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@ -17,6 +17,16 @@ Haveno is a fork of Bisq and share some of its strengths, like:
But Haveno brings several improvements over Bisq:
### Haveno is privacy-focused
- Because of Bitcoin's lack of [fungibility](https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/fungibility.html) and privacy proprieties, every transaction and address on the BTC blockchain are easily traceable. Anybody can check who a BTC user transacted to and the amount of the transaction. This design flaw has allowed and empowered blockchain surveillance companies, which make Bitcoin's blockchain a surveillance paradise and a privacy nightmare.
- It's trivial to identify on the Bitcoin blockchain which transactions come from a Bisq exchange. This compromises the privacy of Bisq's traders.
- The BSQ token is a huge privacy concern, when used to pay transaction fees on Bisq, it makes possible to link a transaction with a specific Bisq user.
- A [recent paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.07048.pdf) demonstrated that it's possible to track Bisq contributors participating to the DAO and deanonymize them.
- Bisq's [trade history is public](https://bisq.network/markets/) and it's posted along details like dates and traded amounts.
Haveno has no token and it's based on Monero, thus taking advantage of its privacy-preserving technologies, resolving the problems mentioned above simply by design or by choice. We think the privacy of our users is the priority.
### Haveno is simpler
Bisq has a very complex and clunky interface, which limits its ability to reach non technical users. As a result, Bisq is mostly used by power users.
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Haveno is based on Monero, which beside having much lower transaction fees (as we mentioned in the previous chapter) it has a dynamic block-size, which makes it more scalable and flexible than Bitcoin.
### Haveno is privacy-focused
- Because of Bitcoin's lack of [fungibility](https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/fungibility.html) and privacy proprieties, every transaction and address on the BTC blockchain are easily traceable. Anybody can check who a BTC user transacted to and the amount of the transaction. This design flaw has allowed and empowered blockchain surveillance companies, which make Bitcoin's blockchain a surveillance paradise and a privacy nightmare.
- It's trivial to identify on the Bitcoin blockchain which transactions come from a Bisq exchange. This compromises the privacy of Bisq's traders.
- The BSQ token is a huge privacy concern, when used to pay transaction fees on Bisq, it makes possible to link a transaction with a specific Bisq user.
- A [recent paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.07048.pdf) demonstrated that it's possible to track Bisq contributors participating to the DAO and deanonymize them.
Haveno has no token and it's based on Monero, thus taking advantage of its privacy-preserving technologies, resolving the problems mentioned above simply by design.
## What are the differences in the trade protocol
A draft of the lates trade protocol candidate for Haveno is in [docs/trade-protocol.md](https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/blob/master/docs/trade-protocol.md)