Coins accepted at Nexus Market
Nexus Market accepts Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero. Different coins suit different orders. This page covers which coin to pick, the wallet options that pair with each, and non-KYC ways to fund the wallet in the first place.
Quick comparison
| Coin | Confirm time | Privacy | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| XMR | ~2 min | strong by default | most orders |
| LTC | ~2.5 min | public chain | small orders |
| BTC | ~10 min | public chain | legacy balances, large orders |
Monero, the recommended default
Monero is the coin the market wallet defaults to for new buyers. The reason is straightforward. Monero transactions hide the sender, the receiver and the amount by default. On the market wallet side, this means the operator sees only that a deposit landed at your account, not where it came from. On the chain side, nobody watching the ledger can link the deposit back to your buying wallet.
Wallets worth using: Feather Wallet on desktop (lightweight, no full node needed), Cake Wallet on mobile, Monero GUI for the hardened setup with a local node. All three are free, open source, and generate offline seeds on install.
Litecoin, the small-order coin
Litecoin confirmations arrive in under three minutes on average, four times faster than Bitcoin. Fees are usually a few cents on Litecoin against a dollar-plus on Bitcoin at typical volume. If your order is small enough that the fee difference matters, or you want the deposit to clear fast, pick Litecoin. Wallet: Electrum-LTC on desktop, or a hardware wallet like Trezor if you keep coin cold between orders.
Downside: Litecoin is a public chain. The transaction that funded your market deposit is visible forever to anyone who cares to look. Fine for casual orders, less fine if you want a clean separation between your funding source and your market activity.
Bitcoin, for legacy and large
Bitcoin works for every order but leaves the strongest public trace. Fees are volatile and often high. Use it if that is what you already hold, or if the vendor prices in BTC for a specific listing. Wallet: Sparrow on desktop is the current pick for privacy-aware Bitcoin, with hardware wallet integration. Avoid custodial exchange balances for market deposits.
Funding the wallet without KYC
The privacy of a market deposit is only as good as the coin that funded the wallet. Buying coin from a KYC exchange, then sending it to a market address, ties your ID to your market account through the exchange withdrawal records. There are three cleaner routes in 2026.
- RoboSats over Lightning. Non-KYC peer-to-peer trading with a random robot avatar as your identity. Fees around 0.2 percent. Payment methods range from Revolut and Wise to cash by mail. Best for small-to-medium amounts.
- Bisq, a desktop peer-to-peer market. Older, slower, more flexible on payment methods. Requires a security bond in Bitcoin, so you need some to buy some.
- Cake Wallet built-in swap. Buy Bitcoin however you already do, send to Cake, swap for Monero inside the wallet. The swap provider sees the incoming BTC address and the outgoing XMR address but not your identity.
New buyer, small order → Litecoin, deposit clears fast. New buyer, any privacy-serious order → Monero. Existing balance in Bitcoin → use Bitcoin, but move it through a fresh wallet or a swap before the market deposit address.
Fee reality in 2026
Network fees vary week to week. As a rough baseline, Bitcoin fees run 1 to 10 dollars per transaction at typical mempool congestion, Litecoin fees run a few cents, Monero fees run a fraction of a cent. On the market side, the storefront takes a small percentage on each order regardless of coin. Neither the market nor the wallet lets you avoid paying at least one network fee per deposit.