About

About BTCSwap: a swap desk with
the fine print on the outside.

No founding myth, no stock photos of a trading floor. What follows is the model: where the coins come from, where the money comes from, and what the design makes impossible — including for us.

In plain facts

What BTCSwap is — and is not

What it is
An instant crypto-to-crypto exchange

You send one asset from your wallet, you receive another at an address you choose: 1,019 assets, 177 networks.

What it is not
Not a custodian, not a broker

No balances, no fiat, no card payments, no order book. Coins pass through; they never sit here.

Account and identity
None, at any amount

No sign-up, no email, no document. The one case where a swap can be held — a deposit flagged by sanctions or theft screening — is written in the AML policy.

Rates
Floating or fixed

Floating settles at market when your deposit confirms; fixed locks the amount for a countdown. The gap between the two is shown before you choose.

What it costs
Network fees + our margin

Both are inside the quoted amount; nothing is added after you confirm. Our only revenue is the spread.

Where liquidity comes from
An exchange engine we route to

Quotes and settlement come from a liquidity desk; every figure on this site is read from it when the page renders, and timestamped.

If a swap cannot complete
Refund to your address

Minus the network fee of the return; we charge nothing for it. Without a refund address, a return is arranged by hand through support.

For developers
Public JSON API, no key

Live quotes, address validation, order creation and status — the same endpoints the site runs on. Reference, OpenAPI, llms.txt.

The model

We are the counter, not the vault

Three parties, one direction, no balance anywhere in the middle.

  1. 01 you

    Your wallet

    You send once, from a wallet you control, to an address generated for that one exchange. We never touch your wallet — no connection, no signature, no permission.

  2. 02 us

    This desk

    We quote the pair, hold the order, and route it to a wholesale liquidity partner that settles it. We are a front end to that liquidity, and we say so rather than imply a vault we do not have.

  3. 03 you

    Your other wallet

    The payout goes to the address you gave, on the network you picked. There is no balance left over — nothing to withdraw, nothing to claim, nothing to freeze.

How we get paid

From the spread, and only from the spread

One source of revenue

The rate you are quoted is slightly below the wholesale rate we can source. That difference is our entire income. There is no fee line, no percentage added at confirmation, no withdrawal charge and no premium tier.

The payout network fee shown with every quote is not ours — it is what the receiving blockchain charges, and we do not keep a share of it.

What that means for you

Our interests and yours line up on everything except the spread itself — so the spread is the thing we show, in numbers, live. The home page quotes the same amount both ways and prints the difference. The pair pages quote the same swap at four sizes so you can see the payout fee eating a small one.

Publishing the unflattering number is the cheapest credibility there is, and almost nobody does it.

Three decisions

Everything else follows from these

Each one costs us something. That is how you know they are real.

  • No accounts no sign-up, no email, no password
  • No request logs access_log off · access.log = /dev/null
  • No custody deposit → payout, no balance

What each one costs us

  • No accounts means no mailing list, no retention campaign, no way to tell a returning user from a new one. We trade the entire marketing playbook for a form with one field.
  • No logs means no analytics. We cannot tell you which page converts best, because we genuinely do not know.
  • No custody means no float to earn on, and no « balance » to keep you coming back. Every swap starts from zero.

And where it stops

A page that only lists strengths is an advertisement. So, plainly:

  • A liquidity desk settles your swap and sees the transaction. We are not alone in the path and never claim to be.
  • A network edge sits in front of this site and sees connections, whatever we log.
  • An exchange can be held if a deposit is flagged by sanctions screening. One case, spelled out in the AML policy instead of buried.

Full detail on the privacy page — including the parts we would rather not have to write.

Right now

The desk, in numbers that update themselves

Read from the engine as this page was rendered — not written into the HTML by hand.

  • 1,019assets
  • 177networks
  • 1,283asset · network pairs
  • 512lockable at a fixed rate
  • Operationalexchange engine

Every figure on this site comes from the same place: the live catalogue and the live quote engine. If the desk drops a network tomorrow, this page says 176 without anyone editing it — and the footer says degraded on its own when quotes stop flowing.

That is the whole pitch

One deposit, one payout, and the fine print on the outside.

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