10 services compared · Policies read June 2026 · No affiliate links

Best no KYC crypto exchanges in 2026, compared honestly

Ten services, three architectures, one question that decides everything: when your swap gets flagged, do you lose custody of your coins? We read every policy in June 2026, weighed real user reports over marketing, scored everyone on the same rubric, and ranked the field. One of the ten is ours. The box below explains exactly how we handled that.

Last updated June 10, 2026 · Next review September 2026

Full disclosure

We run CoinVast. Yes, we put ourselves on the list. Here is exactly how we judged everyone, and where the others beat us. Decide for yourself.

Every service below was scored on the same five things: KYC policy as written, KYC behavior as users report it, custody model, Monero support, and track record. CoinVast wins the first of those because we built it around pre-send screening, the structural fix for surprise freezes; the policy is written out on our trust page. We lose on track record (launched 2026), on coin count (31 coins against Godex's 900+), and on trustlessness (Bisq and RoboSats hold nothing, ever). No affiliate links exist anywhere on this page, including for us. If you finish reading and pick Trocador, that is a fine outcome.

Quick facts

The short version, quotable on purpose

What a no KYC exchange is: A service that swaps crypto without accounts or identity documents. In 2026 the honest version of that sentence is: no KYC below a risk threshold. Deposits almost everywhere are screened against chain analytics. The real differences are when the screening happens and what happens to your money when it flags.
The three types: Instant swaps hold your coins for minutes and do the trade for you (CoinVast, StealthEX, Godex, SideShift, FixedFloat, ChangeNOW, SimpleSwap). Aggregators compare instant swaps and never touch funds (Trocador). Peer-to-peer tools match you with a human and no company ever takes custody (Bisq, RoboSats).
Top pick by use case: Avoiding mid-swap freezes: CoinVast. Comparing every rate at once: Trocador. True peer-to-peer: Bisq, or RoboSats for Lightning speed. Long-tail altcoins with Monero: StealthEX or Godex. Raw liquidity and brand track record: ChangeNOW.
The legal one-liner: Using a no KYC exchange is legal for you as a user in most countries. The licensing burden sits on the operator. Your taxes still apply, and laundering money is illegal on every exchange ever made.
Custody, the part that matters: Every instant swap holds your coins during the swap window, whatever its marketing says. That window, usually minutes, is exactly when freezes happen. P2P tools and aggregators are the structural exceptions.
What changed lately: MiCA fully applies in the EU since December 30, 2024, and the EU AML Regulation bites from July 2027. eXch was seized in April 2025 with 8TB of data despite a no-logs promise. The market answered with geoblocks, Monero delistings, and harder screening.

Comparison

All 10 at a glance

Custody and KYC-in-practice are the columns that matter. Everything else is preference.

Service	Type	Account	KYC in practice	Custody during swap	Monero	Best for
1. CoinVast	Instant swap	✓ None	Screened pre-send, none after	Minutes, swap window only	✓ Yes	Not getting frozen
2. Trocador	Aggregator	✓ None	Partners graded A to D	Never holds funds	✓ Via partners	Comparing rates
3. Bisq	P2P (desktop)	✓ None	None, by design	Non-custodial	✓ XMR/BTC	Zero-trust fiat trades
4. RoboSats	P2P (Lightning)	✓ None	None, by design	Non-custodial	✗ BTC only	Small private buys
5. StealthEX	Instant swap	✓ None	Optional, on flags	Holds during swap	✓ Yes	Long-tail altcoins
6. Godex	Instant swap	✓ None	None advertised, any size	Holds during swap	✓ Yes	Big swaps
7. SideShift	Instant swap	✓ None	Flags reviewed, ID if serious	Holds during swap	✓ Varies	In-wallet swaps
8. FixedFloat	Instant swap	✓ None	Shotgun KYC, 4/10 kycnot.me	Holds during swap	✓ Yes	Lightning swaps
9. ChangeNOW	Instant swap	✓ None	Shotgun KYC, 5/10 kycnot.me	Holds during swap	✗ Restricted	Liquidity, breadth
10. SimpleSwap	Instant swap	✓ None	On flags, FCA warning	Holds during swap	✓ Unstable	Familiar UI

Policies as read June 2026. A ✓ in the Monero column means support exists but varies by region or pair.

