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# 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.