Monero price

Monero is the native coin of Monero, a payment blockchain designed to keep sender, recipient, and amount information private by default. Monero uses ring signatures, stealth addresses, and Ring Confidential Transactions as core transaction-privacy components. The XMR asset is therefore tied to this specific network, protocol, or issuer function rather than to a generic cryptocurrency category.

Monero uses RandomX proof of work, with network difficulty retargeted every block and a target block time of roughly two minutes. After the main emission, Monero entered tail emission of 0.6 XMR per block, so supply has no fixed maximum. These mechanics describe how XMR is produced, issued, redeemed, burned, or used to secure its network; they do not imply any price outcome or investment view.

A distinguishing feature is that privacy is applied by default through combined sender, recipient, and amount protections rather than offered only as an optional application layer. The permanent tail emission is intended to keep a block reward available after the main issuance curve. This named mechanism or use case is the asset-specific fact that separates XMR from tokens that may share a broad category but have different issuance, governance, or settlement designs.