At AirSwap, we believe that accomplishments are fully actualized by reflecting on how they were achieved. As we approach the end of 2018, it is fitting to take a moment to review AirSwap’s developments over the last year, and to consider the foundation we have established for the future.

After the explosive growth of blockchain technology in 2017, the industry experienced a natural cooling period in 2018. Prices and trading volume dropped, teams were cut back, and countless projects either failed to deliver or folded altogether. AirSwap has bucked this trend and grown over the last year, bringing various products to market while expanding our team. We continue to both innovate and adapt to the market, systematically hitting every ambitious milestone we set out to achieve.

Our core mission is to build the best decentralized trading system possible; one that empowers people through global, frictionless trade. While staying true to this ethos, AirSwap introduced Token Trader, Partner Network, Token Marketplace, and AirSwap Spaces to the world, as well as hosted the Fluidity Summit in May and grew our team significantly.

AirSwap developed to service the demands of a truly peer-to-peer decentralized trading network; a framework that enables peer discovery without an order book, without order matching, and without trading fees. On February 1st, AirSwap launched a key component for that vision with the Token Trader, which served as the foundation for all decentralized trading environments we have rolled out over the past year. As the realization of what we set out to do in the Swap Protocol white paper, this milestone demonstrated that a decentralized peer-to-peer trading network is possible.

Token Trader was a crucial first iteration that paved the way for our second major milestone in February: announcing our Partner Network. Trading is, by nature, an act of collaboration; a recognition that two parties will mutually benefit from trading what they have in return for something that the other party has to offer. In late February, AirSwap secured partnerships with three professional liquidity partners. On the macro-level, AirSwap embodies the ethos of collaboration by constantly seeking and prioritizing key opportunities, making connections, and enabling trade for anyone, anywhere, at any time. It was, therefore, both in line with our company’s development as well as our philosophy to make these worldwide partnerships, which brought twenty-four new tokens to the network.