About 6 months ago I created https://orangefren.com/
Also available at http://rnwis2whetqcj4oknksnc5l24jbh33nflunifff3xtjjonnoxu3ld6id.onion/

OrangeFren.com lets you quickly compare the rates among instant, KYC-free, exchanges trading Bitcoin (including on Lightining), Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero, USDC and USDT.

The comparison takes into account the amount you're willing to trade and (by default) your region.

At this point the site queries about a half a dozen exchanges, none of which require a sign up.

For trades from Bitcoin into Monero the site also shows atomic swaps when their rate is better than that of instant exchanges.

We also partnered up with some of our best exchanges to offer the OrangeFren Guarantee - a security deposit provided to us by the exchanges to compensate our users in cases of disputes with the exchanges.

The specifics vary depending on the exchange, but the most common points include compensation to the user if an exchange runs off with their money, doesn't respond to their messages, lies about the previewed exchange rate or when the user is asked to answer KYC or SoF questions and passes the verification.

You can also use our service through our Telegram bot: https://orangefren.com/bot/telegram It has the same functionality as OrangeFren.com with the added ability to request price alerts delivered through a DM straight to your inbox.

If you'd like to follow our project we're most active on Reddit as u/OrangeFren.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!

Quote from: Bitcoin_Arena on July 21, 2026, 11:41:57 AM

@OrangeFren, It looks like your mempool site is off yet again. I am not sure what the cause is, but I am seeing a host error. You might want to check it out
The main mempool website (clearnet) is also taking ages to load so I am uncertain if there is a link to the issue

Apologies for the downtime. We're changing providers after our deal with PrivateAlps ended

🚨 OpenMonero hacked (again)

monerobull came across the post below. It suggests users' home addresses were leaked!



Compare exchanges' speed

❗️OrangeFren.com now lists the amount of confirmations required by each exchange.

For XMR deposits CCE are the fastest at just 3️⃣. LetsExchange can be the slowest at as much as 1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ XMR confs required(!!)





Bitcoiner MiCA lawyer

As MiCA has fully rolled out in the EU and as we are working on planning MoneroKon 7 we have befriended a corporate lawyer that happens to be a Bitcoiner. He specialises in MiCA compliance. If at any time any of you need a referral to you may contact us and we'll help you reach out to him



🚨 SolvoCard exit scam

SolvoCard is reported to have rugged 23 users while support is unresponsive.

More info from our friends at kycnot.me: https://kycnot.me/service/solvocardcom#incidents

Quote from: dkbit98 on July 27, 2026, 08:32:01 PM

Quote from: OrangeFren on July 21, 2026, 12:22:09 PM

SolvoCard is reported to have rugged 23 users while support is unresponsive.

More info from our friends at kycnot.me: https://kycnot.me/service/solvocardcom#incidents

Just like I suspected  
I tried to warn people as soon as I saw red flags, and I hope nobody from bitcointalk forum lost money with those scammers.
All crypto cards are risky, even legit ones, that is why I would not hold any money on crypto cards for a long time.

I know only one person that lost some, but luckily only $60 and they were in the process of reviewing this provider.

I think this is a good opportunity to mention the only service that provides such cards which I can actually wholeheartedly recommend and that's Stealths.net. They've been selling cards like this for years and although they often run out of stock they work well. Most importantly they encourage treating these cards as single-use. Load what you plan on spending, spend, get a new card.

Our prepaid card calculator exists precisely to make it easier to treat these cards as single-use: https://orangefren.com/cards/

hide [dot] cash scam

Our friends from kycnot.me have uncovered yesterday that a swapper called hide [dot] cash is scam. We never had this service on our website.

I want to share with you two comments I saw discussing the situation:



"They looked clean"
"They were offering 20% bonus on swap"

I hope it's now clear for everyone why we discourage in the strongest of terms the use of vibe coded directories. Stick to kycnot.me.

Or use OrangeFren.com of course . We're good too. We're working on a small new partnership with knm, stay tuned for the details

Quote from: NotATether on August 07, 2026, 01:31:07 PM

Quote from: OrangeFren on August 07, 2026, 12:26:53 PM

Stats for searches on OrangeFren.com in July

Monero dethroned. Bitcoin in 1st place (for the first time!)

I think the Coldcard hack was responsible for that, but I'm not sure. It would've had to be concentrated during July 31 (the first day of the attacks).

I don't think so, because our volume was down around the end of July.

It seems that Coldcard hackers are using CoinJoins operated by Kruw rather than trying to use instant exchanges. I've seen some reports that they also used THORChain.

Incredibly Kruw is, as far as I can tell, fully doxed and living in the US.

Quote from: dkbit98 on August 12, 2026, 08:17:44 PM

Quote from: LoyceV on August 12, 2026, 09:34:13 AM

My guess is that people are anticipating this to happen again after the Coldcard vulnerability left hackers with 1596 BTC.

I can almost guarantee this is going to happen with lightning network in near future.
It could also happen with other bitcoin projects and bridges that swap BTC with other chains.

