Company
Company
Nordstern is swap routing infrastructure. We’re not a consumer brand, and we’re not trying to be one — the people who use us directly are the engineers building on top of us, not their end users. [Own claim]
What we’ve routed: $2.285B cumulative, more than $1B in the trailing 12 months. [Self-reported — displayed on DefiLlama, but its adapter calls our own volume tracker rather than reading the chain; mechanism] How we’re graded: Enso Shield’s independent benchmark places us in Tier 1 for quote honesty — under 5% overquote — with simulation failure comfortably under 0.5%, dated April 2026. [Independent — Enso] Who we’re integrated with: Oku, as one of its 14 listed swap routers, and LI.FI — which carries us as one of 7 DEX tools on Robinhood Chain. [Partner-observable — Oku docs, LI.FI tool registry]
Identity
On-chain contracts: the Guard Contract — the tx.to of every swap we return — is deployed per chain, and the full address table is published in our docs, fetched live from the API. Verify that the tx.to in any response matches the published address for your chain; a swap targeting any other address is not routed through Nordstern. [Own docs, checkable on-chain — docs.nordstern.finance/contracts; Ethereum entry cross-checked against a live API response, 2026-08-03]
Procurement and compliance: hello@nordstern.finance.
Non-custody
Nordstern never takes custody of your users’ funds. We return a quote and, where applicable, calldata to execute it — the transaction itself is signed and sent by your user’s own wallet or your own execution path. We never hold, route through, or have signing authority over end-user assets at any point. [Own claim — structural, verifiable from the API contract itself]
Why this matters for your own compliance posture: if your integration is genuinely non-custodial end to end, routing through a non-custodial quoting layer like Nordstern is unlikely to bring additional custody-related licensing scope onto your own entity — under frameworks like the EU’s MiCA CASP regime or FinCEN’s money-transmitter rules, custody and control over customer funds are the triggering facts, and Nordstern has neither. [Own claim — a structural inference, not legal advice; confirm with your own counsel for your specific jurisdiction and integration shape.] We’re stating this plainly because it’s a real procurement question we’ve watched go unanswered elsewhere.
Contact
- Email — hello@nordstern.finance
- Telegram — t.me/nordstern_fi
- X — x.com/nordstern_fi