@inproceedings{961e5d5103df47f09f31ad2ea8fb39d0,
title = "SmartExchange: Decentralised Trustless Cryptocurrency Exchange",
abstract = "Trading cryptocurrency on current digital exchange platforms is a trust-based process, where the parties involved in the exchange have to fully trust the service provider. As it has been proven several times, this could lead to funds being stolen, either due to malicious service providers that simply disappear or due to hacks that these platforms might suffer. In this work, we propose and develop a decentralised exchange solution based on smart contracts running on the Ethereum network that is open, verifiable, and does not require trust. The platform enables two parties to trade different currencies, limited to Ethereum and Bitcoin in the current status of the system. A smart contract, deployed on the Ethereum blockchain, functions as an escrow, which holds a user{\textquoteright}s funds until a verified transaction has been made by the other party. To make the smart contract able to detect a Bitcoin transfer, we implement our solution by utilising an oracle. We define the system architecture and implement a working platform, which we test in a model scenario, successfully exchanging Bitcoin and Ether on the blockchain test networks. We conclude the paper identifying possible challenges and threats to such a system.",
keywords = "Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Distributed, Ethereum, Exchange, Oracle, Smart contract",
author = "Filip Adamik and Sokol Kosta",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-04849-5_32",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-04848-8",
series = "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "356--367",
editor = "Witold Abramowicz and Adrian Paschke",
booktitle = "Business Information Systems Workshops",
address = "Germany",
note = "21st International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2018 ; Conference date: 18-07-2018 Through 20-07-2018",
}