So this wasn’t a bounty, it was a request for funding originating in this topic.
Should we formalize this into a proper bounty? And perhaps reach out to prospective developers to consider picking it up? If Parker’s previous investigations were with regards to Serai integration, perhaps we could re-engage him with just a general atomic swap implementation with no Serai component?
While UX and outreach could be improved, the real risk as I see it at this moment is that Grin is only available on two exchanges - Gate (which isn’t available to Americans, and has a nonstandard memo requirement for deposits), and TradeOgre (which is a gray market and thus could be shuttered by law enforcement at any time). If the latter went down I fear the project would actually die off as it’d be fully inaccessible to much of the current crypto market. As such, I think we should prioritize putting money towards getting atomic swaps working ASAP.