The list

The 10 best no-KYC exchanges, ranked

Ranked by KYC-in-practice first, custody model second, track record third. Each entry links to the service's own site, plainly, with no referral codes.

CoinVast

Instant swap

Best for: Swaps that cannot be frozen halfway through.

We built CoinVast because of everything else on this page. The industry default is to take your deposit, swap it, and run compliance checks afterwards, which is how people end up emailing passport selfies to a service that advertised no KYC. CoinVast reverses the order. Every deposit is risk-screened before the exchange starts. Pass, and the swap runs, and a completed swap is final. Fail, and the swap never happens: your coins auto-return to your refund address, no documents demanded. The freeze, as a mechanism, does not exist in the flow. The one exception is a sanctions-list match, which the law requires holding, and screening before anything moves makes that vanishingly rare. We also print our spread on every quote: a flat 2% over the mid-market rate, locked the moment you create the swap, plus the payout network fee, all shown before you commit.

Now the honest part. We launched in 2026, so we have the shortest track record on this list, and in this niche track record is most of the argument. We list 31 coins while Godex lists over 900. We hold your coins for the minutes a swap takes, which is structurally more trust than Bisq or RoboSats ever ask of you. And Trocador will happily show you nine other quotes next to ours. Start with a small test swap. That advice applies to every service here, ours included.

Type: Instant swap
Account needed: None, no email either
KYC in practice: None under threshold. Screening runs before the swap, never after
Custody during swap: Yes, for the minutes the swap takes
Monero support: Yes
Notable caveat: Newest service on this list, smallest coin catalog

What users report: Too little history to quote yet. We launched in 2026, and pretending otherwise would defeat the point of this page.

Trocador

Aggregator

Best for: Comparing every no-KYC rate on one screen before you commit.

Trocador is not an exchange. It is an aggregator that pulls quotes from a roster of instant swap services, several of which appear on this list, and shows them side by side. The part that earns it this spot is the rating system: every partner gets a grade from A to D for KYC and freeze risk based on observed behavior, and you can simply exclude the risky ones from your results. kycnot.me scores Trocador 8/10, with its community rating it 4.7 out of 5 across 84 reviews. There is a Tor onion address and a no-JS version for the careful.

Caveats, because everything has them. Trocador never touches your coins, but your trade still executes on a partner exchange, so partner risk does not vanish, it just gets a letter grade. Its refund guarantee has a 10-day claim window and explicitly excludes AML-blocked transactions, which is the exact failure mode you are most worried about. The code is closed source, and US users are geoblocked. Still: if you bookmark one site from this list, it should probably be this one. Yes, we know we ranked ourselves first. Bookmark them anyway.

Type: Aggregator
Account needed: None
KYC in practice: Never asks itself. Partners may, and each is graded A to D for that risk
Custody during swap: Never holds funds, partners do
Monero support: Yes, routed across multiple partners
Notable caveat: Refund guarantee excludes AML-blocked trades. US geoblocked

What users report: Minutes-fast support replies and a near-spotless Trustpilot, around 5/5 from 260+ reviews, rare in this niche (Trustpilot and kycnot.me, read June 2026).

Bisq

P2P (desktop)

Best for: Trading with another human, so no company can freeze anything.

Bisq answers a different question. Instead of trusting an exchange to hold coins for a few minutes, you trade directly with another person through a desktop app that routes over Tor. There is no company in the middle, no server holding your funds, and therefore nothing to freeze and nobody to send a passport to. The original Bisq has run since 2016 on security deposits and 2-of-2 multisig. Bisq 2 shipped the friendlier Bisq Easy protocol in March 2024 for first-time fiat-to-bitcoin buys with no security deposit, and an Android app arrived in early 2026.

The trade-offs are real. You run an app, order books are thin compared to any instant swap, and a trade takes however long your counterparty takes, which can mean hours when a bank transfer is involved. Bisq Easy covers bitcoin against fiat only; the classic desktop app also trades XMR against BTC and remains one of the larger peer-to-peer venues for that pair. If your threat model includes the exchange itself, this is your tool. If you just want LTC turned into SOL in ten minutes, it is not.

