Trustless swaps: the only way forward

Why does every cross-chain solution demand you surrender trust? Bridge relayers, intermediaries, validators—they're all single points of failure waiting to happen. When you *have* to believe in third parties, the entire architecture is compromised.

The fix is elegant but often overlooked: native assets stay on their chains. Execution unfolds according to pure logic, no guesswork. Settlement isn't a promise—it's mathematically enforced before anything moves.

This is what deterministic swaps look like. Take BTC ↔ ETH flows as an example. Both sides execute simultaneously. No wrapped tokens. No faith required. Just cryptographic certainty.

The question isn't whether trustless swaps are possible. It's why we've tolerated the alternative for so long.