Tag: Atomic Swap
Komodo Review: The Open & Composable Multi-Chain Platform
The Komodo platform is many things – a unique blockchain, a coin that pays interest, a decentralized exchange, a development blockchain with many additional features being planned for the future. The Komodo blockchain is a fork of the ZCash blockchain,...
Groestlcoin Review: Instant & Private Transactional Cryptocurrency
Groestlcoin (GRS) is a rather strange sounding cryptocurrency that has been receiving quite a bit of interest lately. It was launched back in March of 2014 as a proof-of-work coin just like Bitcoin, and like Bitcoin it was created as...
Republic Protocol (REN) Review: Decentralised Dark Pool Trading
The Republic Protocol (REN) is a project that has garnered a great deal of interest recently. They are building a decentralised dark pool for cross-chain cryptocurrency trading. While that may be a mouthful, this project could have the potential to...
Marco Peereboom Interview: Governance, Decred & Politeia
Being able to build consensus is one of the most important requirements for blockchain technology to function. Independent nodes have to agree on the current state of the decentralised ledger. However, building consensus on the development and overall direction of...
Could Monero and Litecoin Eventually See an On-Chain Atomic Swap?
They seem to be the talk of the town today. Riccardo Spagni the head developer at Monero (XMR) and Charlie Lee, the founder of Litecoin seem to be interested in a potential collaboration. This was all started yesterday when Spagni,...
Kraken Struggles to Meet New Demand, CEO Apologises
As more and more traders try to jump on the crypto bandwagon, exchanges are finding it increasingly hard to meet the increased demand. Just as an indication of the speed with which demand is growing, Coinbase disclosed that they were...
Great Week for Segwit as First on-chain Swap is Completed
Last week was indeed a great week for the SegWit technology and Segwit enabled coins. Litecoin, which moved to Segwit earlier this year managed to successfully exchange LTC for Decred, Vertcoin and Bitcoin through Atomic swaps. Recap: What are Atomic...
