You glance at the chat to catch it bustling. It’s been a favorite trading group for years, through the highs and lows, the thick and thin. You and your fellow admins have always carefully handled funds as escrow to make trading safe for the community you’ve built.

It’s not been without its share of scams. That time another admin walked away with a truckload of DAI, another time someone tried out a new escrow service that just stole their tokens outright never to be seen again. Sometimes you think there must be a better way.

Trustless escrow for modern traders

AirSwap is a network created by traders and technologists to remove the need to trust. Two of the most powerful features of Ethereum are smart contracts as tokens and smart contracts that swap these tokens in a transaction that succeeds or fails completely. This is the atomic swap.

Our team published the Swap Protocol whitepaper in 2017 and has been delivering products on it ever since. Today, we’re releasing AirSwap Trader, an important new building block of decentralized trade and the latest member of the AirSwap product family.