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Monero, the default

Monero is the default coin for a reason: it hides sender, receiver and amount at the protocol level, so the ledger does not leak the trail that a transparent chain does. For Tor commerce that property is the whole point.

Wallets

Use a wallet you control. Feather (desktop) and Cake Wallet (desktop and mobile) are common, lightweight choices that can route over Tor. Avoid holding balances on an exchange; withdraw to your own wallet first.

How to fund cleanly

  1. Acquire Monero and withdraw it to your own wallet.
  2. When you place an order, the market issues a fresh deposit address; send from your wallet to that address.
  3. Wait for the network confirmations the market requires, then the balance appears.
If you buy XMR on an identity-checked exchange, move it to your own wallet before sending onward. Sending straight from the exchange to the market links the two.

Last reviewed 2026-07-12.