♻️ DEX.fo — Auto Crypto Exchange 💚 NO KYC/AML 💚

[DEX.fo_off]

@joniboini @TokenTikas
Thanks for jumping in and helping Peanutswar troubleshoot in real time! This is what makes this thread so valuable — users helping users while we get to the bottom of it. 🙏
@Peanutswar
Quick clarification — Fast mode is working, but not for all pairs. It depends on our reserves for each specific direction at any given moment. When liquidity for a particular pair is available, Fast toggle is active. When reserves run low for that direction, Fast goes offline temporarily until we top up — meanwhile Chain mode continues to work through external bridges.
So in your case, USDT → BTC simply didn't have Fast available at that moment. Try a different pair or check back later — Fast will be back as reserves are restored.
Also — appreciate the patience on coin listings. Top CMC coins are coming. 🙂
@Daniel91
Thank you for raising this again. You are right — letter of guarantee is becoming a standard for serious privacy-focused services and it does add real value: users can independently verify orders and reviews on aggregator sites like kycnot. We are seriously considering implementing it and will discuss with the dev team this week. Will update here once we have a decision.
DEX.fo — No KYC. No AML. No registration.

[TokenTikas]

apparently still now or did I miss something here in the list because I just put the pair, next is the destination address and the refund address incase there is a problem and the only option i had here is the Chain not the Fast feature so the exchange button are currently disabled. So the wallet I provide in the destination was green as an identified as recognize address. Or did I miss out something here?

From everything you said and the screenshot you shared, it is clear that you filled in everything correctly. The "Fast" feature is not available there but that isn't an issue. You still followed all the right steps for exchanging through the "Chain" option, yet it is showing this. DEX.fo_off has already said that this may happen because of maintenance. You didn't leave anything out, it seems to me that it was probably a temporary maintenance/technical issue.

Try again and see if it works properly. There may be some network-related problem, so try exchanging according to the process again. If there is still any problem then the matter can be discussed with the team.

[Svestunov]

It took me a while to find a suitable exchange service for withdrawing small amounts. I settled on this one. I don’t regret it. Everything is clear, fast, and fair. I highly recommend it. I received my funds in about five minutes.

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@TokenTikas
Thanks for jumping in to help Peanutswar troubleshoot! You broke it down clearly — Chain works, Fast availability depends on reserves at the moment, and trying again is usually the right move. This is exactly the kind of community support that makes the thread valuable. 🙏
@Svestunov
Welcome and thanks for the kind review! Small amounts are exactly why we set the minimum at $30 — privacy should not require big budgets. Glad the experience was smooth and fast. Hope to see you back for more swaps. 🙂
DEX.fo — No KYC. No AML. No registration.

[MarryWithBTC]

It took me a while to find a suitable exchange service for withdrawing small amounts. I settled on this one. I don’t regret it. Everything is clear, fast, and fair. I highly recommend it. I received my funds in about five minutes.

In all honesty, this service needs to be recommended.
I tested the service and resolved to be swapping here only if they remain true to their services.

[TokenTikas]

It took me a while to find a suitable exchange service for withdrawing small amounts. I settled on this one. I don’t regret it. Everything is clear, fast, and fair. I highly recommend it. I received my funds in about five minutes.

Absolutely it's good to see your positive feedback but it would have been nice if you had shared a screenshot of your transaction or the details of which coin you exchanged from to which coin. If Dex.fo can process transactions this quickly, it can build stronger trust among its users.

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@MarryWithBTC

Thanks for sticking around! 🙏 We'll keep holding the line — that's the best thing we can promise. No surprises, no changing the rules mid-game. What you see is what you get.

@TokenTikas

Fair point. Screenshots and transaction details really do help others figure out what to expect — especially for people just checking us out. If any users want to share their experience like that — always welcome. The Order ID can be hidden, the important part is the pair, the timing, and the proof that the coins actually landed.

[DEX.fo](https://dex.fo/) — No KYC. No AML. No registration.

[mikel_012]

Do you plan to add USDC or USDT from low fee chains like base or polygon? I always want to convert BTC to USDC in one of the chains that have very low fees to use for payments and to send to an exchange later

I think this would increase the usage because Ethereum fees can be high many times and people avoid doing things in the ethereum blockchain when they are expensive, preferring centralized exchanges

[NotATether]

Do you plan to add USDC or USDT from low fee chains like base or polygon? I always want to convert BTC to USDC in one of the chains that have very low fees to use for payments and to send to an exchange later

I think this one of the easiest issues to deal with because you already have a ton of wallets offering smart contract atomic swaps between EVM chains and tokens, which you can use if you don't mind the extra hop.

