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Monero (XMR) is the privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in April 2014. It uses ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT to obscure sender, receiver, and amount on every transaction by default — the most rigorous privacy guarantees of any major cryptocurrency. Monero forked from the Bytecoin codebase and has had a continuously-active development community ever since.

Monero is referenced in The Bitcoin Group and the Curio Wiki as the canonical comparison point for Bitcoin's privacy properties — typically when discussions turn to fungibility, darknet markets, or regulatory pressure.