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Acuity DEX Now Beta Testing On Mainnets
The recent collapse of FTX reinforces in the heaviest way possible the importance of the work we are doing building the Acuity atomic swap, peer-to-peer, cross-chain, fully autonomous, noncustodial, decentralized exchange.
Posted November 18, 2022 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 4 min read
Acuity DEX Launch Procedure
The Acuity DEX is very nearly ready to launch. It will begin cross-chain trading of ACU, and coins and tokens on mainnet EVM blockchains.
Posted November 3, 2022 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 2 min read
DEX Pre-Launch Architectural Changes
It has been 21 months since then initial announcement of the Acuity DEX. While the core concept of the atomic swap has remained the same during that time, the rest of the system has been re-designed many times. This can be see both from the blog posts below and from the GitHub activity.
Posted September 17, 2022 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 6 min read
Acuity Atomic Swap DEX Launch Update
The Acuity Atomic Swap Substrate pallet has been updated to the final design of the DEX. This means that ACU (and any other Substrate chain that deploys the pallet) will be able to be traded on Acuity DEX.
Posted August 17, 2022 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 2 min read
Acuity Atomic Swap DEX begins public testing
On July 11th 2022 the first cross-chain trade on Acuity Testnet occurred between Estonia and Vietnam. 0.02 Rinkeby was bought with 0.002 Ropsten. The Acuity Atomic Swap DEX is ready for general testing.
Posted July 14, 2022 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 5 min read
DEX Development Update
The Acuity DE will be a fully autonomous and decentralized atomic swap cross-chain cryptocurrency exchange. It will support ACU, and both base coins and ERC20 tokens on all EVM compatible chains. It has a number of advantages over other cross-chain exchanges & bridges.
Posted June 15, 2022 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 4 min read
ACU is becoming a DeFi-only coin
As detailed in the earlier blog post below "Acuity Atomic Swap DEX - the future of interchain trading", centralized exchanges are not only a risk to those storing their coins on such exchanges. CEXs are actually a systemic risk to the trading price of coins that are traded on them. It is a security vulnerability for a project to have its coin listed on a centralized exchange.
Posted June 2, 2022 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 2 min read
Social Trading
The Acuity Atomic Swap DEX is a spin-out project from the broader Acuity Decentralized Social Media project. Acuity is a rebuild of the MIX social media platform from Ethereum to Substrate.
Posted April 18, 2022 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 4 min read
Architectural changes to Acuity Atomic Swap DEX
The Acuity DEX has been making a huge amount of progress towards launching an MVP, as can be seen from recent videos.
Posted February 6, 2022 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 4 min read
Acuity Atomic Swap DEX - the future of interchain trading
First a little back-story on the history of Acuity... Acuity (previously known as MIX) was started in 2015 with the goal of creating on-chain social communities. These have many useful properties that are not available on centralized platforms.
Posted December 4, 2021 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 8 min read
Acuity DEX Alpha Testing
The Acuity DEX is approaching minimum viable product. To begin with it will have a simple pair ACU / ETH. It will be possible to trade ETH stored in Metamask for ACU stored in the Polkadot browser extension. The Solidity smart contracts and the Substrate pallet are both mature. Development of a Rust-based off-chain worker to index the order book continues. Basic UI is coming together.
Posted July 21, 2021 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 1 min read
ACU / ETH atomic swap exchange under development
I'm currently working on a very simple atomic swap exchange for Acuity. This will be implemented as a Solidity smart contract and deployed on both the Ethereum and Acuity blockchains so ACU can be traded with ETH in a fully decentralized manner and without any counterparty risk.
Posted December 3, 2020 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 2 min read
Review of Bitcoin exchange rate APIs
Originally published on jonathanpatrick.me.
Posted March 7, 2014 by Jonathan Brown ‐ 3 min read