# xmr.irish

Category: tools · Block & Mempool Explorer
Grade: B
Highlights: EDUCATIONAL, MEMPOOL, NEW
Fees: Free. No account, no payment, no custody.
Web: https://xmr.irish
Contact: X: https://x.com/AquaticXCP
Last verified: 2026-06-11
Operating since: 2026-02-17 (0y)
Also listed at: Monerica

> Education-first Monero tool: live mempool visualizer with per-transaction privacy-primitive callouts, network-stat dashboard, protocol simulations, market ticker, and a Run-A-Node setup helper. Active V1→V5 iteration in four months by @AquaticXCP.

## Review

**What it is.** A Monero education + live-mempool + network-visualization tool. The site combines a block-by-block mempool explorer (with confirmation-count buckets and per-transaction detail down to `rct_type`, fee rate, size, ring-member count), a live market ticker (XMR/USD and XMR/BTC from CoinGecko), a network-stat dashboard (block height, hashrate, difficulty, hard-fork version), a `Simulate` section with eight protocol visualizations, and a `Run A Node` setup helper. Per the operator's own V5 announcement, the roadmap includes automated information updates for FCMP++, Carrot, Seraphis, Jamtis, and Cuprate as they ship.

**Background.** Founded **2026-02-17** (monerica.com listing, *"Education, mining, network stats, and the investment thesis for Monero"*). Listed on monerica as `Media > News Aggregators` on 2026-03-21. The operator is **AquaticXCP** (verified X handle, *"capybara enthusiast"*) who maintains the site as an actively-iterated personal project — V1 through V5 in roughly four months, with V5 publicly announced on X as a *"live build"* that will be tweaked over the following week. The operator explicitly invites bug reports and concerns via X message / comment. No legal entity, no payment surface, no signup, no custody — this is a read-only educational tool, not a service.

**What you trust.**

- **Non-custodial by category.** The site holds no user funds, processes no payments, and requires no signup. There is no wallet integration. Trust failure modes reduce to (a) the site being down (low-cost) or (b) the site rendering misleading data (a UX-design concern, not a custodial-risk concern).
- **Live data sources are labelled.** The mempool, network stats, and per-transaction detail are drawn from a Monero node (top-line marked `FROM NODE`) and the market ticker is marked `CG · live` (CoinGecko). Data lineage is signposted on the page.
- **Privacy primitives surfaced inline.** Each transaction detail view publishes an `ALWAYS-ON` panel naming the privacy features (*sender hidden / ring signature · recipient hidden / stealth address · amount hidden / RingCT*) — a small but meaningful educational signal: the tool isn't just an explorer, it's also teaching the protocol guarantees while you read.
- **Active operator presence.** The operator's V5 announcement explicitly opens a feedback channel (*"message me or comment if you have trouble with the site, issues or concerns, or thoughts!"*) and the V1→V5 iteration cadence in four months suggests continued maintenance.

**Operational specs.**

- **Site:** https://xmr.irish — single-page app served behind Vercel's standard bot-protection interstitial. Works in any modern browser; hardened-mode browsers (very old, no-JS, or in some private modes) may hit the checkpoint page first.
- **Operator channel:** X / `@AquaticXCP`.
- **Peer-directory listings:** monerica.com/site/xmr-irish (admitted 2026-03-21, *Media > News Aggregators*, no community reviews yet). No other peer directories list it.
- **Pricing:** Free.
- **Categories on the site:** Home · Mempool · Markets · Network · Monero · Education · Simulate · Run A Node.
- **Network data:** Block height, hashrate, difficulty, block target, mempool depth, hard-fork version (currently v16 / FCMP++ Q3 banner).
- **Mempool views:** Six modes including a Classic block-bucket visualization with confirmation counts (1→10+) and TXs / size / fee summary per bucket.
- **Per-transaction detail:** Transaction hash, rct_type, ring-member count, fee, fee rate, size, time-to-confirmation, mempool status.
- **Market ticker:** XMR/USD, XMR/BTC, 24h Δ — sourced from CoinGecko.
- **No Tor mirror advertised.**
- **No subscription, account, or wallet integration.**

