No KYC Crypto Exchange List for 2026

No documents does not mean no checks. Deposits arrive on-chain, and two venues in this list describe what happens to them in writing rather than leaving it unsaid: EVEDEX states that deposits pass automated on-chain AML screening, and Extended's terms reserve the right to deny access after a Know Your Transaction risk assessment. Lighter and Aevo publish nothing either way in the documentation we read. Every venue here excludes sanctioned persons, and each keeps its own list of places it will not serve. Those lists sit in the terms you accepted when you connected a wallet, so read them at the source: reaching a venue through a VPN breaks the agreement rather than working around it. None of that is a check on the position itself. Whatever the door asks for, a leveraged position asks for margin and can take all of it.

ApeX Omni, Aster, dYdX, edgeX, Hyperliquid and Paradex are marked against the same five headings as the four above, and two of them finish above every entry here but Lighter. None is listed, because each one's onboarding pages document a second way in: an email address or a social account, with a wallet minted, split into key shares or otherwise arranged by the venue at the far end of it. That is the one thing this register is built to sort on, so it decides the list before any score is read.

The exclusion is a statement about the door and nothing else. It is not a finding that those venues run checks, hold collateral badly or charge too much, and their full marks sit on how we rate where anyone can compare them with the four here. Two of them keep a page of their own on this site, in head-to-head comparisons that say in their own text which side of the line each venue falls on.

GMX, gTrade, Ostium, Jupiter Perps and Drift's Velocity fork also trade without documents, and GMX's documentation calls access permissionless in as many words. They price positions against an oracle and fill them from a pool rather than an order book, so the liquidity criterion here — resting depth within 10 basis points — has nothing to measure on them. Drift's fork, GMX, Jupiter Perps and Orderly pass the door test that runs this register even so, and they are listed with their onboarding terms, and without a score, on wallet-only platforms.

Not one of these figures was requested from a venue. The sign-up page, the terms of use behind it, the fee schedule, the market list — each quoted as it stood on 18 September 2026, and where a marketing line and a contract disagree the contract is what gets printed. All 4 venues here are marked against one rubric, set down on 21 September 2026 before any had been read. Depth is the exception: nobody publishes it usefully, so each venue's public BTC book was opened here and sampled on 19 September 2026, ten minutes between readings, beginning just after midnight UTC. No account was registered, no order sent.

Which venues were eligible to be marked at all is settled before any of that, by the one test this desk applies: the sign-in a venue's own onboarding pages document has to be a signature from a wallet the trader already holds, with no email account, no social login and no wallet the venue opens for them behind it. EVEDEX, Extended, Lighter and Aevo meet it and carry an order book we could sample. The admission test names the venues it keeps out, and the front-page door count is where a reader can check the sorting venue by venue.

Silence in a column is not a clean finding: a venue that writes nothing about screening is recorded as having written nothing. Every door and every custody line above is a venue describing itself, in a document it wrote and may rewrite, and one address on one day can be asked for more than any page here records.

Two narrower ones. Depth was read on BTC books alone; fee columns carry the rate a new account is charged, nothing taken off.