About
What this catalogue is, how services get into it, what karma is and how to reach us. The scoring itself has its own page — this one answers everything else.
What is KYC and why it matters
KYC — "know your customer" — is the practice of demanding identity documents before letting you use a service: passport scans, selfies, proof of address. Once collected, that data lives outside your control: it can leak, be sold, be subpoenaed, or quietly tie every transaction you make to your name forever.
This catalogue documents which crypto services work without such demands, and how far each one goes. Every service gets a KYC level from 0 to 4 — derived from confirmed attributes, never assigned by hand:
| Level | Name | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Guaranteed no KYC | The service guarantees in its terms that identity documents are never required. |
| 1 | No KYC | No identity documents in the normal scenario. Light registration data may be asked. |
| 2 | Rare KYC | KYC is possible but not in the normal scenario: by law, on a refund, on an AML flag, or at the discretion of a partner or seller. |
| 3 | Shotgun KYC | KYC can be demanded suddenly, mid-operation, with funds already deposited. |
| 4 | Mandatory KYC | Identity documents are required to use the service at all. |
The level is computed from moderator-confirmed attributes. Nobody — including us — can set it manually.
Why this catalogue exists
Existing lists either hide how they rate services or sell the top of the list. This catalogue exists to be the opposite: every claim about a service traces back to evidence and to the person who verified it, the scoring formula is public, and commerce never touches the score or the ordering.
The catalogue answers three questions about each service: will it demand your documents, what will it learn about you, and does it work right now.
Accounts and karma
An account is an access key — sixteen random characters shown to you exactly once. No email, no phone, no password recovery: lose the key, lose the account. This is deliberate: an account that knows nothing about you cannot leak anything about you.
Karma counts your useful contributions. It is earned and lost only through moderator decisions, and every change is visible in a public log on your profile:
| For what | Karma |
|---|---|
| an approved review | +1 |
| an approved review with verifiable proof | +2 |
| a service claim you made that a moderator confirmed | +3 |
| a service you submitted got published | +5 |
| a review rejected as advertising or empty | -2 |
| a claim rejected as knowingly false | -5 |
| confirmed review manipulation | -25 |
Karma is weight, not decoration: reviews from established authors move the community score more, and newcomers' reviews together can never outweigh the established ones. Negative karma silences your reviews entirely — a caught manipulator does not weigh as much as an honest newcomer.
How a service gets listed
Anyone with an account can submit a service. The submission is checked automatically first — does it resolve, does it have a terms page, does it work without JavaScript — then reviewed by a moderator. Nothing appears in the catalogue without a human decision. From there a listing climbs a ladder:
- 1.Unlisted — submitted but not yet reviewed; not visible anywhere
- 2.Community — published from a community submission; basic checks passed
- 3.Approved — a moderator has personally inspected the service more than once
- 4.Verified — repeatedly inspected over months; the highest status
Archived — the service shut down; kept for history, hidden from default listings Scam — proven fraud; kept visible as a warning, rating suppressed
Know a service that belongs here? Submit it
Service owners can claim their listing from their account. Confirmed ownership gives a public badge and priority in the moderation queue — and changes nothing in the score: owners' edits need the same evidence as anyone else's.
The score, in short
Each service gets one number from 0 to 10, folded from three components: privacy, trust and community opinion. Components only count when there is evidence behind them, and the formula is the same for every service — no exceptions, no paid boosts.
Contacts and official addresses
The only official address of this catalogue is listed below. Anything else claiming to be us — mirrors, "support", social accounts — is not us.
These two addresses are the whole list: the site in the clear net and its Tor mirror. Anything else — another domain, another onion, a “support” account — is not us.