# Stasher News

Category: forums · Community
Grade: C
KYC: NO-KYC
Highlights: XMR, NO-KYC, P2P-TIPS, XMR-ONLY, COMMUNITY
Features: xmr, no_kyc, p2p_tips, community, memes
Web: https://stasher.news
Contact: X: https://x.com/stashernews
Last verified: 2026-09-10
Operating since: 2026 (0y) — Brand-new — no Wayback history, X joined Aug 2026 (~1mo). Non-custodial tips (P2P) + a bounty-escrow wallet (light custody). Grade C for new-platform + fund-touching-escrow; not exchange-class so the 6mo exchange floor doesn't strictly apply, but new + touches XMR = C. Climbs on tenure + clean escrow track record.

> Monero-native link aggregator + social feed (turfs, news, memes) with peer-to-peer XMR tipping — attach a wallet, tips arrive on-chain, no account email required. Brand-new; bounties use a platform escrow.

## Review

**A Reddit / Hacker-News for Monero, wired for on-chain tipping.** Stasher News is a community link-aggregator — "turfs" (subs) for monero, mining, memes and more — where posts and comments earn **XMR tips paid peer-to-peer on the Monero network** into a wallet you attach to your profile. Browsing is free; posting costs a small **0.001 XMR** anti-spam fee (until your account has stacked 0.01 XMR in tips), which funds the curator-rewards pool.

**Custody: mostly non-custodial, with one escrow.** The platform states it plainly — *"Stasher News is non-custodial: the platform never holds your money, and all payments are sent directly on the Monero network."* Tips and rewards are genuinely P2P — nothing is skimmed, funds land in your own wallet. The one exception is **bounties**, funded to an integrated address on the platform's **dedicated bounty escrow wallet** and paid out to the winner — a temporary, purpose-scoped hold, not a general balance you top up and withdraw.

**Access is no-KYC.** Signup offers *"Sign up without Email"* — wallet-based, no identity, email optional.

**Why C.** It's **brand-new** (domain + X both ~Aug 2026, no track record) and touches user XMR via the bounty escrow, so C is the honest ceiling for now — a deserved listing used with the caution any month-old fund-touching platform warrants. On the plus side it's refreshingly **XMR-only** (no BTC/fiat bolt-on), the tip flow is real and non-custodial, and it already draws genuine Monero-community participation. Climbs on tenure + a clean track record on the escrow.

**One real privacy trade-off:** attaching a wallet means handing over your **private view key** (primary address + view key). It is watch-only — it *cannot spend*, which is exactly what makes the platform non-custodial — but it lets Stasher (and anyone who obtains that key) **see every incoming transfer** to that address. Use a **dedicated / fresh wallet** for Stasher, never your main one, or you expose your full receiving history. To Stasher's credit, they **disclose this exact tradeoff on the registration screen** and explicitly tell you to create a wallet solely for Stasher — honest, user-protective framing rather than a quiet key-harvest, and a real point in their favour on transparency.

Source: https://xmr.club/forums/stasher-news