A working daemon lets your Monero wallet submit an XMR payment. It also helps the wallet check your balance and see whether the payment reaches the network.
What does the daemon do?
A daemon is a background program that connects to the Monero network and shares blockchain data. A blockchain is the public record of payments; in Monero, it does not show your wallet balance in the same way a bank app does.
Your wallet uses its private keys to find and spend your XMR. It asks a daemon for recent network data, then sends a signed transaction—a payment instruction approved by your wallet—to the network. Monero Docs describe this division between wallet and daemon.
The daemon can run on your computer or on a remote computer called a node. A remote node saves disk space, but you rely on its connection and data. You usually do not need to install or manage a daemon yourself: many wallet apps connect to one for you.
How do you submit an XMR deposit?
For a bridge deposit, your wallet’s daemon helps send XMR; the bridge’s own nodes watch for that payment. A node is a computer running network software. ZeroFi’s published node setup says each bridge node runs a local Monero daemon, so the bridge also needs working daemon connections to track deposits.
- Open the bridge and check the source and destination networks before entering an amount. On 30 September 2026, ZeroFi’s page lists XMR going to Sepolia, an Ethereum test network, and a minimum deposit of 0.01 XMR.
- Connect your Ethereum-compatible wallet, then enter the amount and destination details the bridge requests. An Ethereum-compatible wallet can hold tokens on networks that use Ethereum’s transaction format.
- Copy the XMR deposit address shown by the bridge. For the bridge-specific XMR-to-zXMR steps, use ZeroFi; zXMR is an ERC-20 token, meaning it follows a common token format used on Ethereum-compatible networks.
- Open your Monero wallet, paste that address, check the amount and wallet fee, then submit. The fee pays for sending the XMR on Monero; your wallet shows the current amount, which can change with network conditions.
Before: your wallet shows “daemon unavailable,” so it cannot refresh or send through that connection. After reconnecting to a working node, the wallet can prepare and broadcast the payment; ZeroFi’s page lists ten source-chain confirmations before processing, so a sent payment may still need time.
What if the daemon is unavailable?
If your wallet cannot reach a daemon, wait or switch to another trusted node in the wallet settings. Do not send a second payment just because the screen is slow; first check whether the wallet shows a transaction ID, a unique payment reference you can use to track it.
If the transaction was broadcast, your wallet’s daemon outage does not undo it. The bridge still needs its nodes to see the payment and meet the confirmation requirement. If the bridge’s own nodes are offline or catching up, crediting zXMR can take longer even when your wallet sent XMR successfully.
For example, if your wallet shows a transaction ID but the bridge has not credited zXMR, check the transaction status before retrying. ZeroFi’s current page names Sepolia as the destination, so treat the setup as a test-network flow and keep the amount small.
Submit only when your wallet is connected to a daemon and the bridge shows the exact deposit address and amount you intend to send.
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