Monero Adoption Proof

Accepting Monero isn't a niche bet or a privacy gesture — it's a revenue decision.

The numbers below come from companies that gave customers a full menu of payment options at checkout: fiat, Bitcoin, Lightning, stablecoins, the major altcoins. What customers actually picked, again and again, is Monero.

If you run a privacy-focused business that hasn't added XMR yet, these charts are the customers you're saying no to. They have money. They want to spend it with you. Some are paying you in slower, more expensive options because they have no choice. Others are quietly walking to a competitor that takes Monero. Integration takes anywhere from five minutes (a static address) to a weekend (self-hosted BTCPay) — we walk through every option here. The cost of not doing it compounds every month.

For the narrated walkthrough of these stats, watch the video: Monero Adoption Proof: Real Businesses, Real Payments .

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ShopinBit — retail

ShopinBit is one of the largest crypto-native retailers in Europe — electronics, appliances, luxury goods. Their March 2026 numbers are the best advertisement Monero adoption could ask for: XMR accounts for 69.72% of all payments — almost seven in ten checkouts. Bitcoin trails at 15.86%, USDT at 14.41%, and fiat is functionally nonexistent at 0.01%. A mainstream retail catalog, and the customer answer is overwhelming: when you let people pay privately, they do.

NymVPN — privacy VPN

Nym is a mixnet and VPN provider built around privacy — XMR is exactly the payment method their customer base self-selects for, and the 2025 trend chart shows it. Through 2025, XMR-CHAIN expanded into the dominant band while BTC-CHAIN's share collapsed from roughly 37% in March to about 17% by December. Lightning, USDT (Tron), Litecoin, and ZEC fill the rest. The direction is unambiguous: customers of a privacy product migrating toward private money. If your product is sold on privacy and you don't take XMR, you're fighting your own positioning.

NanoGPT — AI services

NanoGPT offers pay-per-use access to leading AI models — global customers, low-friction settlement, real demand for private payments. XMR is the dominant payment method at 41.74% — more than three times Bitcoin's 13.04% share, and larger than the next four payment methods (XNO, BTC, BTC-LN, USDT) combined. Nano comes in second at 15.16%. For an AI service, that's customers actively choosing to keep their LLM usage off a public ledger — and choosing the only payment method that lets them.

Mynymbox — privacy domain registrar

Mynymbox is a privacy-respecting domain registrar — the domain for MoneroShameList itself was bought through them. Monero at 42%, nearly double Bitcoin's 23% share. Litecoin at 17%, atomic swaps via TrocadorApp at 10%, Lightning at 8%. For a registrar whose customers self-select for financial privacy, XMR being almost 2× the next-largest method is exactly the customer preference you'd expect — and a clean argument that privacy-aligned products do best when they accept privacy-aligned money.

Servers.guru — VPS hosting

Servers.guru is an affordable VPS host that accepts Monero — also part of the stack behind this site. XMR is 38.94% of payments — more than 2.5× Bitcoin's 14.90% share, and almost five times the credit card share (7.85%). USDT (TRC20) at 8.49%, LTC at 8.17%, and a long tail of stablecoins and altcoins. Read that again: at a hosting provider that takes credit cards like everyone else, nearly five times as many customers pay with XMR as with a card. That's the upside any infrastructure business is leaving on the table by not offering it.

Coincards — gift cards

Coincards lets users buy gift cards for thousands of major retailers using cryptocurrency — one of the easiest ways for customers to spend XMR with businesses that haven't integrated it natively (option 6 on our how to accept Monero page). This is the only company on this page where BTC leads XMR — Bitcoin on-chain at 37.9% vs. Monero at 26.1%. Even so, XMR is a clear second, ahead of USDC (11.3%), Dogecoin (9.6%), Ethereum (5.9%), Litecoin (2.8%), and the rest. The Coincards user base spans the entire crypto landscape — not just privacy advocates — and more than a quarter of them still pick Monero. The "XMR is too niche" argument doesn't survive contact with these numbers.

What this means if you're on the Shame List

Six different businesses, six different industries: retail, VPN, AI, hosting, domains, gift cards. One pattern — when customers can pay in Monero, a huge fraction of them do. XMR ranges from 26% to nearly 70% of checkouts on this page. At ShopinBit it dominates seven-in-ten purchases. At NymVPN it took over from Bitcoin across 2025. At NanoGPT, Mynymbox, and Servers.guru it's the single most-used payment method — beating BTC by 2× to 3× and beating credit cards by nearly 5×.

Privacy isn't a fringe preference. The moment you stop forcing customers to expose their financial activity to spend money with you, a meaningful share of them switches.

If your company is on the Monero Shame List, this page is the answer to "is anyone actually using XMR?" Yes — tens of percent of revenue at real businesses, in every category, beating every other payment method these companies offer. Adding it costs you anywhere from five minutes to a weekend (here's how). It pays for itself the moment a single customer who would have walked instead checks out. Once it's live, let us know and we'll take you off the list.