NKIPs

No-KYC Improvement Proposals

Open standards that let users of no-KYC swaps and services check what they were promised, without trusting the operator and without giving up their privacy.

Anyone can propose, review or implement an NKIP: exchanges, aggregators, directories, wallet and extension authors. Proposals are vendor-neutral, ship with schemas and test vectors, and are dedicated to the public domain.

Proposals

#TitleTypeStatusCreated
0001Verifiable Deposit ReceiptsStandards TrackDraft2026-10-26

Principles

  1. Verifiable, not trusted. A claim counts when it can be checked from signatures and public chains.
  2. Private by construction. Public records hold hashes, never plaintext addresses or amounts.
  3. No gatekeeper. No NKIP requires one company's server; every role can be run by anyone.
  4. No KYC, ever. No NKIP asks either party to identify themselves.