On Mostro ๐ง, there's no single node you have to connect to.
Multiple instances run the protocol. You pick the one that fits your community, your currency, or your level of trust in the operator.
Switching nodes takes less than a minute. This video shows you how โก
Watch the tutorial ๐
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Sovereignty isn't something you outsource.
Every time someone hands their keys to an exchange, they're trusting someone else to manage their money better than they can.
Mostro ๐ง works differently. Your funds stay in your wallet โ before, during, and after the trade.
The protocol coordinates. You decide.
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Open source, P2P, Lightning, no KYC. That's the stack.
Everything else is just an exchange asking for trust it didn't earn.
Mostro ๐ง gives you the tools to trade without middlemen and without giving up control.
Read the code, try it, join the community.
Your Bitcoin community already has a place to operate without depending on anyone.
Its own node. Its own rules. Its own payment methods. Fees that stay inside, not outside.
The Mostro Community Program ๐ง is open and we do the setup together, for free.
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Privacy isn't an extra feature. It's the starting point.
In most exchanges you handed over your ID, your selfie, and your transaction history before making your first trade. Not as an option, as a requirement.
Mostro ๐ง starts from a different place: you trade with a key, not a registered identity.
Not because hiding is the goal. But because showing up shouldn't be mandatory.
On Mostro ๐ง an order's price can be fixed or market-based.
If you choose market price, the order updates automatically using the current Bitcoin exchange rate. No need to cancel and reopen every time the price moves.
If you prefer a fixed price, you set the exact amount and the trade closes at that value.
Two modes. You choose based on how you want to operate.
Mostro ๐ง grows when more people build, run, and use it.
That means communities running their own nodes, contributors improving the code, translators bringing it closer to more countries, testers catching bugs before anyone else does.
You don't need to be a developer to be part of it.
The Community Program is open.
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If a platform can freeze your funds, it's not really your exchange.
With CEXs the problem isn't just the fees or the KYC. It's that someone else controls when you can move your money. That's not a detail, that's the whole model.
Mostro ๐ง doesn't have that lever.
No account to suspend. No custody to freeze. No support team to beg to give your sats back.
How does Mostro ๐ง escrow work?
When you open a trade, the seller's sats get locked in Lightning. Not in a company account.
The trade moves like this:
1๏ธโฃ Buyer and seller meet in the app
2๏ธโฃ Sats are locked in escrow
3๏ธโฃ Fiat payment is confirmed
4๏ธโฃ Escrow is released and sats go straight to the buyer's wallet
If something goes wrong, a human community admin reviews the case and decides. The trade chat is encrypted and unalterable, protecting both sides.
No custody. No middlemen.
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Most exchanges hold your Bitcoin for you. That's called custody.
It means they're technically not yours until you withdraw them. And if the exchange collapses, gets hacked, or decides to freeze your account, you lose access.
Mostro ๐ง holds nothing.
When you open a trade, the sats are locked in a Lightning escrow that no company controls. When the trade closes, they go straight to your wallet.
At no point do they pass through anyone's hands.
Not your keys, not your coins. On Mostro, they're always your coins.
Your Bitcoin community deserves its own exchange.
No company dependencies. No KYC for your users. Fees that stay inside.
The Mostro Community Program ๐ง is open.
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Privacy is deciding who knows what about you, when, and why.
In most exchanges, that decision was already made for you: photos of your ID, transaction history, address, phone number.
On Mostro ๐ง you trade with a key. Nothing more.
No KYC. No permissions. Bitcoin as it should be.
On Mostro ๐ง you don't have a username or password. You have a pubkey.
A pubkey is your identity on Nostr: a cryptographic key pair you generate yourself, without asking anyone for permission.
What that means in practice:
๐ Nobody can ban you or close your account
๐ Your trade history travels with your key
๐ If you switch clients or nodes, you're still you
No company holds your identity. You do.
Joining the Mostro Community Program ๐ง means this:
โก Your community gets its own P2P node
โก Fees stay inside, they don't go to an external exchange
โก You decide which payment methods to accept
โก Your users trade without KYC
โก We help you set it up for free
You don't need to be a developer. We do the setup together.
Should your community already have this?
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Money has always been a political decision.
Who issues it, who controls it, who can use it and who can't. Those questions always had an owner.
Bitcoin was the first time the answer didn't depend on any government, bank, or institution.
Mostro ๐ง goes one step further: the exchange doesn't depend on anyone either.
Open protocol. Sovereign nodes. Permissionless.
Creating an order on Mostro ๐ง takes less than a minute.
Here's how it works:
1๏ธโฃ Open the app and choose whether you want to buy or sell Bitcoin
2๏ธโฃ Set the amount, payment method, and fiat currency
3๏ธโฃ The order gets published on your community node's order book
4๏ธโฃ Another user takes it and the trade begins
5๏ธโฃ You confirm the fiat payment, the escrow is released, and sats arrive via Lightning โก
No forms. No verification. No waiting.
Watch how it works: