Atomic Swaps, Decentralized Finance, and Digital Securities with SideSwap - Blockstream Talk #23

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2:14 Why build on Bitcoin?

3:32 Colored Coins protocol

5:32 How Atomic Swaps work

8:00 The spectrum of decentralized finance

8:52 What SideSwap is focused on

12:14 Lessons from previous Bitcoin cycles

12:57 The importance of Bitcoin based capital markets

17:26 Issuing securities as bearer assets

19:35 The tokenization of securities

20:37 Transfer restricted asset technology

25:12 Differences between CEX & DEX

26:19 Private swaps on SideSwap

27:22 What does PEGx do?

31:46 Voting with Liquid digital securities

35:48 Dealing with regulators when facilitating trades

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