Arwen: Centralized Exchange Trading Without Counterparty Risk

We're joined by Sharon Goldberg, CEO of Arwen, a protocol solution for non-custodial trading. From communications engineering to Internet protocol security, to then becoming a Professor at Boston University, she shares her journey into the world of cryptography. Beginning as a whitepaper on eclipse attacks, Arwen has grown into a platform enabling atomic swaps on centralized exchanges. Sharon chats about Arwen's integration with KuCoin, how it compares to ShapeShift, Interledger, and Lightning, and the exciting new release of the Layer-2 atomic swaps from Ethereum into Bitcoin.

Topics:

• How Sharon became interested in blockchain technology
• The meaning of an eclipse attack
• Arwen's co-founder Ethan Heilman
• The backbone of Arwen
• The Arwen protocol and how it uses atomic swaps
• How trading takes place on the exchange
• Arwen vs Shapeshift and Interledger
• Creating multiple orders using the same channel
• Arwen vs Lightning and the use of SegWit
• How the relationship with KuCoin was formed

Links:

• Arwen website
• Arwen's first white paper on eclipse attacks
• Arwen's Trading Protocol whitepaper
• Announcement of Arwen's partnership with KuCoin
• Arwen's Twitter