Swapping into XMR without handing your identity to an exchange was the hard problem in privacy-coin trading once the delistings began. A native cross-chain route solves it — a private, decentralized Monero swap: send bitcoin, receive monero, and no third party takes custody at any point in between.
The short version
Monero routes natively through THORChain, so the swap settles directly between the two chains rather than through a wrapped token or an intermediary holding your funds while it clears.
THORDEX adds no platform fee on top, keeps no account and runs with no backend
server. Zcash and Dash are supported alongside it, including shielded
zs1… addresses.
Today
Three privacy assets, all non-custodial, none of them requiring an account or an identity check.
| Asset | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| XMR | Live | Native Monero swaps through THORChain — real monero out, no wrapped token and no custodian in between |
| ZEC | Live | Transparent and shielded addresses both accepted. The app validates zs1… shielded addresses before it will send |
| DASH | Live | Includes a dedicated DashPay mobile connector for deep-link signing |
A pattern people describe often: move value from a transparent chain into a private one, so the trail ends. Swap bitcoin into monero and the receiving side is opaque in a way a Bitcoin address never is.
The limit is worth stating plainly. The inbound leg is still a public transaction on a public ledger. Anyone watching that chain can see funds leave your address and enter a swap. What changes is what happens after — and, if you use a front end with no server, the fact that no operator has a record tying you to the swap in the first place.
Why
Monero's problem was never demand. It was access. As centralized venues removed the pair across multiple jurisdictions, the ordinary route into XMR — open an account, verify identity, buy — closed in more and more places.
The reason is structural rather than political. Exchanges operate under transaction-monitoring obligations that assume a readable ledger. Monero hides amounts, senders and recipients by default, so the chain-analysis trail regulators expect cannot be produced. Delisting was the cheaper answer.
What followed is the interesting part: on-chain activity did not fall. It moved. Users went to atomic-swap markets, peer-to-peer trades and decentralized protocols instead. A native cross-chain route is the first option in that set that feels like ordinary trading — you send bitcoin, you receive monero, and no third party takes custody at any point.
A decentralized protocol still needs an interface, and that interface is usually an ordinary website — which reintroduces exactly the intermediary the protocol removed. It can log, it can be compelled, its domain can be seized, and the JavaScript it serves can change between audit and delivery.
THORDEX is delivered as a single HTML file addressed by its content hash on IPFS, so there is no operator in the path to log anything and no host to compel. You can also save the whole interface to disk and run it from a file, which means your access does not depend on any website continuing to exist. For an asset that has already been removed from most regulated venues, that property is not academic.
How
The mechanics are the same for Monero, Zcash and Dash. No account is created at any point, and no intermediary holds the funds.
Do this first, in a wallet you control, and record the seed phrase offline. You will paste this address into the swap as the destination. Verify it carefully — privacy-coin addresses are long, and a transposed character sends funds somewhere unrecoverable.
A hardware wallet, a browser wallet or a keystore file. Keys stay on your device; THORDEX never sees them and signs nothing on your behalf.
The quote shows the full cost before you commit — protocol fee, network gas and expected output. THORDEX adds 0% on top. Sign in your wallet and the transaction broadcasts directly to the network.
Cross-chain settlement takes as long as the slower chain needs to confirm. Nothing is held by an intermediary while you wait — the protocol's vaults hold the inbound asset and release the outbound one.
FAQ
Monero, Zcash and Dash — no sign-up, no tracking, and an interface you can keep as a file.