What it does The automatic staking reward exchange mechanism is used to instantly exchange portions of staking rewards into other cryptocurrencies. It uses Shapeshift to make the exchange and provide liquidity.
Once a stake is awarded to a user, it is paid to an address which will automatically split it according to the user's parameters. Each portion of the stake is then sent to special PART addresses that attempt to execute a Shapeshift cryptocurrency transfer each time funds are deposited into them.
Each of these special addresses are "attached" to a different Shapeshift coin (LTC, ETH, DGD, ETC). Their purpose is very simple, every time they receive an incoming transaction, the Particl client then automatically attempts to create a Shapeshift exchange to the coin the address was "attached to".
For example, if PART address X is used for instant ETH exchange, then every single time it receives an incoming transaction, it would initiate a Shapeshift PAR