Transaction volume
Is that a glitch?
There was over 4k transactions in mempool yesterday. It took 3h to empty it. Reason was that after 2 days Binance opened withdrawals. This made yesterdays day as a new record day with 34218 Monero transactions. What showed us last few days is that Binance is new Poloniex. Monero ecosystem relays to much on Bianance, just as it did in 2014-2017 on Poloniex. Most of those "instant" exchanges gets Monero from Biannce, so when Biannce withdrawals go down, also they go down. Hopefully they learned something from yesterday and opened more channels to acquire Monero in the future.
Since BTC is the main trading pair it will be interesting to see what sort of ecosystem grows up around the atomic swaps once they are in the wild.
I have not really looked into how these things are supposed to work, but I am hoping for a very robust, low friction sort of oracle/exchange/tracker system. Does anyone know how this is being implemented?
For example... Bisq, for all it's glory as a very wonderful decentralized, trust minimized exchange is kind of a high friction tool. The software is kinda klunky, and you have to dedicate yourself to learning to use it. It is fairly high friction in my opinion. Not meaning to be critical, since it is fairly amazing what they have done.
But the way that the onramp into atomic swaps is designed etc is very important. It is it a very easy and robust way to move back and forth between XMR<=>BTC it is going to take the entire space by storm.
I would even think that having more than one approach (decentralized) might be good.
Anyway, does anyone know, yet, how this might work?