Quote from: OrangeFren on August 12, 2026, 09:15:54 AM

I do wonder why it's doing so well recently. Hopefully it's honest market sentiment and not just some

It's probably just another speculation move from traders.
I do however see more people actually using monero to purchase things.

Well I certainly hope LN doesn't get exploited with AI, because we have a nice Lightning Network Node running as part of OrangeFren.com
Some of you even bought a channel from us on Amboss's Magma. I don't know about most BTC bridges, but I did see Boltz went offline pre-emptively not long ago. Looks like Boltz just issued a statement about it too

Honestly Monero tx count is very stable and very low compared to Bitcoin



What makes swappers successful?

One of the exchanges we list asked us to calculate how different service attributes influence how much traffic they receive. We ran the numbers, here's the correlations from strongest correlation with volume to weakest:
Being listed on Intercambio.app and in the Intercambio SimpleX BotHaving their own liquiditySponsoring our meetupsSize of the OrangeFren Guarantee depositReview score on OrangeFren.comBeing never-KYC
I'm quite surprised that being never-KYC has the weakest correlation. It's r-score is +0.008, so nothing really.

These correlations are using data from 2026 only.

Three Unique Services

Sometimes the services we list on OrangeFren.com can seem very similar, but here's 3⃣ with unique features👇

Bitania has a no-KYC orderbook CEX allowing you to trade AVAX, BTC, ETH, LTC, TRX and XMR. They also have a P2P marketplace for fiatcrypto



👉Bitania.com

BitcoinVN allows you to provide liquidity to their pools of USD, XMR, WBTC, ZEC & more to earn trading fees. Their XMR pool pays 24% APR



👉BitcoinVN.io

WizardSwap has an invite-only liquidity providing system allowing you to provide BTC, LTC, ETH, XMR, ZEC, BCH & more to earn trading fees no just from WizardSwap, but also from BasicSwapDEX



👉WizardSwap.io

XMRBTC pump continues

🚀 XMRBTC shows no signs of slowing

Monero has now appreciated by OVER 30% against Bitcoin in 2026

If you held Monero you beat Bitcoin by:
+1.55% in a day
+10.54% in a week
+26.35% in a month
+33.74% in 6 months
+30.13% in 2026
+213.45% in a year
+11.75% in 5 years

Swap with OrangeFren.com 🧡. The first Monero aggregator & holding >2 BTC in escrow



Trêvoid - now on OrangeFren.com

Trêvoid has been added to OrangeFren.com and even participates in the OrangeFren Guarantee. Just make sure to save the letter-of-guarantee if you intend on making a claim against Trêvoid.

Trêvoid was added by way of linking to a special SimpleX profile he made just for our users.

CCE CASH XMR Promo

Due to an oversupply of XMR our friends from CCE CASH are running a 2h promotion during which they have lowered the trading fees from the usual 0.5% to 0.3% for users of Intercambio.app and the Intercambio SimpleX Bot

Cake Wallet Kraków Meetup

Thanks to Cake Wallet we're organising a meetup in Kraków 🇵🇱 this Friday!

Join us for bowling 🎳, pool 🎱 and a chat about Monero 🧡

Meetup is taking place in Forum - the chosen venue for MoneroKon 7

Sign ups:
OrangeFren.com/event/101
Meetup.com/cake-wallet-meetup-in-monerokon-7-venue/events/316150487

Quote from: OrangeFren on August 17, 2026, 09:29:04 AM

Below is part of an email one of our users got from an exchange he left a negative review for on OrangeFren.com

Messing with our users is a death sentence. Mess with our frens and your volume will drop to "near zero"

But you are not responsible for feedback written by customers of that service/exchange, even if thy used it via OrangrFren.
I do agree however that receiving negative feedback can be red flag on any platform, includes bitcointalk forum.

Quote from: dkbit98 on August 24, 2026, 06:09:53 PM

Quote from: OrangeFren on August 17, 2026, 09:29:04 AM

Below is part of an email one of our users got from an exchange he left a negative review for on OrangeFren.com

Messing with our users is a death sentence. Mess with our frens and your volume will drop to "near zero"

But you are not responsible for feedback written by customers of that service/exchange, even if thy used it via OrangrFren.
I do agree however that receiving negative feedback can be red flag on any platform, includes bitcointalk forum.

True, but we can decide to hide a review

Quote from: OrangeFren on August 24, 2026, 06:53:40 PM

Quote from: dkbit98 on August 24, 2026, 06:09:53 PM

Quote from: OrangeFren on August 17, 2026, 09:29:04 AM

Below is part of an email one of our users got from an exchange he left a negative review for on OrangeFren.com

Messing with our users is a death sentence. Mess with our frens and your volume will drop to "near zero"

But you are not responsible for feedback written by customers of that service/exchange, even if thy used it via OrangrFren.
I do agree however that receiving negative feedback can be red flag on any platform, includes bitcointalk forum.

