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A licensed exchange and a website that appeared in June go through the same list. Read the checks below and watch how a score gets made.

Company

From public company registers

  • Legal entity appears in a public registerNo company with this name in the UK or EU registers we searched.Halden Markets Ltd, on the Irish companies register since 2018.

  • Founding date matches public recordsIt says 2017. Its domain dates from June 2026.The register date matches the 2018 founding it states.

  • Address can be verifiedIt claims London. We couldn’t verify an address there.Verified office in Dublin.

  • Key people are namedNobody is named anywhere on the site.The CEO and compliance head are named, and both appear on the register.

  • Publishes terms of servicePublished, though they don’t name a company.Published, and they name the legal entity.

Licences

From regulators’ registers and warning lists

  • The licence it claims is on the regulator’s registerNo firm with this name or number on the FCA Register.Listed on the Central Bank of Ireland register.

  • Licence covers what it sellsThere’s no licence to compare against.Covers custody and exchange, which is what it sells.

  • Licensed where it takes customersIt doesn’t say where it operates.Passported to the EU countries it serves.

  • No active regulator warningsFCA (12 Sep 2026) and CONSOB (3 Oct 2026).None found in the registers we searched.

Money

From the company’s website and verified reports

  • Publishes proof of reservesNone published.Monthly until July 2026, nothing published since.

  • Keeps customer funds apart from its ownIt says cold storage. Nothing shows it.Client funds sit in a named safeguarding account.

  • Withdrawals work, going by verified reports61 verified reports of blocked withdrawals in 90 days, out of 214.Verified reports show withdrawals clearing in a median of 40 minutes.

  • Publishes fees before you depositFees only appear when you ask to withdraw.The fee table is public and matched what we paid.

  • Never asks for a fee to release fundsMost reports describe a “release fee” or “tax”.No reports of a fee to release funds.

Security

From the company’s website and public incident records

  • Publishes an independent security auditNone published.Audit by an outside firm, dated March 2026.

  • Offers two-factor loginAvailable when you log in.On by default, with an app or a hardware key.

  • No breach in the past five yearsIt’s too new to have a record.A 2023 phishing incident hit 412 accounts. It reported this and refunded the losses.

  • Publishes a security contactWe emailed the address on the site and got no answer.A security page with a contact that replied.

Website

From domain records and our own tests

  • Domain age matches its claimed historyRegistered 14 June 2026, through a privacy service.The domain dates from 2018, matching its history.

  • Not part of a look-alike networkA near-identical site runs at trevoxa-pro.net.Not part of one. Two imitators exist, listed on this page.

  • Contact details workThe contact form sends an automatic reply.Email and phone both answered.

Reputation

From reports and reviews on this page

  • Few reports of blocked funds214 reports in 90 days. 61 include a deposit we confirmed on the blockchain.9 reports of blocked funds in 90 days, all resolved.

  • Reviews aren’t inflated by fakesWe removed 2,140 suspected fake reviews.We removed 312 suspected fakes, under 8% of reviews.

  • Support replies within three daysSupport runs on Telegram and WhatsApp, so we couldn’t time it.Reports vary from 1 to 6 days, so we couldn’t confirm it.

Then it’s arithmetic

3 ÷ 24 = 12.5, which rounds to 1321 ÷ 24 = 87.5, which rounds to 88

The score is the share of checks passed, nothing else. A check we couldn’t verify earns nothing, same as a failed one, and it’s listed separately so you can see what we don’t know.

The score sets the verdict. 75 or more is Looks legit, 50 to 74 is Some concerns, and under 50 is High risk.

One rule overrides the score. An active warning from a regulator, or a pattern of unresolved blocked withdrawals, makes the verdict Likely a scam whatever the score says.

What counts as verified. A verified report has a deposit or withdrawal we confirmed on the blockchain. That proves the money moved, not what happened after it, so we also look at the pattern across reports.

What we remove as fake. Reviews from new accounts whose wording nearly matches others. We say how many we removed, and you can see the rating with them counted.

The five verdicts

Every verdict is our assessment, based on the evidence on the page. It isn’t a court’s finding, and it can change.

  • Looks legitScores 75 or more. A real company, regulated where it needs to be, with no regulator warning or pattern of blocked withdrawals against it.
  • Some concernsScores 50 to 74. A real company with gaps or complaints you should know about.
  • High riskScores under 50, with no regulator warning and no pattern of unresolved blocked withdrawals.
  • Likely a scamA regulator has warned about it, or there’s a pattern of unresolved blocked withdrawals, whatever the score.
  • Not enough evidenceToo new or too opaque for us to call yet.

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