Particl's choice of
Bitcoin as the backbone for its smart contracts is also a reflection of the team's
efforts to build a completely
private platform on top of the
Bitcoin codebase, arguably the most secure, battle tested and contributed to protocol on the market.
As the implementation assumes privacy, it also hints that the Lightning Network could succeed in keeping payments
private, despite the fact that it effectively adds multiple new parties to
bitcoin transactions in an
effort to keep them off - chain.