Monero · XMR
The leading proof-of-work coin for private digital cash
A privacy coin with a small permanent emission that's genuinely used and getting busier — but privacy is the one story serious money likes as tech, not as a coin.
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XMR · a fixed tail reward, and nothing else touching supply.
XMR is the native coin of Monero, a proof-of-work privacy chain that hides amounts and senders — ~18.8M circulating, with no cap and no locked coins anywhere in the design.
Sell pressure. Mining is the only source of new coins. Counting real blocks, the chain minted 38.85K XMR over the last 90 days at a flat 0.6 XMR a block.
Buy pressure. 0 — no buyback, no fee burn, no staking lock. The chain keeps no revenue, so nothing absorbs supply back.
Net. About 0.21% of supply goes to market over 90 days — small, flat and about as predictable as issuance gets, because the reward never halves and never ends.
Mining is the only source of new XMR. Counting real blocks rather than the target block time, the chain produced 64,758 blocks over the last 90 days and each one paid a fixed tail reward of 0.6 XMR — about 38.85K new coins. Blocks ran at 120.07 seconds against a 120-second target, so the real count came in 42 blocks under the nominal 64,800. The reward never halves and has no end date, so the next 90 days mint the same amount, and the percentage falls a little every year as the float grows.
No vesting exists. Monero launched in April 2014 as a fair, pre-announced launch with no premine, no instamine, no ICO and no dev tax, so no coins were ever set aside for a team or an investor to unlock. No unlock tracker publishes a schedule for XMR because there is none to publish.
No team-controlled allocation exists to release. Every XMR that exists was paid to a miner, so there is no foundation reserve, no labs holding and no treasury. The one pool worth watching is the community crowdfunding pot, which pays contributors from coins donated by users rather than from any protocol allocation; its balance cannot be read because this chain hides balances, so it is tracked through the project's published proposals. If that pot spends into the market between refreshes, the outflow lands here.
No bankruptcy estate and no long-term locked seller distributing XMR. There is no escrow contract and no locked tranche anywhere in the design — the whole supply is freely spendable the moment it is mined.
No buyback. Monero keeps no protocol revenue at all — the full block reward and every transaction fee go straight to the miner — so there is no income stream that could fund buying XMR back off the market, and no contract that does it.
No fee burn, checked two ways this build. Every block sampled across the window pays the 0.6 base reward plus its fees to the miner, so fees are paid out rather than destroyed, and the coin count rose steadily over the window on two independent chain reads. There is also nothing to read on the other side: this chain has no token contract and no address balances, so it has no dead address a burn could sit in.
No accumulation programme. There is no foundation entity holding a treasury of XMR and no budget that buys coins on the open market. Contributor work is funded by user donations, which move coins between holders rather than absorbing them.
Nothing locks XMR up. This is a proof-of-work chain with no staking, no bonding and no lockup contract, so there is no mechanism that takes coins off the tradable float.
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