The alpha is very much ready and will be release soon,as investors are really interested on what is happening with our money and we trust the Matchpool team to deliver.

Guys, the roadmap says QGUP distribution is on the 15th so I’ve been refreshing since 00:00 UTC and nothing!

They have generated QGuppy tokens but distribution didn't take place yet. This is what I found there https://explorer.qtum.org/token/QN19F5HKvhiaRvZH28Vr4Da5tJQwqtRxtE/transfers we can see tokens existence but none is holding yet. This means distribution will start very soon stay tuned.

Definitely. Have you seen the news? Bigger corporations and banks are already planning an ICO for themselves. More people buying crypto currencies compared to the first part of 2017. This market correction is badly needed to temper the fomo nature people. It will expose the real trend.

I'm thinking this downtrend will be around for a while considering the bull run has been on for months. A lot of these projects were built with hype and fomo. At such, A lot of them don't live up to exchanges. So yeah, The correction is much needed. If Matchpool was a recent ico, It would've gotten the attention it deserves.

Matchpool Adds Atomic Swap to its Arsenal

What exactly is an atomic swap?

Atomic swaps, or atomic cross-chain trading, is the exchange of one cryptocurrency for another cryptocurrency, without the need to trust a third-party.

A relatively new technology, atomic cross-chain trading aims to revolutionize the way in which users transact with each other. For example, let’s say Alice owns 1 Qtum but would like 1 Guppy instead. She’ll have to make an exchange, right? Well, with atomic swap, if Bob owned 1 Guppy but wanted 1 Qtum instead, he and Alice would be able to simply make a trade!

And in order to create trust and prevent all sorts of problems like one-way trades (Alice accepting Bob’s 1 Guppy but then failing to send over her 1 Qtum), atomic swap utilizes what is known as hash time-locked contracts (HTLCs) — genius really.

What’s this useful for?
Over the last few years we’ve seen a large number of decentralized exchanges (DEX). The main purpose of these exchanges was to exclude the third party from the trading (p2p trading without a broker), a purpose that wasn’t really achieved mainly because of the inability to quickly execute trades outside of the blockchain it was built upon.

The recent blockchain hype has led to a surge in currency prices. The overall market for cryptographic currencies this week surpassed $700 billion. Such an increase in market cap is always accompanied by the high volatility of the currencies, and such volatility requires traders to be able to execute cross-chain transactions immediately, which is not fully possible on DEX today.Those limitations have resulted in very poor adoption and limited trading volume on DEX platforms.

Atomic swaps are the future P2P exchanges field
The main advantage of the atomic swap in the P2P exchanges field is that from now on, traders in DEX can trade coins from other chains and actually “lock” the price of a currency traded on another network immediately, thereby being less exposed to the risk of coin volatility, making them a real P2P exchange. By providing P2P exchanges to users and traders, liquidity is guaranteed and never relies upon a central exchange . We remove the middleman and begin exchanging P2P, decentralized, just as it should be with cryptocurrencies.

The last few months have been very exciting for atomic swap and its impact on the blockchain community. Companies like Komodo, Litecoin, Vertcoin and Decred have all successfully implemented atomic swaps, and many of us can say that Charlie Lee’s announcement of the Litecoin/Bitcoin atomic swap is one of the most important developments in the cryptocurrency world.

Matchpool has developed the implementation of GenericSwap, which will be the first contract to offer an exchange of Qtum, Ethereum and ERC20-based tokens across Ethereum and Qtum chains. This is a a groundbreaking step on the way to P2P exchange and this step may lead to another huge win if we can influence other companies to make an effort and develop open source solutions for the community.

Now for some Technicalities.
Atomic swaps involve each party paying into a contract transaction, one contract for each blockchain. The contracts contain an output that is spendable by either party, but the rules required for redemption are different for each party involved.

Hash time-locked contracts (HTLC)
Hash time-locked contracts (HTLC) ensure that the atomic swap process is completely trustworthy by ensuring both parties fulfill the requirements of the trade.

HTLCs require the recipient to acknowledge receiving the payment ahead of a predefined deadline by generating cryptographic proof of payment. By failing to do so, the recipient risks losing the right to claim the payment and the sender is entitled to receive back the funds.

To implement a HTLC on a transaction to occur between two different blockchains, it is necessary for both blockchains to share the same cryptographic hash function, such as SHA-256.

Now, let’s go back to Alice and Bob
Alice owns 1 Qtum and she just heard about Matchpool and Guppy so she wants to sell her 1 Qtum in exchange for 1 Guppy. We also have Bob who owns 1 Guppy and wants 1 Qtum instead.

https://blog.matchpool.com/matchpool-adds-atomic-swap-to-its-arsenal-6b5e06128b2c

News are continue to coming and price start to rise again. But we need 10k as a dip. Qtum holders might dump their coins. which will start decrease again

10k  should be a good buy but now we are around 6k so i cant recommend something like buy from 10. Which is early december was 2k.
But as i try to say it should be at least 10

I am not worried about price because everywhere is same situation until these market totally come out of this uncertainty it will continue. Tokens usage on mainnet is started since last month that is other thing timing wasn't favorable for such development. Keep holding and waiting for god times in future.

if the developers will please us with news and work on the platform, I think that the upward movement is provided to us. I also think that this token is highly underestimated.