Monero → Ethereum · no sign-up
XMR to ETH without an account
You send Monero from your own wallet and Ethereum lands at an address only you control. An XMR to ETH swap is two ordinary on-chain transfers with a service in the middle, so there's no balance sitting somewhere waiting for you to withdraw it.
1 XMR = 0.20936 ETH1 XMR ≈ $584.94
Swap XMR for ETHMarket data, not a quote. The service gives you its own number once you pick the pair, and that one already has fees in it.
- ~2 minMonero block target
- 10 blockslock on every output received
- 12 sone slot on Ethereum
How to swap XMR to ETH
Five steps. The third one is where money actually gets lost, so give it the extra thirty seconds.
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Start with the pair and the size
Set XMR as the coin you send and ETH as the coin you get, then type an amount. The number on this page comes from a public price feed. The quote you agree to on the next screen is the one that counts.
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Choose fixed or floating
A floating rate keeps tracking the market while your deposit confirms. A fixed rate locks the number right away and costs a bit more for holding it. Monero deposits take long enough that the market has room to move, so fixed is the steadier pick here.
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Paste your own ETH address
Copy it out of your wallet. Never retype it by hand, and check the last four characters against the source after pasting. A confirmed Ethereum transfer can't be called back by anyone, including whoever sent it.
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Send the XMR yourself
You'll get a deposit address and an exact amount. Send from the wallet you hold the keys to, and match the amount as closely as the wallet lets you. A deposit far off the quoted figure often gets held for a manual check.
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Let both networks confirm
Monero confirms your deposit, then the service funds and broadcasts the Ethereum payout. Keep the order ID somewhere you can find it. It's the only thing that identifies your swap if you ever have to ask about it.
Why the ETH payout waits on Monero
The slow half of this trade isn't Ethereum. Ethereum produces a slot every 12 seconds and finalises after two epochs, about 12.8 minutes. Monero sets the pace, and it does it on purpose.
Every output a Monero wallet receives is locked for ten blocks before it can be spent. Blocks target two minutes, so that's roughly twenty minutes baked into the protocol. It applies to your deposit exactly the way it applies to everyone else's. No fee, no priority setting and no support ticket makes it shorter.
Here's the bit that confuses people watching a status page: a service can't pay you out of coins it can't spend yet. Your XMR has to confirm, then clear the lock, and only then can the Ethereum leg be funded and sent. The order isn't a policy someone chose. It's arithmetic.
So when the tracker sits on “waiting for confirmations” for a quarter of an hour, nothing is broken. That's the normal shape of this pair. Once the Ethereum leg starts it's usually done inside a minute.
Worth knowing while you wait: the Monero half of the swap stays unreadable afterwards. Amounts and recipients don't show up in the chain data, so there's nothing on that side for anyone to follow. The Ethereum half is the opposite. The payout transaction and the address it went to are public and stay public.
Your ETH address: 0x and a hidden checksum
An Ethereum address is 0x followed by 40 hexadecimal characters. There's no readable prefix and no version byte you can eyeball, which makes it look less forgiving than it really is.
What saves you is EIP-55. The letters in an address get capitalised in a pattern derived from the address itself, so a mixed-case address carries its own checksum. Change a single character and the pattern stops matching. A wallet that checks EIP-55 will reject the address instead of sending into nowhere.
That's why your wallet sometimes refuses an address that looks perfectly fine to you. Believe the wallet. Go back to wherever you copied it from and copy it again.
An all-lowercase address is still valid, it just carries no checksum. Nothing there can catch a typo for you, so if your wallet shows you the mixed-case version, use that one.
The same address lives on other networks
One 0x string exists on every EVM-compatible network at once. Your coins, though, stay on whichever network they were sent to. Choosing the wrong one in a dropdown doesn't push money onto the right chain afterwards — it parks it on a chain you now have to add to your wallet and pay fees on to get it moving again.
Tokens are the sharper edge of the same problem. ERC-20 tokens use the identical address format that plain ETH uses, so a token transfer to an address expecting ETH looks completely ordinary until somebody goes looking for it. A service waiting for ETH will not credit a token that arrives instead, and whether you get it back depends entirely on who controls that address.
Gas, the burned part and the tip
Ethereum charges gas for every transaction and prices it in gwei. Since EIP-1559 that fee splits in two. The base fee is set by the network and burned. The priority fee is a tip that goes to the validator who puts your transaction in a block.
In a swap, gas shows up in exactly one place: the payout. The service pays it to send you ETH, and it comes out of what you receive. Your Monero deposit never touches gas — Monero has its own fee, paid in XMR, and it's already inside the amount leaving your wallet.
A busy hour on Ethereum therefore makes the ETH you get a little smaller. It doesn't make the swap slower in any way you'd notice. Blocks keep arriving every 12 seconds whether fees are high or flat.
