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Most payment options
The opposite filter to the previous page, and the more commonly wanted one. Three tiers: four coins at one market, three at two more, two everywhere else.
The three tiers
| Market | Coins | Which |
|---|---|---|
| Anubis | Four | BTC, LTC, ETH, XMR. The only Ethereum option here |
| Nexus | Three | BTC, LTC, XMR |
| Mars | Three | BTC, LTC, XMR |
| Everything else | Two | BTC and XMR, except BlackOps which takes XMR alone |
| Market | Since | Coins | Addresses | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anubis Market | 2024 | BTC, LTC, ETH, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
| Nexus Market | 2023 | BTC, LTC, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
| Mars Market | 2023 | BTC, LTC, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
What flexibility is actually worth
- You are not turned away with whatever you happen to hold, which is the whole practical benefit.
- You can pick by speed on the day. Litecoin confirms faster than Bitcoin when the wait is what you care about.
- You can keep one account instead of two, which is fewer usernames, fewer recovery sets and fewer things to lose.
What it is not
It says nothing about the market itself. Coin support is an integration decision, and a market with four is not thereby better run, better at disputes or more likely to last. It is a market that did more integration work, and that is all the fact supports.
The trade against age
The widest option here appeared in 2024 and the two three coin markets appeared in 2023, so filtering hard on flexibility pulls you toward the newer half of the catalogue. Whether that trade is worth it depends on whether the extra coin is something you actually hold or something that is merely nice to have.
The simplest way out of this filter
Hold the coin every market takes. All nine accept Monero, so a reader holding it never needs this page at all and never has a checkout turn them away. Flexibility at the market is a workaround for inflexibility on your side, and it is worth noticing which end you would rather fix.
Why most markets stop at two
Each coin is an integration to build, wallets to run, confirmation rules to set and a support burden when something gets stuck. Two covers nearly everybody, since one is the coin most people already hold and the other is the one that does not publish a ledger. Adding a third serves a minority and adding a fourth serves a very small one, which is why the counts in this catalogue look the way they do.
What flexibility does not buy
- Not better escrow. Unrelated.
- Not a longer life. The widest option here is also one of the newest.
- Not lower fees. Market fees and network fees are set separately from how many coins are accepted.