# Monero

> Monero: Private-by-default cryptocurrency.

Part of the Soda Labs Privacy Hub, a neutral directory of the on-chain privacy
landscape: https://www.sodalabs.xyz/privacy-hub

## Key facts

- Entry type: Privacy project
- Category: Private-by-default cryptocurrency
- Website: https://www.getmonero.org
- Tags: ring signatures, stealth addresses, payments
- Canonical page: https://www.sodalabs.xyz/privacy-hub/monero

## Overview

Monero is the most used private cryptocurrency in existence and the field's most thoroughly battle-tested design. Ring signatures, stealth addresses and confidential transactions hide sender, receiver and amount on every transaction, with no optional transparent mode to thin the anonymity set. It has a decade of adversarial scrutiny behind it, a research lab that publishes openly, and a fair launch with no premine. Its regulatory position is contested, and several exchanges have delisted it.

## Sources

- [Website](https://www.getmonero.org)
- [Docs](https://docs.getmonero.org/)
- [Whitepaper](https://web.getmonero.org/resources/research-lab/pubs/whitepaper_annotated.pdf)
- [Source](https://github.com/monero-project)
- [Explorer](https://xmrchain.net)

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