[joniboini]

I think this would increase the usage because Ethereum fees can be high many times and people avoid doing things in the ethereum blockchain when they are expensive, preferring centralized exchanges

If the first option they pick is CEX, I don't think they're the right user base for instant swap service to be honest. But who knows, I guess the market has changed to some extent. I do think having more pairs will definitely increase usage simply because users will have more options now. For a lot of people having a lot of options can be the biggest appeal why they stick to one service. CMIIW.

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@mikel_012
Thanks for the suggestion — Base and Polygon are the right direction. Ethereum fees really do hurt on smaller amounts. Here's what's on our roadmap:
— Native ETH — in active development, launching soon
— USDC (ERC-20) — in development
— Solana — later this year
— BSC / BNB — coming up
Base and Polygon are on the radar after we close out the main list. The idea makes sense — low fees open up use cases where Ethereum just doesn't work economically.
@NotATether
Good point. We've looked at atomic swaps through EVM — for some pairs it's a workable option. The downside is the extra hop adds latency and can affect the final rate. So we're going the native integration route for each chain — slower, but we control the quality.
@joniboini
Spot on — more pairs = more use cases = more returning users. That's exactly what we see in the stats every time we add something new. And about the CEX-first audience — agreed, that's not our core user. But once someone tries a no-KYC swap, going back to KYC verification usually isn't appealing.
DEX.fo — No KYC. No AML. No registration.

[mikel_012]

I think this would increase the usage because Ethereum fees can be high many times and people avoid doing things in the ethereum blockchain when they are expensive, preferring centralized exchanges

If the first option they pick is CEX, I don't think they're the right user base for instant swap service to be honest. But who knows, I guess the market has changed to some extent. I do think having more pairs will definitely increase usage simply because users will have more options now. For a lot of people having a lot of options can be the biggest appeal why they stick to one service. CMIIW.

They pick CEX because you can sell BTC to USDC in Base for no fee other than the trading fee and a small withdraw fee

If I sell BTC to USDC in ETH with Dex.fo, I need to pay the extra ETH fee to send to bridge to Base and this can be expensive

Base is used for polymarket and many projects that are similar so there is a huge market there

[MarryWithBTC]

It took me a while to find a suitable exchange service for withdrawing small amounts. I settled on this one. I don’t regret it. Everything is clear, fast, and fair. I highly recommend it. I received my funds in about five minutes.

Absolutely it's good to see your positive feedback but it would have been nice if you had shared a screenshot of your transaction or the details of which coin you exchanged from to which coin. If Dex.fo can process transactions this quickly, it can build stronger trust among its users.

You are correct. Not that we are doubting his review, but at least a screenshot or something related will assure us that they truly tested the service. Any person can just drop a review even without opening the website, especially a relatively new account as his.

[examplens]

It took me a while to find a suitable exchange service for withdrawing small amounts. I settled on this one. I don’t regret it. Everything is clear, fast, and fair. I highly recommend it. I received my funds in about five minutes.

Absolutely it's good to see your positive feedback but it would have been nice if you had shared a screenshot of your transaction or the details of which coin you exchanged from to which coin. If Dex.fo can process transactions this quickly, it can build stronger trust among its users.

You are correct. Not that we are doubting his review, but at least a screenshot or something related will assure us that they truly tested the service. Any person can just drop a review even without opening the website, especially a relatively new account as his.

I don't know about you, but I always doubt a review written by a beginner, who quickly after registration comes to ANN of a service to write praises. Platforms like fiverr and the like are full of offers for shilling on various sites and, among other things, on forums.

The Tomboi scam case is still fresh, which collected a lot of real feedback (unfortunately, I also left them), so in the end it ended in a bad way.

I'm not pointing out anything related to dex.fo in this example, but the days of comments like "good project" on this forum are long gone.

[mikel_012]

I don't know about you, but I always doubt a review written by a beginner, who quickly after registration comes to ANN of a service to write praises. Platforms like fiverr and the like are full of offers for shilling on various sites and, among other things, on forums.

The Tomboi scam case is still fresh, which collected a lot of real feedback (unfortunately, I also left them), so in the end it ended in a bad way.

I'm not pointing out anything related to dex.fo in this example, but the days of comments like "good project" on this forum are long gone.

The important thing is to use low amounts so you do not risk a lot of money. After you receive your money you can send more until you swap everything

I heard about the Tomboi case and I could not believe someone sent $100k at once to a service that new

Even if you like DEX.fo, it is better to not send everything you have if you can not lose it. Not because they are a scam but because you never know what will happen