**Operator philosophy.** Positioned as *"a pet project focusing on Monero Education and the Monero Mainnet Mempool"* (operator-published, X / V5 announcement). The framing is explicitly hobbyist-maintainer rather than commercial: V5 is described as a *"live build"* with active iteration. The roadmap is protocol-update-oriented — *"automated updates for FCMP++, Carrot, Seraphis, Jamtis & Cuprate"* — signalling the operator intends to keep the tool current with Monero's research-track changes. The Simulate + Run-A-Node sections push the project past "explorer" toward genuine onboarding tooling.

**Grade rationale.** Listed at **Grade B**. The substantive features (mempool explorer + protocol simulations + node-runner setup + privacy-primitives surfacing) place this in the same functional tier as `monerospace`, and the read-only / non-custodial / zero-PII category profile means the high-loss-asymmetric tenure rule does not bind — there is essentially no way for a mempool visualizer to harm its readers financially. Grade A is withheld because: (a) the only peer-directory listing is monerica with no community reviews yet, so there is no independent verification of operational quality beyond the operator's X post; (b) the same screen mixes live chain data, illustrative sample data, a live market ticker, and educational copy without clean visual separation — the *"ILLUSTRATIVE"* labels on Local Node and Peers are easy to miss, and the multi-category bundling means a new reader has to work out *which-data-is-which* before they can quote anything from the page safely; (c) V5 is operator-described as a *"live build"* still being tweaked. **Path to A:** sharpen the visual separation between the heterogeneous content types (live chain / illustrative sample / market / educational), make the *ILLUSTRATIVE-vs-LIVE* labels unmissable, accumulate at least one independent peer review (monerica or another), and confirm V5 stabilizes out of the *"live build"* state without breaking changes.

**Useful when:**

- You want a single-page Monero overview that combines live mempool state, protocol-update awareness (FCMP++, Carrot, Seraphis, Jamtis), and educational visualizations — without setting up your own node.
- You're learning the Monero protocol and want a visual teaching surface — the per-transaction privacy-primitives panel (ring signature / stealth address / RingCT) is genuinely instructive in context.
- You want to walk a friend through "what does the mempool look like right now" without sending them to a generic blockchain explorer that doesn't speak Monero's privacy guarantees.

**Caveats.**

- **Readability tradeoff — content mixing.** V5 collapses several distinct surfaces onto the same screen: a live mempool block-bucket visualization (live chain data) + a Local Node + Peers panel (sample / illustrative data) + a live CoinGecko market ticker (financial data) + an educational privacy-primitives explainer banner + top-level navigation to Education / Simulate / Run-A-Node sections. The information is substantive, but the categories are heterogeneous — a single page is doing the work of an explorer *and* a market dashboard *and* an educational micro-site *and* an onboarding tool, and the visual grouping does not cleanly separate them. New readers may have to study the layout once or twice before the *which-data-is-which* question is settled.
- **ILLUSTRATIVE side panels.** The Local Node and Peers sidebars carry an *ILLUSTRATIVE* label — these are sample data, not the reader's own node state. The label is small relative to the data it qualifies. Take a second look before quoting node-status figures from this surface as live.
- **Vercel bot-protection interstitial.** The SPA sits behind Vercel's standard checkpoint. Any modern browser passes through transparently; hardened or no-JS browsers may see the checkpoint page instead of the app.
- **V5 is a live build.** Operator has explicitly said the build will be tweaked over the days following the V5 launch (2026-06-10). Expect occasional UI changes and incomplete feature areas.
- **Single-source verification.** Only one peer directory (monerica) currently lists this tool and there are no community reviews yet. Treat the *operating since 2026-02-17* tenure as still very early — the tool is four months old.
- **No Tor mirror.** No operator-published `.onion` address. Tor users hit the site via clearnet exits — Vercel sees the exit-node IP, not the user's.


Source: https://xmr.club/tools/xmr-irish