There have been quite a few interesting announcements from QTUM lately, which theoretically, sounded quite exciting for dApp developers and just pretty cool for crypto in general!

Cointelegraph – 9 Jan 19 Decentralized Platform Qtum Introduces Bitcoin Atomic Swaps to Its Mainnet Qtum is introducing Bitcoin atomic swaps to its blockchain infrastructure, which will enable exchange without requiring a trusted third party.

Our development team has repeatedly told me that Atomic Swaps are not a trivial feature that anyone can implement, so this is probably an update that has been in the works for some time. To me it sounds like a very attractive point for bringing developers and users to QTUM’s blockchain, for example, if you launched a dApp that required a user to have QTUM to use you could first allow them to exchange some BTC for QTUM on chain without ever leaving your platform.

And here is the really cool part, I believe you would be able to implement it in a way that new users would not even have to pay their own transaction fees to exchange BTC to QTUM as they also announced Third-Party Payments:

Qtum – 4 Jan 19 Qtum Third-Party Payments: An Ongoing Implementation A couple of months ago I wrote an in depth article about the potential use case of allowing third party payment transactions on Qtum and… Reading time: 6 min read

So for example, your business could cover the network fees required to exchange BTC to QTUM, you could think of it as a cost for on-boarding new users. I mean, that would be quite a cool feature to bring people to your decentralized exchange wouldn’t it?

Thoughts?