Universal Atomic Swaps - Secure Exchange of Coins Across All Blockchains

Universal Atomic Swaps - Secure Exchange of Coins Across All Blockchains

Explore the concept of Universal Atomic Swaps in this 18-minute IEEE conference talk. Delve into the secure exchange of coins across all blockchains as presented by Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan, Giulio Malavolta, and Pedro Moreno-Sanchez. Learn about payment channels, HTLC, and the key contributions of this research. Understand the atomic construction, protocol phases including lock, complete, and timeout, and the role of verifiable timed discrete logarithms. Discover the advantages of this approach and its implications for cross-blockchain transactions in the concluding remarks.