Type: P2P, desktop app over Tor
Account needed: None, local identity only
KYC in practice: None, by design. There is no operator to ask
Custody during swap: Non-custodial: multisig deposits or reputation-based trades
Monero support: Yes, XMR/BTC on the classic app
Notable caveat: Slower, thinner order books, desktop or Android required

RoboSats

P2P (Lightning)

Best for: Small, fast, private bitcoin buys over Lightning.

RoboSats is peer-to-peer like Bisq but rebuilt for speed. Everything runs over Tor, every user is a disposable robot avatar, and trades settle on the Lightning Network using hold invoices, so sats only move once both sides have done their part. If you and your counterparty are online at the same time, a trade can finish in about five minutes, which is genuinely quick for P2P. Since the federation upgrade, the order book is hosted by multiple independent coordinators instead of one operator, removing the single point of failure the original design had.

The limits: it is bitcoin only, so no Monero and no altcoins, and amounts are capped by what fits comfortably in Lightning channels. This is a tool for stacking in small private chunks, not for moving five figures. You will need a Lightning wallet that handles hold invoices and a Tor browser. None of that is hard, but it is more setup than pasting an address into an instant swap.

Type: P2P over Lightning, Tor-native
Account needed: None, disposable robot identities
KYC in practice: None, by design
Custody during swap: Non-custodial, Lightning hold invoices
Monero support: No, bitcoin only
Notable caveat: Small amounts only, needs a Lightning wallet and Tor

StealthEX

Instant swap

Best for: Long-tail altcoins with Monero still on the menu.

StealthEX is an instant swap with one of the deeper altcoin catalogs around: roughly 600 assets you can practically trade (it markets 1,400), including XMR, which it kept listing while bigger names quietly dropped it. No account, payouts straight to your wallet, minimums in the $10 to $50 range depending on the pair. When you are hunting the native-chain version of some niche token, StealthEX and Godex are usually the two tabs you end up with.

Its KYC policy is the standard risk-based one, described as optional: high-risk coins, large amounts, or repeated swaps can trigger verification, and fiat purchases above $700 require it outright. Search-indexed user reports describe verification requests appearing on flagged or failed swaps when refunds are requested, which is worth knowing before you send size. Trustpilot sits around 4.0 from a small base of about 436 reviews.

Type: Instant swap
Account needed: None
KYC in practice: Optional, triggered by flags, size, or repetition. Fiat over $700 requires it
Custody during swap: Holds your coins during the swap
Monero support: Yes
Notable caveat: Refunds on flagged swaps can require verification first

What users report: Occasional verification demands on flagged or timed-out swaps before refunds are processed (kycnot.me listing and search-indexed reviews, read June 2026).

Godex

Instant swap

Best for: Big swaps with no stated size limits.

Godex has run since 2017 with the strictest no-KYC positioning in the niche: no account, no stated maximum, and a fixed-rate-only model where the quote you accept is the quote you get. It lists over 900 coins including the full privacy-coin set, and its Trustpilot reads 4.4 with 94% positive, with noticeably fewer freeze complaints than the bigger brands. Their site states that order data is deleted after a short retention period.

Two honest hedges. First, much of the glowing 2026 test content about Godex comes from Godex's own blog, so treat zero-KYC-at-any-size claims as marketing until your own test swap confirms it at your amounts. Second, no public numeric thresholds exist here, or anywhere else in this niche, so a compliance hold is never impossible. What we can say plainly: across the complaint piles we read for this page, Godex generated the fewest.

Type: Instant swap, fixed rates only
Account needed: None
KYC in practice: None advertised at any size. No published thresholds either way
Custody during swap: Holds your coins during the swap
Monero support: Yes, all major privacy coins
Notable caveat: The most favorable coverage of it is self-published

What users report: The fewest freeze complaints among the established instant swaps we could find, consistent with its 94% positive Trustpilot (Trustpilot, read June 2026).

