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# Atomic Swaps

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Atomic swaps use Hash Timelock Contracts (HTLC), a type of smart contracts technology, to automate tokens swap. It’s a time-bound smart contract between two parties used to generate one cryptographic hash on both ends. Find out more about atomic swaps here

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