Fiatside

About

Who operates this service, and how it makes money

This page has no team photo, no volume counter and no partner logo. It has what can be checked: where our revenue comes from, what we do with your funds during the few minutes they pass through, what we refuse to do, and what is still missing.

01

The entity operating the service

Here is exactly what we can assert about the company today. The lines marked “pending publication” are not layout oversights: they are things we are not yet entitled to write.

Legal name
pending publication
Trading name
Fiatside
Legal form
pending publication
Registration number
pending publication
Jurisdiction
pending publication
VAT number
pending publication
Year incorporated
pending publication
Registered office
pending publication

Why those fields are empty

There are 10 registration details still to publish. They live in a single configuration file in the source, carrying an explicit marker while unset, and the site is incapable of rendering an invented value for them: a missing value hides the block, it does not fill it.

An incorporation year or a register number takes three seconds to invent and thirty to check: company registers, domain WHOIS history, web archives. A financial service caught backdating its own existence loses far more than it gained.

Regulatory status

We claim no authorisation, no registration and no licence today. The registrations table is empty in our configuration, and an empty list is an answer: it is the truth.

No regulator badge, security seal or authority logo appears on this site. Those images are the first fabricated signal of a dubious financial service, and they are worthless: what counts is the number in the public register, checkable at the authority, not a picture on a page.

02

How we make money

One revenue line: the spread. It is a percentage of the converted amount, shown separately before you confirm, and that is all. There is no opening fee, no inactivity fee, no withdrawal fee, no commission hidden inside the rate.

The spread, on its own line

We start from the mid-market rate — the midpoint between buy and sell on the market — and take a displayed percentage. The market often does the opposite: it announces “zero fees” and folds 2.5 to 8% into a rate it presents as the market rate.

A sum that adds up

On every quote, the code checks that gross minus the sum of the lines equals net exactly, to the minor unit. If the gap is not zero there is an undeclared margin somewhere: the engine raises and refuses to quote rather than let it through.

What we do not charge

No sign-up, inactivity, closure, support or “processing” fee. On a refund, only the real network cost is deducted: we take no margin on a failure, which would be getting paid for failing.

The scale, as the code applies it

The spread starts at 0.90% of the converted amount. It rises by 0.35% on a volatile asset, because price risk during the lock window really is higher, and by 0.25% on a beta corridor, where the rejection rate is higher. It falls with volume tiers. These values are read straight from the fee engine: this table cannot drift from what you pay.

The scale, as the code applies it
Converted amountStablecoinVolatile assetVolume discount
€1,000 and below0.90 %1.25 %
€5,0000.75 %1.10 %−0.15 %
€20,0000.60 %0.95 %−0.30 %
€100,0000.45 %0.80 %−0.45 %

A worked example, computed by the same code as the quote

On €1,000.00 converted from a stablecoin to a SEPA Instant transfer, the spread is 0.90%, that is €9.00. That is our entire revenue on that operation.

The blockchain network cost comes on top, but it does not come to us: it is taken in kind on the asset, for the network, and shown on its own line for that reason.

Payout method fees

Some rails cost money on every send; that cost appears on its own line, it is not absorbed into our margin. On 11 of the 22 open or beta payout methods there is no rail fee at all: the line then does not appear in the breakdown, because a zero line adds nothing.

Payout method fees
Payout methodCurrencyRail fee
Domestic WireUSDUS$15.00
PayPalEUR2.00 % + €0.35
M-PesaKES0.50 %
Virement bancaire NIPNGN0.50 %
MTN Mobile MoneyGHS0.75 %
WaveXOF0.75 %
Orange MoneyXOF0.90 %
GCashPHP0.75 %
Virement FASTTRY0.60 %
Virement bancaire AEDAED0.40 %
Virement international SWIFTUSDUS$25.00
03

Our position on holding funds

The question to ask any service that touches your money: how long does it hold it, and what happens if it disappears during that time? Here is our answer.

We are a flow, not a custodian

There is no customer wallet, no balance, no account to top up. Your funds are held only for the length of the operation: from the confirmation of your deposit to the departure of the transfer. Outside that window we hold nothing of yours.

No yield, no lending

Funds in transit are not lent, invested or used as collateral. A service that pays interest on deposits has to put that money to work somewhere — that is a different business, with a different risk, and it is not ours.

One deposit address per order
The address you are given belongs to that order only. It is not reused, which prevents a late deposit from being attached to the wrong operation.
Refunds go back to the origin
If an operation fails, funds return to the address they came from, never to another one. It is restrictive, and it is what makes asking us to send elsewhere pointless.
No third-party payouts
The beneficiary name must match the verified identity. Payment rails now check name against account: paying a third party is both forbidden and technically rejected.
The locked rate survives incidents
If an outage delays your payout, the rate stays the one set when the order was created. We never re-price downwards on the grounds that the market moved while we were down.
04

What we do not do

A service is defined as much by what it refuses as by what it offers. Each of these refusals has a commercial cost, and each is deliberate.

We do not sell crypto
The service runs one way: digital asset to legal tender. Adding buying would double the regulatory surface and dilute the one thing we want to do properly.
We do not swap crypto for crypto
That market is already well served. Our value is on the last metre, the transfer landing in an account, not the swap.
We do not hold your funds
No wallet, no balance, no yield. Holding funds over time is a different business with a different risk.
We do not pay a third party
The beneficiary is you. A payout to someone else’s account is refused, even with their consent.
We do not use collection rails
iDEAL, Bizum, BLIK, TWINT, Satispay, MB WAY and QRIS exist to pay a merchant, not to receive. We credit the IBAN behind them, and explain why on each relevant page.
We give no investment or tax advice
It is neither our trade nor our authorisation. We explain mechanisms and export your operations in a format your accountant can use.
We do not serve sanctioned countries
The refusal is explicit, reasoned country by country, and returned with an HTTP 451 rather than a 404: when we refuse, we say so.
We publish no reviews, ratings or testimonials
Until there are verified customers who consented in writing, there is nothing to publish. A self-declared average score proves nothing and takes a minute to fabricate.
05

What you can check for yourself

Asking you to take our word for it would not be an argument. Here is where our claims can be held against data or observable behaviour.

  • The fee breakdown. Every line is computed, never typed in, and the sum is verified on each quote. See the fee schedule
  • The service state. We show no availability figure until it is measured, and we write down why. See the status page
  • The changelog. It starts on the real publication date. No backdated entry can appear in it. See the changelog
  • The countries we refuse. The reason is published country by country, including when it costs us revenue. See the restrictions
  • The API. The quote endpoint is public: you can compare our numbers with yours, without an account. See the documentation
06

What is still missing

The list is published here rather than discovered in use. It will get shorter; what it contains at any moment is more useful than a promise.

What is still missing
What is missingExact state
Rails built but closed7 payout methods are integrated but not open, each blocked by a regulatory requirement named on its page, and marked phase: planned
Countries in preparation7 countries are in preparation against 51 already covered by at least one bookable rail.
No availability measurementThe probe that will feed the status page is not connected. Until it is, no percentage is displayed.
No regulatory status publishedNo authorisation is claimed today. This line will change when a registration exists, with its number and a link to the public register.
Assets not offered1 assets are in the catalogue without being offered, out of 18 tradable assets.

Why there is no “team” section

Because a team page without a team is built from four stock portraits and four grand titles, and that is exactly the signal we refuse to send. The day real people agree to be named publicly, with a checkable background, this section will appear — not before.