SideShift

Instant swap

Best for: Swapping without leaving the wallet you already use.

SideShift is the instant swap you may have already used without visiting its site: it is built into Trezor Suite, Edge, and the Bitcoin.com wallet, and claims over $1.6B in lifetime volume. Around 300 coins across 45+ networks, no account needed. It is also the only major instant swap that publishes its legal entity and address (Paradigm Ltd, St. Kitts & Nevis) along with a plain-language risk policy. That sounds like a low bar until you notice nobody else clears it.

That published policy is also where the catch lives, in writing: flagged shifts are paused for human review, refunds happen after a holding period, and flagged deposits of a serious nature require verification before the refund is processed. So it is privacy-branded, not unconditional. Users also grumbled when minimums went up in 2025. Credit where due, though: they wrote their rules down, and in this market that is rarer than it should be.

Type: Instant swap
Account needed: None
KYC in practice: None routinely. Flagged shifts get human review, serious flags need ID before refund
Custody during swap: Holds your coins during the swap
Monero support: Often available, varies by region
Notable caveat: Raised minimums in 2025, refunds on serious flags need verification

What users report: Complaints about raised minimums in 2025, alongside generally positive support experiences (publish0x and Trustpilot, read June 2026).

FixedFloat

Instant swap

Best for: Lightning-native instant swaps, if you accept the history.

FixedFloat is the Lightning Network specialist, and the only major service that publishes its fees instead of hiding them in the spread: 0.5% plus network fee floating, 1.0% fixed. Minimums sit around a dollar, the lowest on this list, which makes it ideal for test swaps. It was hacked twice in 2024, for about $26.1M in February and roughly another $3M that April. The team said no user funds were lost, went quiet, then returned; as of June 2026, ff.io is live and processing swaps.

The KYC record is the problem. kycnot.me scores FixedFloat 4/10 with shotgun KYC level 3, and documented reports describe escalating demands: photo ID, bank statements, even video recordings, with freezes running four to six months through late 2025. As of June 2026, its kycnot.me listing also carries a notice that deposits originating from a certain large exchange are automatically suspended. So: transparent pricing, real Lightning support, and a worse-than-average chance that a flagged swap becomes a months-long document exchange. Decide accordingly.

Type: Instant swap, Lightning specialist
Account needed: None
KYC in practice: Shotgun KYC documented, rated 4/10 and level 3 on kycnot.me
Custody during swap: Holds your coins during the swap
Monero support: Yes, crypto-to-crypto
Notable caveat: Hacked twice in 2024, multi-month freezes reported since

What users report: Escalating document demands on flagged swaps, including ID, bank statements and video, with freezes lasting months (kycnot.me, read June 2026).

ChangeNOW

Instant swap

Best for: Liquidity and coin breadth when privacy is not the point.

ChangeNOW is the biggest brand in instant swaps: 1,500+ listed assets (around 500 with usable liquidity), every major network, and integrations inside wallets like Exodus, Guarda, and Atomic. If you need an unusual pair to actually execute at 2 a.m., this is where the depth is. Trustpilot shows roughly 4.5 from about 13,000 reviews, and the team answers nearly every negative one, which is its own kind of signal.

But on the question this list is about, ChangeNOW is the cautionary mainstream case. The front page says no registration and no KYC; the AML page describes a Sumsub-powered automated risk system that can hold any swap, with triggers including amounts over roughly €2,000, privacy coins, and suspicious patterns. The company says about 0.5% of swaps get flagged. Community reports include holds running months, and kycnot.me scores it 5/10. Monero is restricted to the point where, for privacy purposes, you should treat it as unavailable. Great pipes, wrong tool for this job.

Type: Instant swap
Account needed: None
KYC in practice: Shotgun KYC documented, 5/10 on kycnot.me. Triggers include €2,000+ and privacy coins
Custody during swap: Holds your coins during the swap
Monero support: Restricted, treat as unavailable
Notable caveat: Marketing and AML policy contradict each other

What users report: Multi-month holds, including a logged case still unresolved after 2.5+ months as of May 2026, and one community report alleging a $440,000 loss (kycnot.me and BestChange logs, read June 2026).

