🎮 Ctrl (formerly XDEFI) review: security, features and score
81/100SCORE · BTrustedSelf custody, seed phrase
Grade B, very good
Native cross chain swaps without wrapping.
The facts
- DEVELOPER
- Ctrl
- LAUNCHED
- 2021
- TYPE
- Browser and mobile
- CUSTODY MODEL
- Self custody, seed phrase
- KEY MODEL
- 12 word seed phrase
- CHAINS
- Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, THORChain and 30 plus
- PLATFORMS
- Chrome, Brave, iOS, Android
- OPEN SOURCE
- Partial
- AUDITS
- Audited
- HARDWARE SUPPORT
- Ledger, Trezor
- SWAP COST
- Routing fee, with strong cross chain routing via THORChain.
What it can do
How the score breaks down
Each dimension is explained on the methodology page.
Where it is strong and where it is not
✓ Strengths
- Swap native Bitcoin for native Ethereum without a bridge or wrapper
- Very wide chain coverage including Cosmos and THORChain
- Handles many chains in one extension
- Hardware wallet support
✗ Weaknesses
- Not fully open source
- Interface is busy
- Smaller dapp recognition than MetaMask
Incident history
No security breach or significant incident on record.
Native cross chain swaps take minutes rather than seconds, and the rate can move while you wait. That is inherent to the mechanism.
Reputation and reviews
A reputation score out of 100, kept separate from the feature score above. It reflects what users actually report over time rather than a star rating scraped on one day.
REPUTATION
73/100
Unusually good at native cross chain swaps, for example Bitcoin to Ethereum without a wrapped token. That is the reason people use it and it does it well.
Check current reviews yourself
Star ratings change constantly, so we link to the sources rather than printing a number that is out of date the day after it is written.
If something goes wrong
COMMON FIXES
Transaction stuck pendingYour transaction has sat as Pending for minutes or hours and nothing is moving.Transaction failed but the gas was still takenThe transaction reverted, you got nothing, and the fee left your wallet anyway.Token is not showing in my walletThe block explorer shows the tokens arrived, but the wallet shows nothing.I sent tokens to the wrong networkYou withdrew to your address but picked the wrong chain, and the balance is not where you expected.
RISK WARNING
Crypto assets are highly volatile and largely unregulated. You can lose everything you put in.
Nothing on this page is financial, investment or tax advice, and nothing here is a recommendation
to buy or sell any asset. Do your own research and never commit money you cannot afford to lose.