Double Doppler 4.0 — Atomic Swaps — Release Notes

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2 min readDec 4, 2019

Release Date: December 3rd, 2019

TL;DR: Atomic Swaps Marketplace is here!

Points to mention

Atomic Swaps is an advanced feature, currently in beta.
DO NOT USE SWAPS FOR LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY
For Electrum use only Legacy seed type (we do not support Segwit)
For Bitcoin use version Bitcoin Core v0.17.1
For Litecoin use version Litecoin v0.17.1

General

The long-awaited Atomic Swaps Marketplace is here. We are happy to announce the release of Double Doppler 4.0 — our Desktop Wallet with Atomic Swaps.

You can now publish offers and execute Beam<>BTC, Beam<>LTC and Beam<>QTUM swaps right from the Beam Wallet, in a fully decentralized manner, confidentially and without any counterparty risk.

Download the latest version here.

It is the first time when a privacy coin offers such a market place. For Beam, it is the first step towards a full-fledged DeFi ecosystem that we will be continuing to build in the months to come.

Please see the detailed instructions on how to set up your wallet to start working with Atomic Swaps. If you are having issues, do not hesitate to contact us at our Support channel on Telegram or by email: support@beam.mw

Note: The Atomic Swaps Marketplace is still in Beta, so use it at your own risk. We recommend transferring only small amounts.

Official Release Notes are available on Github here

Features

Decentralized Atomic Swap Marketplace for BTC, LTC, and QTUM
Support connection to own node for BTC, LTC, and QTUM
Support conection with with Electrum for BTC, LTC, and QTUM
Automatic continues selection of fastest peers when connected to random node
Transactions can be searched by a transaction ID, kernel ID, address, contact or comment

Improvements

Our logo just became a pixel bit better, can you find the differences?
Wallet approximate synchronization time is displayed nicely and much more accurately along with the remaining percentage
Creating or restoring a wallet can be processed by a specific peer
Transaction statuses are displayed in a nicer way