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Overview
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Amino Asylum
aminoasylum.shopDefunctResearch use only
US-facing research-peptide supplier, research-grade. Publishes certificates of analysis. Identity and claims are vendor-stated unless cited. Research use only.
Publishes COAsDomestic shipping
—products listed
2.7/523 Trustpilot
—founded
Communityconfidence
2026-06-27 as of
Vendor Trust Index Flagged
20/100
Adverse Records on File
At least one verified disqualifying fact on record — e.g. an independently-measured purity misrepresentation and/or stacked enforcement and conduct records. Caution warranted.
Coverage87%
ConfidenceHigh
Cited facts38
A transparency readout of 38 cited facts — never sold, never sorts the directory; not a safety verdict (RUO). How it’s computed →
Catalog breadth
—
No data available
External rating
Cited
2.7/5
23 Trustpilot reviews
COA policy
Cited
Yes
publishes COAs
Operating status
Cited
Defunct
as of 2026-06-27
Trust Index breakdown
DerivedV3
Five weighted evidence pillars; the composite is then capped by any verified adverse fact. Every point traces to a cited source — nothing here can be bought.
WHOIS: AMINO ASYLUM LLC is registered in Kentucky (OpenCorporates us_ky/1021726); reviewers describe the business as Kentucky-based (Louisville). The original aminoasylum.com domain is reported registered around 2019. The warehouse raided in June 2025 is widely reported as being in Memphis, Tennessee; one secondary source called the vendor 'Texas-based' (an earlier crawl set HQ to US-TX), and a Denton County, TX arrest record surfaced for a 'Kyle Matthew Kawa' (2025-08-27, unverified social post). Locations conflict and none is registry-confirmed here. WHOIS dates not first-party verified. opencorporates.com
Find them
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Verify you are on aminoasylum.shop — 10 domain variants exist; this is the one on record as current.
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Products & price
Pricing & listings are not in the seed yet — shipping facts are
Product catalog & pricelist
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No data availablePrice-per-mg data has not been collected for this vendor.
Price-per-mg snapshot
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No data availableNo price series collected.
Deals & bulk pricing
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No data availableNo promotional or bulk pricing collected.
Price snapshot
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No data availableRequires price data.
Shipping & fulfillment
CitedV9
Ships from
US
Ships to
US
Domestic shipping
Yes
Ship speed
~4 days domestic
Carriers
USPS Priority and UPS Ground reported (1–4 day domestic delivery) prior to the shutdown
Payment
Crypto · Zelle · cashapp · Card · Venmo
Returns: Reviewers report refunds were frequently refused; no documented formal return policy. After the June 2025 raid, pending orders were frozen with no refund mechanism announced.
What this vendor proves about identity, purity & potency
Publishes COAs
policy on record
Third-party tested
not on record
Independent tests tracked
4 on file
GMP / ISO claim
not on record
The original operation claimed every product shipped with a batch-specific Certificate of Analysis confirming authenticity and chemical composition, third-party tested by HPLC and mass spectrometry to '>99% purity', with reviewers naming Janoshik Analytical as the lab. However, multiple independent reviewers found the published COAs were missing verification codes and client information, so they could not be authenticated against the testing lab — i.e. the certificates were effectively unverifiable, and no COA documents were consistently linked on product pages. Since the June 2025 federal raid the original storefront is offline; any COAs now shown on successor/clone domains are of unverified provenance.
Methods: Vendor-claimed HPLC for purity and mass spectrometry for identity, with Janoshik Analytical named by reviewers; COAs reportedly lacked verification codes / client info and could not be independently authenticated (reviewer-reported).. Labs: Janoshik Analytical (reviewer-attributed; COAs reportedly unverifiable).
COA repository · published lab results
No data availablePer-lot COA records have not been collected.
Independent test results
CitedV11
4 independent tests tracked — labs and findings as reported. No pass/fail tally is computed.
Finnrick Analytics — community aggregate
15 samples tested across 8 products, 14 Feb – 16 Mar 2025. Average score 5.7/10 (range 2.5–8.0), indicating significant batch inconsistency; median purity ~99.6% and 100% of samples confirmed to contain the expected peptide, but quantity accuracy ranged from -19.2% to +11.4% vs label. Semaglutide rated A; most products rated C. Vendor overall rating A–C. Tests predate the June 2025 shutdown.
Independent reviewers (peptides.org, muscleandbrawn) found Amino Asylum's certificates of analysis were missing verification codes and client information, so they could not be confirmed with the testing lab — rendering the published COAs unverifiable.
Only order from the official domain. Research-chem vendors are frequently impersonated by typosquats — verify the URL before purchase.
