Swap

Cryptocurrencies were created to make it possible for advanced, encrypted payments to be made between two or more people digitally, without the parties involved having to trust each other for the payment be completed. In other words, cryptocurrencies make it possible to send money reliably to other people over the internet without the money being double spent, and without people getting scammed out of their money when they try to make these digital payments.

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Hash Time Lock Contracts (HTLC’s) are a perfect example of a payment technology for cryptocurrencies which makes all of the aforementioned things possible.

Swap is a python library for Cross-chain atomic swap between the networks of two cryptocurrencies. Cross-chain atomic swap are the cheapest and most secure way to swap cryptocurrencies. It’s a brand new decentralized payment environment based on Hash Time Lock Contracts (HTLC’s) protocol.