As the week ends, let's take a moment to look back at what we've achieved in the past few days and see what we've got to look forward to in the week to come.
BasicSwap 📈
We've pushed, to the dev branch, a couple of commits including a mandatory Core update ahead of an upcoming Firo hardfork.
- Fix
js_activeamounts for reverse bids (1) - Swapped send/receive for sent bids in the active bids page (1)
- Added bid and active pages to
test_swap_direction.py(1) - Firo Core update to version 0.14.14.1 (1)
- Improved some cosmetics bids items (1, 2, 3)
- Improved Swaps in Progress behaviour (1)
On top of these minor commits, we've continued our work on the previously mentioned major deliverables for this current development cycle:
Multi-Net Support 🌐
While we've implemented a significant portion of what's required to provide BasicSwap with multi-net support (the ability for BasicSwap to relay data messages such as offers, swap data, or identities using networks other than SMSG), this new functionality is not yet fully operational.
We're continuing development in this area and expect to complete a proof of concept using Simplex as the first integrated network relatively soon. As a reminder, this implementation standardizes messages and encrypts them using SMSG's methodology, allowing almost any data or messaging network to relay BasicSwap messages such as Telegram, IRC, Torrent/P2P networks, and others. As a significant plus, all messages are encrypted before broadcast, meaning that this approach presents minimal privacy compromises.
Light Wallets 🪶
After completing multi-net support, our next focus will likely be implementing support for light wallets or remote nodes for most coins available on BasicSwap. This will allow you to set up BasicSwap without syncing a full node or storing the entire blockchain on your device, significantly improving setup time and convenience.
Note that this feature will be offered as an option, allowing you to still set up the DEX using full nodes for maximum security and privacy if preferred.
Market Making and Advanced Trading 🤖
Integrating the current market making tools into BasicSwap's GUI is now this month's main front-end focus. While we intended to make more progress on it last month, a lot of time was spent refactoring the UI's back-end code which will pay off in the long-term and make BasicSwap better structured and easier for contributors to jump in.
Advanced Order Book Display 📈
Another area we plan to advance during the next development cycle is the addition of advanced data visualization in the order book, notably depth charts for each trading pair and split order book displaying buy and sell offers on separate sides
These improvements will bring BasicSwap's order book experience closer to what users expect when interacting with centralized exchanges, bridging the gap between traditional platforms and decentralized trading—allowing users to enjoy convenience benefits without the typical security trade-offs.
General Updates and Maintenance ⚙️
In addition to the major items mentioned above, we plan to investigate and implement a wide variety of general improvements, tweaks, and bug fixes over the next few weeks.
Dr. Kap at the Litecoin Summit in May 🗣️
Dr. Kap will be representing Particl and BasicSwap DEX at this year's edition of the Litecoin Summit on the 29th and 30th of May, 2025.
On the 29th, he'll give a presentation on BasicSwap DEX which will delve into our current short-to-medium term objective of making atomic swaps more accessible and intuitive for everyone to use and how we intend to leverage BasicSwap's current and upcoming pioneering technology to further the level of decentralization in crypto and eCOmmerce by reducing reliance on central parties.
On the next day, he will participate on a panel focused on privacy with other great speakers and figures from the scene, including SethForPrivacy (Cake Wallet), Justin Berman (Monero dev), Joël Valenzuela (Dash), and Paul Puey (Edge).
- More information: https://litecoin.com/summit-2025
PART in MEXC Assessment Zone ⚠️
A few days ago, MEXC placed the PART trading pair in its Assessment Zone due to low order book liquidity and insufficient total value of PART coins deposited on the platform.
While this does not constitute a formal delisting yet, the exchange has communicated that the community must increase both liquidity and the total number of PART coins held on the exchange to maintain the listing.
Therefore, we invite community members who wish to preserve PART's presence on MEXC to consider contributing to order book liquidity and depositing some of their coins on the exchange.
As always, we thank you immensely for your passion and dedication to Particl and what it's working towards achieving. None of it would be possible without you all!
We wish you a great weekend we'll see you all back on Monday! 👋
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