Your July 2026 Recap: What Actually Changed

July moved fast. Here’s what’s in it for you, no fluff.

Product Updates

See which route you’re picking before you commit

The swap form changed more than its look this month. Where you used to see one rate, you now see three: Best Rate, Fast, and Decentralized, each with its own payout and time estimate, sitting side by side before you confirm anything.

That’s the aggregator model, made visible. SimpleSwap has always pulled pricing from 20+ CEX and DEX providers behind the scenes and routed you through whichever combination cleared best. Now you see that comparison yourself and pick on your own terms: the best price, the fastest settlement, or a fully decentralized route. Try it →

Partners

Get ADI Chain gas without opening an exchange account

Here’s the job: you want to use a new chain, and every new chain needs its native token before you can do anything on it. The usual fix: open an exchange account, park funds there, withdraw; it costs you time and a custodian you didn’t ask for.

$ADI is now a direct swap on SimpleSwap. Pick your source asset, drop in your ADI Chain wallet address, and gas lands in a wallet you control. No account to open first. No custodian holding your funds while you wait.

2,800+ assets can route straight into $ADI, wallet-to-wallet, with keys in your hands the entire time. Read more →

Swap cross-chain without touching a bridge

Here’s the job: you need an asset on another chain, and the bridge step is the riskiest part of getting it there. $2.8 billion has been lost to bridge hacks industry-wide, on protocols that had already passed an audit.

NEAR Intents removes the step that keeps failing. Instead of picking a bridge and approving a contract, you state what you want: send X, receive Y. A network of solvers competes to deliver it, and your funds never leave your custody while they do.

It also means no wallet-connect prompt. SimpleSwap has never asked you to connect a wallet, and NEAR Intents fits that model natively: no ongoing permission handed to a platform, nothing sitting there for someone to exploit later.

NEAR Intents is now live in SimpleSwap’s routing layer across web, iOS, and Android. You don’t do anything differently; it just runs under every cross-chain swap you make from here on. Read more →

Media

We launched Know the Scam, a permanent section on the blog

Scam education shouldn’t live in one post you forget by August. We opened Know the Scam, a dedicated section on the SimpleSwap blog covering the attack patterns actually draining crypto users in 2026, with new breakdowns added as we go.

It opens with the Crypto Scam Map: eight patterns behind most of the $11.37B stolen from Americans in 2025, phishing to honeypot tokens, each with the one check that stops it. That’s the overview. Every pattern on the map will get its own full breakdown over time: how it works, where it hits your wallet, what to check before you send anything.

Bookmark the section now. Read it here before you need it, not after.

How to trade small-cap coins without losing money to slippage

Here’s the job: you want exposure to a small-cap coin, and you don’t want your own order to move the price against you before it even fills.

Pepecoin’s team gave us the cleanest example of why this happens. Their lead dev admitted a $23K buy on Kraken could swing PEP’s market cap by millions. That’s not a red flag on PEP; it’s what every thin single-venue order book looks like once you check the depth.

Here’s what actually protects you: spreading your order across multiple liquidity sources at once, rather than hitting a single exchange’s book directly. That’s why SimpleSwap routes every swap across 20+ CEX and DEX providers, so your quote holds even on coins with a $23K tipping point.

If you trade small caps, this is the mechanic to understand before your next order: Read more →