SimpleSwap Turns 8: What We Built, Who Trusted Us, and Why We’re Just Getting Started

In 2018, most crypto startups were racing to be the loudest voice in the room. We decided to be the plumbing. SimpleSwap launched with a single bet: that self-custodial swaps, done fast and simply, would matter more than hype, and that bet would only pay off if we stuck around long enough to prove it.

Eight years later, we’re still here. Not because we got lucky, but because we made a choice early and never reversed it: build a reliable tool, not a loud brand.

Eight Years in Crypto – How Many Can Say That?

The crypto industry burns through its startups like fuel. Most of the 2018-era projects that once dominated headlines have shut down or faded into irrelevance. We’ve watched Bitcoin climb from $8,000 to $100,000. We’ve outlasted crypto winters, the DeFi summer, the NFT wave, and the collapse of platforms that were supposed to be too big to fail.

Industry stats say 99% of crypto projects never reach maturity. SimpleSwap is eight years in, and this past year was our strongest yet. Speculation built this industry, but reliability will sustain it.

Year 8: What We Built

This year wasn’t about growth for its own sake. It was about reinforcement – making simpleswap.io faster, broader, and more resilient.

Scaling the Ecosystem

We expanded to over 2,800 supported cryptocurrencies, adding 450+ new assets and following the momentum into the ecosystems that matter most: Solana, Sui, Base, KAIA, Linea, and Ronin. From stablecoins like USD1 to trending memecoins like SHIB, GOAT, and PEPE – if there was demand, we made it happen. 

Today our infrastructure supports 3.2 million+ trading pairs and 6,000+ integrations, which made SimpleSwap one of the most connected self-custodial exchange networks in the industry.

Rewards That Actually Scale

We rebuilt our Loyalty Program from the ground up. Four tiers, each with its own fee discount. A new flexible cashback model that lets you choose: keep the cashback or convert it into a deeper discount on every swap. And we lowered the volume thresholds, so reaching Gold or Platinum is now a realistic goal for more of our users than ever before.

More Ways In

Crypto shouldn’t be hard to buy. This year, we added new fiat payment methods so users in more regions can go from traditional currency to crypto in a few clicks, without workarounds or third-party detours.

Personal Touch

Starting this year, Gold and Platinum members get their own personal manager. Not a chatbot or a ticket queue, but a real person who knows your history, understands your needs, and responds fast. In a space where most platforms hide behind support forms, we chose to go the other way.

A Faster, Cleaner App

We redesigned the mobile app to match how people actually use SimpleSwap in 2026. Cleaner interface, faster navigation, fewer taps to complete a swap. The kind of update you feel the moment you open the app.

Community & Competition

Throughout the year, we hosted several trading contests with real USDT prize pools. These weren’t just marketing campaigns. They brought our community together, rewarded active traders, and introduced thousands of new users to the platform.

Content and Real-Time Insights

300+ articles published on our blog and across major crypto media – The Block, CoinGape, Benzinga. 

SimpleSwap’s community now spans over 100,000 members across all platforms, with 1.5 million mentions and more than 1,000 articles written about us. Eight years of building in public, and people are paying attention.

To the Teams Who Believed in Us

We didn’t build this alone. Behind our growth are more than 6,000 teams that chose to integrate SimpleSwap into their products, trusting us with their users’ experience. Thousands of new affiliates joined this year – from the industry-leading Exodus wallet to our first DeFi interface integration with FusionX. Partnerships with BitVerse, ONTO Wallet, Speed Wallet, and MetaStation continue to expand our footprint across every major crypto ecosystem.

On our 8th birthday, we want to thank the partners who help us push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Tangem. This partnership started with the community. Tangem users needed native swaps without compromising their security model, and now swaps run directly through Tangem Express. Private keys never leave the device. Users access thousands of cryptocurrencies. It’s the best kind of integration: one that feels as if it has always been there.

Exodus. As a publicly traded company on the NYSE, Exodus demands perfection. We power their non-custodial, fixed-rate swaps across thousands of assets, and our infrastructure fuels their XOswap API aggregator – placing SimpleSwap at the heart of enterprise-grade solutions used by industry giants like MetaMask.

Ellipal. A milestone for us – our first co-branded hardware wallets. Ellipal is 100% air-gapped: no USB, no Bluetooth, no Wi-Fi. Everything communicates through QR codes, and private keys never touch the internet. The Ellipal team did outstanding engineering work to make swaps function seamlessly within those constraints. The result is proof that total security and frictionless swaps can coexist, and we’re excited about where this partnership goes next.

Cake Wallet. Partners since 2022, we share a deep commitment to open-source, privacy-first, and community-driven values. SimpleSwap is a core feature in both Cake Wallet and Monero.com – a collaboration built on years of consistent work and mutual respect rather than loud announcements.

Tonkeeper. Since 2024, we’ve served as the swap engine for one of the most active communities in our user base. Supporting this rapidly growing ecosystem through their preferred wallet feels exactly right.

Every one of our 6,000+ partners is a team that chose to build on our infrastructure. That’s the ultimate birthday gift.

What Comes Next

Eight years of building taught us one thing: the best infrastructure is the kind you never have to think about. Year nine is about making that even more true.

More routes. Private, DEX, hybrid – we’re expanding the routing engine so your swaps find the fastest, cheapest, most reliable path every time. Better execution on large volumes. Less slippage. Fewer surprises.

Private transfers. Moving crypto between wallets shouldn’t leave a trail you didn’t ask for. We’re building tools that let you transfer assets with the same privacy-first approach we’ve always stood for.

RWA-focused trading. Real-world assets are entering crypto. When you’re ready to trade them, we’ll be ready to route them.

Personal offers. Not generic promotions – actual conditions tailored to how you trade, what you trade, and how often. The more you use SimpleSwap, the more SimpleSwap works for you.

Institutional-grade SLAs for partners. If you’re building on our API, you deserve the same reliability guarantees you’d expect from traditional financial infrastructure. Fixed response times. Transparent uptime commitments. No guesswork.

We spent eight years proving we can survive anything. Now we’re building what comes after reliability: precision.

Thank you!

To our users: every swap is a vote of trust. We’ll keep earning it every single day.

To our partners: you trusted us with your users’ experience. We take that personally.

To our community: your feedback, contest entries, and AMA questions – all of it makes SimpleSwap better.

How many crypto companies from 2018 are still here, still growing, still delivering?

We’re proud to be one of them.

Here’s to 8 more!