Vexl is a nonprofit app that lets people buy and sell bitcoin privately with friends and friends of friends. No KYC, no middlemen, no data collection.

What makes it different is the way it works: instead of relying on reputation scores or anonymous strangers, Vexl connects you through your web of trust or your (social graph).

That means you see offers from people you’re already connected to directly or through mutual contacts, which makes trading more natural, safer, and closer to how cash works in the real world.

I think in the first week after the marketplace went live, we started to see offers for things like raw milk and honey, and it just grew from there until we eventually added a dedicated marketplace feature for products and services.