Thank you. Very fair question — and honestly, after everything that has happened in ICP DeFi recently, people should ask it. We also wanna take the chance to express our points.
A few direct points from our side.
First, these are not “test URLs.” This is a public beta, live on ICP, and people can verify that by using the product itself.
Second, on the “who are you / no team info” part: I understand the concern, but I also want to be very direct about our view.
In crypto, public team identity can help, but it is not the essence of trust. Satoshi did not start Bitcoin by putting up a team page either. What ultimately matters is not how many faces are shown, but whether the product has real value, whether the system design makes sense, whether the records are clear, and whether users can verify outcomes for themselves.
That is exactly how we think about SSS.
Recent events around KongSwap were a major blow to ICP DeFi, and also a reminder that team disclosure alone does not solve the core problem. We do not say this as criticism. In fact, KongSwap also proved that ICP users do want DeFi with richer features and stronger user experience.
Our difference is that SSS was never designed as “just another DEX.”
From day one, our ambition has been to build a trading system.
If we look at the past 17 years of crypto, the biggest winners from a wealth and usage perspective were not blockchains themselves, but centralized exchanges — especially Binance. That sounds ironic for an industry built on decentralization, but it is the truth. And if we want DeFi to truly return to its original promise, then we have to face that truth.
That is the origin of SSS:
to build, on a decentralized public chain, a trading experience that can approach the usability and efficiency of a CEX, while keeping the transparency, auditability, and on-chain verifiability that centralized exchanges cannot give users.
We are also very clear-eyed about where we are today.
SSS is not in its final decentralized form yet. At the current stage, the most important thing for us is to carefully balance decentralized security and centralized efficiency, and to earn trust not by over-promising, but by real product design:
clear on-chain records, clear receipts, clear boundaries, verifiable outcomes, controllable risk when problems happen, and a system that is designed around users rather than slogans.
So no, SSS is not a KongSwap remake.
And no, we do not believe people should trust us just because we publish team bios.
We believe trust should come from value, product quality, design philosophy, transparency, and what users can verify with their own eyes.
SSS Current Trust Boundary
That is also why we did not rush this out as a concept. We spent more than a year building before opening public beta, and only did so after we believed the product was complete enough and the risks were within a controllable range.
So my honest suggestion is simple:
don’t decide based only on analogies, labels, or fear from another project’s outcome.
Spend 3 minutes, try SSS with a very small amount, and judge the product directly.
If after that you still think it is “just another DEX,” that is completely fair.
But I think once you actually use it, you will understand why we believe SSS is trying to solve a different problem.