One practical thing: spending ETH takes ETH. If you're converting so you can pay for something on Ethereum later, don't plan down to the last decimal. A wallet holding a token with no ETH beside it can't send anything at all.
What the payout is made of
Three things sit between the market rate at the top of this page and the number that lands in your wallet.
- The fee on the sending network. You pay it in XMR when the deposit leaves your wallet.
- Gas on the receiving network, paid in ETH and taken out of the payout.
- The service's spread, built into the rate it quotes rather than printed as a separate line.
Nobody can give you one honest percentage for all of that, because two of the three move with network conditions. The way to compare services is to put the same amount into each and read the final quotes against each other.
Small amounts lose the most. Two network fees come out regardless of how much you're sending, so they take a much bigger bite out of a small transfer than a large one. If you're testing a service with a tiny amount first — which is a sensible thing to do — expect the ratio to look bad. That's the fees talking, not the rate.
On timing, do the arithmetic rather than trusting a promise. Ten blocks of lock at roughly two minutes apiece, plus the confirmations the service wants before it acts, puts the start of the Ethereum leg somewhere past the twenty-minute mark. After that the payout is quick.
And the part no fee schedule mentions: both transfers are final. Send to an address with a typo in it and there is no reversal, no chargeback and no desk that can undo it. That's why step three on this page gets its own paragraph.
Monero to Ethereum, and three more pairs
Pulled from a public price feed when the page loads. A reference point, never a quote.
| Pair | 1 XMR gives | Price of one unit |
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| XMR → ETH | 0.20936 | $2,793.99 |
| XMR → BTC | 0.006721 | $87,027 |
| XMR → USDT | 585.04 | $0.9998 |
| XMR → LTC | 9.3501 | $62.56 |
Monero itself sits at $584.94. Every figure here moves while you read it.
Monero to ETH is the pair most people land here for, but the table is worth a glance before you commit. If what you want at the end is a stable balance rather than ETH specifically, the third row is the cheaper route in fees, because you skip the gas that funding an Ethereum payout costs.
Going the other direction — sending Ethereum, receiving Monero — has a different set of traps, most of them around gas and tokens. That's covered on the ETH to XMR page.
Things people ask before the first swap
Do I need an account to swap XMR to ETH?
No. The trade is two transfers — your Monero goes out from your wallet, the Ethereum arrives at an address you picked. Nothing is held on your behalf, so there's nothing to log back into. Save the order ID anyway.
How long does an XMR to ETH swap take?
Longer than you'd guess from the Ethereum side. Ten blocks of Monero lock at about two minutes each, plus whatever confirmations the service waits for, runs past twenty minutes before the payout can even start. The ETH leg itself is fast.
Why won't my wallet let me send Monero that just arrived?
Every Monero output is locked for ten blocks after it lands. Your wallet shows the balance but marks it unspendable until that passes. It's a protocol rule, it happens to everyone, and waiting is the only fix. After that it's spendable again.
What happens if I paste an ETH address with a typo?
If the address was mixed-case, EIP-55 usually catches it and the transfer is refused before it goes anywhere. If it was all lowercase, there's no checksum to catch anything, and coins sent to a valid-but-wrong address are gone for good.
Fixed rate or floating rate?
Fixed locks the number when you agree to it and charges a little more for the privilege. Floating follows the market until your deposit confirms. Given how long the Monero side takes, I'd take fixed here unless the gap between the two quotes is unusually wide.
Can I receive the ETH on a different EVM network?
Your address works on all of them, but the payout only exists on the network it was sent to. If you want ETH somewhere other than Ethereum mainnet, say so before you start rather than after, because moving it across afterwards is a separate transaction with its own cost.
Is the ETH I receive linked to my Monero on-chain?
Not through the chains. The Monero side doesn't publish amounts or recipients, so there's no public trail leading from your deposit to the payout. The Ethereum side is fully visible, as every Ethereum transfer is, but it only shows where the coins came from and went.
Why use a swap instead of a trading platform?
Convenience, mostly, and availability. A swap is one deposit and one payout with no sign-up in between. It also matters that several large trading venues have dropped XMR in recent years, which makes a direct pair harder to find than it used to be.
What if I send a different amount than the quote?
Small differences are normal, since your wallet's fee comes out of what you send. Big ones are the problem: a deposit well outside the quoted figure usually stops for a manual look, and the rate you were shown may not survive that. Match it as closely as you can.
Does the rate on this page match what I'll get?
No, and no converter can. This one shows the market price from a public feed, which is the ceiling. Take off the spread and two network fees and you have your real payout. Treat the number here as a sanity check on the quote you're given.
Start an XMR to ETH swap
An amount, an address you control, one deposit out of your own wallet. After that it's two chains doing what they do.
Open the swap form