Monero · XMR
The leading proof-of-work coin for private digital cash
A scarce, fixed-supply privacy coin that's genuinely used — but privacy is the one story serious money likes as tech, not as a coin.
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XMR · one fixed mining reward, and nothing else moves supply.
XMR is the coin of Monero, a proof-of-work privacy network — ~18.78M circulating, no supply cap, no premine, and a mining reward fixed at 0.6 XMR per block forever.
Sell pressure. Mining added ~38.9K XMR over the last 90 days — 64,769 blocks at the fixed reward, and the only source of new supply that exists.
Buy pressure. Zero — no buyback, no burn, no staking lock. Nothing takes XMR back off the market.
Net. About +0.21% to market per 90 days — small, steady, and shrinking as a percentage every year because the reward is fixed in coins.
A chain read counted 64,769 blocks mined over the last 90 days, each paying the fixed 0.6 XMR mining reward — about 38.9K new XMR. That reward is written into the protocol and never falls to zero, so roughly the same amount is minted every quarter forever, and the percentage rate keeps easing as supply grows.
Monero launched openly in 2014 with no premine and no team allocation, so nothing was ever locked and there is no schedule that could release coins.
There is no premined foundation reserve. The one team-controlled pool is the community crowdfunding General Fund, held in a multisig and filled only by donations and leftover proposal money; its balance is not published and cannot be read from the chain, so it is tracked as an opaque overhang with no release observed in the window.
No bankruptcy estate, trustee schedule or court-ordered distribution applies to XMR. No public evidence of release in window — monitored.
There is no buyback. Monero keeps no protocol revenue — every fee is paid straight to miners — so there is nothing to fund open-market buying.
Transaction fees go to the miner who finds the block, not to a burn address, so no XMR is ever destroyed.
No discretionary open-market buying observed — the donation-funded General Fund exists to pay contributors, not to accumulate XMR. No public evidence of release in window — monitored.
No new multi-year lock, escrow or staking contract exists or was announced — Monero has no staking at all. No public evidence of release in window — monitored.
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