Monero Activity Holds Steady Despite Exchange Delistings, TRM Labs Reports

TLDR: TRM Labs found that 48% of newly launched darknet markets in 2025 accept only Monero as payment.  Nearly 14–15% of reachable Monero network peers displayed non-standard peer-to-peer protocol behavior.  Ransomware actors prefer XMR, yet most real-world ransom payments are still completed in Bitcoin.  Monero’s on-chain cryptography remains intact, but network-layer dynamics may affect privacy [...]

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