Why Monero?
Monero is private digital cash: every transaction hides the sender, the receiver and the amount — by default, for every user, no opt-in. Pick a comparison below and see honestly where it wins and what compromises had to be made.
Monero vs …
The 14 features we compare
Privacy by default
Are sender, receiver and amount hidden without any user action?
Fungibility
Is every coin interchangeable — can coins be blacklisted or tainted?
Confirmation speed
How fast is a payment practically safe to rely on?
Fees
What does a normal payment cost right now?
Throughput & scaling
How much traffic can the network handle, and at what cost to decentralization?
Mining / validation decentralization
Who can mine or validate profitably? How concentrated is power?
Supply policy
Issuance schedule, cap, and can the total supply be audited?
Self-custody UX
How easy is it to hold your own coins safely?
Adoption & liquidity
Where can you actually spend, buy and sell it?
Censorship resistance
Can transactions, coins or users be blocked or blacklisted?
Programmability
What can be built on top of it?
Security track record
Incidents, bugs, audits — how has it held up?
Interoperability
How easily does it bridge to other chains — including Monero?
Governance & funding
How is development funded and who decides the roadmap?
Our honesty policy
What we promise
Every claim links to a primary source. Every row names a winner — Monero, the competitor, a tie, or "it depends". Numbers carry an "as of" date. If we can't verify something, we say so instead of guessing.
What we are not
This is not financial advice and not a shill piece. Monero loses rows on this site — Lightning is faster, Ethereum is more programmable, Bitcoin is more liquid and its supply is simpler to audit. Read the rows and weigh what matters to you.