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Multi-leg trade atomicity explained: HTLCs bind complex transactions

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This article explains the concept of multi-leg trade atomicity, which is crucial for complex transactions involving multiple assets or parties. Unlike simple payments with a single leg, trades require all legs to either complete successfully or fail entirely, with no intermediate states. The author argues that traditional escrow services merely relocate the risk rather than eliminating it. The proposed solution utilizes a Hashed Timelock Contract (HTLC) extended to bind all legs of a trade to a single secret, ensuring that either all legs settle or the entire trade unwinds without partial outcomes. AI

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Multi-leg trade atomicity explained: HTLCs bind complex transactions

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Baris Sozen ·

    One trade, many legs, zero gaps: how multi-leg atomicity actually works

    <p>Yesterday I wrote that rails are not settlement: a payment is one leg - agent pays a seller, one asset, one direction - and the agent-payment rails got very good at that very fast. This post is the other half of that argument. Because the moment your agent stops <em>paying</em…

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