Manta is being created to fulfill an un-solved need within the Crypto community, a combination of speed, privacy, and fee-less transactions. Its design utilizes DAG and will be a heavily modified fork of RaiBlocks which will allow for ~1750 tx/s allowing for transactions in a scaled environment to remain under 15 seconds.
>>Why only 1750tx/s? Is this the max it can achieve? Is the limitation caused by the atmic swap of the untraceable coin?
The speed of ~1750tx/s is because of usage of the atomic swaps, which is still quite fast since it's untraceable and only has a ~10 second transaction time.
What's the difference between your coin and Raiblocks?
Our coin aims to provide fast transactions of around ~10 seconds to the end user while adding privacy in transactions which RaiBlocks does not have. Think of it as a cross between RaiBlocks and Zcash.
I think that is good combo, feeless + privacy. And ANN says 75% distribution via faucet. Do you mean airdrop?
Thanks for the kind words. We are currently deciding between airdrop and faucet, though we're leaning more towards faucet.