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Paid placement,
editorial firewall.

Reach people who came specifically looking for Monero-friendly, no-KYC services. Sponsored listings are clearly chip-tagged — readers know what they are, but they still get the placement.

★ HEADLINE SOLD OUT All 5 Headline slots are filled — join the public waitlist to be first in line when one frees up. Join waitlist →

Why list here

Tierscurrent availability

Front-Page Sponsor

Dominate the main pages on the directory. One slot site-wide.

1.5 XMR / month

or 12 XMR / year (save 33%)

Taken — join waitlist →
  • Dominate the directory — top banner on the three main surfaces (home, every category index, every provider page)
  • Listed first in your category with the FRONT-PAGE chip
  • Cross-locale exposure (en + zh + es + ru) — free during launch period
  • Optional 200-word interview write-up linked from the banner

Headline Sponsor

Slot in the home Headline grid + sticky right rail on every guide. 5 slots site-wide.

1 XMR / month

or 8 XMR / year (save 33%)

5/5 Full — join waitlist →
  • One of 5 cards in the home Headline grid (above the category grid)
  • Card in the Headline grid at the bottom of every category, provider, and search page
  • Sticky right-rail card on every /guides/<slug> page (38 guides currently; sponsors longest-paid lead)
  • HEADLINE chip on your listing row
  • Listed after Front-Page within your category
  • Cross-locale exposure (en + zh + es + ru) — free during launch period

Category Sponsor

Top of one subcategory band + sticky right rail on every guide in that category. One slot per subcategory.

0.5 XMR / month

or 4 XMR / year (save 33%)

1 slot per subcategory
  • Dedicated card at the top of your category page, scoped to your subcategory band (one of the cards in the slot grid above the listings)
  • Inline highlight on your row in the alphabetical / curator list
  • Topic-matched card on every /guides/<slug> page that targets this category (e.g. /vpns sponsor appears on the best-no-kyc-vpn guide)
  • CATEGORY chip on your listing row
  • Cross-locale exposure (en + zh + es + ru) — free during launch period
  • Included in the weekly tweet thread shoutout

Featured Listing

SPONSORED chip on your card. Cap 5 per category.

0.2 XMR / month

or 1.5 XMR / year (save 38%)

up to 5 per category
  • SPONSORED chip + accent border on your existing card
  • Bumped above unsponsored listings in your category
  • Cross-locale exposure (en + zh + es + ru) — free during launch period

How to claim a slot

  1. Fill the waitlist form below, OR message @xmrclub_bot with provider name, category, and tier.
  2. If your listing exists, we send the XMR address. If not, you submit a draft for editorial fit first.
  3. Pay in XMR. We flip sponsored: true once payment settles. Slot activates within minutes.

How slots are allocated

First payment wins. Every future window is open for booking at any time — whoever pays first for a given window gets it. There is no incumbent renewal priority, no waitlist priority, and no advance reservations for anyone.

Two ways to hold continuity if you already have a slot:

  1. Book a longer term upfront (e.g. a 3-month or 6-month package) — this locks the sequence of windows in one payment.
  2. Renew as early as possible into the next window — the moment your current term starts, the following window is already bookable. Waiting until expiry-adjacent is the failure mode.

If two payments arrive near-simultaneously for the same window, the earlier paid_at wins; the later payment is refunded immediately.

Position within a tier

Slots within a tier (for example the five Headline positions) are ordered by remaining time — the sponsor whose term ends latest sits at the top, and the order shifts as terms expire and as renewals push end dates further out. Booking a longer package (3-month, 6-month, 12-month) or renewing early pushes your position higher for the extended horizon.

Coherent with first-paid-wins: whoever paid first for a given window got the window; whoever committed to a longer horizon sits higher within that window's tier for as long as their remaining time is greatest.

Waitlist activity

Public preview of providers waiting for a slot to open. Newest first.

No one waiting yet — only inquiries for sold-out tiers appear here. Be the first.

Join the waitlist

Shown publicly: listing name + website + tier. Hidden: contact. Or DM @xmrclub_bot to skip the queue.

Recent paid sponsorships

Every sponsorship we've sold, public ledger. Transparency about what's paid placement and what isn't is the whole point.

Paid Starts Ends Tier Listing
2026-08-03 2026-08-22 (upcoming) 2026-09-21 Headline / exchanges el-capo
2026-07-23 2026-07-23 2026-08-22 Headline / exchanges ollieswap
2026-07-23 2026-08-03 (deferred) 2026-09-02 Front-Page / exchanges ollieswap
2026-07-03 2026-07-03 2026-08-03 (expired) Front-Page / exchanges el-capo
2026-06-17 2026-06-17 2027-06-17 Headline xeovo-vpn
2026-06-16 2026-06-23 (deferred) 2027-06-23 Category / exchanges sageswap
2026-06-15 2026-06-15 2027-06-15 Category / exchanges trocador
2026-06-15 2026-06-15 2027-06-15 Headline trocador
2026-06-15 2026-06-15 2026-07-15 (expired) Headline / exchanges etz-swap
2026-06-03 2026-06-03 2027-06-03 Headline cake-wallet
2026-05-31 2026-05-31 2026-07-01 (expired) Featured / wagering/prediction-markets xmr-win
2026-05-25 2026-05-25 2026-09-07 Headline cce-cash
2026-05-21 2026-05-21 2026-06-22 (expired) Front-Page / exchanges sageswap

Slots go month by month unless a longer package was booked. The paid_at column is the tie-breaker under our first-payment-wins policy — see How slots are allocated.

Editorial firewall

Sponsorship moves a listing up the page and adds a chip. It does not change the review, the grade, or the KYC tagging. If a sponsored provider's posture deteriorates, the grade drops and the chips change accordingly. We refund unused term pro-rata if you want out.

No double-dip on affiliate. Sponsored entries link DIRECT to the provider — not through our /go/<slug> referral. Non-sponsored entries route through /go/ as usual.

Audit depositHeadline + Front-Page

Headline and Front-Page applicants without a current xmr.club grade of B or higher fund a refundable 0.1 XMR audit deposit alongside the sponsorship payment. The deposit covers live testing — signup, deposit, distribution, support response, fee-vs-quote reconciliation.