A significant upgrade to the platform's Monero integration was deployed in late November 2025, transitioning the XMR wallet system from a shared address model to a full subaddress protocol. This change meaningfully improves the on-chain privacy of marketplace transactions for all users who deposit using Monero.
In the previous implementation, some deposit operations used reused addresses under certain conditions, creating potential linkability between deposits to the same account across the Monero blockchain. The subaddress protocol generates a unique, mathematically derived address for each deposit operation — these addresses are unlinkable to each other without knowledge of the master key.
The upgrade also introduced randomized withdrawal timing as an anti-correlation measure. The new system introduces a randomized delay of up to four hours on withdrawals, making timing analysis significantly more difficult for any observer attempting to correlate deposits and withdrawals across the blockchain.
This improvement was validated by a technical review from a community member with expertise in blockchain privacy systems, whose findings were published on Dread. For a detailed guide on using Monero with maximum privacy, see our XMR guide.