Non-custodial, always.
We never take possession of funds. Deposit addresses are single-use and provisioned by the upstream router. Funds transit — they do not rest.
About
We build the swap we wanted to use.
A non-custodial, no-KYC crypto swap that keeps its promise in the details: no account, no third-party analytics, no persistent logs, no identity demand on flagged orders. Here is who builds it, why, and how.
Mission
Peer-to-peer crypto exchange should be a right, not a privilege.
The original promise of cryptocurrency — send value over the wire without asking permission — was quietly erased by a decade of exchange consolidation, risk-scoring creep, and compliance over-reach. Most "swap" services today demand email, log IPs, fingerprint browsers, and escalate to identity demand on any order their upstream flags.
SwapNoKYC is a refusal of that pattern.
Our mission is to offer a fast, honest, zero-friction swap that earns trust by not asking for any. It should read the same way to a privacy researcher, a dissident hedging against a collapsing currency regime, a remote-worker hedging FX exposure, and an ordinary user who simply doesn't want another account.
Anyone can make promises. We try to make our promises verifiable.
Operating principles
Six guarantees, in plain English
No account. No email. No cookie identity.
The only cookie we set is a CSRF session token, strictly necessary for the swap API. No third-party analytics, no ad tracking, no third-party pixels.
Refund-first on flagged orders.
If an upstream flag fires, the first offer is always: refund to an address you provide, no questions asked. We never condition recovery of funds on identity verification.
Short-lived logs.
Nginx access logs rotate within 24 hours. Order records purge on settlement (or within 30 days in the worst case). No long-term correlating identifiers.
Honest comparison.
Our comparison pages link each competitor and cite their public docs. Where a competitor does something better than us, we say so.
No affiliate-rewrite games.
We don't rewrite destination addresses, inject referral codes, or siphon spread between quoted and delivered rates. What the widget shows is what you receive.
The team & the posture
Pseudonymous. Not anonymous.
A small team, working under handles.
A combined decade-plus of experience across cryptography, backend engineering, payments infrastructure, and privacy research. We publish under pseudonyms because the project is the work, not the personality — and because a team whose tagline is "we don't record your identity" cannot credibly invite scrutiny of its own by plastering photos and bios on an About page.
To verify our technical seriousness without meeting us: read the transparency page for the architecture, the AML statement for how we handle flagged orders, and the security.txt for disclosure terms.
We are not a VASP. We are a routing front-end.
The regulated entity in the swap chain is our upstream liquidity provider, which operates its own AML programme and screens addresses against OFAC, EU, UN, and UK sanctions feeds.
Read the AML statement for the detail and the jurisdiction guide for a region-by-region summary of where this model works.
Ethics
"No KYC" is not "no rules".
Our prohibited-use list is short and specific: we do not want the service used to launder proceeds of crime, evade sanctions against designated persons or regimes, finance terrorism, or fund child-sexual-abuse material. These are not compliance theatre — they are the minimum ethical floor. Everything else is none of our business.
If you are a journalist protecting a source, a dissident moving savings out of a collapsing currency regime, a business hedging receivables, or a private individual who simply declines to hand a government ID to a swap aggregator every time you rebalance, you are the user we built this for.
Refusals
What we will not do
Never an "optional" KYC account with feature-gating to herd users toward it.
Never third-party analytics, tracking pixels, or fingerprinting — not even the "privacy-friendly" kind.
Never identity documents as a condition of refund on a flagged order.
Never sell, share, or monetise any metadata we do hold.
Never an ad placement, sponsorship, or affiliate deal that would bias comparisons or listings.
