Funding your account in Monero (XMR), end to end
You picked a market, you opened the deposit screen, and now you need to send Monero. Here is the actual procedure, with the wallet picks and the gotchas that nobody mentions on the forum.
Monero is the recommended deposit currency on Anubis and Nexus for one reason: chain analytics. Bitcoin's ledger is fully public and every commercial analytics shop has it indexed. Monero's ledger is, in the strict sense, not public. Ring signatures and stealth addresses prevent the kind of clustering that makes Bitcoin chain analysis work. If you fund in BTC and a future investigation pulls the records of the exchange where you bought, the deposit becomes a problem. If you fund in XMR, it does not.
Wallet selection
Three wallets matter for buyers. Feather Wallet on desktop is the default; it is fast, has a clean UI, and supports the things you actually need (subaddresses, view-key import, custom ring size). Cake Wallet on mobile is the same project family and is the right pick if you only have a phone. The official Monero CLI is the pick if you are paranoid about wallet UX leaking metadata. All three support deterministic seeds, so back up the seed when the wallet generates it and never type it into a browser form.
Send procedure
The deposit screen on Anubis or Nexus gives you a fresh subaddress for your account. Copy it (do not retype). Open your Monero wallet, paste the address into the Send tab, paste the amount you intend to deposit, leave the ring size at the default unless you know what you are changing, hit send.
The transaction broadcasts. Within roughly two minutes the network confirms it once. The platform credits your balance after a small number of confirmations, typically inside ten minutes from broadcast. If the deposit screen says "pending" for longer than thirty minutes, refresh the page; if still pending, open the wallet and verify the transaction is actually on-chain (sometimes wallets queue but do not broadcast over a flaky connection).
Common buyer mistakes
One: sending from an exchange that does not support Monero withdrawals natively. Use a wallet you control, not an exchange wallet. Two: rounding the amount in your head and forgetting decimal places. Copy-paste the exact amount the deposit screen shows. Three: closing the deposit page before the platform credits the balance. The balance is async; it will appear, but you have to come back to the account page to see it.
