Last Updated on September 5, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake
Changelly (changelly.com) is a cryptocurrency site. In 2024, Changelly offers the chance to trade cryptocurrency for a 0% service fee in the app. In 2014, Changelly allowed trading over 500 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin.
Changelly.com is as reliable as the average site for trading cryptocurrency, though it should try to remove the flags from VIPRE or Gridinsoft on VirusTotal.
ALTERNATIVES
Similar sites to Changelly include CoinCodex, Coinpedia, Cryptonewsz, SimpleSwap, Finbold, U (today), Kraken, BitPay, BitNation (co), and NewsBTC.
DESCRIPTION
The homepage showed an exchange converter of Bitcoin to Ethereum. I could also alter the default selection and choose another cryptocurrency from the list. I could see that changelly.com offered hundreds of cryptocurrencies that could be exchanged and potentially thousands. I could browse for crypto to exchange by stablecoin, gainers, losers, and new cryptocurrencies. It was notable that the top menu on the homepage let me choose between personal and business options. The buy, sell, Defi, and exchange options were available from the personal menu; only an exchange API was related to the buying/selling/exchanging in the business menu. There was also a TrustPilot widget on the homepage that showed user reviews. Changelly.com displayed three of these TrustPilot reviews and they were all five-star reviews.
HISTORY
As of January 2024, changelly.com has 1.912 million monthly views. Changelly.com was founded on January 27, 2014. The Internet Archive has saved changelly.com 1,751 times between January 27, 2014 and February 27, 2024.
Is changelly.com Safe?
Here, I analyzed changelly.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:
I checked changelly.com on Sucuri, and it returned with no issues.
Security hardening flaws:
- Missing security header for
ClickJacking Protection. Affected pages:
https://changelly.com/404javascript.js
https://changelly.com/404testpage4525d2fdc - Missing security header to prevent
Content Typesniffing. Affected pages:
https://changelly.com/ for Google’s UA
https://changelly.com/404javascript.js
https://changelly.com/404testpage4525d2fdc
https://changelly.com/buy-crypto - Missing
Strict-Transport-Securitysecurity header. Affected pages:
https://changelly.com/ for Google’s UA
https://changelly.com/404javascript.js
https://changelly.com/404testpage4525d2fdc
https://changelly.com/buy-crypto
I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on changelly.com, and it is suspicious.
Unmask Parasites cites 1 suspicious inline script:
(function(){var js = "window['__CF$cv$params']={r:'85fce91e28e66078',t:'MTcwOTY3MTExNi43NTgwMDA='};_cpo=document.createEl...
I also checked changelly.com on VirusTotal, and it is flagged as malware by VIPRE and as suspicious by Gridinsoft.
Further, changelly.com passed all blocklist engines on URLVoid.
In conclusion, changelly.com has numerous webpages with security-hardening flaws that need addressing. Unmask Parasites also detected a suspicious inline script and we agree that it looks suspicious. Moreover, two security vendors flagged changelly.com for being suspicious or malicious. Changelly.com is bordering on being a suspicious website. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.
Links and Profiles
Website: changelly.com
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Changelly.com says they have the best rates on the market. I don't know if that's true, but the rates are good today. Changelly's app is high quality. Changelly has many users. Changelly should have good liquidity. Changelly has many coins to trade and will add new coins before the market cap has already run a long way, which can be very annoying on other platforms.