Hey! To address your first question, although it says that the maximum transaction limit is around $10,000, exchanges of that size may not be possible if our available reserves are insufficient. If you attempt a $10,000 exchange when we have less than that amount in reserves, the transaction will fail and you’ll receive an error message. The max amount should be whatever is available in the reserves, this is being fixed.

Regarding KYC scores, we cannot guarantee that the coins you receive will have a low KYC score. Since our service is open to anyone and we do not require users to complete KYC and have absolute 0 AML score checks, we cannot control the origin or guarantee the KYC score of the coins being exchanged.

As for depositing collateral with a trusted account, we’re planning to make a deposit with OrangeFren in the coming days. We’ll post an update once it’s completed.

EDIT: We have updated our website and the misleading maximum transaction limit that did not align with our reserves has now been fixed, appreciate you for mentioning this.

Thank you!

Quoted for Future reference.

 I did a swap $200 in BTC to ETH and it went well. Tried to swap $600 more but not enough liquidity. when you will add more liquidity?

Surely, you must have something better in mind in terms of liquidity going forward? While it's certainly a pro that your platform has its own reserve, it's also a big con if a user will have to chat you first and request for a refill so that a swap may proceed. The amount mentioned isn't even huge. That's unnecessarily asking them extra time and effort, which many might find annoying.

Especially considering that you're actively promoting your platform, even made a security deposit, building a reputation, kind of stands out since the great majority of your competitors have third-party liquidity providers, even starting off on the right foot more or less, you're certainly attracting more and more users. It'd leave a bad taste in their mouth if they're confronted right away with failed transactions due to a drained reserve.

Good luck, by the way!

Why do I need to wait for 2 confirmations? my tx already have 1 confirmation.

BitMixList has reviewed the AnonChange swap service.

The exchange service says it is "Private, secure and untraceable", with no account, no KYC, no storing of personal information and no logging of IP addresses. It supports BTC, ETH, XMR, LTC, SOL and USDT, and the coin list also includes USDC and DAI (ERC-20). There is a Tor onion address, a PGP key page and a live chat button. Support is also available on Telegram and Signal.

The main site uses JavaScript. There is also a no-JavaScript version atlite that works in Tor Browser on the Safest level, where every step is a plain form and the order page reloads itself every 15 seconds. During a check of the HTML we found that the lite pages still include the site's Next.js script tags, but nothing seems to need JavaScript.

Both float and fixed rates are offered. On a float order, if the rate drops more than 1.2% before your deposit confirms, you can choose to continue at the new rate or get a refund. The service fee depends on the pair, for example 1% for USDT/BTC -> ETH and 2% for BTC -> XMR, plus a small network fee. The amount shown already has both fees taken off. The BTC minimum was 0.0001227 BTC (about $10 at current rates). The maximum for BTC -> XMR was 0.056 BTC (about $4,500), and you can't create an order for more than what they have in the reserves.

The first swap that was performed was USDT (ERC-20) -> ETH, for 300 USDT at a float rate. The order page shows the deposit address with a QR code, the amount to send, the destination address and a one-hour expiry. A progress bar shows the order's stage. USDT deposits are counted after 12 Ethereum confirmations (about 3 minutes).



A letter of guarantee was provided for both swaps. It is a PGP clearsigned letter with the order terms, signed with the key on the site's PGP page (fingerprint 7C95 D83F 7714 A468 5487 0D2C 11B2 EF4B 5185 F242). Both letters verified with GnuPG:


The letter guarantees that the order "is either completed on the terms in this letter or refunded". It also says AnonChange does not freeze funds, that a manual check (not an AML check) may happen for large amounts or when there is "not enough reserve at that moment", and that a late deposit is still exchanged at the market rate.

Processing took around 8 minutes from creating the order, most of it waiting for confirmations. The ETH was sent less than a minute after the 12th confirmation. We received 0.120677021 ETH against a quote of 0.120713658 ETH (0.03% less, because the float rate moved). In total, we spent 1.11% compared with the pre-fee rate, which matches the advertised 1% + 0.0001 ETH. There is no option to delete the order once finished.



Our receiving address has a long history of its own, so instead we checked the address AnonChange paid us from (0x09d83a47338d0cc2bf2d7257bb6b874e8a1f9ad3) with the BitMixList AML checker. It reported 42/100, Medium risk:


https://bitmixlist.org/aml/shared/da504b90b14afdff19a5d2efac37b253fcdd64a09697e36ea30f346c8e3a2215

The categories only cover about 10% of the funds, and the rest is unattributed, which is probably why it is Medium and not Low. The wallet had only 38 outgoing transactions before ours, so there is little history to score.

The second swap we performed was from BTC -> XMR, for 0.005 BTC (about $417), at a float rate with a BTC refund address. The fee for this pair is 2% + 0.0002 XMR. BTC deposits are counted after 2 confirmations. The deposit was detected while it was still unconfirmed, and the XMR was sent less than a minute after the 2nd confirmation, under 8 minutes after the order was created.



We received 0.69444088 XMR against a quote of 0.69593369 XMR (0.21% less, well within the 1.2% limit).



Listing: https://bitmixlist.org/swaps/anonchange

We just reached out to Monerica for a response regarding this, thank you for reporting that.

Thank you for the thoughtful feedback and for taking the time to look into AnonChange. I really appreciate hearing from someone with your experience using accountless exchanges.

Regarding ZEC, it's actually the next coin we plan to add, ahead of any other coins. Fully shielded transactions are an important consideration, and I'll share your feedback with the developer as we work toward adding support.

As for the API, obtaining an API key doesn't require an email address or any personal information. You can generate a key and use the API while remaining fully anonymous, so terminal-based usage is absolutely something we want to accommodate.

I appreciate your points about PGP-signed letters of guarantee and signing the official onion address. I agree that both are valuable for building trust and helping users protect themselves against scams and phishing. I've forwarded these technical points to our developer and am awaiting a response before commenting on the implementation details. I don't want to give you inaccurate information or make promises before confirming what's feasible.

I'm also glad you found thelite version and that it works in Tor Browser at the Safest security level.

Thanks again for the constructive suggestions and for taking privacy and transparency seriously. Your experience with Zcash on accountless exchanges is particularly valuable, and I'd be happy to hear any further feedback after you've had a chance to try AnonChange.

So we have deployed a few updates regarding your previous statements.

Addresses key: 58CA B837 84F5 D4C3 34C3 26EC DE3C EF20 13BD 632C
Guarantee key: 7C95 D83F 7714 A468 5487 0D2C 11B2 EF4B 5185 F242

These keys can be used to verify domain etc for AnonChange.

In our docs we added information on swaps without API key. Tor also skips anubis bot check, nojs page is going to be on our subdomain lite.anonchange.com. Should be reflecting shortly, constructive critic like this assists us in making the exchange better. Appreciate it, thank you for your feedback : )