It’s not going to help with the swap because the swap requires native BTC to pay for transaction fees.
The OmniBOLT with HTLC seems to be a nice option. I think we will roll out this swap in stages and the awesome thing is that the smart contract for MAID (Maid erc20 - MAIDe) will be transferable to MaidSafe if they wish to manage it in the future.
The ERC20 smart contract will use the Gas Station Network (GSN) to make it very user-friendly as they are not required to own any ETH to pay for fees. The relayers who pay for the transactions will receive a % of MAID as commission when users swap from Maid Omni to Maid erc20.
I’m still looking into the BTC ‘relayers’ who will also help with paying for swapping from Erc20 to Omni as people withdraw the locked tokens out of the swap to their personal wallet address.
One way could be using the OmniBOLT and keep track of the channel funders. The token smart contract will be out soon as I’m working to round off that logic and do testing.