About XMRCasino
Three people who wanted to know what actually happens to a Monero deposit, and decided the only way to find out was to send one.
Why a Site About Monero Casinos
Most crypto casino guides treat Monero as one more logo in the deposit list. It is not. XMR is the only widely used coin whose transactions hide the sender, the receiver, and the amount. When such a person sends XMR to a casino, they have a question no bonus table answers: does the balance stay in Monero, and does it come back as Monero?
We built XMRCasino to answer that with money rather than marketing copy. On September 21, 2026 we sent 0.075 XMR to five casinos, played, asked their support desks a question, and withdrew. Two of the five turned our Monero into Tether on arrival and would not give it back. Three kept it as XMR and paid it back as XMR, and the difference between the two groups cost us $1.75 to $1.95 on a $40 deposit before a single bet. That finding, and the numbers behind it, became the home page.
We are not the Monero Project, we do not speak for it, and we have no connection to it beyond using the coin. We are also not a casino. Every operator on the site is a third party with its own licence, its own terms, and its own decisions about your account.
The Team
Marcus Thorne
Marcus writes the home page and the methodology, and every verdict on the site is his to sign or send back. He has played at crypto casinos for years, long enough to have watched cashiers add Monero, quietly convert it, and in a few cases remove it again.
He also trades prediction markets on Kalshi, which is where the site's habit of pricing things comes from. A 5 BTC welcome bonus is not a number to him until the wagering requirement, the time limit, and the maximum bet have been turned into an expected value; the same instinct is why the home page leads with what we lost to fees rather than what the operator advertises.
He holds cryptocurrency, including a small position in XMR. That is a disclosure, not a recommendation, and it does not change what the tests measure.
Hazel Hayes-Bennett
Hazel owns the test protocol and runs it. Every timing on the site started and stopped on her clock; every balance was read off a cashier screen she was looking at. The raw record of the September 21, 2026 session, including the internal discrepancies she flagged and how they were resolved, is the only source for the numbers we publish.
Her specialism is payment flows: what a cashier does between broadcast and a spendable balance, and again between a withdrawal request and a confirmed arrival. Speed, cost, and whether the coin that comes out is the coin that went in.
Zlata Yarovaya
Zlata reads the parts of a casino nobody else does: the licence page, the regulator's register, the bonus terms in full, and the KYC and AML policies. When a review says a licence number could not be verified, or that a fee waiver depends on turnover, that is her finding, and so is the AML wording that tells you when an operator may freeze a balance.
She also writes and maintains the responsible gambling page, and is the reason the site says “no KYC on our test withdrawal” rather than “no KYC”.
How We Work
- Test. A real deposit, a real withdrawal, one date, one tester. The full protocol is on the methodology page.
- Score. Ten parameters, each 0.1 to 0.5, added up. No weights, no adjustment for who pays us.
- Publish. The review, the breakdown, the test date, and everything we lost to fees. Bonus terms are quoted from the operator's own conditions; licences are published with their numbers only when we could verify them.
- Re-test. When a cashier or a rule changes, we re-run the affected steps, update the score, and log the change on the methodology page.
How We Earn
Two ways, both disclosed. First, affiliate commissions: when a reader opens an account through one of our links, the operator pays us. Every casino on the home page has such an arrangement. The commission does not vary with the score, and an operator that lost points on a cashier test did not get them back by being a partner.
Second, a Featured Partner placement. One slot in the ranking is sold, and the casino holding it is marked with a badge, a disclosure line, and a paragraph in the Editorial Policy. Its score is calculated exactly as everyone else's and published unchanged, which is why the current featured partner sits above two casinos that outscored it. The full rules are in the Editorial Policy and on the methodology page.
Contact
Corrections, a cashier that no longer matches what we wrote, a casino you think we should test, or a question about how a score was reached: contact@xmrcasino.net. We read everything and check every discrepancy report against the live cashier. We do not handle disputes with operators on your behalf; for those, the operator's own support desk and its licensing authority are the right places.