SimpleSwap

Instant swap

Best for: A familiar interface, carrying the most caveats on this list.

SimpleSwap is everywhere in affiliate listicles, which is partly why it makes ours: you will see it recommended, so you should see the record too. The product itself is fine. Roughly 600 to 1,000 assets, no account, a clean interface, and most swaps complete without trouble. The numbers underneath are less fine: it holds the lowest Trustpilot of the major instant swaps, around 3.8 to 3.9 from about 2,300 reviews.

Two facts to weigh. The UK FCA published a warning about SimpleSwap on March 17, 2025, stating it is not authorized in the UK. And the freeze stories run long: one documented $5,500 swap frozen in December 2025 was still unresolved more than 150 days later, after the user had completed KYC, source-of-funds, and bank statements. When pressed, the company points at its third-party liquidity providers. We rank it last not because it usually fails, but because when it fails, you have the least recourse.

Type: Instant swap
Account needed: None
KYC in practice: Triggered on flags, with long documented holds afterwards
Custody during swap: Holds your coins during the swap
Monero support: Unstable, region-dependent
Notable caveat: UK FCA warning issued March 17, 2025

What users report: A $5,500 swap frozen 150+ days despite completed verification, and a frozen-funds theme across recent reviews (Trustpilot via search index, FCA register, read June 2026).

Method

How we built this list

What we read

The official policy, AML, and fee pages of all 10 services, read in June 2026. The kycnot.me listing and community score for every service that has one. Trustpilot profiles, weighing recent reviews over headline averages, because headline averages lag. BestChange complaint logs. Incident coverage of the 2024 FixedFloat hacks and the 2025 eXch seizure. And the user-report corpus we maintain for our own product research, triangulated from Reddit, X, and review sites.

How the ranking works

KYC-in-practice weighs heaviest: not what the homepage says, but what happens when a swap gets flagged. Custody model comes second, because a service that never holds your coins cannot freeze them. Track record third. Coin coverage and rates last, because a great rate on a frozen swap is worth exactly nothing.

The conflict of interest, handled

CoinVast is ours and it is ranked first, so this section exists. We scored ourselves on the same rubric, wrote down where we lose (track record, coin count, and we are custodial during the swap, unlike Bisq and RoboSats), and put the disclosure at the top of the page instead of in a footer. There are no affiliate links anywhere on this page. Every outbound link is a plain URL with no referral code, including the links to our competitors.

Freshness

We re-check every claim quarterly, or immediately when something big breaks: a hack, a seizure, a policy rewrite, a Monero delisting. This revision was published June 10, 2026. The next scheduled review is September 2026. Corrections go to our support inbox and get fixed on this page first, not quietly.

Cheat sheet

Pick by situation

For Monero swaps

StealthEX and Godex both keep XMR listed with real depth. CoinVast lists Monero with screening done before you send. And run the pair through Trocador once to see every route's rate before you pick.

For true P2P purists

Bisq for fiat and XMR/BTC with zero company in the loop. RoboSats when the amount is small and you want Lightning speed. Slower and thinner books, but nobody exists who could freeze you. That is the deal.

For comparing every rate at once

Trocador, full stop. It grades partners A to D on freeze risk and lines up quotes side by side. Even if you end up swapping elsewhere, including with us, check it first.

For big amounts

Godex advertises no limits at any size and has the cleanest freeze record among the established players. Still: split the trade, send a test chunk first, and remember that above five figures a patient P2P trade may beat any instant swap.

For a first-ever swap

Pick a low minimum and rehearse. FixedFloat starts around $1, most others between $10 and $50. Send a small test, watch it complete end to end, then send real size. Check the min and max before sending anything.

For fiat needs

Honest answer: none of these do fiat well. The bolted-on card ramps require full KYC, which defeats the point. Use a regulated CEX for fiat, withdraw to your own wallet, then swap privately. Bisq and RoboSats trade fiat P2P if you have the patience.

Questions

Asked before you ask

Why should I trust a list written by an exchange?

