We propose the Universal Token Swapper (UTS), a smart contract acting as a payment processor between buyers and merchants in a multi-token environment for EVM compatible blockchains. UTS gives merchants the ability to accept any token by performing instant conversions. This way, the buyer does not have to convert the tokens before a payment and the merchant is not subject to financial ruins if he does not want bear the risk on speculation on the value of the token received. In addition, UTS can be implemented to follow any regulation by linking the contract to on-chain oracles, bringing regulatory compliance to DeFi and helping merchants take advantage of the new possibilities.

UTS: The Universal Token Swapper

Fadi Barbàra
Co-first
;
Alessandro Sanino
Co-first
;
Claudio Schifanella
Co-first
2023-01-01

Abstract

We propose the Universal Token Swapper (UTS), a smart contract acting as a payment processor between buyers and merchants in a multi-token environment for EVM compatible blockchains. UTS gives merchants the ability to accept any token by performing instant conversions. This way, the buyer does not have to convert the tokens before a payment and the merchant is not subject to financial ruins if he does not want bear the risk on speculation on the value of the token received. In addition, UTS can be implemented to follow any regulation by linking the contract to on-chain oracles, bringing regulatory compliance to DeFi and helping merchants take advantage of the new possibilities.
2023
7th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (WTSC22)
Grenada
6 maggio 2022
Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2022 International Workshops: CoDecFin, DeFi, Voting, WTSC, Grenada, May 6, 2022, Revised Selected Papers
Shinichiro Matsuo, Lewis Gudgeon, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Daniel Perez Hernandez, Sam Werner, Thomas Haines, Aleksander Essex, Andrea Bracciali, Massimiliano Sala
679
687
978-3-031-32414-7
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1007/978-3-031-32415-4_39
defi, blockchain, ethereum, EVM, smart contract
Fadi Barbàra, Alessandro Sanino, Claudio Schifanella
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