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Swarm Markets

Swarm Markets Technical Briefing

Supported by IowaEDA , Brale and This Week in FinTech

Overview

Swarm Markets presents their BaFin-licensed DeFi exchange at V-Sum Twelve. Presented by Philip Pieper, covering regulated token swaps, the dOTC peer-to-peer trading service, SX1411 token standard, and their Passport compliance system.

0:00 Introduction to Swarm Markets

Philip Pieper introduces Swarm Markets — the first BaFin-licensed DeFi platform, bringing regulated decentralized trading to tokenized real-world and digital assets on Ethereum and Polygon.

0:43 From tokenization to regulated DeFi

Swarm's journey from building tokenization technology to leveraging the 2020 amendment of the German banking act to build a regulated DeFi trading platform.

4:22 Swarm trading interface and swaps

Live demo of Swarm's DEX built on a Balancer-like architecture. Token swaps, pool scenarios, and the trading experience across SMT, DAI, and multiple asset pairs.

4:58 Passport: compliant on-chain identity

Swarm's Passport system — a centralized onboarding service that writes a non-transferable NFT to users' wallets, enabling compliant interaction with regulated smart contracts.

6:52 dOTC trading and new features

Demo of Swarm's dOTC (decentralized over-the-counter) trading service — peer-to-peer offers with partial fills, private offers, and expiration dates. Plus the SX1411 token standard.

10:52 NFTs as off-chain asset representations

How Swarm uses NFTs to represent off-chain assets on-chain — bridging traditional finance assets into the DeFi ecosystem under regulatory compliance.

Presented by Philip Pieper & Sam Stone Swarm Markets

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