Hi. Good article but there a some inaccuracies and omissions that we would appreciate that be corrected if possible please.
“The practical implementation, however, came much later in Sep. 2017 between first Decred and Litecoin.”. BLOCKNET achieved this almost 2 YEARS EARLIER with an atomic trade between Bitswift and XCurrency: https://docs.blocknet.co/project/introduction/ https://twitter.com/The_Blocknet/status/643427142328549376 Additionally Block DX recently achieved $10,000 trading in a single day. https://twitter.com/The_Blocknet/status/1080863063098699776
Many of the exchanges listed in this article would be closer to the term “Hybrid exchange” as some components remain centralized. To understand what a true decentralized exchange looks like, please check out this article: https://blocknet.co/understanding-a-decentralized-exchange/