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  By eliminating the middle man, Hestiaexchange.com enables people to get the
  best exchange rate, in a simple way.
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# MY FIRST TRADE (P2P)

[**HestiaExchange.com** ](https://hestiaexchange.com/)**is already a trusted provider of a peer-to-peer (P2P) digital asset marketplace without intermediaries; It offers multiple forms of payment for the change, all in the currency that the buyer and the seller decide to use. Meanwhile, your digital assets will be protected in an escrow until the exchange is successful.**

**The experience of buying or selling on the** [**HestiaExchange.com**](https://hestiaexchange.com/) **platform is different from an ordinary exchange. In principle, the whole process is very intuitive and simple. There are two essential components to any transaction, the conversation between the users and the escrow. Although they are both linked to the same trade, the two are not cryptographically related. Each component is independent of the other.**

* **An end-to-end encrypted conversation between buyer and seller. Using this secure channel, the parties will negotiate the terms of the fiat currency transfer in confidence.**
* **A decentralized escrow through a Binance Smart Chain smart contract (explained later in the Blockchain layer). To use escrow, each party needs an address or a wallet.**

[**HestiaExchange.com**](https://hestiaexchange.com/) **makes this communication channel between the parties available to its users so that they can carry out the exchange satisfactorily and at the same time allows users to manage their funds independently without jeopardizing the integrity of the trade through smart contracts.**\
