After the 51% attack on Monero, proposals have emerged to revise the consensus mechanism

The Monero community is exploring the possibility of revising its proof-of-work (PoW) confirmation mechanism to make the network resilient to 51% attacks.

Community members have put forward several proposals, including the localization of mining equipment, transitioning to a merged mining algorithm (the ability to mine XMR alongside Bitcoin and other popular cryptocurrencies), and implementing Dash's ChainLocks solution.

Dash's ChainLocks uses "randomly selected masternodes" to achieve quorum in the first valid block transmitted by the network, locking the blockchain registry and adding to the blockchain only blocks verified by the ChainLock system.

On Sunday, the Qubic community voted to make Dogecoin (DOGE) its next mining target, receiving over 300 community votes — more than all other options combined.

After the vote, Sergey Ivanchiglo, the founder of the Qubic network, explained that mining DOGE "requires months of development," and the mining pool is currently focused on mining XMR.