XMR to SOL
A two-minute chain feeding a chain that measures itself in fractions of a second. Once your deposit is in, the SOL side is done almost before you've switched tabs.
The Solana side
Slots of about 400 milliseconds
Solana produces slots roughly every 400 milliseconds. In practice a transfer shows up in your wallet about as fast as you can refresh it, and the fee attached is very small — small enough that it stops being something you think about before sending.
That's a real change of pace if you're used to waiting on confirmations. The payout leg of this swap is the fast part. Whatever total time the whole thing takes, almost none of it is spent on Solana.
The receiving address
What a Solana address looks like
A Solana address is base58 text, somewhere between 32 and 44 characters. There's no prefix to recognise it by, which makes eyeballing it less useful than on chains with a fixed opening. Copy it from your wallet, paste it, then compare the first four and last four characters against the wallet screen.
One structural detail worth knowing, even though it doesn't affect this swap: SPL tokens don't sit at your main address. Each token gets its own token account tied to that address, and the wallet handles that for you behind the scenes. It matters the day you start moving tokens around on Solana — your SOL and your tokens live in related but separate places.
For a plain SOL payout, none of that comes into play. The main address is the right one.
Where the clock runs
The waiting is all on the Monero end
Two things decide how long this swap feels. First: is the XMR you want to send already spendable? Every output your wallet receives is locked for ten blocks, about twenty minutes, so if the coins arrived recently you're waiting before you even begin. Second: your deposit needs to confirm on Monero, where blocks target two minutes.
After that, the SOL lands in a slot or two. So the honest description of this pair is a slow start and an instant finish.
Because the Monero half takes a while, rate type is worth a thought. A floating rate keeps recalculating while the deposit confirms, so it has real room to drift. A fixed rate pins the number from the start and costs a bit more. Neither is wrong — but if you're sizing the payout for something specific, fixed is the one that behaves.
Questions about XMR to SOL
How fast does the SOL arrive?
Almost immediately once the swap fires. Solana slots run about 400 milliseconds, so the payout leg is a rounding error next to the Monero deposit it's waiting on.
How do I know my Solana address is correct?
It's base58 text of 32 to 44 characters with no prefix, so reading it doesn't tell you much. Copy it straight from the wallet rather than typing it, then check the opening and closing characters against the wallet screen before you send.
Can I receive an SPL token instead of SOL?
This page is set up for plain SOL. Worth knowing for later: SPL tokens live on their own token accounts linked to your main address, so token transfers behave a little differently from a straight SOL transfer.
Why does my wallet refuse to send the XMR?
Because the output is still locked. Monero locks every received output for ten blocks, which is roughly twenty minutes. Check the spendable balance rather than the total, wait for the lock to clear, then start the swap.
The reverse direction
Sending Solana and receiving Monero flips which half of the swap you spend your time waiting on.