Sparkswap

Our team works on two week cycles. Every two weeks we create a high level goal that we are trying to achieve (e.g. functioning atomic swaps on SimNet) and build a sprint based on achieving that goal.

Our entire team is involved in creation of those goals and building a sprint that supports the goal.

We are small team and work very collaboratively on creating the architecture for the solution as well as specific execution.

We use GitHub pull requests to review new code, and have automated processes for running our entire suite of tests against any changes.

We're building the first exchange powered by Lightning Network Atomic Swaps. That means we are some of the first people to write code that supports trustless atomic swaps over the Lightning Network. We created a novel architecture to support atomic swaps between Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies using payment channel networks.

We're building a distributed system with every user running software on their own machine, all working in concert together and with our central software. That's required us to create some pretty interesting consensus and data integrity mechanisms to trade off speed and accuracy of data at every node in the network.

We are a small team that works collaboratively on what we think are hard, important problems.

We believe in:

• caring deeply, about our work, our mission, and each other

• doing less, being resourceful about how we spend our money and our time towards the highest leverage tasks. We value being a small team making an outsized impact.

• constantly improving, as individuals, as a team, and as a company. None of us are finished products, but we can accomplish more than we realize if we focus on small, daily improvement.

• being different in who we are, how we operate, and what we work on. We won't build the future of the financial system by copying what's out there, but by understanding it deeply and being different where it counts.