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sideswap-primary-sources-2026-05-01

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SideSwap primary sources — 2026-05-01

Project status in this pass

  • No canonical standalone whitepaper or litepaper surfaced.
  • The clearest current sources of truth were the official site, API documentation, and the public sideswapclient / sideswap_rust repositories.
  • In this pass, the public materials consistently positioned SideSwap as Liquid settlement infrastructure with both wallet UX and operator-facing tooling.

Primary-source snapshots

1) Homepage

  • URL: https://sideswap.io/
  • Key excerpt:
    • Calls SideSwap the “Settlement infrastructure of the Liquid Network.”
    • Says trading is non-custodial, registration free, and peer-to-peer.
    • Highlights AMP security-token management, Liquid privacy via confidential transfers, and the ability to hold, send, receive, and swap assets in one wallet.
    • The homepage FAQ says SideSwap is “laser focused on building the base infrastructure for a bitcoin based financial system.”

2) API documentation

  • URL: https://sideswap.io/docs/#sideswap-api-documentation
  • Key excerpt:
    • Documents a JSON-RPC v2.0 API over WebSocket at wss://api.sideswap.io/json-rpc-ws with a separate testnet endpoint.
    • Covers peg-in / peg-out order creation and status monitoring, plus value subscriptions for server-side operational parameters.
    • Notes that production uses Liquid network addresses and asset IDs, making the docs clearly operational rather than merely illustrative.

3) sideswapclient README

  • URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sideswap-io/sideswapclient/master/README.md
  • Key excerpt:
    • Describes the official application as a cross-platform, non-custodial wallet and atomic-swap marketplace for Liquid.
    • Says the client is written in Flutter with a Rust core and uses Blockstream GDK for wallet primitives.
    • Highlights atomic swaps, AMP-asset management, confidential non-custodial operation, built-in market data, and pluggable dealer bots with HTTP and WebSocket APIs.
    • Provides release-verification guidance via PGP signatures and reinforces that the app is fully open source under GPL-3.0.

4) sideswap_rust README

  • URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sideswap-io/sideswap_rust/master/README.md
  • Key excerpt:
    • Describes a Rust toolkit for interacting with SideSwap on Liquid.
    • Lists self-hosted dealer programs, SideSwap Manager for managing Liquid bitcoin assets, a swap-protocol doc, and the official API reference as core components.
    • Shows that SideSwap has explicit operator and integrator surfaces beyond the consumer client.

Working conclusion

SideSwap is best cataloged as Liquid-network settlement and asset-control infrastructure. The homepage, API docs, and repos jointly show a system spanning end-user walleting, peer-to-peer swaps, peg operations, AMP/security-token handling, and self-hostable market-making or management tooling. That combination makes it broader than a wallet brand and more accurate to treat as a Liquid-focused settlement control plane.

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