**[Monero Launches Privacy Enhancement Upgrade to Counter Covert Network Nodes]** BlockBeats News, October 10 – According to a report by CoinDesk, the privacy-focused blockchain Monero has released a significant upgrade, greatly enhancing users' protection against "spy nodes." Monero relies on a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) network, where nodes (computers) connect directly with each other to share and verify transactions and blocks. Monero's privacy protection is achieved through several key technologies: each transaction uses a unique stealth address to ensure the recipient's real address is not exposed; ring signatures mix the sender's transaction with other virtual transactions, making it difficult to identify the actual sender of the funds; and Ring Confidential Transactions (RingCT) conceal the transaction amount.