Known domain variants
aminoasylum.com— original (defunct) · Original storefront, reportedly registered ~2019; offline since the June 2025 federal raid. Trustpilot profile (amino-asylum.com) and BBB profiles attach here.
aminoasylum.shop— successor / clone (unverified) · Candidate homepage. A prior crawl (2026-05-29) found aminoasylum.shop redirecting to an unrelated coupon site (peptidecoupons.com); Scam Detector rates it 34.8/100 'Medium Risk'. Ownership unverified.
amino-asylum.net— successor / clone (unverified) · Active post-raid storefront (~89 SKUs) claiming 'over a decade of expertise' and 'cGMP Compliance' with no certifying body, certificate number, or ownership disclosure; carries product pages (e.g. BPC-157 5mg). Unverified provenance.
amino-asylum.shop— successor / clone (unverified) · ScamAdviser low-trust / possible scam; flagged for selling prescription medicines without prescription.
aminoasylumofficial.com— relaunch (claimed new ownership, unverified) · Explicitly states it is 'under completely new ownership, new leadership team' after the original was shut down; relationship to the convicted operators is not independently confirmed.
aminoasylum.us— successor / clone (unverified) · Post-raid domain ('Researchem' storefront); reviewers warn these are opportunist relaunches, not the verified original.
aminousa.com / modernaminos.com— successor / rebrand (unverified) · Reviewers list these among brands operating on the Amino Asylum name/legacy; unverified provenance.
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Reputation & sentiment
Online sentiment
Community signalUGC · disclaimedV13
Forum sentiment: mixed · unverified
A coarse community read, not a measured score. Platforms can be gamed — corroborate.
Reddit & community
UGC · disclaimedV14
4 community mentions — disclaimed UGC, each linked. Sentiment is reported, not measured.
Evolutionary.orgNegative2025-06
'Amino Asylum shut down yesterday 2025' thread — members report the site going offline overnight with server errors and no communication, corroborating the raid via firsthand community accounts.
Pre-shutdown review: praises fast 1–4 day USPS/UPS shipping and value pricing but flags limited payment options (Zelle, CashApp, credit cards) and COAs lacking verification codes; later raid article notes 'no third party lab verification despite labels saying so', disputed in comments.
Notes Kentucky-based operation, Venmo accepted (limiting buyer protection), and emphasizes that unverifiable COAs make the certificates 'meaningless'; confirms the operation went dark after the June 2025 raid and remained offline as of Feb 2026.
Second BBB profile under Online Retailer / Delaware — address footprint differs from the Kentucky LLC.
Trustpilot (amino-asylum.com) showed 2.7/5 ('Poor') across ~23 reviews (snippet-sourced; direct fetch 403); new reviews can no longer be left because the underlying website has closed after the 2025 raid. WorthEPenny aggregates 3.4/5 over 21 reviews. Scam-checkers diverge by domain: ScamAdviser rates the legacy aminoasylum.com 'positive' but flags the post-raid amino-asylum.shop as low-trust / possible scam, and Scam Detector scores aminoasylum.shop 34.8/100 'Medium Risk'. Independent forum/community sentiment skews negative after the shutdown (under-dosing and 'spiked product' allegations). All figures snippet-sourced and not first-party verified.
Federal authorities raided Amino Asylum's warehouse (widely reported as Memphis, TN) on or around June 18, 2025. The website went offline overnight, payment processing was terminated, and pending orders were frozen with no refund mechanism announced. Widely described as the first physical federal raid on a major US e-commerce peptide vendor; the company had an estimated 400,000+ monthly visitors beforehand. Reported via community (Reddit/Discord) and secondary press/trackers; no official FDA press release for the raid was located. The underlying conduct was later adjudicated in the criminal case below.
In United States v. Matthew Kawa, et al. (U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, South Bend; case 3:25-cr-00091, Judge Cristal C. Brisco), Matthew Kawa — identified as owner of both Paradigm Peptides and Amino Asylum — and his sister/employee Jennifer Stechkober pleaded guilty on December 10, 2025. Federal investigators determined many products advertised, labeled and sold as SARMs in fact contained testosterone (a controlled substance), and that the SARM, hCG and peptide products were unapproved new drugs. Sentencing scheduled July 30, 2026. IMPORTANT: the DOJ case caption names 'Paradigm Peptides / Paradigm R.E. LLC' (Michigan City, Indiana shipping address) and does not name Amino Asylum explicitly; the Kawa–Amino Asylum ownership link is asserted by the case record summary and third-party trackers (TitrateLab). DOJ pages returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch — facts are snippet-sourced; a legal reviewer should confirm which counts attach specifically to Amino Asylum via the charging Information / PACER.
