Swingby (SWINGBY) Picolo Research
Swingby (SWINGBY) Picolo Research
Swingby (SWINGBY) Picolo Research
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SWINGBY (SWINGBY) Buy
A Premier Fully-Decentralized Token Swap
Platform Integrated with a Private Trusted Cloud
Ecosystem
Summary
General
Sale info
Concept MVP Established
Pricing: $0.025
Accepted: USDT
Cap: $0.2m
Incorporated in Singapore, Swingby seeks to bridge two separate blockchains
Market Cap: $25m (diluted basis)
through swaps to enhance liquidity and accelerate the potential adoption of
Token Sale %: 0.8%
these networks. The project is creating a decentralized cross-chain protocol
Initial Circulating
which soft pegs BTC, ETH, BNB or any other native tokens across chains 3%
Supply:
through decentralised custody.
Checklist
Product:
*Updates are included in the report, with prominent details highlighted in bold
Birds-Eye View
100%
75%
Rating
50%
25%
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Viability Product Management Deal Structure Community
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Product & Strategy
Swingby Skybridge
Skybridge will be the first implementation of the Swingby platform, which allows
the swapping of tokens effortlessly from one blockchain to another. Initial
phases will begin with Bitcoin, where users can create a BTC stablecoin to be
used on Binance chain, ultimately taking advantage of faster settlement times,
lower fees, improving liquidity for trading on DEXes, and leverage on other
features that a native chain does not offer.
• No central custodian
• Dynamic re-grouping
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TSS Updates
The team is further upgrading the protocol, with an aim to enhance the stability
of the network. One such upgrade was the new implementation to the TSS
feature, based on recent research from the GG20 paper. This will greatly
enhance the speed of cross-chain swaps, that is not seen in other decentralised
protocol. Several highlights include:
• Identifiable aborts
• One-round signing
• Benchmarking tool
The team has constantly improve the architecture for Swingby nodes by
modularization of each blockchain request processor. These are done to mainly
split and store BTC transactions into multiple UTXOs, which will be combined
into a unique ID that consolidates output index rather than transaction hash.
This unified format has been created by the team, coined as the ‘tx-indexer’ and
currently being tested. The latest indexer will support APIs for sending and
receiving BTC / BEP-2 transactions, with ERC20 support in the near future.
Documentation for ‘tx-indexer’ API can be found here, and github repository
here.
Overall, this architecture will define a new universal transaction format for BTC,
BNB and other chains.
Swingby Sky Pool is a liquidity aggregator that allows any token-to-token swap
that corresponds with Binance DEX. The team plans to release the whitepaper
2H 2020, with an aim to start building this infrastructure in 2021. Eventually, this
platform will be able to support over 35 chains that utilize the ECDSA algorithm.
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Roadmap (Updated)
Swingby has an adequate roadmap with most being technical objectives across
2020. Business and community development efforts have also been included in
the timeline to showcase their go-to-market strategy for adoption.
The testnet in January was a huge success as the platform saw a volume
of 1,300,000 BTC transacted over the network.
Public Sale
Pre-Staking Competition - BNB In Progress
Marketing & Community efforts 2nd Phase (more news In Progress
and media coverage, community airdrops, AMAs)
Market buyback of SWINGBY from fees begin
Yusaku Senga (CEO & Technology Architect) - Yusaku has been active in the
blockchain industry for over 8 years. Prior to founding Swingby, he initiated the
Decentralizedtech Research Institute (DRI), a community that actively
researches and develops decentralized technologies. He has experience in
creating proof of concepts for financial institutions and blockchain projects.
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Shoe Kure (Software Developer) – With 5+ years of experience, Shoe has been
managing and planning projects for SiiX corporation. Being well-versed in
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Golang, Solidity, React and Firebase, he has a
great interest in web and blockchain development with 1300+ contributions on
his Github over the past year. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Management
from Sun Yat-Sen University.
Sagwan Kim (Designer) – Kim has 8+ years of experience under his belt as a
designer with a vast spectrum that includes product UI/UX design, BI/CI, growth
model design. Prior to swingby, he was a chief design officer and head designer
for Another Works Inc. and Able Computer Inc respectively. He holds a bachelor
degree in Architecture from Tokyo University of Science.
Investors (Updated)
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Community Engagement / Social Media (Updated)
Swingby has leveraged several social media platforms, mainly Telegram and
Twitter, Wechat for community engagement. A Swingby blog on Medium was
also incorporated to provide updates on the project’s developments in both
English and Chinese.
As the project just recently got onto the radar, the project is relatively new in
public eyes, and the priority is to generate organic growth of followers and
awareness of their platform. A Swingby contest and Pre-staking BNB campaign
was put in place to kickstart adoption, with several marketing plans in the
pipeline. Here are the project social media statistics as per the report date:
SwingBy raised a total of ~$1.6m in seed and in a private round. Total token
supply is fixed at 1b SWINGBY with 10.9% allocated to all funding rounds.
