# Atomic settlement across crypto exchanges

Alex Gordon-Brander

> By using our balance sheet to intermediate between members and the marketplace, we will enable trustless atomic swaps

Keegan and Gordon-Brander describe a proposal to aggregate liquidity from separate exchanges and settle trades through atomic swaps.

Co-authored essay published 26 October 2017 in ConsenSys Media, opening paragraph

[Omega One: A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity by Alan Keegan and Alex Gordon-Brander](https://medium.com/consensys-media/omega-one-a-balance-sheet-solution-for-crypto-liquidity-647a47ff1347)

[The 2017 Omega One design paper](https://agbrander.com/work/omega-paper/)

[All passages](https://agbrander.com/words.md)

[Web page](https://agbrander.com/words/#omega-one-atomic-settlement)