eCash Monthly Recap - February 2026

February Recap is here!

Catch up on the latest eCash dev upgrades, ecosystem growth, and key community highlights from this month. Let’s dive in!

Ecosystem

🎉 eCash Merch Store went live, offering premium drops for the eCash Army. Pay exclusively with eCash (XEC) at store.e.cash.

https://x.com/eCash/status/2026155248298140102

🚀 PayButton-WordPress-Plugin v6.0.0 went live, introducing WooCommerce integration so WordPress store owners can accept eCash (XEC) payments directly in their Woo stores.

https://x.com/eCash/status/2025099982106493437

🚀 Local eCash v26.2 released with a new Shopping tab, cleaner fiat display, 2-decimal XEC rounding, Telegram rate alerts, improved Buy/Sell UI (negative margins), and performance boosts.

https://x.com/eCash/status/2019268731512471687

🚀 PayButton v5.3.0 and v5.4.0 released with app deeplink support, improved mobile payment flow, miscellaneous fixes, and general maintenance updates.

https://x.com/eCash/status/2022578775465300265

https://x.com/eCash/status/2025066430543396937

🚀 Marlin Wallet v1.8.1 and v1.8.2 released with Filipino translation support, improved existing localizations, mnemonic blurring enabled by default, and enhanced link handling so payment links reliably open directly on the Send screen.

https://x.com/eCash/status/2020880963983855731

https://x.com/eCash/status/2024424037280354523

🤖 Chili pepper 🌶️ and milk bottle 🍼 reactions added to The-Overmind bot for “super” likes and dislikes.

https://t.me/TheOvermind_bot

Cashtab Wallet

🪙 Added “free everydayjackpot.com plays” for CACHET token holders, averaging ~500 txs/day.

🧑‍💻 Added support for p2sh input data encoding for SLP transactions and empp_raw param for PayButton data pushes on ALP token txs.

🛠️ Upgraded EMPP tx history parsing, removed reCAPTCHA for token rewards, and added support for fiat amounts display on Receive requests.

Electrum ABC Wallet

🚀 Electrum ABC 5.5.0 released, bringing performance boosts for large wallets, faster hardware wallet detection, support for the latest Ledger firmware, and new 64-bit Windows binaries.

https://x.com/eCash/status/2026261449996448234

News/Media

🎁 Cardstorm is offering global brand gift cards with instant delivery, plus 3% off using code SPENDXEC when paying with eCash (XEC).

https://x.com/eCash/status/2024298824995659864

🔥 Marlin Wallet has crossed 250+ users on Google Play Store this month!

https://x.com/eCash/status/2022357953815445900

Dev Tooling

🛠️ Added UTXO consolidation, fixed memory issues with exact atom matching on SLP burn transactions, and introduced a new “input data” p2sh strategy (~1650 bytes per tx) in the ecash-wallet library.