1%
Token Sale Split 6% 4%
30%
17%
Public Sale Private Sale Seed
Team Foundation Advisors
Staking Treasury 8%
34%
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Staking Structure
From Picolo’s research findings, one of the major thematic outlooks for 2020 is
the rise of key projects having well-structured staking rewards to drive adoption
and growth of a platform. The reason being investors who are starved for yields
have been looking for alternatives on the back of a sluggish alt-coin season in
2019 to grow their existing portfolios. This results in investors turning their sights
to tokens with strong staking incentives to enhance their yields.
Putting this into context with historical data, our analysts observed that the
market reacted positively after recent projects released their staking
announcements, displaying returns of 20% - 60%.
The team will officially provide further information on the staking specifics in due
course.
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Non-Plagiarism Audit Report
During Picolo’s assessment of Swingby, our analysts noted that there were
several disreputive tweets with regards to the project copying Thorchain’s
graphics and codes.
However, the team responded swiftly through a Medium blog post, stating that
Swingby is a unique protocol customised by their developers from scratch, and
has not been copied. They also mentioned that it was an unfortunate event with
regards to the graphics, as it was an act of the external contractor that resulted
in similar graphics used on their website and that the team has highly regretted
it.
3. Source code analysis – During the code audit, a third project (BTCD, a
bitcoin node), was added as a control group. It was observed that there were
no material similarities between the codes that could allude to plagiarism. In
some instances, several segments such as the syntax tree search of
numerical values have produced a higher similarity percentage (%) between
‘Thorchain and BTCD’ as opposed to ‘Swingby and Thorchain’.
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Competitor Analysis (Updated)
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Strengths
• Swingby is not just a swapping platform but encompasses an ecosystem with 500%
Daily Cumulative Returns (%)
• Swapping Platform with no central point of weakness – no need for trusted 300%
100%
• Testnet was successful (with over 1,300,000 BTC volume) with Mainnet 0%
• Strong deal structure with low hardcap ($0.2m), and low initial market
cap ($0.75m).
• The non-plagiarism audit indicates no distinct similarities with analogous Source: Defi Pulse
Weaknesses
• Roadmap could have more businesses & marketing plans, which might cause
concern for garnering adoption
• The project currently has a limited number of partnerships relative to its peers
Our analysts are optimistic that this trend will continue its upward trajectory on
Source: Defi Pulse
the back of a bullish macro outlook on bitcoin in 2020. Furthermore, there is a
notable mismatch between DEXes/swapping platforms and other segments in
Defi, such as Lending and Payments, where DEXes represents only 6.5% of the
entire Defi space versus 79% for lending. Therefore, given the synchronous
growth effects, we believe the gap between both sectors will close over time,
presenting a potential opportunity for DEXes/Swapping platforms to capture
market share in this space.
Threats
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Conclusion
Overall, for the reasons listed, Picolo highlights several reasons that affirm our
rating:
• A simple yet novel platform that solves an immediate need for cross-chain
operability and leveraging on features that the native chain does not offer,
especially for the Bitcoin network
• Great deal structure with low hardcap for public sale ($0.2m), and low market
cap ($0.75m) based on an initial circulating supply could lead to a favourable
upside potential
Not withstanding the above, Picolo acknowledges the uncertainty that was
circulating with regards to the reprinting of graphics and code. However, the
Swingby team has come out to rectify their mistake through a blog post and also
conducted a non-plagiarism audit report, making it clear that their source codes
and whitepaper documentation have not been copied. This provided our
analysts with added confidence that Swingby has a unique solution in creating
an inter-blockchain swapping platform.
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Appendix
Transaction
Network Name Parent Coin Signing Algo Curve
Type
ARK Ark ARK ECDSA secp256k1
ATOM ATOM ATOM ECDSA secp256k1
BCHABC Bitcoin Cash ABC BTC UTXO ECDSA secp256k1
BCHSV Bitcoin Cash SV BTC UTXO ECDSA secp256k1
BNB BNB BNB account ECDSA secp256k1
BTC Bitcoin BTC UTXO ECDSA secp256k1
CMT CyberMiles ETH account ECDSA secp256k1
DASH Dash DASH UTXO ECDSA secp256k1
DCR Decred DCR EdDSA/ECDSA ed25519/secp256
k1
DOGE dogecoin DOGE ECDSA secp256k1
EOS EOS EOS account ECDSA secp256k1
ETC Ethereum Classic ETH account ECDSA secp256k1
ETH ETH ETH account ECDSA secp256k1
ETH_PARIT Ethereum ETH account secp256k1
Y
GO GoChain ETH account ECDSA secp256k1
GRS Groestlcoin GRS ECDSA secp256k1
ICX ICON ICX ECDSA secp256k1/secp2
56r1
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About the Analyst
Ratings Definition
Monitor – Continue observation until clarity of information is provided
Sell/ Avoid – Investment is associated with high risk of losing capital
Hold/ Neutral – To maintain current levels of position until the next updated
release
Spec Buy – A speculative opportunity for investors with higher risk tolerance
Buy – A high conviction buying opportunity
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