We screen before you send, and never freeze after

Here is something that happens every day in crypto, and quite possibly happened to you. You find an exchange that advertises no KYC in big letters. You send your coins. The swap starts processing. And then, nothing. Your funds are “under review.” An email arrives asking for your passport, a utility bill, and a selfie holding a piece of paper with today’s date on it.

Your coins are frozen. Not because you did anything wrong, but because the service decided to run its compliance checks after it already had your money. Think about that sequencing for a second: they take your funds first, then decide whether they want to do business with you. The privacy community has a name for the pattern, shotgun KYC, and clause fourteen of the terms nobody reads usually says they can do it “at any time, at our sole discretion.” Surprise.

The services doing this are mostly not villains. They bolted compliance onto the end of a pipeline that was designed before compliance mattered to them, and once a flag lands on money they are already holding, freezing is the cautious move. The customer pays for the caution. That is not compliance. It is a hostage situation with extra steps.

We got tired of watching it happen. Not tired in the “oh, that’s unfortunate” way. Tired in the “someone needs to actually fix this” way, the kind that makes you stop complaining and start building.

Crypto has a strange contradiction at its core. Bitcoin was created so people could send value without asking permission from a bank or a man in a suit. Then the exchanges, the very services meant to serve that idea, turned into the exact institutions it was designed to bypass: more personal data than your bank, fund freezes with less oversight than your bank, and, if you have ever called a bank, somehow worse customer service too.

So we built CoinVast: a crypto-to-crypto swap service that does one structurally unusual thing. It decides whether your swap will run before you send your coins, not after. That is the whole innovation. It sounds simple because it is. The fact that it counts as unusual should make you a little angry.

We did not write a 47-page whitepaper about proprietary blockchain synergy. We looked at the single most common way people get hurt in this niche and designed a system where that failure mode does not exist.

Here is the core promise, word for word as we keep it in our own codebase and hold to it on the trust page. It gets a box because the entire product is organized around it.

In practice: when you create an order, the deposit is screened against risk and sanctions data before you send a single satoshi. The check looks at the coins, not at you. There is no identity to verify because we never asked for one. If the screening passes, the swap runs and a completed swap is final. No takebacks, no “actually we need to review this,” no email two weeks later asking where your money came from.

If it fails, the swap never starts and your coins auto-return to your refund address, minus only the network fee, with the return hash printed on the order page. You do not file a ticket. You do not upload your life story. You do not wait three weeks while an anonymous compliance officer decides whether your Litecoin looks suspicious.

One exception exists, and we print it everywhere instead of burying it: a deposit matching a government sanctions list must be held and reported. Every legitimate service on Earth has that same obligation, and anyone claiming otherwise is either lying or about to be shut down. Everything else gets one of two boring outcomes: swapped and final, or returned.

There is a trick most swap services play: hide the profit inside the exchange rate, quote a number that looks good, and let the spread quietly widen when nobody is checking. The cost is technically disclosed somewhere in the fine print and practically invisible during the actual swap.

We do the opposite. Every quote prints the spread, a flat 2% locked in the moment you create the swap, next to the network fee as its own separate line. The mid-market rate we quote against comes from public market data, so you can audit our math against any price index in about ten seconds.

Why make such a fuss about it? Because fee transparency is the cheapest test of whether an exchange respects you. A service willing to hide 2% where you will not notice it will hide other things too. We would rather lose a swap to a competitor with a better rate that day than keep a customer who does not know what they are paying. At least the first person made an informed decision.

You never create an account to swap here. No username, no password, no email, no phone verification, no “just one quick selfie.” You pick your coins, the quote prints its fees, the screening runs, and either the swap happens or you get refunded. Then you leave. We do not know who you are, and we built it so we cannot find out.

This is not a missing feature. It is the security model. Data we never collect cannot leak, cannot be stolen, and cannot be demanded in a courtroom. Every exchange that stockpiles passports and bank statements is building a honeypot, and when it gets breached, the exchange writes a blog post about taking security seriously while you spend years dealing with identity theft. We would rather have nothing worth stealing.

There is a quieter second benefit: collecting nothing removes the temptation. We cannot be pressured into handing over user records that do not exist. What a swap does create on our side, order records, addresses, transaction hashes, and roughly a week of ordinary server logs, is inventoried line by line on the trust page and in the privacy policy, including the honest note that a valid legal demand for those records will be answered. The short list is the point.

136 coins across 86 networks, every pair live, with minimums and confirmation counts printed before you type an amount. The list includes the privacy coins that regulated exchanges keep delisting: native Monero, Zcash, and Dash. We list them deliberately, because they represent some of the most important engineering in this space, and dropping them to calm a regulator who never asked sends exactly the wrong message.

Our own nodes under the majors. BTC, LTC, BCH and DASH deposits are verified on pruned nodes we run on our own hardware, not on a rented API whose outage becomes your stuck order and whose logs become someone’s data set. The other chains ride vetted external providers for now, and the migration list shrinks as disks and weeks permit. The honest split between the two is spelled out on the trust page.

Crypto to crypto only, forever. No bank transfers, no cards, no fiat. This is a choice, not a gap: fiat rails come with mandatory identity collection in nearly every jurisdiction on Earth, and the moment we plugged into banking we would be forced to gather exactly the data we exist to avoid. If you need to buy crypto with dollars, plenty of services do that. Once the coins are yours, we are really good at the next part.