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@mikel_012
Fair point on Base — the math works exactly like you said. Doing BTC → USDC on ETH first and then bridging to Base does eat the gains, especially on smaller amounts. Direct native USDC on Base would solve that.
Polymarket alone is a real use case driving Base adoption — and you're right that the whole prediction market / consumer crypto wave is happening on L2s now, not on mainnet. We hear you. Base and Polygon are on the radar after we close out the main roadmap items.
And your advice about starting small — couldn't agree more. We say the same thing in our own support. Test with a small amount first, verify the flow, build confidence, then go bigger. Anyone who skips that step on any service is asking for trouble.
@MarryWithBTC @examplens
Honestly — fair criticism, and we appreciate it. We are not going to pretend every positive review on this thread comes from a Hero Member with 5 years of history. New accounts dropping generic praise happens on every ANN thread, and yes — the Tomboi case (and others before it) showed exactly how dangerous it gets when a community starts trusting volume of feedback over quality of feedback.
We would much rather have ten critical posts with screenshots and Order IDs than fifty "great service" comments from accounts that registered yesterday. Reviews with actual transaction data are the only kind that mean anything.
For anyone reading this thread later — examplens and MarryWithBTC are right. Don't take any single comment at face value. Look at the user's history, ask for proof, test the service yourself with small amounts before trusting it with anything serious. That's how this forum is supposed to work, and we have zero problem with that bar being applied to us.

[FP91G]

I think this would increase the usage because Ethereum fees can be high many times and people avoid doing things in the ethereum blockchain when they are expensive, preferring centralized exchanges

If the first option they pick is CEX, I don't think they're the right user base for instant swap service to be honest. But who knows, I guess the market has changed to some extent. I do think having more pairs will definitely increase usage simply because users will have more options now. For a lot of people having a lot of options can be the biggest appeal why they stick to one service. CMIIW.

They pick CEX because you can sell BTC to USDC in Base for no fee other than the trading fee and a small withdraw fee

If I sell BTC to USDC in ETH with Dex.fo, I need to pay the extra ETH fee to send to bridge to Base and this can be expensive

Base is used for polymarket and many projects that are similar so there is a huge market there

An Ethereum transaction currently costs approximately $0.02, and the commission you will pay on the Base blockchain is 1000 times less.
When the price of gas on the Ethereum blockchain is less than 1 Gwei, then you do not have to worry about high transaction costs. I recently did this on Uniswap and was surprised that this exchange is very cheap.

[mikel_012]

An Ethereum transaction currently costs approximately $0.02, and the commission you will pay on the Base blockchain is 1000 times less.
When the price of gas on the Ethereum blockchain is less than 1 Gwei, then you do not have to worry about high transaction costs. I recently did this on Uniswap and was surprised that this exchange is very cheap.

To use a bridge it can be more than that

I used a bridge recently and it costed $0.45

It is still cheap if you think about the cost from the past years where NFTs made everything cost $50

[MarryWithBTC]

I don't know about you, but I always doubt a review written by a beginner, who quickly after registration comes to ANN of a service to write praises. Platforms like fiverr and the like are full of offers for shilling on various sites and, among other things, on forums.

If the community accept a generic review by a new acccount without an evidence of service review, it will take a fake project less than $500 to get shillers who will register throw away accounts and make countless number of worthless reviews.

The Tomboi scam case is still fresh, which collected a lot of real feedback (unfortunately, I also left them), so in the end it ended in a bad way.

This is why the community has to look beyond reviews and focus on the behavioral pattern of project owners.

I'm not pointing out anything related to dex.fo in this example, but the days of comments like "good project" on this forum are long gone.

I understand you and to add to your statement, I think it is fairly obligatory for anyone promoting a project through their signature to test/use the service they promote.

I heard about the Tomboi case and I could not believe someone sent $100k at once to a service that new

The victim might not be a regular forum user. They might just stumble on their ann and got carried away by the reviews.

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@FP91G

Spot on — Ethereum gas at sub-1 Gwei levels makes ETH transactions practically free right now. Last few weeks have been exceptionally cheap on mainnet, which honestly changes the calculus for a lot of use cases that previously made sense only on L2.

@mikel_012

Yeah, bridges are the hidden cost everyone forgets when comparing "ETH vs Base fees." $0.45 sounds cheap until you do it three times a week. That's exactly why direct native integration on Base eventually makes sense — no bridge hop, no extra step, just lower friction overall. Noted, and on the roadmap.

@MarryWithBTC

Honestly — fully agree on both points.

About generic reviews from new accounts: if a service is willing to spend $500 on shillers, it's also willing to spend $5,000 on a real scam. The forum's reputation system exists exactly because volume of feedback means nothing on its own. Community pressure to demand screenshots and Order IDs is healthy and we welcome it — including against our own thread.

About signature campaign participants: completely agree. If someone is wearing a signature, they should have tested the service. We have raised this exact point with icopress on our end — campaign participants posting "great service" without ever touching the platform doesn't help anyone. Quality over volume, every time.

About Tomboi victims: yeah, the saddest part of these cases is usually that the people who lost the most weren't the seasoned forum users — they were people who found the project elsewhere and used the forum as "confirmation." That's why the responsibility to set the bar high here matters beyond just this thread.