Swyftx
Swyftx is a Brisbane exchange co-founded in 2018. It doesn't run an open order book: every order is filled as a market order at its own price, with a 0.6% fee at the entry tier plus a spread it doesn't publish. It bought New Zealand's Easy Crypto in 2025 and was granted an Australian financial services licence in July 2026.
Checked 31 October 2026. Each fact links to its source. General information, not a recommendation.
At a glance
- Founded
- 2018, by Alex Harper and Angus Goldman (its own figure; Swyftx Pty Ltd was registered in December 2017) (FinTech Australia: Swyftx confirms new Chair and CEO, Sep 2026 · Australian Business Register: Swyftx Pty Ltd)
- Based in
- Brisbane (FinTech Australia, Sep 2026)
- Australian operator
- Swyftx Pty Ltd, ABN 72 623 556 730 (Australian Business Register: Swyftx Pty Ltd)
- Leadership
- Andrea Yuen, CEO (confirmed September 2026) (FinTech Australia, Sep 2026)
- AUSTRAC
- Registered as a digital currency exchange provider (Swyftx's own statement) (Swyftx Financial Services Guide)
- ASIC licence
- AFSL 568543 (granted July 2026), covering derivatives, deposit products and payments, not spot crypto trading (Swyftx Support: deposit and withdrawal fees · FinTech Australia: Swyftx granted AFSL, Jul 2026)
- Trading fee, entry tier
- 0.6% plus a spread (under A$100,000 a month), falling to 0.1% above A$6 million; swaps pay the fee on both legs. No open order book: every order fills as a market order (Swyftx Support: Our trading fees · Swyftx Support: Order types)
- AUD deposits
- PayID and bank transfer free; cards accepted; AUD withdrawals free (Swyftx Support: Deposit Australian dollars · Swyftx Support: deposit and withdrawal fees)
- Coins
- 440+ (its own figure, App Store listing) (Swyftx on the App Store)
- Customers
- More than one million across Australia, New Zealand and the US (its own claim, Jul 2026) (FinTech Australia, Jul 2026)
- Proof of reserves
- None published that we found; it signed an industry pledge in November 2022 to hold customer balances 1:1 (Blockchain Australia affirmation, Nov 2022)
- 24-hour trading volume
- No independent figure available
Security record
· Withdrawals paused or delayed
Crypto withdrawals delayed for about five hours
Swyftx's status page reported that its wallet providers were degraded, so crypto withdrawals might be paused or delayed. It was resolved after about 5.5 hours.
Sources: Swyftx status-page record (IsDown)
· Outage
Login outage overnight
From about 2 am AEST some customers couldn't log in, and a crypto news site reported withdrawals were blocked too. Swyftx's status page marked the problem resolved early on 9 May. No breach was confirmed.
Sources: Swyftx status-page record (IsDown) · CoinGape
Regulation and legal action
We found no regulator or court action against Swyftx's Australian business up to 31 October 2026.
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