Pro/Con Crypto-to-Crypto “No KYC” Swap Websites

Swap sites offer quick exchanges but usually require trust

These are all sites for Monero, BTC Lightning, and others. These are NOT real atomic swaps, that will be a different article. Atomic swaps usually cost more and can’t be in a web browser.

Trocador.app

Free fees, but it’s just a front-end with Cloudflare
Pro: Acts as a no-fee No-JavaScript crypto-to-crypto swap front end for different exchanges, so you get the best rate and change counterparty risk to Trocador. They use the word atomic swap, but in a browser this doesn’t eliminate counterparty risk, it just changes it from the exchange to Trocador. Some people will criticize me that it’s open souce, but you can’t audit their cloud website. If it’s done through an open source wallet WITH atomic swaps, THEN it’s eliminating the counterparty risk. Trocador doesn’t add fees so this is a great site.
Con: On Cloudflare, horrible. Also Trocador could be gathering info maliciously, I have no way of knowing.

Fixedfloat.com

0.5% fee
Pro: Reliable site has been around awhile. Large variety of selection and good prices. Support team is quick to respond.
Con: They use a Cloudflare and ended Monero support. The Google analytics can be blocked with uBlock Origin. Careful on the chats, they use third parties as well. They block Tor and USA IPs. Even a USA clock is banned. I’m in international waters and encourage honesty, but any human can observe with publicly available information, that this means some people may hypothetically have to change the timezone on their local PC.

Exch.cx

0.5% fee
Tor Onion: hszyoqwrcp7cxlxnqmovp6vjvmnwj33g4wviuxqzq47emieaxjaperyd.onion

Pro: I like this site a lot. No Cloudflare or Big Tech. Low fees and fairly good selection. Well advertised on BitcoinTalk, so they got a reputation to protect. Tor onion.
Con: They get DDoS’ed a lot, but check back in a few hours if down. Remember, you pay the 0.5% fee PLUS the cost of sending it on the blockchain itself. Also they charge more to get Monero, but not send Monero. For Bitcoin layer 1 fees, be careful not to do too low fees (the lowest setting) or you’ll get stuck a full day or more. (Btw if you get stuck, do a child-pays-parent transaction). Also I’ve had issues reaching their support team.

Coinswap.click

Under 1% fee (they don’t say)
Pro: No Big Tech. No Cloudflare. No Google. You can uBlock the third party bootstrap CDN without issues. Fees are decent on XMR->BTC Lightning. This is not as low as Fixedfloat or CoinEx, but it’s barely more expensive.
Con: This is a good site, I like it! I wish they were more upfront about the fees, instead of making me calculate it. But they were not bad.

ChangeNow.io

Fees vary based on quantity. But usually more expensive than ExCh.
Pro: Large variety of cryptos. Well established reputation.
Con: ChangeNow varies their fees based on how much quantity you’re doing. Obviously the more you do, the lower the fee. If you’re thinking of using them, check Trocador to compare it. The variations are fairly small though. ChangeNow also uses Cloudflare and Google.

StealthEx.io

Unclear pricing.
Pro: Decent variety. It’s “another alternative”
Con: Cloudflare, AWS, Google. These idiots use all big tech with the word “Stealth”. You can uBlock Origin block the Amazon CDN, and it still works, but you can’t load the post-transfer progress status page. Please, try it with a penny first. I’m not responsible.

TradeOgre.com

Pro: This is like a real exchange with visual GUI of liquidity and not a swap site, even though it is crypto-to-crypto only with no KYC. They got a decent selection and some privacy coins such as Oxen.
Con: They use Cloudflare, and it will block Tor. Not a cheap Bitcoin withdrawal fee, I paid like double the middle rate of Electron wallet.

WizardSwap.io

2.5%
Pro: No Big tech. They got a Tor onion too.
Con: High fees.

Boltz.exchange

Pro: Eh… more variety?
Con: High fees, again with Cloudflare and big tech.

SimpleSwap.io

Pro: Huge selection, they got like as much selection as some KYC exchanges.
Con: They don’t tell you the fees, you have to calculate it yourself but they are not too bad for some altcoins. However, they got mad big tech.

Summary of the “No Cloudflare” & “No Big Tech”:

Exch.cx
Wizard Swap
Coinswap.click

Summary of the cheapest ones:

Trocador.app (front end)
TradeOgre
FixedFloat
Exch.cx
Coinswap.click (barely cheap)
ChangeNow (sometimes)

Summary of both not private and not cheap, these suck:

StealthEx
Boltz

Atomic Swaps

In another article, we’d discuss “real” atomic swaps.

Real atomic swaps are always downloaded software, it can’t be a wallet.

Some of these are brand new, still in development, and I can’t vouch for.

Basic Swap DEX: Particl.io
DarkFi
Komodo Wallet
Unstoppableswap.net BTC->XMR
Elizabeth Binks XMRETH

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