Yep, there are significant changes for both local wallets and MN installations.
The changelog and the source code can be found on our github, but I'll repost it here,
https://github.com/XDNA-Core/XDNA/releases/tag/v1.2.0.0

• Fixed Masternode winners system issue
• Fixed Masternode double payments issue
• Fixed slow syncing speed issue

The 1st issue wasn't really an issue though, the MN rewards are just more consistent now, previously a MN might go half a day without rewards and then get 6 rewards in half an hour!
The 2nd one, I don't know about it, sorry.
The 3rd one is the most relevant for users, previously it'd take about 5 minutes to sync one day's transactions, now it's much faster.

Excuse me for clearing the quote waves first!
Well... if you can mine something else and then buy XDNA, by all means do just that! That's how the market works and averages price and mining profitability.

If buying is a better option, then the price will go up after a while and buying won't be as easy, but mining will be more profitable.

Nope, the correct URL is "https://xdna.io/" without www.
You might found a link with www at the start? Or you might tried to visit during an update, parts of the site are being worked almost every day, though usually a server restart is not required and you shouldn't get a 404 error.
Is it okay now?

Thanks for your feedback.
I know that the AMD miner is still in early stages, for both SGminer and WildrigMulti miner. Nvidia cards have a decent profitability with Enemy Miner and with the overall upward potential of the price and the upcoming block reward reduction, miners who hold will be rewarded even more!

I'm a green guy but based on what the community is saying, the SGMiner is doing 6Mh/s.

However there's a new developer working on a miner called "WildRig". We're not affiliated with them and no one can guarantee you the safety of this software. The same is true for every closed source software.
WildRig's thread on the forums: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023676.0

However the HEX is still under construction and not publicly available yet. They sent us an early preview which should reach higher hashrate but it still has room of improvement.
The dev's message was,

As a kind reminder, please remember to support us with your vote in the following listing,
https://shardax.com/listing

We have already stomped the competition but still... the bigger the number the better!

Actually right now 1 Medium MN is considerably more profitable than 3 Light MNs.
The reason is that every level of MNs competes for rewards against the other MNs of the same level. Therefore whichever level has less MNs has also more frequent rewards.
On top of that don't forget the cost to maintain 3 VPS.

Right now the amount of masternodes per level are,
- 115 Light
- 100 Medium
- 101 Full

If I don't miss something on the mathematical side of things, 1 Medium node offers 15% more rewards than 3 Light ones.

Also waiting for the SonoX exchange! But in the meantime, I was looking at the specs of your PoW coin, SONO.
Is it more Nvidia or AMD friendly? Memory or GPU intensive? Best miner for Nvidia cards and its hashrate at the moment?

This testing phase has confused me a bit.. It will be run on the test net, right? Are normal users needed though or those tests require Delegate-level technical knowledge?

At least it's not as bad as the 3 first months of 2018, when everyday there were 10 new coins with 10%+ premine or ICOs to scam people!
Now it was a good time to launch XDNA I believe, because we're in a time when the rate of new scams has declined but just before another expansion of the crypto's overall market cap.

So we're not too early nor too late.

Hey guys, it's time to share with you what we managed to achieve over the past month

1. Listings update
We were added to:
- New Shared MN service https://evonodes.com/ Many thanks for your votes!
- New one click launching MN service Gentarium https://mn.gtmcoin.io/
- New crypto site for monitoring https://masternode.fans/coindetails/xdna
- Listing on a crypto currency fully automatic exchanger - https://cryptowolf.eu/

2. Media and marketing
New amazing articles about XDNA on Medium, Steemit and Altcoinlog. Check this out now, if you have not done yet
- https://medium.com/@hitmancro/project-xdna-3-months-later-99a7abddadc
- https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@hitmancro/project-xdna-3-months-later
- https://altcoinlog.com/xdna-cryptocurrency/

3. Website Update
- Added "Our team" section, where real people and their contacts are indicated
- Added news section to take the first step towards globalization of our media company. Further, this process will only get better
- Reflected 2 DDoS attacks, as well as removed more than 3 infection of the site and soon we will fix this issue finally.


4. Project
We have considered the comments of our community on all resources and wishes, as well as saw your concern about the situation.  In this regard, 2 options were developed to optimize the economic model of the project and based on the results of an open vote, we chose option # 2 :
- "Reducing daily emissions comprehensively at all levels of the BitGun algorithm in a comfortable depreciation period of 24 months with a step of 10%." Implementation date-20.10.2018.

5. XDNA Foundation:
At the moment, we are finishing the last preparations before the open release of the alpha test platform. Within a month we could not pass by one case that touched our hearts - the question of saving the life of a little boy - Arthur. As a result, for the first time in the existence of the project, we touched the means of XDNA Foundation and with Your help paid one of the bills in the clinic.


