Funding in Monero, end to end

Monero is the recommended deposit currency on all three markets for one reason: chain analysis. Bitcoin's ledger is fully public and every commercial analytics firm has it indexed. Monero's ledger is not public in the same sense. Ring signatures and stealth addresses prevent the clustering that makes Bitcoin analysis work. Fund in Bitcoin and a later look at the exchange you bought from can tie the deposit back to you; the chain remembers. Fund in Monero and that thread does not exist, because there is no public link between the deposit and the wallet it came from.

Why Monero over Bitcoin

The difference is structural, not a matter of being careful. On Bitcoin, the amount, the sending address, and the receiving address are all written into a permanent public ledger that anyone can read. Cluster a few of those together and a real identity often falls out. On Monero, the sender, the receiver, and the amount are all obscured at the protocol level. This is why every marketplace on this index defaults new accounts to Monero, and why the habits page lists funding in Monero as a baseline reflex.

Choosing a wallet

Three wallets cover buyers. Feather on desktop is the sensible default: quick, clean, and it supports what you actually need, including subaddresses and a custom ring size. Cake on mobile is the right pick if a phone is all you have. The official Monero command line is for those who would rather not trust any wallet interface at all. All three use deterministic seeds, so write the seed down on paper when the wallet first shows it and never type it into a browser form. The seed is the wallet; treat it accordingly.

Sending, step by step

The deposit screen on any of the three hands you a fresh subaddress. Copy it, do not retype it; the same fifty-six character logic that applies to an onion link applies to a wallet address. Open your wallet, paste the address into the send tab, enter the amount exactly as the screen shows it, leave the ring size at default unless you understand the change, and send.

The transaction broadcasts. The network usually confirms it once within a couple of minutes. The platform credits the balance after a few confirmations, often inside ten minutes from broadcast. If the screen still reads pending after half an hour, refresh, and if it is still pending, check the wallet to confirm the transaction actually went out, because wallets sometimes queue a send but fail to broadcast over a flaky Tor link.

Common slips

One: sending from an exchange that does not support native Monero withdrawals. Use a wallet you control, not an exchange's internal balance. Two: rounding the amount in your head and dropping a decimal. Paste the exact figure the screen shows. Three: closing the page before the balance posts. Crediting is asynchronous; the balance will appear, but you have to return to the account page to see it. On Osiris in particular, fund in Monero, since the walletless model means your coins move toward the order rather than into a pooled balance, and a Bitcoin deposit would defeat the privacy posture the design is built around.

Frequently asked

How long does a deposit take?

From broadcast to credit is usually under ten minutes; from hitting send to the balance showing, usually under fifteen. Past half an hour, check the wallet broadcast first.

Can I still use Bitcoin?

Bitcoin works in places but is de-emphasised everywhere on this index, and it reopens the chain-analysis tail risk that Monero closes. There is little reason to choose it.

What if I sent the wrong amount?

The balance credits whatever arrived. If you underfund an order, top up with a second deposit; if you overfund, the surplus stays in your account balance for the next order.

Once funded, the buyer walkthrough covers the rest, and the escrow guide explains what protects the order once you place it.