ELI5 atomic swap
You can exchange one type of coin for another without converting them in an exchange first. So lets say you have VertCoin, and I have litecoin. With atomic swap I can send you the litecoin and you would receive it in VertCoin(Vertcoin just did an atomic swap earlier this week).
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