Swap front-end routing orders through third-party processing partners
Privacy 10.0
Safety 8.4
Instant Swaps Reviewed 22 Oct 2026
HiddenSwap review
No-account crypto-to-crypto swap site whose orders are carried out by third-party providers
- No account needed
- Accepts Monero
- Refund without ID
- May ask for ID
- Screens deposits
- Passes orders to partners
ID on risk flag KYC 3 Documentation reviewed
Privacy
3.4/ 10
Poor
Safety
3.6/ 10
Poor
Based on terms and documentation. No test transactions published yet. See the arithmetic
HiddenSwap review in short
HiddenSwap is a swap service. Its terms put it at KYC level 3 of 4: ID on risk flag. NoKYC Score grades it 3.4/10 for privacy (poor) and 3.6/10 for safety (poor). In its favour: no account needed, no email needed and no phone number. To watch: it may ask for ID, screens deposits and passes orders to partner exchanges. No incidents are on record.
- Category
- Instant Swaps
- KYC level
- 3 of 4: ID on risk flag
- Grades
- Privacy 3.4/10, Safety 3.6/10
- Sign-up
- No account needed
- Custody
- custodial
- Fees
- Service fee and exchange spread included in the quoted rate; payout network fee deducted from the amount received; USD 50 plus network fees to recover a wrongly sent deposit
- Limits
- Per-pair minimum and maximum shown in the swap form
- Incidents on record
- 0
- Last reviewed
- 22 Oct 2026
Cite this review
NoKYC Score, "HiddenSwap review", reviewed 22 Oct 2026, https://nokycscore.com/service/hiddenswap
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What HiddenSwap is
HiddenSwap is a crypto-to-crypto swap website with no accounts: each swap gets an order ID, and for most coins the form also asks for the address the deposit will be sent from, which is pre-checked before the order is created. Its terms say third-party service providers carry out the swaps, that the site or those providers may pause or refuse a swap and request more information before it continues, and that a paused swap which does not continue is refunded minus network fees unless the law, an authority or a stolen-coin report requires the coins to be kept. The operator states that it does not publish names or an address; swap records are kept for 90 days without name or IP address, and the clearnet site loads Google Analytics and PostHog outside order pages. The site says it works in Tor Browser and with JavaScript turned off; its privacy policy mentions an onion address, but none was published on the pages read during this review.
What HiddenSwap offers, and what to watch
6 of 15 privacy and safety features, 6 warnings in its terms.
"Not stated" means its own pages do not say.
Identity
- ID never required No
- No account needed Yes Usable without creating an account, or the account is only a random number.
- No email needed Yes An email address is not required to sign up or use it.
- No phone number Yes A phone number is never required.
Payment
- Accepts Monero Yes Monero hides sender, receiver and amount, so the payment cannot be traced to you.
- Accepts Lightning Not stated
Access
- Tor onion address Not stated
- Works without JavaScript Yes Core functions work with scripts disabled, as in Tor Browser on its safest setting.
Trust
- Never holds your funds No
- Own liquidity No
- Refund without ID Yes The terms commit to refunding a stopped order without identity documents.
- Open source No
- Independent audit Not stated
- Company named No
- 5+ years operating Not stated
Warnings
- May ask for ID Yes The terms reserve the right to demand identity documents, often after a risk flag.
- Screens deposits Yes Deposits are scored by blockchain analytics; a flag can freeze them.
- Passes orders to partners Yes Orders go to upstream exchanges that apply their own screening.
- Holds your funds Yes The operator controls user funds while they are on the platform.
- Email required Not in terms
- Phone number required Not in terms
- Closed source Yes The code is not public, so its behaviour cannot be checked.
- Nobody accountable Yes No company or person is publicly responsible for the service.
Does HiddenSwap require KYC?
- 0 Never
- 1 Not mentioned
- 2 Rare
- 3 On risk flag
- 4 Mandatory
KYC level 3: ID on risk flag. The terms allow funds to be held and identity demanded after an automated risk flag.
Terms section 8 lets the site or its service providers pause or refuse a swap and request unspecified further information before it continues; the AML policy adds that swaps are monitored and sending addresses pre-checked. Identity documents are not named, and not ruled out.
How the grades add up
Both grades start at 50 points and move by fixed, published amounts. Nothing is adjusted by hand. The total is divided by ten.
Privacy
3.4- Starting points 50
- KYC level 3: ID on risk flag -14
- No registration +6
- No email needed +3
- No phone needed +1
- Works without JavaScript +1
- Accepts Monero +4
- Refund without ID +2
- Third-party liquidity -3
- AML screening -7
- May request ID -7
- Closed source -2
- Total, clamped to 0–100 34
Safety
3.6- Starting points 50
- Refund without ID +6
- Third-party liquidity -6
- AML screening -3
- May request ID -4
- Closed source -3
- Anonymous operator -4
- Total, clamped to 0–100 36
Test ledger
Real transactions run by our editors. A badge without a ledger is an assertion; this is the proof.
No test transactions published yet
The grades above rest on HiddenSwap’s terms and documentation. Tests will appear here with the date, route, amount band and result as they are run.
Incidents on record
No incidents are on record for HiddenSwap. If you have a documented case, report it.
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HiddenSwap: common questions
Does HiddenSwap require KYC?
HiddenSwap is rated KYC level 3 of 4 on this site: ID on risk flag. Terms section 8 lets the site or its service providers pause or refuse a swap and request unspecified further information before it continues; the AML policy adds that swaps are monitored and sending addresses pre-checked. Identity documents are not named, and not ruled out.
Is HiddenSwap safe to use?
HiddenSwap has a Safety grade of 3.6 out of 10 and a Privacy grade of 3.4 out of 10. No incidents are on record. Evidence level: documentation reviewed.
Is HiddenSwap legit?
HiddenSwap is a working swap service. Its operators do not publish a company or names, so nobody is publicly accountable for it. Being real is not the same as being safe: its Safety grade here is 3.6 out of 10, built from custody, liquidity, track record and incidents.
Is HiddenSwap a scam?
NoKYC Score does not label services as scams; it records documented incidents with their sources and outcomes. No incidents are on record for HiddenSwap. Its terms also allow it to hold a flagged deposit and ask for identity documents.
Do I need an account or email to use HiddenSwap?
No account needed.
What fees does HiddenSwap charge?
Service fee and exchange spread included in the quoted rate; payout network fee deducted from the amount received; USD 50 plus network fees to recover a wrongly sent deposit. Fees were recorded from HiddenSwap's own pages and can change; check before you send.
What are HiddenSwap's limits?
Per-pair minimum and maximum shown in the swap form.
Does HiddenSwap have a Tor onion address?
No official onion address was found on HiddenSwap's own pages.
Which cryptocurrencies does HiddenSwap support?
HiddenSwap supports XMR, BTC, ETH, USDT, SOL, LTC, ZEC.
Is HiddenSwap custodial?
Yes. HiddenSwap holds funds during a trade, which means it is able to delay or freeze them.
Can I use HiddenSwap over Tor?
HiddenSwap does not publish an official onion address.
Listing history
- Listing added. Facts and KYC level set from the service's own terms and documentation.