One user on our SimpleX group suggested we add information about which services publish information on recent swaps. This information typically contains the pairs used in the swap and the amounts
OrangeFren.com now has a new warning and filter allowing you to quickly identify such a service:
⏱️Which Monero wallet is the fastest?
We synced 5 wallets on the same phone 5 times. Here's the averages:
🥇Monerujo 1:39 🥈Cake 1:59 🥉Monfluo 2:16 4️⃣Unstoppable 7:43 5️⃣Stack 9:20
5.6× performance gap!
(To keep things fair the phone was connected to the Internet using a USB dongle. The screen was kept on and the wallet open in the foreground)
10/16/2026, 8 engagements
Get Monero and jump over the system
10/16/2026, 2 engagements
🎲 Over 4000 users have played the word search or taint sweeper games on Intercambio
OrangeFren.com users can now get $15 off for the purchase of the Goblin card with link: https://app.goblincards.com/order?ref=ORANGE
We added Freedomia cards to https://OrangeFren.com/cards/
10/14/2026, 3 engagements
$200 GIVEAWAY — OrangeFren × Quickex
We're doing a giveaway with Quickex on Twitter
Participate here: https://x.com/OrangeFren/status/2110330613920141451
‼️After protecting our users for over 4 years the OrangeFren Guarantee has crossed 3 BTC in deposits!
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10/13/2026, 5 engagements
Stats for searches on OrangeFren.com in September 🍂
XMR: 33.19% BTC: 29.48% USDT: 8.44% ETH: 7.89% LTC: 6.87% USDC: 5.12% SOL: 1.87% BCH: 1.04% DASH: 1.02% XRP: 0.89% BTCLN: 0.66% TRX: 0.49% ZEC: 0.45% BNB: 0.40%
10/13/2026, 8 engagements
❗️Today we're launching ShouldHaveUsedMonero.com
A simple website documenting all the cases when Monero users yelled at people suffering the consequences of not using XMR https://blossom.primal.net/46709477590b4c2f8a6f2c9febe24dd558b7e0da836c967adee53ba69e64515c.png
10/9/2026, 30 engagements
🛡️OrangeFren Guarantee deposits have increased to a record 2.73 BTC (236k USD)!
Largest deposits are from:
The OF Guarantee protects users of OrangeFren.com and
swap interface 🧡
10/2/2026, 4 engagements
Stats for searches on https://OrangeFren.com in August 🌾
Monero is back in first place!
XMR: 33.17% BTC: 28.78% USDT: 10.92% ETH: 6.33% LTC: 6.29% USDC: 4.38% SOL: 2.56% XRP: 1.52% TRX: 1.18% BNB: 1.16% BTCLN: 0.71% XLM: 0.53% ZEC: 0.43% GRAM: 0.30% DASH: 0.24% BCH: 0.18% VET: 0.10% ETC: 0.10% DOGE: 0.10%
We have detected ZANO spamming our searches attempting to move themselves higher up in the stats. As a result they were excluded from August's stats.
9/14/2026, 4 engagements
WizardSwap.io meetup in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷
Join us on Thursday, September 17th at Espacio Cultural Bitcoin (Marcelo T. de Alvear 405, downtown BsAs) for a Bitcoin x Monero privacy meetup, sponsored by https://WizardSwap.io.
Sign ups:
https://OrangeFren.com/event/33
We're delighted to share that we, https://OrangeFren.com, are organising a meetup sponsored by https://WizardSwap.io in Asuncion, Paraguay taking place on Monday.
Attendees get a free steak and unlimited beer!
The meetup is taking place in La Parrilla de Satoshi, a newly opened Bitcoin & Monero grill in the city.
More info: https://x.com/OrangeFren/status/2097415026239774811
Sign ups: https://OrangeFren.com/event/32
9/9/2026, 1 engagement
MoneroTierList.com has now recorded over 3700 votes
The 2 most loved people in Monero are Tux and
9/4/2026, 20 engagements
🆕New on https://Intercambio.app — two games to play while your swap processes:
🚩 Taint Sweeper — Minesweeper, but the mines are KYC. Flag all 18 before you dig into a compliance cell
🔤 Word Search — find MONERO, BITCOIN and SWAP in the grid
No cookies. No JS. Pure HTML.
Don't get bored. Don't get tainted
9/4/2026, 2 engagements
❗️https://MoneroTierList.com now lists the largest voices in Monero
Such as: 🔸TheFuzzStone & AilliA on nostr 🔸Crypto Tea, Ray Youssef and Seth For Privacy on X 🔸Mental Outlaw, Monero Talk and the Monero Community Workgroup on YouTube
9/3/2026, 4 engagements
❗️New on OrangeFren.com: result sorting + a new filter
Sort exchange offers by: ▸ Best rate ▸ Speed ▸ Date listed ▸ OF Guarantee size ▸ kycnot.me score ▸ Reviews
Plus: filter by "Letter of guarantee" 🔒
With our plugin this is what you see if you accidentally open a fake Xchange clone
OrangeFren Plugin v0.3 blocks known phishing swappers full-page and redirects you to the real one — before you send your coins
Free & open source 🔓
https://github.com/orangefren/OrangeFren-Plugin/releases/tag/v0.3
9/2/2026, 1 engagement
Today we added an early version of a word search game to https://Intercambio.app so that you don't get bored on the swap page as you wait for the trade to process :)
The game uses no cookies or JS.
