Atomic swaps are a solution that enables the exchange of one cryptocurrency for another without the need for a trusted third party or centralized exchange infrastructure and I have no doubt this will be considered normal within not too long from now.
Stakenet have already advanced over Atomic Swaps with Lightning Swaps (Atomic Swaps over LN). They are using the tech as the foundation for their DEX which will allow instant P2P trades directly from their non-custodial multicurrency wallet.
There entire project is about building a cross-chain economy so you can access everything from 1 place. With their tech any asset they support in their wallet you will be able to use as payment anywhere BTC is accepted. So if you go into a shop that accepts BTC you can pay with LTC or any other asset and a Lightning Swap will convert the asset during payment and turn it into BTC for the retailer. Stakenet are using their Masternode network to hold all of the various blockchains and then using LN to instantly move between them. They have already laid out plans to integrate the entirety of the Ethereum and EOS networks into their ecosystem.
Their wallet is currently in public testing for the lightning swap tech so if you are familiar with Linux go download it and take part in the bug bounty. Mobile wallet is coming too for Android and iOS.
Good interview here from the other day which goes into detail about the overall vision for what they are doing:
https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/crypto-news/spotlight/interview-with-stakenets-platform-manager-shahab-behzadi/Also they just put out their Light Paper which is an easier to read non-technical version of their White Paper which is worth a read:
https://medium.com/stakenet/stakenet-light-paper-56552f8c07a2The dev team is already well accomplished, they invented arguably the best Cold Staking tech on the market with TPoS and also have multiple world first achievements including being the first PoS/MN project to have active Segwit, Atomic Swaps and Lightning Network. They were the first to perform Lightning Swaps on mainnet and provide a public guide so anyone could try. They are 1 of 25 projects supported by ALL Ledger devices and also Trezor too. Their expertise on Lightning Network is so well regarded that Litecoin got them to update LTC's core code to bring them up to speed on LN:
https://litecoin-foundation.org/lightning-network-collaboration-with-x-9-developers/