At 13:00 UTC on 8 September 2026, Monero (XMR) traded at $505.05. That was about 3.0% below its price at the start of the week ($520.61 at 00:00 UTC on 1 September) and about 9% below the week's last peak ($555.67 at 00:00 UTC on 6 September). The week came at the end of a strong month. XMR was still about a third higher than on 8–9 August, when it traded near $377–$378. It was also about 37% below its all-time high of $797.73, set on 14 January 2026. All price figures come from CoinGecko's hourly data.
The week in numbers
| Measure (CoinGecko, USD) | Value | Time (UTC) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $505.05 | 8 Sep 2026, 13:00 |
| Market capitalisation | $9.50 billion | 8 Sep 2026, 13:00 |
| 24-hour trading volume, all tracked markets | $116.8 million | 8 Sep 2026, 13:00 |
| Seven-day high | $562.66 | 4 Sep 2026, 10:00 |
| Seven-day low | $494.03 | 3 Sep 2026, 00:00 |
| Start of week | $520.61 | 1 Sep 2026, 00:00 |
| All-time high | $797.73 | 14 Jan 2026, 11:34 |
From low to high, the week's range was about 13.9%. The price did not move in a straight line:
- 1–3 September: XMR opened the month at $520.61, then fell to the week's low of $494.03 by midnight on 3 September.
- 4 September: it climbed to the week's high of $562.66 by 10:00 UTC, about 14% above the low a day and a half earlier.
- 6–8 September: it was at $555.67 at midnight on 6 September, $539.38 on 7 September and $518.82 on 8 September. By 13:00 UTC it was at $505.05.
Where the week sits in the bigger move
The pullback came after a steady August rally. Measured at midnight UTC, XMR rose from $369.51 on 7 August to $555.67 on 6 September, a gain of about 50% in a month. The drop to 8 September gave back roughly a third of the gain from the final week of August. It did not break the larger uptrend that started in early August. Even after the drop, the price needed about a 58% rise to get back to January's all-time high.
Project news that week
On 8 September 2026, the Monero project announced a redesigned website at beta.getmonero.org and asked users to test it "before this becomes the site everyone lands on". It said the beta site uses no JavaScript, is built with Astro instead of Jekyll, and has a front page about a third lighter than the current one. Bug reports go to GitHub issues tagged "[beta]". This is a change to the website, not to the protocol, and nothing links it to the price move.
The bigger technical project, FCMP++ (full-chain membership proofs) with the Carrot addressing scheme, was still in public testing on separate stressnets, not on mainnet. By 8 September, the latest test build was beta stressnet v2.0 (v0.19.0.0-beta.2.0), released on 27 May 2026.
Where XMR's week started and ended
Each bar is a price the article quotes for the week to 8 September 2026, so you can see how much the 'weekly change' depends on which starting point you pick.
Data table
| Item | USD | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep, 00:00 (start of week) | 520.61 | |
| 3 Sep, 00:00 (week low) | 494.03 | |
| 4 Sep, 10:00 (week high) | 562.66 | |
| 6 Sep, 00:00 (last peak) | 555.67 | |
| 7 Sep, 00:00 | 539.38 | |
| 8 Sep, 00:00 | 518.82 | |
| 8 Sep, 13:00 (latest) | 505.05 |
The bars show only the prices quoted from one CoinGecko hourly series, not every hour of the week. They don't explain why the price moved and they don't predict where it goes next.
What has happened since
- 25 September 2026: the migration team released FCMP++ & Carrot beta stressnet v3.0 (
v0.19.0.0-beta.3.0). The release notes said it would hard fork from the current testnet on 5 October 2026 at block 3102800 and would not work with earlier beta stressnet versions. The notes also warn that a node operator's anonymity set on the stressnet "will be in the dozens at best", compared with thousands on mainnet. - 6 October 2026: Monero 0.18.5.3 "Fluorine Fermi" and the matching GUI wallet came out. The project described the GUI release as "highly recommended", with many bug fixes.
- 16 October 2026: Monero 0.18.5.4 and its GUI release followed.
- As of 25 October 2026, the getmonero.org blog had not announced a mainnet date for FCMP++.
Supply: what keeps rising
Monero has no supply cap. Since the end of May 2022, the network has paid a tail emission of 0.6 XMR per block, or less if a block is penalised for its size. CoinGecko listed circulating supply at about 18.82 million XMR on 25 October 2026. Because of the tail emission, market capitalisation can rise a little even when the price stays flat. Compare price moves, not market-cap moves, when you look at XMR over time.
How to read a week like this
- Check the reference time. For a coin that moved 14% in a week, a "seven-day change" depends heavily on the hour it starts from. Measured from the 6 September peak, the drop was about 9%. Measured from 1 September, it was 3%. Measured from midnight to midnight (1 to 8 September), the price was almost flat (–0.3%).
- Separate project news from price. The only official announcement that week was about the website. FCMP++ was a scheduled testing programme with no mainnet date, so nothing in Monero's own news explains the sell-off.
- Use one data source. Aggregators sample prices at different times and from different sets of markets, so their highs and lows can differ by a few dollars. Every figure here comes from one CoinGecko series.
Limitations: the price data comes from a single aggregator (CoinGecko), and the project news comes only from Monero's own channels. No outside report explaining the week's move was verified.
Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose your capital. Nothing here is investment advice.
