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Lizex

D

Anonymous floating-rate swap, lower spread on niche pairs.

⚠ INCIDENT
Incident timeline
  1. 2026-06 About $30,000 in USDT held; order page shows the swap completed, no payout transaction.
  2. 2026-09 About $18,500 in USDC held after an AML flag; Lizex blames KuCoin, KuCoin denies owning the wallet.
  3. 2026-09-21 kycnot.me marks Lizex as SCAM (verification failed).
  4. 2026-10-06 A kyc.rip refund is first 'confirmed' with the user's own deposit tx; paid in full after being challenged.
  5. 2026-10-19 xmr.club downgrades Lizex from B to D.
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At a glance

Grade
D
KYC posture
anonymous signup
Fees
~0.5-1% spread · floating
Last verified
2026-10-19
Operating since
2025 · 1y — operating_since estimated from about-page heuristic; WHOIS and archive.org both returned no signal
Incident
⚠ Active since 2026-09-21 — /incidents
D Why grade D?

Listed for completeness or as a warning. Either KYC posture is questionable at scale, the provider has known unresolved issues, or the listing exists to anchor a comparison.

Full rubric + 7-step verification walkthrough at /methodology.

curator verdict · bottom line

Curator Verdict & OpSec Breakdown

THE BOTTOM LINE

Lizex carries significant OpSec reservations, unverified compliance claims, or unresolved incident flags. It is not recommended for critical privacy workflows.

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Proven Strengths

  • ▸ Anonymous account model: no real-name, phone, or government ID required to transact.
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OpSec Trade-offs & Caveats

  • ▸ ACTIVE INCIDENT (2026-09-21): Two users report funds held by Lizex and not returned: about $18,500 in USDC since September, which Lizex blamed on a freeze by its partner KuCoin (KuCoin says the wallet isn't theirs, and the funds haven't moved), and about $30,000 in USDT since June, where the order page shows the swap as completed but there is no payout transaction. Both cases are open and disputed. Separately, in October a refund to a kyc.rip user was first 'confirmed' with the user's own deposit transaction; Lizex paid it in full only after being challenged, sending it straight from the untouched deposit address, which shows Lizex controls those addresses itself.
  • ▸ Standing reliability caveat: Two open, disputed reports of held funds (~$48k combined), one with an excuse its named partner denies, plus a first-hand case where a refund was first 'confirmed' with the wrong transaction. Paid when pushed, but what Lizex tells users about their funds can't be relied on.
  • ▸ Clearnet-only footprint: lacks an official .onion hidden service mirror; exposes visitor network IP unless routed through VPN/Tor.
  • ▸ Fresh operational history: established recently (2025); limited track record under severe market volatility.

Review

Native settlement (not an IOU). No-KYC for typical retail volume.

Fees

~0.5-1% spread · floating

Live ops data

kyc.rip hasn't routed swaps through Lizex yet, so we have no first-party settlement data (typical XMR settlement, slow-tail, confirmations) for it.

Operator? Request integration: @kyc_rip_bot

Integration status does not affect this provider’s grade or review.

Links

Sourced from operator pages — verify identity via more than one channel before trusting time-sensitive instructions.

Audit trail — receipts for the editorial claim

  • ● UPSTREAM Up · HTTP 200 · 2157ms · checked 14h ago
  • ○ ONION No .onion mirror listed
  • ✎ MANUAL Last manual verification 2026-10-19 (<30d)
  • ⌕ LOG See curator log for Lizex

Reviews — moderated · rules

  • trevoid ★☆☆☆☆ 2026-10-11

    Please be advised that Lizex.io is associated with a $48,000 scam totaling. I strongly recommend performing due diligence before listing this service. The exchange should be avoided, as it is operated by fraudulent individual.

    xmr.club curator 2026-10-19

    Thanks for the warning. We checked: two held-funds reports (about $48k combined) are open on peer directories, and in a case we handled ourselves a refund was first confirmed with the wrong transaction before Lizex paid it. Lizex is now graded D, with an open incident on this page.

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