About

Swap Desk covers crypto exchanges — Exchanges, taken apart. We read the fee schedules, trace the custody structures, compare the order books, and pay particular attention to what happens when things break: halts, withdrawal freezes, and what an insolvency would actually do to customer assets. We cover the venues and the rules they run under. We do not pick coins, call prices, or tell anyone what to buy.

Who writes here

The site is edited by Anton Reyes. Reviews run under the editor's byline; news runs under the house byline "Staff, Swap Desk." We publish under house bylines maintained by our editorial team — see the editorial policy for how that works and how we assess a venue.

How this site is funded

Swap Desk is an independent, commercially supported publication. We may earn affiliate commissions or advertising revenue from links on the site. That revenue never dictates our conclusions: scores, pros, and cons are editorial judgments, and paid placements are always disclosed at the top of the post. Commercial enquiries go through the advertise page.

What we cover, and how

News is short and factual, 300–500 words, sourced to regulators, court records, and company publications. Reviews are 800–1,200 words, built from published documents — fee schedules, licence registers, filings, attestations — and from using the platforms where access allows, and they always carry genuine pros and cons. Specifics are hedged and attributed: "per the published schedule", "per the regulator", "the company says". Product availability varies sharply by jurisdiction in this industry, and we say so wherever it matters.

One standing note: crypto assets are high risk, nothing we publish is financial advice, and no score of ours substitutes for your own research. That line is in our footer on every page because we mean it on every page.

Corrections

If we got a number wrong — a fee, a date, a licence — tell us via the contact page. Corrections are the fastest queue we run.