2. Design Goals and Non‑Goals

2.1 Goals

• Reachability: enable swaps across disconnected liquidity islands (isolated DEX tokens → native L1 assets).

• Deterministic lifecycle: stable exchange states and structured progress metadata for partner UX and support.

• Operational resilience: durable queues, retries, rate limiting, and graceful degradation under upstream failures.

• Minimal integration surface: partners call the same quote/create/status methods across flows.

• Privacy‑forward: no mandatory KYC/account flow; private mode provides a relay that breaks direct on‑chain linkage.

2.2 Non‑Goals

• Trustless atomic cross‑chain swaps (e.g., HTLC-based) are not assumed.

• Cryptographic proof of best execution is not assumed.

• Censorship resistance guarantees are not assumed.

• Base-layer privacy is not implied unless explicitly using private relay modes.