Sponsor xmr.club
Reach people who specifically came looking for Monero-friendly, no-KYC services. Sponsored listings are clearly chip-tagged — readers know what they are, but they still get the placement.
Why list here
- Targeted audience. Visitors arrive ready to pay in XMR, BTC, or cash. No tire-kickers.
- Editorial firewall. Sponsorship moves placement and adds a chip. It does not change grade or KYC tagging — see firewall below.
- XMR-priced. Pay in Monero — no payment processor, no chargebacks, no KYC on the merchant side either.
- Cheap to start. Featured Listings start at 0.2 XMR/month. Industry-equivalent slots elsewhere typically run $70–$20k per term.
Tiers · current availability
Front-Page Sponsor
Top banner on every page. One slot site-wide.
- Top banner across every page — home, every category, every provider page
- Pinned card on home spotlight (above all categories)
- Listed first in your category with the SPONSORED chip
- Cross-network bundle included (6 partner sites, $250+ value at retail)
- Optional 200-word interview write-up linked from the banner
Category Sponsor
Top of one category. One slot per category.
- First entry inside the chosen category with the SPONSORED chip + accent border
- Highlighted when users land via tag filters that match your listing
- Re-listed in the home spotlight section as a Category Sponsor
- Pick one cross-network add-on free (any of 6 partner sites)
- Included in the weekly tweet thread shoutout
Featured Listing
SPONSORED chip on your card. Unlimited slots.
- SPONSORED chip + accent border on your existing card
- Bumped above unsponsored listings in your category
- Cross-network add-ons available à la carte
Cross-network add-ons
Six partner sites in the broader Monero / privacy / payments space, all under shared editorial control. Buy ad placement on any of them à la carte, or grab the whole bundle.
Front-Page tier ships with the bundle included. Category tier gets one add-on of choice. Featured tier is à la carte. Partner sites do not honour these as kyc.rip-affiliated; ads are paid placements with editorial firewall on each site individually.
Waitlist activity
Public preview of providers waiting for a slot to open. Newest first.
No one waiting yet. Be the first.
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Coming from /tools — the category field is pre-filled below.
Recent paid sponsorships
Every sponsorship we've sold, public ledger. Transparency about what's paid placement and what isn't is the whole point.
No sponsorships sold yet. Transparency starts when there's something to show.
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 will refund the unused portion if you want out after that. The list is the product; the ad slots are the byproduct.
What sponsorship looks like
Concrete examples of what placement looks like across the directory — useful before you commit.
- Front-Page tier — banner above the home /, the spotlight on home and on the relevant category (e.g. the /exchanges spotlight currently held by kyc.rip/ghost as a 1ST-PARTY example), pinned slot in the home picks row.
- Category tier — first entry inside
/with the SPONSORED chip + accent border. Appears on every page within the category and inside relevant tag pages (e.g. /tag/no_kyc) when the listing carries the tag. - Featured tier — SPONSORED chip + accent border on the existing card. No new placement, no new copy — just a visibility boost.
- Cross-network bundle (Front-Page only): top-of-page banner on 6 partner sites — xmrprice.live, stables.rip, walls.rip, disperse.rip, 404.cash, jiayou.rip. Each runs the same editorial firewall on their side.
Every example above is currently visible — open the corresponding page and the placement is exactly what you'd get.
Sponsor FAQ
Will sponsorship change my listing's grade?
No — and not negotiable. Sponsorship moves placement and adds a SPONSORED chip. Grade is the curator's call only, based on the rubric. If your grade decays mid-term (KYC creep, withdrawal hold, audit gap), placement holds but the grade drops. See the editorial firewall note.
Can I sponsor without being listed first?
No. The sponsor pipeline expects you to already pass our methodology (or to pass it on first review). Submitting at /submit is the right starting point. If you're listed and want to sponsor, the slot becomes the upgrade.
What happens if I'm a sponsor and the curator finds something bad about me?
We publish it in /audit, downgrade or warn-list, and refund the unused portion of your sponsorship pro-rata. No contract clause overrides this — that's the editorial firewall.
How is payment handled?
XMR to a fresh subaddress per sponsor. No invoicing, no KYC. Paid up-front for the term length. We don't store payment method details beyond the on-chain confirmation.
Can I sponsor anonymously?
Yes for the contact details. The listing itself must be public + verifiable (we test it like any other listing). Operator identity in the waitlist + on-page chip is required; behind-the-scenes communication can stay pseudonymous.
Do I get traffic analytics?
No. We don't run analytics on this site at all (see /transparency). You can put a UTM on your own outbound URL and read it on your side — we won't strip it.
What happens at the end of the term?
The SPONSORED chip + placement drop on the day the term ends. The listing remains in its rubric-determined position. We email the contact one week before; renewal is your call.