Deposits
Bridge vs. exchange deposits, minimums, timing, statuses and what to do if a deposit doesn't arrive.
Routes
| Route | Minimum | Time | Fee | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wxmr.io bridge (permanent address) | 0.1 XMR | ~20 min | 0.1% | Larger and repeat deposits |
| Exchange (one-time address) | Set by the exchange (live quote) | ~30 min | Built into the rate + app conversion fee | Small amounts, a new wallet's first deposit |
- Your bridge address is permanent and belongs to your wallet — reuse it any time. Creating it costs a little SOL once (account rent), so a brand-new wallet makes its first deposit through an exchange, which also delivers a small SOL fee reserve.
- Deposits under 0.1 XMR sent to the bridge are not credited. Use the exchange route for small amounts.
- If the bridge is degraded, the app defaults to the exchange route and warns you.
Best route and round-trip cost
The deposit and withdraw screens compare every route for your amount — the wxmr.io bridge, ChangeNOW, StealthEX, SideShift (and THORChain, which has no XMR pool yet) — and show what you end up with in XMR, how long it takes and how private it is. Pick Cheapest (default), Fastest or Most private; Route details lists them all, with how many are up right now. The cost line includes the round trip — going in and straight back out — so you know the price before you start. When an exchange gives a fixed-rate quote within 0.5 % of the best, it is preferred, with a countdown until it expires.
No SOL yet? Sponsored setup
A new bridge deposit address needs a little SOL once (account rent). When this deployment has it turned on and your wallet has no SOL, the Deposit page offers to pay that setup for you (about 0.0025 SOL). After a short anti-abuse puzzle in your browser, the sponsor sends the SOL to your wallet. Your first credited deposit repays it automatically in XMR — about the same value plus 10%. One sponsored setup per wallet and device; it's off unless the operator enables it.
Notifications
With the tab open, the app can play a sound and show a notification when XMR lands or a withdrawal completes. Optional push notifications also work with the tab closed: the server watches your public bridge accounts and tells you when a deposit was credited or a bridge withdrawal was delivered. A notification only informs you — claiming the deposit still happens when you open Piconero, because only your browser can sign. Turning push on stores your push address and public wallet address on the server until you turn it off.
Statuses
Instant buys (coming soon)
Today a deposit needs the bridge's or an exchange's confirmations — 20–30 minutes. Instant buys will credit your balance after the first Monero confirmation (about 2 minutes): you send XMR to a personal subaddress, and the protocol fronts the same amount of wXMR from its inventory while the deposit finishes in the background (10 confirmations) and is settled through the bridge.
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| Per deposit | 0.5 XMR |
| Per day | 2 XMR |
| Unsettled at once | 1 XMR |
Anything above the limits still arrives, the standard way. It switches on when the treasury holds 5 XMR of inventory — see the roadmap.
If a deposit doesn't arrive
- Check that your Monero wallet shows the transaction as sent and note its tx hash.
- Bridge: confirm you sent at least 0.1 XMR to the address shown on the Deposit page. Status updates come from the bridge heartbeat every ~30 s.
- Exchange: the swap ID is shown on the Deposit page. If the swap expired or was refunded, funds go back to your refund address (your saved XMR address when set).
- Still stuck after an hour? Contact the exchange's support with the swap ID and tx hash, or the wxmr.io team for bridge deposits (GitHub ↗).