About
Why Swap Cost Notes exists and who writes it.
What this site is
Swap Cost Notes covers one thing: onramp, offramp, swap, corporate wallet, custody, acquiring, stablecoin payments, bitcoin payments, otc, licensing, cards, industries, exchange. Everything published here stays inside that scope. If a topic is interesting but outside it, it does not get published, because there are better sites for it.
What the conversion actually took
Who writes it
Every article on this site is written by Lena Virtanen. Keeps a running record of what conversions actually cost, measured rather than quoted.
Readers are assumed to be people who convert between assets often enough that the spread adds up.
How articles are written
Claims that can be checked are checked. Where a number matters, the article says where it came from and when it was measured. Where something is uncertain, the article says so instead of rounding the uncertainty away. Costs, risks and inconvenient details are included, because leaving them out is how crypto writing usually goes wrong.
What this site does not do
No price predictions. No investment advice. No paid placements dressed up as reviews. Nothing here should be read as a recommendation to buy or sell anything. It is written to explain how things work so you can make your own decision.