BITCOIN ATOM implements core fundamentals that Satoshi Nakamoto outlined in his whitepaper and his thinking, which is decentralization and removal of dependency on any one party or system. Back then the ecosystem was not as developed, with multiple cryptocurrencies as it is now.
While cryptocurrencies can be exchanged P2P and on exchanges, it is inefficient, costly, and subject to hacks, and credit risk -- in general anything which is centralized could be compromised, and should be avoided if possible.
We believe that with crypto becoming an asset class, Atomic Swaps are the future of trading and exchanging value. We feel that BITCOIN ATOM is the future of Bitcoin as it is the only implementation of atomic swaps embedded in Bitcoin.