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Monero / XMR
Market guides and dated reports for XMR. Browse recent coverage below or use the archive pages to find older articles.
A perpetual future contract tracking the price of Monero (XMR). Each contract represents 1 XMR, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency designed to enable confidential transactions using advanced cryptography that obscures sender, receiver, and transaction amounts.
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XMR Round-Trips the $120M Laundering Pump as Tether Freezes $72M
XMR is down 17.03% over 22 hours to $343.50, but the drop only makes sense alongside the spike that preceded it. On June 11, a single Tron wallet received $120.2 million in USDT and routed part of it into aggressive Monero buy orders, running XMR from about $330 to a peak near $438 in hours — a move on-chain investigator ZachXBT traced to one entity's laundering flow, not organic demand. A day later Tether blacklisted $72 million of related USDT, ending the bid. What looks like a privacy-coin selloff is really a manufactured pump deflating back to where it started.
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XMR Article Archive
XMR Round-Trips the $120M Laundering Pump as Tether Freezes $72M
XMR is down 17.03% over 22 hours to $343.50, but the drop only makes sense alongside the spike that preceded it. On June 11, a single Tron wallet received $120.2 million in USDT and routed part of it into aggressive Monero buy orders, ru…
Monero Rebounds as Zcash's Counterfeit Bug Flips the Privacy Trade
XMR is up 7.50% over 24 hours to $325.60, reversing the privacy-coin rotation that drained it into Zcash all spring. The trigger sat on the other side of the trade: security engineer Taylor Hornby disclosed a four-year-old counterfeiting…
Monero Loses $340 Support as Capital Rotates Into Zcash
XMR fell 20.28% in seven hours to $304.30, slicing through the $340 trendline support and the $314 horizontal floor that traders had been watching all spring. The proximate weight is a privacy-coin rotation: capital is leaving Monero for…
How to Trade Monero (XMR) on Hyperliquid
Monero is the original privacy-by-default cryptocurrency, using ring signatures and stealth addresses to make every transaction confidential. With a market cap around $6.8 billion and an all-time high above $545 hit in January 2026, XMR …
XMR Perp Prints $430 While Spot Sits at $338: Anatomy of a Thin-Book Dislocation
The Hyperliquid HIP-3 XMR perpetual ripped 27% in an hour to $429.80 while spot Monero traded at $338 and falling, producing a $90 premium on a market that does $7,000 in daily volume. There is no XMR-specific catalyst. The broader crypt…
Monero Reclaims $380 as THORChain Integration Opens First Major DEX Channel
XMR jumped 8% in 18 hours to $381.90 after reports that THORChain has integrated Monero for native cross-chain swaps, giving the most delisted large-cap in crypto its first significant decentralized liquidity venue. The move rides a broa…
XMR Breaks Below $300 as Macro Selloff Finally Catches Monero
Monero initially showed relative strength as Bitcoin cratered toward $65,000 on escalating Iran-Israel tensions and Trump tariff fears. That resilience just snapped. XMR dropped 15.8% in three hours to $293, punching through the $300 lev…
Monero Blasts Past $360 Resistance as Iran Peace Talks Ignite Privacy Coin Bid
XMR ripped 8% in under a day to $374.60, smashing through the [$340–$360 resistance band](https://www.mexc.com/news/839379) that had capped it for weeks. The catalyst: a broad crypto risk-on move sparked by [Iran-US peace talk headlines]…
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