ShapeShift, one of the longest-serving community-led decentralised anti-KYC trading platforms, today announced a major expansion of its multichain infrastructure, increasing to 17 swappers and expanding support to 46 blockchains as part of its push to become the leading privacy-first, anti-KYC trading venue in crypto. This is a sign of significant growth, with swappers up 41% and chains up 59% since November 2025.

The expansion dramatically increases the breadth of liquidity and execution routes available on ShapeShift, allowing users to swap assets across a growing number of ecosystems without accounts, identity checks, or custodial risk. Newly supported chains include HyperEVM, Monad, Sui, Plasma and Tron, alongside existing coverage of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos-based networks and major Layer 2s.

As crypto liquidity fragments across chains and regulatory pressure pushes many platforms toward identity-linked access, ShapeShift’s strategy is to offer users more routes, not more restrictions. All trading takes place directly from users’ own wallets, with private keys never leaving their control.

The platform’s routing engine scans across its expanding swapper set to surface optimal execution paths, including intent-based routes via NEAR Intents, helping users access cross-chain liquidity without relying on centralised intermediaries. Expanded hardware wallet support across Ledger, Trezor, GridPlus, KeepKey and others ensures trades can be signed securely while keeping keys offline.

Together, the addition of 17 swappers and 46 chains represent one of ShapeShift’s most significant infrastructure upgrades to date, reinforcing its long-held position that privacy, self-custody and optionality should be defaults, not premium features.

The expanded chains and swappers are live today, with a further two in testing and eight more on the shortlist, set to be released in 2026 as the DAO continues to prioritise privacy, execution quality, and user sovereignty over custodial growth models.

Tim Black, Product Lead at ShapeShift, said: “We’ve seen the direction that the crypto industry has chosen to move in over the past few years, and this is why we are bearing down on anti-KYC practices. Crypto has become part of the establishment, and it's now serving institutions, not individuals. We are passionate about giving people an accessible alternative to surveillance, and will continue to grow, populate and lead from the front, this update is another step in that direction.”