splash.tf - instant exchange BTC / ETH / XMR / DAI

[splashed]

Regarding the refund address, what was the source coin?

Sorry, I forgot to mention it was for Bitcoin... While we're on the topic of refund addresses, I want to make a small suggestion about the content in the pop-up that appears when we hover over the blue information icon: It'd be better if you could add another message that reminds users only to use addresses that they fully control, as opposed to addresses from other exchanges ^{[it might save a few people from making that kind of mistake]}.

What was the address type? At the moment we only support P2WPKH addresses, we're going to support more soon 

Thank you for the suggestion, we'll do that!

[Pmalek]

Thumbs up for releasing the Tor version of the exchange. I just had a look at it. It's simple and that's fine. I am happy there is a button to turn off the animations because the site is easier on the eyes without it.

One thing that stands out, though, is that big grey box that appears on the top left and towards the middle of the page. The text in it says <MEDIA> and displays the onion address. I am not sure why it's there. Does it have a purpose? My Tor privacy settings are at the highest level. Maybe the box would look differently if they were set at low or normal.

[splashed]

Thumbs up for releasing the Tor version of the exchange. I just had a look at it. It's simple and that's fine. I am happy there is a button to turn off the animations because the site is easier on the eyes without it.

One thing that stands out, though, is that big grey box that appears on the top left and towards the middle of the page. The text in it says <MEDIA> and displays the onion address. I am not sure why it's there. Does it have a purpose? My Tor privacy settings are at the highest level. Maybe the box would look differently if they were set at low or normal.

Thanks for the review and feedback!

The grey box you are seeing is the result of having the "safest" security level enabled on the Tor Browser. With that setting all audio and video are disabled. If you click on it the video will play 

[splashed]

To the OP, what about providing a Letter of Guarantee for orders?

i.e I create a order for BTC -> ETH, you'll provide a deposit address for my output address. Generate and sign a letter with the details so I can prove I should have received my coins if anything goes wrong.

We have implemented this. Each letter is signed with 1GCm8xrZY8CczWGCoV9RNrUoSWfoSp1ash (edited the ANN post to include this). 

[SFR10]

I'd like to inform everyone that @splashed has contacted me regarding my escrow services and I'll be holding a certain amount of money on their behalf.
^{- I'll update this post with the details and a signed message soon...}

Update:

Code:

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is SFR10 from bitcointalk.org and today is 2025/07/25. I confirm holding 0.08632796[btc] on behalf of @splashed for his/her platform.
My escrow fee is included in this transaction as well: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/fdbed143677f0bb3dc0525e6c26865fdca3fe9bc52229e242cf9f10e84f092c9
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1J81Pk7eP6R7tzEHgmn6BJFXw2NTr62aBM
H1R1XK/8OOTcJJn1FEXnfJ+sVI4Dn+clr6acW+EasZu5Ja4Jz/3n382ViA7JLOSjZxfcMXJHKrwlcZgo0kEdmjs=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

[splashed]

I'd like to inform everyone that @splashed has contacted me regarding my escrow services and I'll be holding a certain amount of money on their behalf.
^{- I'll update this post with the details and a signed message soon...}

Update:

Code:

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is SFR10 from bitcointalk.org and today is 2025/07/25. I confirm holding 0.08632796[btc] on behalf of @splashed for his/her platform.
My escrow fee is included in this transaction as well: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/fdbed143677f0bb3dc0525e6c26865fdca3fe9bc52229e242cf9f10e84f092c9
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1J81Pk7eP6R7tzEHgmn6BJFXw2NTr62aBM
H1R1XK/8OOTcJJn1FEXnfJ+sVI4Dn+clr6acW+EasZu5Ja4Jz/3n382ViA7JLOSjZxfcMXJHKrwlcZgo0kEdmjs=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Service Update Announcement

We're happy to announce our partnership with @SFR10 (UID: 521899). To give you objective, on-forum protection, we've put an escrow-backed bond in place with @SFR10. If we ever fail to complete your exchange and you can prove it, @SFR10 will refund you (up to the posted bond cap).

How to claim a refund

1. Open a public dispute thread in this board linking to this ANN.
2. Tag both of us
3. Provide evidence (see checklist below)
4. If we cannot prove completion, @SFR10 will refund you from the bond, up to the cap.

Evidence checklist
1. Letter of Guarantee from the status page
2. Your funding TxID / on-chain proof

[examplens]

We're happy to announce our partnership with @SFR10 (UID: 521899). To give you objective, on-forum protection, we've put an escrow-backed bond in place with @SFR10. If we ever fail to complete your exchange and you can prove it, @SFR10 will refund you (up to the posted bond cap).

I respect this decision.
It would be good if you add this information to the site, for those who have not or will not see this announcement. or you added this info, but I didn't manage to see it.

[hugeblack]

We're happy to announce our partnership with @SFR10 (UID: 521899). To give you objective, on-forum protection, we've put an escrow-backed bond in place with @SFR10. If we ever fail to complete your exchange and you can prove it, @SFR10 will refund you (up to the posted bond cap).

Good move.  now I can use the service.
Please remove the 24h Volume, as it will make much easier to track incoming coins from https://splash.tf/. Also, update BTC/DAI reserve. Will it always be less than ~$10,000, or do you plan to add more in the future?

[splashed]

I respect this decision.
It would be good if you add this information to the site, for those who have not or will not see this announcement. or you added this info, but I didn't manage to see it.

