KYC level
Rare / if flagged — no account
SideShift.ai verified yesterday
Established instant swap (2019) with good support — but freezes funds for AML review, logs IPs indefinitely, shares with authorities, refuses Tor, and delisted Monero/Zcash · since 2019
Verification criteria
⚠ Recorded incidents
minor
2025-06-10 Event
Ongoing
Monero and Zcash delisted, ending privacy-coin support.
major
2025-10-13 Policy
Ongoing
Multiple documented 7-day fund freezes for AML review, consistent with ToS §3.11 automated risk management.
Posture
Custody
Custodial
Logging policy
Extensive
Liquidity
Own liquidity
Data collected
IP, address, partner-relayed, IP, (API, docs), device, ID, OS, browser, type
Tor access
Refuses Tor
Authority data-sharing
Shares with authorities
JavaScript
Required
Open source
No
Frozen-funds policy
Risk-based
Blocked jurisdictions
US · CU · IR · KP · KN · SY
Privacy — Exchange
Swap mechanism
Instant Custodial
Own reserve (fewer third parties)
Yes
Liquidity model
Own
No deposit-address reuse
No
Recourse
No terms of service published
No
No legal entity or forum named
No
Legal entity
Paradigm Ltd (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Dispute forum / governing law
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Details
Supported assets
BTC · ETH · USDT · USDC · LTC
Fee min (%)
0.5%
Fee max (%)
0.5%
API available
Yes
Rate type
Both
Reliability
30-day uptime
100.0%
Incident history
2 recorded