XMR

Privacy Token

2026-09-21 10:44:00

Privacy tokens rally as PANews maps capital rotation from ZEC to NEAR and ZAMA

PANews has published a sector review on privacy-related crypto assets, highlighting a sharp shift in market attention toward tokens tied to privacy narratives, infrastructure and applications. The piece notes that Garrett Jin, described in the article as the "10.11 insider whale" and known for holding a large ZEC spot position alongside a short, has closed a ZEC short that had been sitting on a $30 million unrealized loss. The article frames that move as a notable signal in the current ZEC trade. The report groups the sector’s capital rotation into four stages: first ZEC as a tradable privacy asset, then NEAR as a routing layer that makes privacy feel native, then ZAMA as encrypted-computation infrastructure for public blockchains, and finally application-layer or legacy beta plays such as RAIL, ZEN and DASH. It also cites Vitalik Buterin’s recent comment, "I won’t give up on privacy," as part of the broader backdrop. PANews goes on to compare the tokens by price, 7-day performance, market-cap structure, liquidity and compliance positioning. In its breakdown, ZEC and NEAR sit at the center of pricing and traffic capture, ZAMA and RAIL offer higher elasticity, XMR remains constrained by exchange delistings and compliance issues, while ZEN and DASH are presented as older names that have lagged the sector’s newer privacy narratives.

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Monero

2026-09-13 13:31:44

Monero persists after exchange delistings, leaning on mandatory privacy and community funding

Monero remains one of crypto’s clearest examples of uncompromising privacy, but that design has come with mounting distribution costs. The article reviews how XMR, launched in April 2014 from a Bytecoin fork, built its privacy model around ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT, then replaced ring signatures with FCMP++ in January 2026. That upgrade expanded the anonymity set from 16 possible spenders to more than 150 million historical outputs while keeping proofs compact at roughly 3-4 KB. The report also traces the regulatory pressure behind exchange delistings. OKX removed XMR pairs in January 2024, Binance followed globally in February 2024, and Kraken expanded delistings across the European Economic Area by October 2024. By 2025, about 73 exchanges had removed Monero, including Coinbase and Bitstamp, as compliance frameworks such as MiCA and FATF travel rule requirements made mandatory privacy difficult for regulated platforms to support. Despite that, the piece argues Monero has not collapsed. It still relies on peer-to-peer and decentralized trading, a CPU-oriented RandomX mining model, and a community crowdfunding system that raised about $925,000 in 2025. With no company, board, or CEO behind it, Monero’s development and crisis response depend on volunteers and community coordination, a structure tested during the 2025 Qubic mining pool episode.

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Glassnode

2026-09-08 07:04:00

Glassnode says privacy coins are the year’s standout as most crypto sectors remain below prior highs

Glassnode’s latest market breakdown shows a sharp split inside crypto performance over the past year. Bitcoin is down 36% from its October 2025 all-time high, and the median drawdown across the top 200 digital assets by market capitalization stands at 58%. Yet the privacy coin segment has moved the other way, rising 213% and becoming the only sector to push above its previous peak. The report says the market value of privacy coins in the top 200 climbed from $7.1 billion a year ago to $33.6 billion, with nearly half of that increase arriving in the past 30 days. Zcash (ZEC) drove much of the move, surging 2,496% over the period and accounting for 62% of the sector’s market cap. Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), and Horizen (ZEN) also outperformed Bitcoin over the last 90 days. Glassnode adds that the latest 30-day rally has been broad, with 91.5% of the top 200 assets posting gains, the widest monthly rebound in that dataset. Even so, only 25 assets are up on a one-year basis, which points to a market where gains have been concentrated rather than evenly shared.

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Monero

2026-08-31 01:38:20

Top XMR Holder Made Over $3.15M in 23 Days, Still Holds 16K XMR 4x Long

Odaily Planet Daily reports that, according to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi (Ai 姨), the top position holder on Monero's native network made more than $3.15 million in cumulative profit in just 23 days by betting on XMR's rise. The position was opened on August 9. At its peak, it held 34,000 XMR, worth approximately $16.72 million. Last night, the holder closed half of the position, locking in $1.637 million in realized profit. The remaining position still holds 16,000 XMR with 4x leverage, and floating profit has surpassed $1.53 million. According to the analyst's monitoring data, the holder remains the largest position on the Monero native network.

