SOL to XMR
Your part takes seconds. A SOL deposit clears in a slot, the fee barely registers, and then you're on Monero time for the rest.
The fast half
The SOL deposit is the easy part
Send the amount the deposit screen asks for and it's confirmed before you've finished reading the page. Slots on Solana run about 400 milliseconds and fees are very low, so neither cost nor speed is a factor on this side.
Send the exact figure, though. A rounded-down amount is a different transaction and it turns a two-minute job into a conversation.
The slow half
Then Monero sets the pace
Once the deposit confirms, the outgoing Monero transaction goes out and has to land in a block. Blocks target two minutes. Monero also uses a dynamic block size that adjusts to demand, which is one reason the chain doesn't behave like a queue at a ticket window during busy stretches.
Then comes the part nobody expects the first time. The XMR shows up in your wallet and you can't send it. Every received output is locked for ten blocks — roughly twenty minutes — before it becomes spendable. The balance is yours the moment it lands, but moving it has to wait. That rule sits in the protocol, and no service, fee or wallet setting shortens it.
So budget the tail end. If you're sending SOL now because you need spendable XMR in five minutes, the maths doesn't work.
Confirming it worked
Your wallet is the only place to look
Coming from Solana, the instinct is to paste the address into an explorer and watch. That doesn't work here. Amounts and recipients aren't readable in the Monero chain, so there's no page anywhere showing what an address holds. Open your wallet instead.
If you want visibility without handing over control, a view key shows incoming payments to a wallet and grants no ability to spend. And if you ever need to prove a specific payment to someone, the transaction key for that transfer does it, together with the transaction id and the receiving address.
Because the payout leg is the slow one, rate type carries weight here too. Floating keeps recalculating while everything settles; fixed pins the number up front and costs a little more for the certainty.
Questions about SOL to XMR
How long does the whole thing take?
The SOL deposit clears in a slot or two. After that you're waiting on a Monero block, which targets two minutes, and then ten more blocks before the new balance can be spent. Call it half an hour end to end rather than five minutes.
Can I watch the Monero arrive in a block explorer?
No. Monero doesn't expose address balances the way transparent chains do — amounts and recipients aren't readable on-chain. Your own wallet is where the incoming transfer shows up.
Is the SOL network fee worth worrying about?
Not really. Fees on Solana are very low, so the deposit leg costs almost nothing. What shapes your final number is the fee on the Monero side plus the spread already folded into the rate.
The XMR arrived but I can't move it. Is it stuck?
It's locked, not stuck. Ten blocks have to pass before a received output becomes spendable, which is about twenty minutes at a two-minute block target. Leave it alone and it frees up on its own.
Sending Monero instead?
The reverse pair moves the waiting to the front of the process, before you've sent anything at all.