Monero XMR

Where XMR sits in the market

At #18, Monero sits in the top of the large-cap band, near enough to the leaders to be quoted like one of them. This close to the leaders the book behaves like a major most of the time: XMR quotes continuously on the large venues and the spread is rarely the reason a trade goes wrong. What separates it from the top ten is reflexivity — it takes the benchmark's direction and amplifies it, so drawdowns arrive faster than the rank suggests.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 2 live XMR order books (MEXC, HTX). That is thinner coverage than a #18 ranking would normally imply — a move on one of these books is close to the whole market for XMR, with no deep second venue to arbitrage it back. None of the books we see for XMR are regulated US or Korean venues, so this is an offshore-quoted asset — availability, and the price itself, depend on which jurisdiction you trade from.

XMR against its all-time high

XMR sits 25.9% under its $797.73 peak (on 2026-01-14) — a normal correction inside a cycle rather than a regime change. 1.35x restores the record, which a single quarter of trend can deliver. What matters at this depth is the shape of the pullback: the band above spot holds recent buyers, and whether they add or exit on the first retest usually settles the next leg. That high was set about a year ago, recently enough that it still anchors how most current holders frame the asset.

XMR across its historical range

XMR has traded across a 3,690x range, between $0.2162 and $797.73. Any volatility figure quoted for this asset depends heavily on which part of that range it is measured over.

Spot is roughly 2,734x above the $0.2162 low (on 2015-01-14). The practical consequence is a cost-basis distribution skewed by orders of magnitude: a slice of the supply was acquired at a price that rounds to zero against today's, and that supply is price-insensitive on the way up. Rallies in an asset like this do not fail because demand disappears — they fail because early supply meets them.

XMR supply structure

There is no fixed maximum supply for XMR. Total supply stands at 18.4 million XMR and essentially all of it — 100.0% — is circulating. With no locked treasury to unlock, dilution comes from protocol issuance over time rather than from a cliff on a vesting calendar, which tends to produce slow supply drift instead of discrete unlock shocks. The supply is small in unit terms, so the per-token price is high and each whole-unit level carries real weight as a psychological threshold.

What kind of asset XMR is

Monero belongs to the privacy-coin category, which comes with a specific and unusual risk profile: the dominant driver of its trading environment is regulation, not technology or demand. Privacy assets have been removed from major regulated exchanges in several jurisdictions, and each delisting permanently narrows where the asset can be traded and how deep its books are. For this class, exchange availability is not a convenience question — it is the primary risk factor, and it moves in steps rather than continuously.

CoinGecko files XMR under 6 categories, including Privacy Coins, Layer 1 (L1), Proof of Work (PoW), Galaxy Digital Portfolio, Privacy. XMR is mined rather than staked — one of only 130 proof-of-work assets in a dataset of almost ten thousand — which means issuance is tied to physical energy cost and miners have a structural, schedule-driven reason to sell. Worth flagging from the metadata: XMR appears in the Galaxy Digital portfolio.

How to set a Monero alert that is worth receiving

Monero (XMR) — quoted on 2 venues we stream — high dated 2026-01-14 — rank #18. On this profile the condition that carries signal is a price threshold plus venue-availability news, which moves this class faster than any candle.

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