop wallets, an Android wallet and an Android miner.

In Cake Wallet

No released version of Cake Wallet supports Monzero, and on 6 November 2026 a search of Cake Wallet's code on GitHub found no mention of it. Support exists as a patch, prepared as a pull request and described on this site: what it adds is in the integration guide, and where it stands in the pull request guide.