About Whale Nest — facts for directories and listings

This page exists so that anyone evaluating the desk for a directory, comparison table or review can copy accurate facts instead of guessing from the marketing copy on the home page. Everything below is checkable from the live site.

At a glance

Name: Whale Nest
Website: whalesnest.com
Category: Cryptocurrency swap desk (non-custodial style, order-by-order)
KYC / account: No account, no sign-up, no identity verification at any size
Service fee: Flat 0.5% on the amount sent — included in the receive amount shown, no second charge
Supported coins: BTC, ETH, USDT (TRC-20 and ERC-20), SOL, LTC
Directions: Every supported pair in both directions (e.g. BTC → ETH and ETH → BTC)
Rate: Fixed and locked when the order is created; shown upfront before any deposit
Network fee: Desk covers the outgoing network fee; the customer pays their own inbound network fee as normal
Order tracking: Order ID only (format WN-XXXXXX-XXXX); email or Telegram handle optional for status updates
Typical settlement: Minutes after the deposit confirms on-chain; slow networks take longer
Large orders: Above the on-site pair maximum — bespoke fixed-rate quote, staged settlement available
Language: English
Availability: Worldwide, web-based, no app or account to install
Support: Email and Telegram (links in the site footer)
Data held: An order record keyed by order ID: pair, amounts, addresses, status. An optional status contact only if the customer supplies one

What makes it different

No account at all. Most no-KYC services still want an email or a session before they will quote you. Here a swap starts from the home page widget and produces only an order ID.
One published fee. A single flat 0.5% — no tier table, no maker/taker split, no spread silently added after the quote.
Rate is fixed before you send. The quoted rate, fee and exact receive amount are frozen at order creation and held for the order window, rather than being re-priced when the deposit lands.
Large orders are the point, not an exception. Amounts above the on-site maximum are quoted for size with staged settlement so the full amount does not hit the market at once.
No custody product. Coins are held only for the duration of the exchange. There are no accounts, no balances, no interest or staking products.

Public data endpoints

The desk exposes read-only, unauthenticated endpoints that a comparison site or directory can query. Neither creates an order or changes any state.

Live pair table and pricing — used by the widget and the pages on this site:

GET https://whalesnest.com/api/config.php

Single quote — the desk price for one pair, with an optional amount:

GET https://whalesnest.com/api/orders.php?action=quote&from=BTC&to=ETH&amount=0.5

Response shape (values change with the market):

{
  "ok": true, "from": "BTC", "to": "ETH",
  "rate": 34.09, "fee_pct": 0.5,
  "min_send": 0.001, "max_send": 5,
  "rate_updated": "…",
  "amount": 0.5, "receive_amount": 16.9598, "within_limits": true
}

For editors: rates are indicative until an order exists. If you display a rate anywhere, please note that the rate applied to an actual swap is the one locked when that order is created, and that the amount a customer receives already has the 0.5% fee deducted.

Suggested listing copy

Short (one line):

Whale Nest — a no-account, no-KYC crypto swap desk for BTC, ETH, USDT, SOL and LTC, with fixed rates shown upfront and a flat 0.5% fee.

Longer (paragraph):

Whale Nest is a human-operated swap desk for converting between BTC, ETH, USDT (TRC-20 and ERC-20), SOL and LTC without an account or any identity verification. A swap starts from the home page: pick a pair, see the fixed rate and the exact receive amount, and create an order that produces a single order ID and a deposit address. There is one published charge — a flat 0.5% service fee, already reflected in the receive amount — and the desk covers the outgoing network fee. Large orders above the on-site maximum are quoted individually for size, with staged settlement available so the full amount does not hit the market at once.

Corrections and contact

If a listing shows something that no longer matches this page, the desk welcomes a correction — contact details are in the site footer. This page is the authoritative source for the facts listed above.

Visit the swap desk → Fees & rate detail