The NEO Blockchain’s First Decentralized Exchange Goes Live

NEO’s first decentralized alternate challenge, ‘Switcheo’, has lastly gone stay.

Switcheo’s launch has been extremely anticipated, elevating $eight.5 million in its ICO; Crypto Globe reported that the alternate has seen a median $2 million buying and selling quantity in its first week. The alternate has reportedly risen to turn out to be the fourth-largest DEX (decentralized alternate), following Ethfinex, Idea, and Cobinhood.

Although there are already a variety of successfully-operating decentralized exchanges available on the market, the vast majority of them solely enable customers to ERC20 commerce tokens constructed on the Ethereum blockchain (ie Idex and EtherDelta). Switcheo is the primary decentralized alternate to function on the NEO blockchain, permitting customers to commerce NEP5 tokens.

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— Switcheo (@SwitcheoCommunity) April 20, 2018

Plans for the Future: Accepting Fiat Currencies; Cross-Chain Capabilities

“With the growing recognition of tasks developed on the NEO Blockchain, Switcheo will strategically begin buying and selling NEP-5 Token contracts for the NEO Blockchain first, earlier than transferring on to QRC20 Tokens (QTUM),” reads the Switcheo whitepaper. “Using the dynamic call functionality of the NEO blockchain, users will be able to list and buy tokens the moment they are available for transfer on the blockchain.”

According to the Switcheo whitepaper, the alternate won't initially settle for fiat currencies. Instead, the alternate will “first work in the direction of a multi-chain decentralized cryptocurrency alternate platform the place customers could carry out trades of digital tokens and property trustlessly (i.e. with out the necessity to belief a centralized third occasion).”

So far, the alternate helps the buying and selling of greater than 20 totally different cryptocurrencies. Switcheo additionally has its personal native token (the Switcheo Token or ‘SWH’) which can be utilized to pay buying and selling charges at a reduction. At press time, the Switcheo token was buying and selling for roughly $zero.026.

Decentralized exchanges are, by nature, safer and cheaper than centralized exchanges. Let’s hope that the Switcheo platform is only a single step in a bigger motion in the direction of world decentralization throughout industries.