9/1/2026, 6 engagements
We added a bunch of services to MoneroTierList.com, our own sites, KYCNot.Me, Monero.eco, Monerica... But we also added a way to request the addittion of your own site to the list
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‼️Today we're launching MoneroTierList.com — build your own tier list of KYC-free Monero services. Wallets, VPNs, swappers, S through F
“Which wallet do you recommend?” → assemble your ranking, share the URL. Done
Tap SUBMIT and your list shapes the community’s default ranking 🧡
8/31/2026, 4 engagements
WizardSwap.io meetup in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱
Thanks to WizardSwap.io we're organising a meetup in Santiago, Chile on the 9th of September!
The meetup is taking place in collaboration with Santiago BitDevs. Meetup will be in slowly spoken English and my very poor Spanish :)
Join us for a chat about Bitcoin & Monero 🧡
Sign ups: OrangeFren.com/event/31 luma.com/i024qptx
8/29/2026, 5 engagements
🚨 WARNING: SplitNOW are (double) cheats
We just wrapped up a round of "mystery swapper" tests for all the services we list on https://OrangeFren.com and included SplitNOW as they're heavily promoted across socials
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
Two disclaimers: firstly we did swaps using our own links, secondly table to summarise results was made with AI :)
8/25/2026, 3 engagements
🫶 Some services we love and use daily:
and of course our own Intercambio SimpleX Bot🤖
👇👇
⚡️Magma from https://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
🎨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 bot a try. It's the first trading bot to ever ship to SimpleX users and allows you to use the exchanges from with great privacy
8/25/2026, 18 engagements
❗️Privacy coins quadrupled their share of crypto's mcap
A year ago - 0.16% Today - 0.74%
8/24/2026, 1 engagement
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 sentance". Mess with our frens and your volume will drop to "near zero"
8/21/2026, 6 engagements
⚠️ Bisq halts trading for Monero & other alts
8/20/2026, 6 engagements
⚠️ Beware that the old Tornado Cash domain has been taken over by a scam
8/20/2026, 7 engagements
this bitcoin thing sounds great.. mind if I borrow your toaster for a quick bath?
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8/19/2026, 3 engagements
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
8/18/2026, 5 engagements
Do not ask about taxes. It ruins the mood instantly. 🙏 https://npub15cpcjuw4g22scy7ymg54hj4r03uc2x2mz2c0490k3ph7vzq9pwus4463j3.blossom.band/3c49693a6b340cd6ea6ff66f35ccc24b00e12e15bf91a4d5fa49c2c0dfbee8f5.jpg
8/18/2026, 4 engagements
Every Bitcoin UTXO is tracked by multiple companies and governments
8/15/2026, 10 engagements
🚀 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 https://OrangeFren.com 🧡. The first Monero aggregator & holding >2 BTC in escrow
8/15/2026, 5 engagements
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:
I'm quite surprised that being never-KYC has the weakest correlation. It's r-score is +0.008, so nothing really.
8/14/2026, 4 engagements
❗️Monero's rise against Bitcoin is ACCELERATING
In 2026 XMR has now gained >26% against BTC
If you held Monero instead of Bitcoin for a day, a week, a month, 6 months, 2026, a year, or 5 years, you outperformed Bitcoin 🚀
OrangeFren.com lists some of the only places you can still swap Monero at 🧡
Update to affiliated services
Yesterday we re-run an automated check which aims to group together exchanges on OrangeFren.com which we believe likely are associated with each other. The check revealed two clusters:
Following this update BitXchange reached out claiming that they are not associated with any other service. https://npub15cpcjuw4g22scy7ymg54hj4r03uc2x2mz2c0490k3ph7vzq9pwus4463j3.blossom.band/93c6625f80985b5a6a5600dda6510fa7ad9d108c8f65536c2863191da852547d.jpg
If you use prepaid crypto cards you must treat them as SINGLE-USE ⚠️
Load what you need. Spend it down to 0. Get a new card when you want to spend again
Our prepaid card calculator can help you pick the best prepaid crypto card for this approach: OrangeFren.com/cards
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❗️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
7/27/2026, 2 engagements
❗️OrangeFren Guarantee — now 4⃣ years old with over 1.64 BTC (>$100k) in deposits🔒
Our Guarantee launched in 2022 with FixedFloat as our first partner 🤝
Over the years OrangeFren users have been protected from exchanges lying about their rates, policies and even in cases of exit scams
Today you'll find our Guarantee protecting not just OrangeFren users, but also those of KYCNotMe
Now the largest deposits are from: 🥇 xmr2cex — $24k 🥈 CCE cash— $20k 🥉 FixedFloat — $19k 4⃣ WizardSwap — $9k 5⃣ SwapGate — $4k
📝 Here's how to stay safe with the OrangeFren Guarantee: 1⃣ Go to OrangeFren.com 2⃣ Pick an exchange you like 3⃣ Use our link to go to the exchange and swap 4⃣ If you run into issues contact OrangeFren support with your swap details 5⃣ If we find that you were cheated we'll refund you straight from the exchange's savings
🔥 BIG NEWS: We just dropped a Promo Code Generator on OrangeFren.com!
