Interesting.
It was to be expected that new solutions would be found after pressure on mixers and coinjoin services.
2. Mixers tied to centralized exchanges (CEX)
Cons:
Coins are sent from one or several accounts on centralized exchanges.
This is certainly not true for Jambler partners, as they may have different investors, with different origin coins. It's not even always about exchanges, coins can also come from mining pools.
Conversion to Privacy Coins: Coins are initially converted into privacy coins such as Monero, severing any former transaction history. We use multiple anonymized cryptocurrencies to safeguard against de-anonymization tactics.
— Integration into Legitimate Trading: Coins converted back and mixed into the trading pools using decentralized exchanges and other methods commonly employed by crypto traders, ensuring that the coins' history mirrors that of numerous other participants in the crypto ecosystem.
I am not sure that coins from decentralized exchanges guarantee a low percentage of AML risk.
Also, what more does your service offer than a user making a swap, for example, BTC->XMR->BTC and then paying 2x 0.5% exchange fee?
minimum 0.03BTC for custom amount is quite high, especially for a relatively new and unproven service.
Thank you for your questions
Even if the source of your coins is mining pools, which isn't overly common, it doesn't change the fundamental issue.
1. Let's say you buy 1 BTC from miners and put it into a wallet used for client payouts from your service.
2. I, a hypothetical FBI agent, use your service for a small amount. Now I know that the wallet from point one belongs to your service.
3. From there, I can reasonably assume that all subsequent transactions from that address are payouts to clients of your service. At this point, as an FBI agent, I become very interested in who these people are and why they are trying to obfuscate the history of their funds.
As a client of your service, do I want to end up on some kind of watchlist or be subject to suspicion? Most likely not. Do I want to receive funds from the same address/CEX account as people who are potentially involved in highly illicit activities? The answer is no. This is precisely the problem our service aims to solve. Please correct me if I've misunderstood something.
Now, regarding why our service is better to a quick BTC→XMR→BTC swap: Firstly, you avoid the risk of triggering KYC verification when exchanging BTC for XMR. Secondly, exchanges keep logs, order histories, often lack TOR mirrors, and so on. All of this significantly simplifies the deanonymization of the chain you proposed. The AML risk score is a separate discussion, and it's highly dependent on the provider. Funds from noKYC sources can lead to account freezes and additional verifications. We prepare coins for our clients using services that are utilized by tens of thousands of traders, making them safe to use on CEXs.
Even setting aside the above, the very need to use noKYC exchanges can be suspicious in itself. Our service is designed to conceal the *very fact* that you are attempting to anonymize your funds' history. We aim to make the transaction history look completely ordinary.