Cautiously, the same way you should read every best-of list, because most of them are affiliate pages in disguise. Our bias is disclosed at the top instead of hidden: we run CoinVast and ranked it first on the freeze question, because pre-send screening is the structural fix for the complaint that dominates this niche. But we also told you Trocador is the better bookmark, Bisq and RoboSats are more trustless than we are, and Godex lists almost 30 times more coins. There are no affiliate links on this page, ours included. Check every claim against the sources at the bottom. That is what they are there for.

Is using a no KYC crypto exchange legal?

In most countries, yes. Swapping your own crypto without showing ID is not a crime for you as a user; the licensing burden sits on the operator, not the customer. What stays illegal regardless: evading taxes on your trades, laundering money, and dodging sanctions. Some jurisdictions restrict access, which is why several services on this list geoblock the US or the EU. Short version: the tool is legal to use almost everywhere, what you do with it is on you, and your tax office does not care how private the swap was.

Can these services freeze my funds?

Seven of the ten hold your coins during the swap window, and anything held can be frozen. Realistic triggers in 2026: deposits linked to mixers, darknet markets, stolen funds or sanctioned addresses, amounts over roughly €2,000 on the stricter services, and privacy-coin trades. Bisq and RoboSats cannot freeze you, because no company ever takes custody. Trocador cannot freeze you, but its partners can. CoinVast screens before the swap starts, so a deposit either proceeds or auto-returns; the one legal exception is a sanctions-list match, which must be held rather than returned.

Which no-KYC exchange is actually anonymous?

Strictly, none. Every blockchain except Monero's is a public record, and a service that sees your deposit and payout addresses can link them, account or no account. What this list gives you is privacy from identity collection: no name, passport, or selfie attached to the trade. RoboSats over Tor with Lightning comes closest to anonymous, for bitcoin. For everything else the honest framing is private, not anonymous, and anyone selling you full anonymity is selling something else.

What changed for no-KYC exchanges after MiCA?

MiCA became fully applicable in the EU on December 30, 2024, and it covers crypto-to-crypto exchange as a regulated service, no fiat needed. The follow-up EU AML Regulation applies from July 2027 and requires identity checks on occasional transactions from EUR 1,000. The visible effects through 2025 and 2026: services geoblocking EU or US users, a wave of Monero delistings (one count puts it at 73 exchanges in 2025), and more aggressive automated screening everywhere. The niche did not die. It re-sorted into licensed players, offshore players, and peer-to-peer tools with no operator to regulate.

Are the P2P options slower?

Usually, yes. An instant swap takes 5 to 30 minutes, mostly waiting for block confirmations. On Bisq, a trade takes as long as your human counterparty takes, which can be hours when a bank transfer has to land. RoboSats is the exception: with both parties online, Lightning settlement can finish in about five minutes. The price of P2P is patience and thinner order books. The prize is that there is no company in the middle to freeze you, subpoena, or hack.

What is shotgun KYC?

The community's name, formalized on kycnot.me, for advertising no KYC, accepting your deposit, and then demanding identity documents once your money is already in the service's custody. Chain analysis runs on the deposit, and if the risk score is bad, the swap pauses until you upload a passport, a selfie, sometimes bank statements. Refuse, and the refund can take weeks to months. It is the single biggest complaint across this niche, and it is why this list weighs KYC-in-practice over KYC-as-advertised.

Can I buy crypto with a card or bank transfer on these?

Mostly no, and where yes, badly. Instant swaps are crypto-to-crypto tools; the fiat ramps bolted onto some of them require full verification (StealthEX, for example, requires it above $700), which defeats the point of this page. Bisq and RoboSats genuinely do fiat peer-to-peer, just slower. If you need a card or bank on-ramp at fair prices, a regulated exchange is the right tool: buy there, withdraw to your own wallet, then swap privately. Using each tool for what it is good at is not a compromise. It is the strategy.

What happened to eXch, and why does it matter here?

eXch was a popular no-logs privacy exchange, running since 2014, until German federal police seized its infrastructure on April 30, 2025, taking about €34M in crypto and 8 terabytes of data from a service that claimed to keep no logs. It stood accused of laundering around $1.9B, including funds from the Bybit hack. Two lessons for anyone reading this list: unverifiable privacy promises are worth nothing, because data outlives marketing, and services that do zero screening do not last. The durable services in this niche screen for stolen and sanctioned funds and say so.

