Swap ICP: anonymous Internet Computer swap

These are reference figures from our own rate feed, not quotes — every swap is re-priced across our liquidity partners at the moment you confirm, and the best receive amount wins. How that comparison works is on the methodology page.

Network

Internet Computer

The Internet Computer is not one chain but many. Independent subnets each run their own consensus and hold their own canisters — the network’s name for a running program — with the Network Nervous System, an on-chain governance canister, deciding what the subnets do. Because the work is spread across subnets rather than a single chain, there is no one block interval that describes the network.

Its distinguishing claim is that application code and its state live on the chain itself rather than on servers that talk to one, so a canister serves web requests directly. ICP the token pays for that computation, and is staked in the governance system to vote.

The ledger is public. Balances and transfers are as visible here as on any transparent chain.

• Before you send. An ICP payout goes to a ledger account identifier — the 64-character hex string a wallet shows as its ICP address — not to a principal id, which is the other identifier wallets display and is written in dash-separated groups. They are not interchangeable.
• Set a refund address. Funds go back there automatically if a swap cannot complete — a deposit below the minimum, or one arriving after the quote window closed. Without one, a refund needs a message to support instead. See refund handling.
• Nothing is held for you. Deposits are forwarded, not stored, and the data kept is the amount and the two addresses — purged once the swap finalizes. The full picture is on the privacy page.

The usual way to buy Internet Computer is a centralized exchange: open an account, pass identity verification, link a bank account or a card, and pay in fiat currency. It works, and every step of it is recorded against your name — the purchase, the payment details and the address you withdraw to. If you already hold any other coin there is a shorter route: convert it into ICP here. A Internet Computer swap needs no account and no verification, exchange processing is automatic once the deposit lands, and the ICP goes straight to a wallet you control, so you keep full control of the keys from the first minute.

What this site does not do is take a card or a bank transfer. There is no fiat on-ramp, by design, because the on-ramp is exactly the step that requires identity. If you hold nothing yet, buy something liquid on an exchange you are prepared to be verified at, withdraw it, and swap from there. The swap is the step with no account in it — the withdrawal before it still sits on a public chain under your name, which is Bitcoin anonymous explains.

Minimum amount

The live minimum amount of ICP for each pair is shown in the widget before you confirm. It moves with network conditions rather than being a fixed figure, and there is no maximum.

Network fee

The fee for delivering coins to your wallet address is already inside the receive amount. The one cost outside the quote is the transaction fee your own wallet pays to send the ICP deposit.

Exchange rate

ICP exchange rates are compared in real time across several partners when you enter the amount, and re-priced server-side the moment you confirm, so the rate you see is the rate the order is created with.

Processing time

A swap out of ICP runs once your ICP transaction to the deposit address has the network confirmations the partner requires. How many it waits for depends on the amount and on network congestion, so the tracking page shows the live count.

ICP is quotable against anything else we list — a wide range of digital assets is listed, and every supported coin can be swapped against every other, and the popular routes each have a page of their own.

• VeChain
• Chainlink
• Ondo
• Polygon
• Stellar
• Worldcoin