# Atomic Swaps

In order to do an atomic swap with someone, you will first have to come
to a consensus on what tokens you wish to swap. For example purposes,
let's say you want to swap `40` `WCKD` (which is the balance you
should have left over after doing the payment from the previous page)
for your counterparty's `20` `MLDY`. For this tutorial the counterparty
is yourself.

To protect your anonymity from the counterparty, the swap can only send
entire coins. To create a smaller coin denomination, send yourself
the amount you want to swap. Then check you have a spendable coin to
swap with:

```
$ ./drk wallet --coins
```

You'll have to initiate the swap and build your half of the swap tx:

```
$ ./drk otc init -v 40.0:20.0 -t WCKD:MLDY > half_swap
```

Then you can send this `half_swap` file to your counterparty and they
can create the other half by running:

```
$ ./drk otc join < half_swap > full_swap
```

They will sign the full_swap file and send it back to you. Finally,
to make the swap transaction valid, you need to sign it as well

```
$ ./drk otc sign < full_swap > signed_swap
```

Now that the swap is signed, one of the parties (or a third one)
must attach the corresponding fee:

```
$ ./drk attach-fee < signed_swap > full_swap_with_fee
```

Since a new call has been added to the transaction, both parties
must re-sign the full_swap_with_fee file, one by one.

Party A:

```
$ ./drk otc sign < full_swap_with_fee > signed_full_swap_with_fee
```

Party B:

```
$ ./drk otc sign < signed_full_swap_with_fee > swap_tx
```

Now the complete swap transaction can be broadcasted:

```
$ ./drk broadcast < swap_tx
```

On success, you should see a transaction ID. This transaction will now
also be in the mempool, so you should wait again until it's finalized.

![pablo-waiting2](pablo2.jpg)

After a while you should see the change in balances in your wallet:

```
$ ./drk wallet --balance
```

If you see your counterparty's tokens, that means the swap was
successful.  In case you still see your old tokens, that could mean
that the swap transaction has not yet been finalized.