Why AWC, Atomic Swaps, and Desktop Wallets Still Matter (From My Own Scratches)

Whoa! I fell into the AWC token rabbit hole last winter. At first it felt like another coin and hype cycle, but gradations emerged when I used the wallet and watched on-chain flows, so context mattered. Initially I thought it was just tokenomics noise, but after using an atomic-swap enabled desktop wallet for a week,…