Monero XMR
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CM Profile: Monero
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about XMR, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on Kraken's order book lost 0.21%, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold XMR. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 8 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: exchange depth on Kraken, trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell XMR
Selling $100,000 of XMR into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken XMR/USD | 0.21% | $99,794 | 2026-10-08 median of 44 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps XMR on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Monero is
Monero is a cryptocurrency launched in 2014 with one uncompromising design goal: private transactions by default, not as an option.
It achieves this with three techniques working together. Ring signatures mix a real spend with decoys so the true sender is ambiguous. Stealth addresses generate a fresh one-time address for every payment, so nothing links back to a published address. Confidential transactions hide the amount. The result is that balances and transfers are genuinely opaque, unlike Bitcoin, where every movement is permanently visible to anyone.
That property has a practical price. Many major exchanges have delisted Monero under regulatory pressure, making it harder to buy and sell, and some jurisdictions have moved to restrict privacy coins outright. Privacy also complicates any use where proof of payment matters. Monero is the clearest example in crypto of a project that chose a principle over convenience, and holders inherit both sides of that choice.
What Monero can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.21% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
Anyone can send monero to any address, and a new block arrives about every two minutes. The sender, the receiver and the amount of every payment are hidden, for every user and not as an option. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Sources: Monero: what Monero is, Monero: about · checked 2 October 2026
Monero pays nothing for being held. New coins go to those who mine it, and it is built so that ordinary computers can.
Source: Monero: about · checked 2 October 2026
Monero has no maximum. Since May 2022 every new block creates up to 0.6 XMR, and that reward never drops to zero.
Source: Monero: tail emission · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
About the asset
Monero has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
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Monero data synced 4m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell XMR.