New discount codes every single hour 🔥
Use them with our links and get: • KYC-free swaps on Exolix
• Extra fee discounts
Just click, copy, save money
Grab fresh codes now 👉 OrangeFren.com
MoneroKon 2026 Call-for-Papers FINAL reminder
Reminder regarding this year's MoneroKon 2026 organised by our team from OrangeFren.com
The deadline to submit your presentations, panels, workshops and artworks to present at MoneroKon 2026 is Friday the 24th.
Link to submit your work: cfp.twed.org/mk6/cfp
Presentations can be done remotely and you can request a scholarship of up $500 to make the journey. https://npub15cpcjuw4g22scy7ymg54hj4r03uc2x2mz2c0490k3ph7vzq9pwus4463j3.blossom.band/c59c4ac37bc502e2eea701519a4a00fa701191e8b36c838c48f3baaaa0b95da8.jpg
Make sure to attent MoneroKon in Warsaw this June!
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Stats for searches on https://OrangeFren.com in November
Why is ETH so low?
XMR: 43.75% BTC: 23.97% LTC: 8.64% USDT: 7.34% ETH: 5.76% USDC: 3.32% SOL: 1.59% BTCLN: 0.86% ZEC: 0.81% XRP: 0.62% DAI: 0.35% BNB: 0.35% FUSD: 0.20% FIRO: 0.19% ZANO: 0.17% TON: 0.16% TRX: 0.16% DASH: 0.15% XLM: 0.13% KASPA: 0.12% DOGE: 0.11% POL: 0.10%
We've noticed an increase in channels sold on Magma since around that time too too
https://amboss.space/magma/offer/ff761814-e9df-422d-822f-9128ed4bc3ed
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‼️ XMRBTC at its highest in a year 🤯
Swap between the two, without KYC, with OrangeFren.com
‼️With the help of WizardSwap we're organizing a meetup in Gibraltar 🇬🇮 on Friday!
Join us for our 2⃣8⃣th meetup(!!) on the 7th of November at the Bitcoin-accepting Costa Coffee 🇬🇮
👉Sign up here: OrangeFren.com/event/28
Or here: Meetup.com/gibraltar-bitcoin-meetup-sponsored-by-wizardswap-io/events/311813809
🎃 Our attempt!
Happy Halloween Frens! 🧡
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🎃 GIVEAWAY - 1 XMR IN PRIZES
Take part in our crypto pumpkin carving contest. Win up to 0.5 XMR by carving the best crypto pumpkin or 0.25 by random chance (no pumpkin required)
More details:
https://x.com/OrangeFren/status/1984251544745775300
Make sure to attend!
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Stats for searches on https://OrangeFren.com in September👀
XMR: 44.30% BTC: 31.19% LTC: 7.05% USDT: 5.53% ETH: 4.83% USDC: 1.79% SOL: 1.22% BTCLN: 0.94% ZEC: 0.54% DOGE: 0.34% BCH: 0.32% TRX: 0.29% DAI: 0.22% XRP: 0.21% BNB: 0.17% TON: 0.13% ZANO: 0.11%
‼️Bittr is now available on https://OrangeFren.com
‼️With the help of FixedFloat.com we're organizing a meetup on the Azores🇵🇹 next week!
Join us on the 13th of September at the Bitcoin-accepting Intz48 in Ponta Delgada🇵🇹
👉Sign up here:
http://OrangeFren.com/event/26
Or here:
http://Meetup.com/ponta-delgada-delgada-fixedfloat-com-bitcoin-meetup/events/310870354/
OrangeFren.com and Intercambio.app SimpleX bot were shown in a tutorial video by xenu, the admin of antimoonboy.com!
Watch it here:
Or here:
Intercambio SimpleX bot QR:
Or follow this link:
8/29/2025, 1 engagement
⚡Our Lightning node is fully operational again
🙏Huge thanks to
who helped us successfully recover all(!) our funds, to
for force-closing our channel on their end and to
for providing us with an inbound channel after we recovered
If you'd like a channel with our node you can hit us up or get one via
https://amboss.space/magma/offer/ff761814-e9df-422d-822f-9128ed4bc3ed
Make sure to attend!
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RetoSwap is illegal??
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💢Restored our Lightning node. Opened two channels $5k each. LND seems to have "forgotten" about them????
It didn't even bother closing them. See for yourself: https://mempool.space/address/bc1q9mgeq88rv6udwswcesma67df5lx42em4fh7rxnr0grkezzy80xkqy2w2my
Bitcoin's multisig could trivially allow for censorship this way
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They should start a petition! I'm sure that will work!
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Bitcoiners ignored onchain privacy for too long
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A few days ago we lost all our LN channels, but now our node is back online and we're even back on
's Magma channel marketplace!
https://amboss.space/magma/offer/ff761814-e9df-422d-822f-9128ed4bc3ed
