Track 4 · Across chains, and who keeps it honest1 of 4
Cross-chain swaps
Trade a token on one chain for a token on another. Atomic, with no bridge.
A swap lets you trade across chains directly. It's atomic and bridgeless: both sides happen, or neither does.
What "atomic" means
There's never a moment where one party has paid and the other hasn't delivered. The trade completes as a whole or not at all. No trusted middleman holds funds in between.
Matched on the cross-chain order book
You don't have to find a counterparty yourself. Offers to trade a token on one chain for a token on another rest on a shared order book, and the validator network matches a buy with a sell the same way the single-chain exchange does. The two sides live on different chains, and a match settles atomically across both.
No bridge, no wrapped coins
Nothing is locked on one chain and minted on another. The validator hub coordinates the swap but never takes custody of your funds, so the bridge risk that has cost crypto billions simply isn't present.
Among the Bitcoin-family chains
Swaps work across the supported UTXO chains (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin). They are not a bridge to account-model ecosystems like Ethereum or Solana, and never will be: those chains are on the roadmap as first-class supported chains instead, because reaching them through a bridge would reintroduce bridge risk.
Settlement waits for blocks
Each side confirms on its own chain, so a swap is as fast as those chains. Higher-value settlement should wait for more confirmations on lower-hashpower chains; the platform's defaults are roughly Bitcoin 6, Litecoin 12, Dogecoin 60, and they're tunable.