Is Monero still supported anywhere in 2026?

Yes, but the list keeps shrinking, which is why XMR gets its own column in our table. From this list: StealthEX, Godex, FixedFloat and CoinVast list XMR, Trocador routes XMR trades across several partners, and Bisq's classic app trades XMR against BTC peer-to-peer. ChangeNOW restricted it, and SimpleSwap's support is unstable and region-dependent. Industry-wide, one count puts 2025's delistings at 73 exchanges. Treat Monero support as the canary: a service that keeps XMR listed is telling you something about its priorities.

Do instant swap exchanges hold my coins?

Yes, all of them, briefly, whatever non-custodial language the marketing uses. From the moment your deposit confirms until the payout broadcasts, the service controls your coins. That window is usually minutes, and it is exactly when freezes happen. Aggregators like Trocador never hold funds (their partners do), and true P2P tools like Bisq and RoboSats are built so that no third party ever takes custody. This one question sorts the entire market, which is why custody is a field on every entry above.

How often is this list updated?

Quarterly, or sooner if something big breaks: a hack, a seizure, a policy rewrite, a delisting. Every policy referenced here was read in June 2026, and each source below carries its read date. This page was last updated June 10, 2026, and the next scheduled review is September 2026. If we got a fact wrong, email [email protected] and we will check it and correct this page first, not quietly.

Sources

Every source, with its read date

All of these were read in June 2026 for this revision. If a claim on this page does not trace back to one of them, email us and we will fix it.

Policies and listings

kycnot.me directory · read June 2026
kycnot.me on ChangeNOW (5/10) · read June 2026
kycnot.me on FixedFloat (4/10, shotgun level 3) · read June 2026
kycnot.me on SimpleSwap · read June 2026
kycnot.me on StealthEX · read June 2026
kycnot.me on Trocador (8/10) · read June 2026
ChangeNOW AML/KYC terms · read June 2026
ChangeNOW KYC FAQ · read June 2026
SimpleSwap AML/KYC page · read June 2026
SideShift risk management policy · read June 2026
SideShift legal entity disclosure · read June 2026
FixedFloat fee schedule · read June 2026
Bisq Easy · read June 2026
Bisq 2 wiki · read June 2026
RoboSats Lightning docs · read June 2026
RoboSats federation spec · read June 2026

Incidents and enforcement

UK FCA warning on SimpleSwap (Mar 17, 2025) · read June 2026
Halborn on the Feb 2024 FixedFloat hack · read June 2026
Decrypt on the $26M FixedFloat theft · read June 2026
CoinDesk on FixedFloat's April 2024 incident · read June 2026
FixedFloat is back (official blog) · read June 2026
BleepingComputer on the eXch seizure · read June 2026
The Record on the eXch takedown · read June 2026
TRM Labs on eXch after the shutdown · read June 2026

Reviews and community reports

Trustpilot: ChangeNOW · read June 2026
Trustpilot: SimpleSwap · read June 2026
Trustpilot: FixedFloat · read June 2026
Trustpilot: StealthEX · read June 2026
Trustpilot: Godex · read June 2026
Trustpilot: Trocador · read June 2026
BestChange complaint log: SimpleSwap · read June 2026
publish0x on SideShift's raised minimums · read June 2026
CCN on the 2025 Monero delisting wave · read June 2026

Regulation

ESMA on MiCA · read June 2026
EU AML Regulation 2024/1624 · read June 2026
OFAC FAQ 646 on blocked virtual currency · read June 2026

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CoinVast

Instant swap

Best for: Swaps that cannot be frozen halfway through.

Type: Instant swap
Account needed: None, no email either
KYC in practice: None under threshold. Screening runs before the swap, never after
Custody during swap: Yes, for the minutes the swap takes
Monero support: Yes
Notable caveat: Newest service on this list, smallest coin catalog

What users report: Too little history to quote yet. We launched in 2026, and pretending otherwise would defeat the point of this page.