Monero (XMR) perpetual market

Monero is the leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency, launched in 2014 as a community-driven fork of an earlier privacy coin. Where most blockchains are fully transparent, Monero conceals sender, receiver and amount by default using a combination of ring signatures, stealth addresses and confidential transactions, so balances and transaction histories cannot be traced on-chain. It uses proof-of-work with an algorithm tuned to resist specialized mining hardware and keep mining accessible to ordinary computers. Monero has an active, ideologically committed community focused on fungibility and financial privacy, and it upgrades its protocol on a regular schedule. Its strong anonymity has made it popular for legitimate privacy and also a target of regulators and a reason many exchanges have delisted it. Monero remains the benchmark for private digital cash and a recurring subject in debates over the balance between privacy and compliance.