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THORChain

2026-08-30 16:12:45

THORChain Adds Native Monero Swaps, XMR Rises 8.9%

THORChain, which is a decentralized cross-chain protocol, has completed an upgrade. The upgrade now supports native Monero (XMR) cross-chain swaps, according to a report by Crypto Briefing that was relayed by Techub News. This upgrade is designed to give privacy-coin users more transaction autonomy, in response to the growing regulatory pressure that exchanges are facing. Following the upgrade, the price of Monero increased by about 8.9%. The integration of native XMR means that users can now swap Monero directly on the THORChain protocol. The news was first covered by Crypto Briefing. The project has described the upgrade as a way to provide more trading autonomy for privacy coin users. The 8.9% price rise happened after the upgrade was announced. There were no additional technical details provided about the upgrade in the report. The upgrade was a direct response to the increasing regulatory pressure on exchanges. Monero is a privacy coin, and its native token is XMR. THORChain is a decentralized cross-chain protocol for swaps between different networks.

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Monero

2026-08-21 07:33:46

Why Monero Is Still Standing After Being Delisted by 73 Exchanges

Monero remains one of crypto’s most resilient privacy coins even after a sweeping wave of exchange delistings. According to TechFlowPost’s translated article by A Fox in Web3, the token’s staying power comes from three things working together: mandatory privacy at the protocol level, a major FCMP++ upgrade that expanded the anonymity set from 16 decoys to the full history of the chain, and an unusually decentralized structure with no company, no CEO, and no venture-backed treasury. The report says Monero was launched in April 2014 from a fork of Bytecoin and has always hidden the sender, recipient, and amount in every transaction by default. That design has made compliance difficult for regulated exchanges. In 2025 alone, about 73 exchanges removed XMR, including Coinbase and Bitstamp, after earlier delistings by OKX, Binance, Kraken, and Huobi. Still, holding Monero remains legal in places including the U.S., EU, UK, and Canada, and the article says peer-to-peer and decentralized trading activity has not collapsed. The piece also highlights Monero’s January 2026 FCMP++ activation, its RandomX mining algorithm aimed at CPU mining, and its community crowdfunding system, or CCS, which raised about $925,000 in 2025. The article frames Monero and Zcash as two sharply different approaches to privacy: one uncompromising and mandatory, the other optional and more workable for regulated venues.

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Hyperliquid

2026-08-10 01:46:30

Lookonchain Flags New Wallet's 4x XMR Long Worth $14.33M on Hyperliquid

According to Lookonchain, a newly created wallet address deposited 3.56 million USDC into Hyperliquid. The same wallet then opened a 4x leveraged long position on 36,000 XMR, worth roughly $14.33 million. A take-profit order is set between $475 and $516 per XMR. The analytics firm labeled the trader as a whale. This on-chain movement was detected on the Hyperliquid platform and shared by Lookonchain. The wallet's owner remains unidentified. No additional details about trade execution or wallet history were disclosed.

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Coinsbuy

2026-08-10 00:35:02

Coinsbuy says over $7.9 million stolen, with part of the funds frozen

Wallets linked to crypto processing platform Coinsbuy were drained of more than $7.9 million across Ethereum and TRON, according to monitoring by Specter cited by BlockBeats on Aug. 10. The stolen assets were then laundered into XMR through exchanges, the report said. Coinsbuy said it was able to freeze a six-figure portion of the stolen funds with support from ChangeNOW. The platform also temporarily halted deposits and withdrawals after the incident, though those services have since resumed. Coinsbuy describes itself as a cryptocurrency processing platform serving business users, including enterprises, merchants, and exchanges. The incident adds to the list of cross-chain theft cases in which attackers moved funds quickly and used exchange routes to obscure trails after the initial exploit.

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