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East Williamsburg crypto exchange raises $20 million in pre-sale of tokens

Inside Consensys's East Williamsburg HQ. (Photo by Tyler Woods)

AirSwap is trying to put the buying and selling of crypto tokens on the blockchain. That has garnered a lot of interest.

An irony of the crypto world is that the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies is still done through “centralized” private companies, such as CoinDesk, rather than being themselves distributed, decentralized contracts.

But a new company coming out of the ConsenSys family of East Williamsburg blockchain startups is looking to change that, and has raised quite a bit of money to that end. Startup AirSwap intends to build a decentralized crypto exchange that’s entirely peer-to-peer and doesn’t take commissions on trades.

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