6. Team
We continue our international expansion and improvement of the local quality of information about our project. During this campaign we invited 2 new Community Managers to the team,
- @JoaquimF (Brazil) https://t.me/XDNABrasilChat
- @RivAngE (Greek)
Also @Nikertos Joined our Development team

7. Offline marketing
Our project from the first days told everyone that we position ourselves as a long term project and build our policy and promotion strategy on the basis of this statement.
At the moment, our marketing budget does not allow us to participate in all crypto-conferences that take place around the world, but we decided that it's time to start looking for new members of the community, investors and those who want to use our platform not only on the Internet. In this regard, we paid for participation in one of the most important conferences of this year -
Blockchain 2018, which will be held 7-8 November in Saint-Petersburg.


8. Mining
One of the key factors that we managed to achieve at the beginning of this month is the recognition of our new HEX algorithm as such an absolute leader of crypto-mining calculators as whattomine.com! They not only promptly updated the information about our project when implementing the hard fork with keccak algorithm and updating the Bitgun levels, but also added the HEX algorithm to the main page of their calculator.


Unfortunately, due to the large-scale and painful exit from our project of one of the key (up to 80%) miners of the old network, also the owner of a huge plant with FPGA or ASIC devices, our exchange rate fell greatly and as a result, the profit fell.
ALTHOUGH, WE ASK YOU to PAY special ATTENTION - that XDNA mining is much more profitable compared to the Ethereum or ZCASH
And sometimes we find ourselves in the top 3 on Whattomine, becoming much more profitable mining project.
In connection with the decline in profitability and such a sharp dump, many miners have moved to other projects and at the moment most of this month we spent on the first, the initial level of Bitgun.
On one hand, if not for BitGun, a static emission of, say 20000 coins, would have killed the project. Thanks to the technology's "reverse-collapse" we are still in slow decline before the advent of new milestones in our project.
On the other hand, the owners of our MNs suffered because of this. However, we will work on this aspect and you will definitely see the 10th+ BitGun level with us!

9. Trading
Do not forget that, we have an automatic BTC-XDNA exchanger, which we will soon add directly to our website and you will be able to purchase XDNA having BTC currency on any exchange or wallet, regardless of where your funds are.

XDNA is a long-term crypto project and the team of professionals, we will not allow your investments to depreciate and do everything to overcome these difficult times caused by common crypto and mining depressions in the global market and to be among the 10% of projects that will survive and succeed!

Thanks for you support!

Look at the XDNA project and HEX algo. It seems to do very well with 2080ti and Enemy miner, also the block reward is scaling with the hashrate.
The emission starts from very low while there are few miners and when the people's interest and the miners increase the hashrate, then the block reward increases automatically. That way there is no sudden profit drop because of many miners.

Erm... hello?! Still alive?

The thing with AMD miners is that they are harder to make, maybe even there are less developers interested in them. Having a new algo means someone has to make a new miner from 0 and that usually takes time until it's in good shape. We had a working miner (sgminer) within the 1st week and improvements later on, but I don't know how the progress is going with that miner.

However just 2 days ago the developer of Wildrig Multiminer (https://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/wildrig-multi-miner/) told us he's planning to beat the current hashrates offered by sgminer! You can follow their updates here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023676.0

As for Nvidia, I believe the scaling between all models is the expected one. The only noteworthy thing is that from some benchmarks I've seen, the 2080ti is doing really great with HEX, even with unoptimized for it miner!

I find it very possible that OKex is reporting higher volumes than the real ones, it's safer to just ignore that exchange.

Good point. Which is why the team is working on,
Release of a web wallet (82% done)
Release of a paper wallet (69% done)
Those were planned for Q4 2018 and it seems those targets will be hit easily.

I think I've heard of a mobile wallet too but I'm not sure, it might be planned for 2019 or not set in stone yet.

66666.66666$ Maybe?

Which is why it's important for GPU miners to support anit-ASIC projects like XDNA. If right now XDNA can support 1000 GPU miners (random number) then with a price of 0.50$ it can support 5000 GPU miners and with a price of 2$ it can support 20000 miners. Because of the BitGun scaling the actual numbers would be higher (more in favor of the miners) but the calculations are hard to pull, sorry!

Unfortunately a lot of GPU miners don't think about that and decide to instead instantly-trade any coin they mine to BTC, actually supporting ASICs even though they cry about ASIC resistance.

Based on my PERSONAL metrics for mining profitability, XDNA is slightly over 1$/day/1080ti as of the moment of this post making it number 1 among the more known projects.
WTM link

I repeat it's based on my "personal metrics" because I might have some outdated hashrates on some of the other algos, but the (sad) fact is that nowadays 1$ per card is considered good.
In my opinion, mining, holding and hoping is the best thing a miner can do right now... so if you don't want to mine & sell the next day, serious projects with low valuation and much room to run are your best bets.

Seems like a bottom is formed at 0.10$, we see a good volume and buy action at these levels.

Right now we're moving away of this level yet again with some green candles, do you think this time will be the last we see the 0.10$ price and we're going up or will there be another fall? The community will be the decisive factor!