UNVERIFIED: Multiple secondary sources state Amino Asylum 'ignored multiple FDA warning letters' before the raid, marketed products for human consumption, and sold prescription-only drugs. No primary FDA warning letter to Amino Asylum / aminoasylum.com was located in the FDA Warning Letters database during this crawl — treat the 'ignored warning letters' claim as reported-but-unconfirmed pending a human check.
We publish negative records only with a source, and offer vendors a right of reply.
Buyer safety checklist
DerivedV19
Publishes COAs
Third-party tested
Accepts non-crypto payment
Has reship / refund policy
Clean enforcement record
Currently operating
2 of 6 checks clear · derived from vendor-stated data.
Operating status & continuity
CitedV20
Status
Defunct
Last confirmed
2026-06-27
US-facing
Yes
Domain history
10 variants on record
Known rebrands / aliases
None on record
AMINO ASYLUM LLC is registered in Kentucky (OpenCorporates us_ky/1021726); reviewers describe the business as Kentucky-based (Louisville). The original aminoasylum.com domain is reported registered around 2019. The warehouse raided in June 2025 is widely reported as being in Memphis, Tennessee; one secondary source called the vendor 'Texas-based' (an earlier crawl set HQ to US-TX), and a Denton County, TX arrest record surfaced for a 'Kyle Matthew Kawa' (2025-08-27, unverified social post). Locations conflict and none is registry-confirmed here. WHOIS dates not first-party verified.
Defunct: this vendor is no longer operating. Listing retained for reference and enforcement history. Do not attempt to purchase.
Scam & non-delivery reports
Community-reportedUGC · disclaimedV21
Refund refusal / product quality — Trustpilot and aggregator reviews allege refused refunds (e.g. 'bunk' MK-677, L-carnitine causing injection-site burns, non-sterile carrier oil causing infection) with minimal customer-service response; one allegation of Arimidex sold as Aromasin.
Frozen orders after raid — After the June 2025 raid, pending orders were frozen and payment processing terminated with no announced refund mechanism, leaving customers without recourse.
Unverified successor/clone domains — After the shutdown, numerous look-alike domains (aminoasylum.shop, amino-asylum.shop, amino-asylum.net, aminoasylum.us, aminoasylumofficial.com, etc.) appeared trading on the name. Reviewers warn these are unverified — either opportunists or the same operation dodging enforcement — and advise against ordering. The candidate homepage aminoasylum.shop reportedly redirected to a coupon site; amino-asylum.shop is flagged low-trust by ScamAdviser and 'Medium Risk' (34.8) by Scam Detector.
Cross-vendor price ranking is intentionally not computed
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Compliance, meta & tools
Jurisdiction & legality
CitedV25
Ships to
US
US-facing
Yes
Gating
Commercial links suppress where a compound is restricted in your region
Commercial CTAs are jurisdiction-gated; reference content stays visible everywhere (RUO).
Independence & disclosure
CitedV26
Affiliate
No
Sponsored placement
None
Effect on Trust Index
None — sponsorship & affiliate are excluded by construction
No affiliate or sponsorship relationship on record.
No. The original Amino Asylum (aminoasylum.com) went offline overnight after federal authorities raided its warehouse on or around June 18, 2025; payment processing was terminated and pending orders were frozen. Its owner, Matthew Kawa, pleaded guilty to federal charges on December 10, 2025. Domains such as aminoasylum.shop are unverified successor/clone sites — some claiming 'new ownership' — and cannot be confirmed as the same legitimate operation. PeptideCompass computes no vendor score. Research use only.
Federal investigators determined that products advertised and labeled as SARMs in fact contained testosterone, a controlled substance, and that the SARM, hCG and peptide products were unapproved new drugs. Secondary reporting adds that the operation marketed products for human consumption (beyond 'research use only'), sold prescription-only medications, and is alleged to have ignored prior FDA warnings — the last point is reported but not confirmed against a primary FDA warning letter. Research use only.
Amino Asylum claimed HPLC and mass-spectrometry testing with batch-specific COAs (reviewers named Janoshik Analytical), but independent reviewers found the certificates were missing verification codes and client information, so they could not be authenticated. Independent Finnrick testing rated the vendor A–C with an average around 5.7/10 and scores as low as 2.5, and found label-quantity accuracy varying from -19% to +11% — inconsistent quality. Research use only.
Amino Asylum (aminoasylum.shop) is a US-facing research-peptide vendor, now defunct (no longer operating). Publishes certificates of analysis. Has enforcement/disclosure records on file. PeptideCompass Trust Index: 20/100 — Adverse Records on File (flagged), confident confidence, from 38 cited sources. Data is community and dated 2026-06-27. The Trust Index is an evidence-transparency readout of cited facts — not a safety verdict, never sold. Research use only.
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