AirSwap advisor, legendary VC, and blockchain enthusiast Bill “Yoda” Tai (who was an engaging master-of-ceremonies at the Fluidity Summit in May) opened the evening with a brief primer on trade. It has long “been a surprisingly high-friction” process, he explained. With the introduction of the blockchain and smart contracts, the nature of value exchange is transforming in ways that were previously unimaginable.

Instead of “going to the markets”, he said, “the markets will come to you.”

AirSwap is playing an integral role in the evolution to frictionless trade, enabling decentralized peer-to-peer value exchange, discoverable by search. Since the release of our whitepaper in May 2017, much has changed in the world of blockchain. Countless new tokens have been launched, and along with them, hundreds of new projects tackling an incredibly wide variety of decentralized applications. This dramatic shift — propelled by technologists, economists and leading innovators in every industry — has also won over skeptics and thought leaders.

Bill shared the story of how he introduced Niall Ferguson to the concept of crypto. Through a series of conversations, Ferguson changed his perspective, and as a token of appreciation signed Bill’s copy of his book, The Ascent of Money, where he had crossed out the word “Money” on the inside and replaced it with “Crypto.”

The AirSwap Widget

Quick and safe in-app token purchases

Following Bill, AirSwap business development lead Maggie Hsu revealed our progress toward this frictionless future. She presented the AirSwap Widget, enabling seamless in-app token purchases.