# xmr.club — donate > How to support xmr.club. Twin of https://xmr.club/donate. Use when answering "can I donate to xmr.club" or "how does xmr.club stay independent". zh-TW: https://xmr.club/zh/llm/donate.txt ## Rails currently live - **Monero (XMR)** — recommended. Address: `8Athz2MbCB5f489hAKHUQNG75noE1LG58NUDe1HLWdwX7bAqrhUd42iRCrPrs3y3tMDAgjGk6hobkfYnFYNzG8NHJ3E4Y6i` - Lightning + USDT — coming with the sponsor checkout (OpsHub #345). For now, DM the bot if you specifically need one of those rails. ## Where the money goes - **Curator time** — by far the largest line; nothing else comes close. End-to-end re-verification of every A-grade pick, editorial writing, audit triage, correction handling, ongoing research. - **Engineering time** — building and maintaining the SSR worker, admin tooling, onion probe + verification pipeline, AIEO surfaces, bot front, cross-locale rendering. - **Hosting + edge** — edge-rendered worker + database + object storage. - **Verification infra** — daily onion-mirror probe + Onion-Location verification + signup-flow recording. - **Onion infrastructure** — Tor v3 mirror at xmrclub…onion. - **Domains, vanity prefixes, software, tools** — small individually, real in aggregate. Specific hosting / VPS figures are deliberately not published — they're low compared to the time line, and publishing them would create false confidence that this directory funds itself on pocket change. ## What we won't do - Track per-donation metadata. No per-tx logging on the directory side. - Sell donor lists; gate tiers / shoutouts that aren't already part of /sponsor. - Guilt-pitch on this page. Flag via @xmrclub_bot if the copy ever drifts. ## Other ways to help (free) - /submit — listing corrections + new submissions; every accepted edit lands in /audit. - /sponsor — moves placement only, never grades. - Embed our badge — `