True, but we can decide to hide a review

One aggregator, much older and very famous, had a similar policy. Hiding or removing negative user feedback to avoid upsetting partners (exchangers).
They are still working, but it seems that their reputation is quite damaged.

🫶 Some services we love and use daily:

- Amboss Magma
- BitBanana
- PayPerQ
- Monfluo wallet
- Silentlink
- VostoEmisio

and of course our own Intercambio SimpleX Bot🤖

⚡️Magma from Amboss.space is a marketplace to buy & sell Lightning channels. Almost all channels to our LN node were either bought from us on Magma or bought with XMR and the counterparty knew we sell channels from Magma🌋

🍌When you have your own Lightning node you need a way to control it remotely. For years we've been using BitBanana. It's super simple and fast



🤖 PayPerQ allows you to use virtually any AI model without a subscription or sharing your identity. They accept Bitcoin, Lightning, Monero

We use it daily as do thousands of our users

👉https://ppq.ai/invite/b0c424bd



🔶 If you need a super simple, yet fully functional, Monero wallet with a blazingly fast and responsive UI then give Monfluo a try

👉https://codeberg.org/Monfluo/monfluo-android



📶Need an anonymous eSIM paid for with Bitcoin, Lightning or Monero? We use Silent.link and it never disappointed

The SIMs are prepaid so your balance is charged as you use it. It never expires and works worldwide

👉https://silent.link/?ref=orangefren ($2 off with our link)

🎨We often need various graphics. Maybe you do too. Vosto Emisio made our logo and all the pretty graphics we post. They're also behind MoneroKon's entire visual identity

Naturally, they take Monero

🥸 If you want to conduct swaps with maximum privacy give our SimpleX Chat bot a try. It's the first trading bot to ever ship to SimpleX users and allows you to use the exchanges from Intercambio.app with great privacy

👉https://simplex.chat/contact/#/?v=2-7&smp=smp%3A%2F%2Fu2dS9sG8nMNURyZwqASV4yROM28Er0luVTx5X1CsMrU%3D%40smp4.simplex.im%2FPumr2wT-zXjmXHAl0sSjRDTVir2En6Rm%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-3%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEA3OMCVdK1KNYZpx_iKT3gJ11eVrm-6PG5yYQ1RVz_yis%253D%26srv%3Do5vmywmrnaxalvz6wi3zicyftgio6psuvyniis6gco6bp6ekl4cqj4id.onion



Honorable mention and a Bitcointalk exclusive - Talkimg.com

We've only been using TalkImg to host all the images we post on BTT for years and sponsored it for many months Currently they're sponsored by our friends from WizardSwap.

Quote from: OrangeFren on August 25, 2026, 12:51:03 PM

🤖 PayPerQ allows you to use virtually any AI model without a subscription or sharing your identity. They accept Bitcoin, Lightning, Monero

This sounds interesting since we can pay with bitcoin or monero, especially if we can use this service without creating account or registration.
I am bookmarking ppq.ai website and I will test it later, but I see they also have free model for getting started.

Mystery Swapper

🚨 WARNING: SplitNOW are (double!) cheats

We just wrapped up a round of "mystery swapper" tests for all the services we list on OrangeFren.com and included SplitNOW as they're heavily promoted across socials. For instance the owner of the site XMRHub heavily promotes them.

Their UI showed we’d receive 0.001549 BTC (status: 100% done), but only 0.001514 BTC actually arrived — that’s ~2.3% less than their own displayed amount, and ~7.8% below their initial quote. On-chain proof captured. No market move explains it; they simply pay less than they show.

Don’t use SplitNOW!!



Full results:

After adjusting for how the market moved all except NanSwap, Quickex and of course SplitNOW paid more than their initial promise.



For your viewing pleasure, here's a table showing what fee the swapper actually charged

PegasusSwap, Exolix, 0trace ex aequo - all freeSplitNOW is daytime robbery



Two disclaimers: firstly we did swaps using our own links, secondly table to summarise results was made with AI

Quote from: https://orangefren.com/results/0.01/BTC/XMR/?region=00

Some time ago, i was confused what this withdraw address pop-up means. With example BTC to XMR, is it right to assume i should enter my BTC address for refund in case the swap/exchange process failed?

Quote from: ABCbits on August 26, 2026, 08:15:37 AM

Quote from: https://orangefren.com/results/0.01/BTC/XMR/?region=00

Some time ago, i was confused what this withdraw address pop-up means. With example BTC to XMR, is it right to assume i should enter my BTC address for refund in case the swap/exchange process failed?

Oh, I didn't realise this was confusing. Will fix. No. Enter the XMR address and we'll make a swap to it and redirect you straight to it.

Quote from: OrangeFren on August 25, 2026, 07:39:55 PM

After adjusting for how the market moved all except NanSwap, Quickex and of course SplitNOW paid more than their initial promise.

Now I'm curious if this is a one-time inconsistancy, or that it can be reproduced (for instance when the market moves up instead of down).