How SwapNoKYC actually works

SwapNoKYC is a front-end over an aggregated liquidity router, not a single internal order book. For every pair we poll multiple liquidity venues continuously and quote the best executable rate, net of one platform fee that is already folded into the number the widget shows. There is no second spread applied at settlement — what you are quoted is what is delivered, minus only the on-chain network fee of the asset you send.

• Float orders re-price at the moment your deposit confirms on-chain. The spread is tighter, but the final receive amount tracks the market between quote and confirmation.
• Fixed orders lock the quote for ten minutes from deposit. You trade a slightly wider spread for a guaranteed receive amount — useful on volatile pairs.

Quotes shown on pair pages carry a visible "Updated" timestamp bound to the real API fetch, not the page deploy time. The live widget re-quotes client-side on load, so the rate you act on is always current.

We use both terms precisely, not as marketing. <b>No-KYC</b> means the swap completes with no account, no email, and no identity document — there is no verification step anywhere in the flow. <b>Non-custodial</b> means we never hold your balance: each order generates a single-use deposit address, funds transit, and the output is delivered to the wallet address you supplied. There is nothing resting on the platform to freeze, seize, or lose in a breach.

This is privacy-by-design, not AML evasion. We operate as a routing layer between wallets the user already controls. On flagged orders our policy is refund-first — the deposit is returned to a user-provided address rather than gated behind an identity demand. Jurisdiction-level detail lives in the <a href="/guides/no-kyc-swap-legal-by-country/">legal-by-country guide</a> and the <a href="/aml/">AML statement</a>.

Quoted settlement is end-to-end: from the moment your deposit reaches the required confirmation count to the moment the output transaction is broadcast. The median is around eight minutes, and it is dominated almost entirely by the send asset — a Bitcoin send waits on Bitcoin blocks; an EVM send waits on gas-driven inclusion; a Lightning leg can finalise in under a minute. SwapNoKYC adds only the routing time, which is seconds.

Required confirmation counts per network are published in the order flow, so you can see exactly what the swap is waiting on at any moment rather than staring at an opaque spinner.

Every cell in our <a href="/compare/">comparison matrix</a> maps to a specific, falsifiable claim in the competitor's own public documentation — terms of service, privacy policy, AML page, or currency-list endpoint — as of the stated month. We never grade from marketing copy. We include ourselves under the same criteria, and a green cell marks a categorical, checkable advantage, not an opinion. There is no affiliate relationship and no sponsored placement; if a comparison is wrong, it gets corrected, not bought.

No third-party analytics, no ad pixels, no tracking cookies — the only first-party cookie is a strictly-necessary CSRF token on the order flow. Anti-abuse counters and nginx access logs rotate within 24 hours; order records are purged on settlement. The full architecture and retention detail is on the <a href="/transparency/">transparency page</a>, and the formal commitment is in the <a href="/privacy/">privacy policy</a>.