What is Monero's ticker symbol?

Monero’s ticker symbol is XMR.

Monero is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency and blockchain whose currency is commonly identified by the ticker XMR. The symbol appears on exchanges, price listings, wallets, and market data services, much as BTC identifies Bitcoin and ETH identifies Ether. Monero is designed to make transactions difficult to trace and to preserve the fungibility of its units.

Monero’s origins are tied to CryptoNote, a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency protocol described in a white paper published in October 2013 under the pseudonym Nicolas van Saberhagen. Monero itself was initially released on April 18, 2014. It grew from that protocol and later adopted technologies such as ring signatures, stealth addresses, and confidential transactions to obscure transaction participants and amounts.

XMR is often confused with the tickers of other privacy or payment-oriented cryptocurrencies. Stellar uses XLM, Dash uses DASH, and Zcash uses ZEC. Monero also differs from many cryptocurrencies in its ongoing tail-emission design: rather than ending mining rewards completely, the network maintains a small continuing reward to support miner incentives and network security.