Really interesting. I just wrote about the need for atomic swaps (and difficulties achieving it) recently. Glad to see this advancement! It leapfrogs what has been happening on the issue, trying to just get it going on lightning network coins using the same hash algo.

Until there are atomic swaps, it will be easy to manipulate the entire crypto market just by shorting BTC (or alternating FUD and FOMO in the news cycle). There are just too few trading pairs out there dominating the market.