On February 20th, 2026, a brand-new Monero forum went live. Less than six months later it is closing in on two thousand members. It is called monero.forum — yes, that is the entire domain — and it is a lot more than a message board. A built-in Monero wallet, tipping, a faucet, a business directory with real reviews, a price dashboard, classifieds, and a leveling system — and every bit of it works over Tor without ever handing anyone an email address. We gave it a full run-through, and it earns a solid 5 out of 5.
Sign-up: no email, Tor-friendly
First, the part privacy people actually care about: registration requires no email. There is an optional field if you want account recovery, but you can skip it completely — username, password, done. The site loads clean over Tor, there is no third-party tracking bolted on, and you can even attach a PGP key to your profile. For a Monero community, that is exactly how it should be — and it is rarer than you would think.
The forum and the numbers
The forum runs sixteen categories — mining, help and support, price talk, world news, scam reports, promotion and adoption, and a lounge where most of the action happens. At the time of writing the stats page shows around 1,967 members, 439 threads, and 2,807 posts, with roughly fifteen people online at any given moment and new members joining every day. That is real growth for a forum that did not exist in January.
And the quality holds up — people breaking down node setups, no-KYC services, and security incidents as they happen, not moonboys posting rocket emojis. Even Anti Moonboy posts there, running an official news thread where he drops each new episode and the community piles in with thoughts, comments, and criticism.
The wallet and tipping
Here is the feature that separates this from every other forum on the internet: every account comes with a built-in Monero wallet. You can deposit XMR into it, withdraw back out to your own wallet, and — the fun part — tip other users directly on their posts. Every post has two buttons: thanks, which is free, and tip, which sends real Monero from your balance to theirs. Someone writes a genuinely useful guide? You pay them for it in two clicks. That turns “nice post” into actual money — the circular economy Monero people love to talk about, actually built.
Levels and XP
Participating earns you XP, and XP ranks you up through levels — your profile shows exactly how many points you need to hit the next one. And levels are not just cosmetic. Until Level 2 your posts are held for moderation (the spam filter). Level 2 also unlocks the faucet, and Level 3 lets you upload videos straight into your posts. The system quietly rewards people who contribute and filters out the drive-by accounts.
The faucet
Once every twenty-four hours you can claim a small amount of XMR, credited instantly to your forum wallet — and we mean small, fractions of a cent. The admin is completely upfront that this is not an earnings site; it exists so new users have a little Monero to play with and tip people. Claiming requires a profile photo, Level 2, and activity in the last three days. Show up just to farm it and you will probably get banned. Honestly? Good.
Directory and reviews
The business directory has twenty-three approved listings so far — hosting, exchanges, gift and debit cards, and community projects. You can filter by clearnet, onion, or I2P, and by admin-verified listings. Every listing gets its own discussion threads and user reviews, scored across eight criteria — privacy, Monero support, transparency, reputation, even a vibe check — all rolling up into a percentage and a letter grade. Best part: scam listings do not get quietly deleted. They get flagged and stay visible as a warning. That is the right call.
Price page and bull/bear
The price page is its own dashboard: XMR priced in seven fiat currencies, plus Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Wownero — and gold and silver, which we appreciate. There is a converter, a monthly chart, and live network stats: block height, mempool, difficulty, hashrate. Plus a daily bull-or-bear sentiment vote, one vote per account per day.
Chat, classifieds, and ads
Rounding it out, there is a live chat bridged to the forum’s Telegram channel, a classifieds section where people post services priced in XMR, and self-serve banner slots you can book right on the site if you have something to promote.
Why forums like this matter
Monero’s community has always lived one moderation decision away from losing its spaces. Subreddits get quarantined, Discord wants your phone number, and Telegram channels vanish overnight. When a community owns its own forum, nobody upstream can flip a switch on it. And unlike chat apps, forum threads are searchable and permanent — a guide someone writes today still helps a stranger three years from now. Independent forums are not nostalgia; they are infrastructure.
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Verdict: 5/5
Downsides? It is young, it is small, and the faucet is dust by design. But it is fast, private, email-free, and Tor-friendly — and it is the only forum we know of where a good post gets paid in Monero. Go make an account at monero.forum. It costs you nothing — not even an email.
