Particl is now available as an asset on the privacy and security focused light wallet Flare Wallet. What this means is that you can now store, send, receive, and swap PART for any of the other available assets within Flare Wallet’s ecosystem. Flare Wallet is a non-custodial wallet, meaning that their team doesn’t have access to your private keys at all, and is available on both mobile and desktop platforms.

Teamwork Within Privacy & Security Focused Projects

The addition of PART into Flare Wallet is an encouraging story amidst an industry that has unfortunately turned increasingly “pay-to-play”. When one stand up Particl community member (thanks to CaptainSkywalker) reached out to the Flare Wallet team, their team took the time to dive into Particl to see what it was all about. They then reached out to the Particl team with an interest in listing the coin solely based on the nature (especially its focus on privacy and security), vision, and constant development of the project.

The Flare Wallet team never asked for a listing fee or a portion of the supply. They instead reached out simply to ask whether the Particl team would be okay with getting PART added to their ecosystem and inquired about a few technical questions.

For this reason, Cryptoguard opened up a donation bounty for any Particl community member to show their appreciation to Flare Wallet’s approach to working with other privacy and security projects, as opposed to straight up asking for a listing fee payment regardless of the nature of the project. At the time of this writing, the donation address has accumulated a total of ~2,745 PART and will be transferred, today, to the Flare Wallet team.

This also highlights how effective a community can be. The Particl team is always open to help out and support any community member with their initiatives! It highly encourages any community member to do whatever it can in spreading the word and helping the ecosystem reach more people across the world. We’re all in this together as a big family! 💪

Flare Wallet — One Solution for Atomic Swaps on Particl’s Marketplace?

While Flare Wallet’s swap services currently work by leveraging third-party partners’ services (i.e. StealthEx), their team is actively working towards implementing atomic swaps into their engine so that swaps conducted on their wallet would be entirely trustless (as in, no middleman required to execute a swap). This was a development both the Flare Wallet and Particl teams found very interesting as it relates to Particl’s marketplace.

As it currently stands, Particl’s marketplace only accepts BTC (and of course, PART) through SimpleSwap, but it is entirely possible to add more coins using many different swap services. That means that, once Flare Wallet successfully pushes atomic swap style swaps in production, it could easily be integrated into Particl’s marketplace and Particl Desktop client.

Of course, Particl’s Lead Core Developer and Cryptographer, Tecnovert, has been working on his own implementation of atomic swaps, but as you already know, Particl has an agnostic approach to such services on its platform. An additional atomic swap solution is very much appreciated as it would increase decentralization ever more (in that case, by adding more options, thus making the overall platform more resilient) and by bringing more volume and liquidity through Flare Wallet’s reach within their own community as well as the greater cryptocurrency community. After all, Flare Wallet is a relatively well-known wallet within the industry and has a good level of brand recognition.