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SimpleSwap Blog

SimpleSwap is a self-custodial multi-source swap aggregator that helps users exchange crypto with more privacy and control, without comparing providers and routes themselves. It supports direct wallet-to-wallet swaps across 20+ liquidity providers and 2,800+ swappable assets, combining liquidity from well-known CEX and DEX sources under the hood.


Bitcoin's Biggest Early Exchange Was Built on a Trading Post for Fantasy Cards

17 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SimpleSwap

Mt. Gox went live in 17th July 2010. Sixteen years later, its story is still the clearest reason self-custody tools exist. The domain mtgox.com wasn’t built for bitcoin. In 2007, programmer Jed McCaleb registered it for a stranger purpose: a marketpl...

Custodial vs Self-Custodial: Where Your Money Actually Sits

16 Jul 2026 3 minute read 2 comments SimpleSwap

Ask a crypto user where their money is, and you will usually hear a wallet address or an exchange name. Neither answer settles much. The question worth asking is which database can freeze a balance while its owner watches. That distinction has a pric...

The Halving That Wrote the Script

10 Jul 2026 6 minute read 1 comment SimpleSwap

Ten years ago this week, Bitcoin's second halving handed crypto its most durable story: cut the new supply, then watch the price climb. A decade later, the market is quietly editing it. On July 9, 2016, a miner somewhere solved block number 420,000,...

Ethereum Institutional Launches as Wall Street's Front Door to Tokenization

7 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SimpleSwap

Backed by co-founder Joe Lubin, the new nonprofit debuts on July 1 as tokenized assets hit fresh records, even with Bitcoin near a 21-month low. The loudest crypto story this week was a familiar one. Bitcoin slid toward a 21-month low while the fear...

The Fake Trading Bot That Drains Your Wallet the Moment You Run npm install

3 Jul 2026 4 minute read 0 comments SimpleSwap

A wave of supply-chain attacks in 2026 is quietly rewriting the threat model. The infrastructure that lasts will be the kind that never holds your funds in the first place. On the first day of July 2026, a developer somewhere cloned a GitHub reposito...

Crypto Meets Real-World Assets: Tokenized Stocks and Metals Are Now Live on SimpleSwap

30 Jun 2026 11 minute read 1 comment SimpleSwap

Your crypto can now move into Apple, Tesla, NVIDIA, gold, and a growing list of real-world assets that used to sit behind broker accounts. SimpleSwap added tokenized stocks and tokenized metals — a new wave of tokenized real world assets — to the swa...

Red market, calm hands: where your funds sit matters most

29 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SimpleSwap

When the market turns red, the first thing worth checking is where your funds actually sit. The mood across crypto right now is heavy. The Fear & Greed Index has fallen to 12, deep inside extreme-fear territory, and Bitcoin has slipped back under $60...

The Cold Wallet Learns to Earn

26 Jun 2026 4 minute read 0 comments SimpleSwap

Trezor's native stablecoin yield, live in Suite since late May, is the clearest signal yet that hardware wallets are turning into a financial layer rather than a vault. The deeper story is that self-custody no longer asks users to choose between hold...

Crypto's Worst Quarter for Hacks Was Really About Scams

25 Jun 2026 3 minute read 0 comments SimpleSwap

Q2 2026 set a record with 83 exploits and $755 million stolen. Strip out a couple of giant protocol breaches, though, and the real danger to an individual holder was never the code, but the con. The numbers from last quarter read like an industry-wid...

Crypto Security in 2026: 6 Signals From the SimpleSwap × ZANO

24 Jun 2026 3 minute read 2 comments SimpleSwap

SimpleSwap recently sat down with ZANO on X Spaces to map where crypto security is actually heading. The talk ran close to an hour and surfaced a clear pattern. The old playbook is being rewritten in real time. Here are the six signals worth watching...