Separated systems. The screening pipeline and the swap engine are architecturally distinct, screening results are not woven into a permanent profile of you, and once a swap completes there is no mechanism to reverse, hold, or “review” it. We built the no-freeze rule into the plumbing rather than the policy manual, because plumbing survives bad days and staff turnover. Policies do not.

Privacy is not a marketing angle or a settings toggle. It is in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 17 of the ICCPR, and the “nothing to hide” argument collapses the moment you think about it: you close the bathroom door, you do not hand strangers your phone with the passcode off, you do not publish your bank statements. Privacy is normal.

Financial privacy especially. A transaction history reveals where you live, what you believe, who you associate with, what medication you take, and which causes you support. When an exchange demands documents to swap coins, it is creating a permanent link between your legal identity and your on-chain life, a link that never expires and that hackers, governments, employers, and stalkers can all eventually reach. The people hurt first are activists, journalists, and anyone living under a government that reads bank statements for a living. Privacy is not a luxury for people with something to hide. It is a necessity for people with something to lose.

Every privacy technology has walked the same road: suspicious, then niche, then standard. Encrypting email was once considered shady; now Gmail does it silently. HTTPS, end-to-end messaging, VPNs, all the same arc. Financial privacy tools are walking it now, and cash has been private for its entire career, which spans a few thousand years. Digital cash should be too. CoinVast is one small piece of that ecosystem, and we are content with small.

This is where about pages usually list fake awards, a “team of industry veterans,” and endorsements from people who do not exist. We launched in 2026. We have no years of uptime statistics, no review pile, no glossy magazine profile, and no user counter that quietly counts page views as customers. We are not going to invent any of it.

What we have is a model you can verify without trusting us at all. The screening result lands before you send. The spread is printed on the quote. Every leg of a swap prints its transaction hash on the order page, checkable on a public block explorer. Start with twenty dollars. Check whether the fees match the quote and whether the payout matches the card. Then decide whether we have earned a second swap. Skepticism toward new crypto services is correct, and the right answer to it is not bigger promises. It is small ones, kept, in public, one swap at a time.

Some things are worth writing down so there is no wiggle room later. Hold us to every line.

Never ask for your identity documents. No passport, no license, no selfie, no proof of address. Not in a future update, not past some user threshold. The day we ask for KYC is the day this service has failed at its one job.

Never freeze or claw back a completed swap. Once it is done, it is done. No retroactive reviews, no email six days later asking where the funds came from. This is structural: the system has no mechanism for reversing a finished swap, on purpose.

Never hide fees. The spread and the network fee appear on every quote, separately, before you commit. If the structure ever changes, the quote changes first and says so.

Never sell or share your data with advertisers. Easy promise, since we barely have any. No third-party analytics trackers, no ad pixels, no “trusted partners” getting a feed of your browsing.

Never delist privacy coins under pressure. Monero, Zcash, and Dash stay. We watched exchanges drop them with no legal requirement to do so. That is their choice. Ours is different.

Never pretend to be something we are not. If something breaks, we say so. If a feature is not ready, it does not get a “coming soon” badge that outlives a presidency. Honesty is cheaper than spin and it ages better.

New services compensate for being new by claiming everything. We keep a public list of what is missing instead, and try to make it shorter over time.

Proof of reserves. Planned, not live. When it ships it will be independently verifiable, not a PDF we graded ourselves. Until then, the no-account swap holds your coins for minutes, not months, which is the honest mitigation.

The legal entity is being formed. The operating company is in registration. The moment it exists on paper, its name and jurisdiction publish on the trust page and in the terms. An honest blank beats a made-up letterhead.

A mobile app. The site works fine in a phone browser, and app stores have a habit of demanding identity integrations or yanking privacy tools without warning. We would rather not hand a gatekeeper that lever until we know how to do it without compromising the model.

A big support operation. Today, email [email protected] and a real person answers. No chatbots, no auto-replies marking tickets resolved while your problem still exists. The honest cost: replies are not instant during busy stretches. We will take slow and human over fast and useless.

No headshots on this page, no LinkedIn links. That is not an accident and not a red flag we are hoping you will ignore. We built a service whose entire argument is that financial privacy matters, and plastering our own identities across the about page would be a strange way to argue it. Practice what you preach should not be controversial.

Crypto has a double standard here worth naming. Nobody demanded Satoshi’s face before trusting Bitcoin, and Monero, one of the most rigorously engineered projects in the space, is maintained largely by pseudonyms. The quality of a system should speak louder than a team photo.

So judge us on behavior, not faces, because behavior is checkable. The fees either match the quote or they do not. The screening result either lands before you send or it does not. A completed swap either stays final or it does not. Run a small swap and grade us. Email [email protected] and see if a human writes back. That is a more honest trust signal than any headshot ever taken.

CoinVast is a simple service with a simple promise: the fees on the quote, the screening before you send, and a completed swap that stays completed. We are not disrupting anything, launching a token, or publishing a roadmap with the words artificial intelligence in it. We are building a swap service that treats people fairly. That should not be radical. Apparently it is.

If you want to try it, try it small. Verify the claims yourself. If the experience is good, come back. If it is not, tell us what went wrong so we can fix it. No signup required. Pick your coins and go.