We'll add it 

We're happy to announce our partnership with @SFR10 (UID: 521899). To give you objective, on-forum protection, we've put an escrow-backed bond in place with @SFR10. If we ever fail to complete your exchange and you can prove it, @SFR10 will refund you (up to the posted bond cap).

Good move.  now I can use the service.
Please remove the 24h Volume, as it will make much easier to track incoming coins from https://splash.tf/. Also, update BTC/DAI reserve. Will it always be less than ~$10,000, or do you plan to add more in the future?

Good suggestion on the volume. We'll think about this one. More liquidity will be added very soon  

[LoyceV]

I'll be holding a certain amount of money on their behalf.

What agreement did you make on returning the money when they ask for it? I'm asking because of this scenario: in that case the escrowed funds were asked back shortly after someone deposited an amount large enough to exit scam.
Escrow only makes sense if there's at least 1 week "cool down period", during which you publicly announced that you'll pay back funds in a week.

[NotATether]

Can I test your site? I would love to add it to my directory if it meets the requirements.

[SFR10]

What agreement did you make on returning the money when they ask for it? I'm asking because of this scenario: in that case the escrowed funds were asked back shortly after someone deposited an amount large enough to exit scam.

I have to admit, we didn't specifically talk about the manner in which funds will be returned to @splashed ^{[that's on me (SMH)]}.
^{- Thank you for mentioning that case.}

Escrow only makes sense if there's at least 1 week "cool down period", during which you publicly announced that you'll pay back funds in a week.

You have a point, but after reading those posts and seeing that after roughly 3 weeks, victims were still coming forward, I think a cool-down period of 3 weeks should be the minimum.
^{@splashed: Sorry for publicly asking this, but are you fine with the above line (note: This extension won't have any positive impact on my monthly storage fee)?}

[splashed]

Can I test your site? I would love to add it to my directory if it meets the requirements.

Of course you can use the site. We've been live for a few weeks now. Please let us know if it doesn't meet your requirements and we'll see what we can do.  

(We'll add a referral system very soon)

I have to admit, we didn't specifically talk about the manner in which funds will be returned to @splashed ^{[that's on me (SMH)]}.
^{- Thank you for mentioning that case.}

You have a point, but after reading those posts and seeing that after roughly 3 weeks, victims were still coming forward, I think a cool-down period of 3 weeks should be the minimum.
^{@splashed: Sorry for publicly asking this, but are you fine with the above line (note: This extension won't have any positive impact on my monthly storage fee)?}

Yes we are fine with it.  

[SFR10]

Yes we are fine with it.  

Thank you ^{[I appreciate it]}

[LoyceV]

Yes we are fine with it.  

Great!
Can I add one more "rule" to this escrow agreement? When you ask to return the money, you should remove the Escrow Guarantee from the OP and your website. Without changing it, no escrow money should be returned.

The good thing about those additions to the escrow rules is that honest parties should have no problem following them, but I've seen this go wrong a few times and "the bad guys" would be severly restricted in their potential to scam.

[splashed]

Great!
Can I add one more "rule" to this escrow agreement? When you ask to return the money, you should remove the Escrow Guarantee from the OP and your website. Without changing it, no escrow money should be returned.

Thanks for your contribution. This is a good improvement. We agree that the bond won't be released until we remove all "Escrow Guarantee" references from our OP and website and post a dated notice. @SFR10 will have to verify this before returning the funds.  

But in the impossible scenario of us exit scamming we wouldn't be around to update the OP / website anymore so @SFR10 will have to make an informed judgement.

[Forsyth Jones]

Welcome splash! I heard about you on the other forum. I'm glad you're joining this cause of privacy by providing non-KYC swap exchanges.

I've already favorited your .onion address and will keep an eye on it. Though the service accepts few coins, I missed LTC support. Do you plan to add it? It has low fees.

Sorry, I forgot to mention it was for Bitcoin... While we're on the topic of refund addresses, I want to make a small suggestion about the content in the pop-up that appears when we hover over the blue information icon: It'd be better if you could add another message that reminds users only to use addresses that they fully control, as opposed to addresses from other exchanges ^{[it might save a few people from making that kind of mistake]}.

Excellent point.

[LoyceV]

Quoting for neutral feedback:

Each letter is signed with 1GCm8xrZY8CczWGCoV9RNrUoSWfoSp1ash

The Letter of Guarantee shows the Unix time instead of human time. Is that on purpose?
Legacy or Nested Segwit Bitcoin addresses are not recognized. Is that on purpose?

[Zwei]

Though the service accepts few coins, I missed LTC support. Do you plan to add it? It has low fees.

congrats, you are the second person to ask about litecoin.
now we just need a few more people asking for splash to consider adding it, as this was their answer when i asked the first time.

@splashed do you plan on adding litecoin anytime soon?

Not planning on adding litecoin anytime soon, but will consider it if we get more demand for it.

[splashed]

Welcome splash! I heard about you on the other forum. I'm glad you're joining this cause of privacy by providing non-KYC swap exchanges.

I've already favorited your .onion address and will keep an eye on it. Though the service accepts few coins, I missed LTC support. Do you plan to add it? It has low fees.

Thank you for the welcome and thank you for checking out our service 

Will keep track of the requests for LTC!

The Letter of Guarantee shows the Unix time instead of human time. Is that on purpose?
Legacy or Nested Segwit Bitcoin addresses are not recognized. Is that on purpose?

Unix time is on purpose to avoid confusion

On Bitcoin addresses - these are getting added as we speak, will announce an update very soon.