I think the bond market (i.e. margin trading) is important. But I agree with @Erlich Bachman, implementing sidechains is much more fundamental to our success i.e. more of a game-changer  If possible, I would also personally contribute to helping fund it ASAP.

I would also place a high level of priority on liquidity measures.  @abit is already working on a way to track market maker contribution to liquidity by market, which will help all assets including UIAs.  But I think BitAssets will need something more in addition.  I am very much in favor of @Empirical1.2's yield idea to achieve 3 things: 1) get people's funds onto the DEX and 2) immediately make us the world's pegged fiat leader, all by offering perhaps 1% yield for creating BitUSD, BitCNY and ButEUR and 3) incentivize participation in a liquidity pool for those same BitAssets by offering perhaps another 1% (plus market making profits) to be split among the participants of the pool.  I believe these measures will have a significant impact and will take FAR less development time than it will realistically take to complete a bond market.

why are sidechains so critical for our success?

how would the 1% (or whatever %) be paid to those who borrow smartcoins? taken from fees in each respective market? if so, i'd support something like that and go one step further and not place a specific % yield on any asset; i'd recommend setting a % split from fees collected in each respective market. that way we're really supporting liquidity by rewarding short sellers more as transaction frequency increases, and the payment stream is robust to changing market conditions ...if transactions fall, so do payouts without breaking any other funding source.

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Quote from: lil_jay890 on March 01, 2016, 04:40:26 pm

...this is depressing

naw, the more capital in cryptocurrencies, the better off we'll be in time.

Yhea .. moving stuff over to bts is quite simple and we only need to educate people and create some buzz ..

Also, with the rather thin markets .. only little volume is needed to boost the bts price big time ..

yup and i think only a matter of time. every successful crypto project, whether bitcoin, ethereum, or whatever, boosts our credibility by association. Ethereum is exploding on the smart contracts thing, but we also do it with our MPAs in a smaller, but still very clever way. there should definitely be spillover effects that benefit us.

It's not only about getting a pump like others. BitShares should be recognized as a big player in the industry. That would actually support it and get more people interested. It isn't, hence our current situation.

A simple pump and riding the wave means nothing for a solid future.

i agree and didn't mean to imply i'm excited about some future pump to our share price. i'm looking forward to the first few hedge funds, finance companies, and small businesses using our platform; in other words, it becoming big time

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Quote from: lil_jay890 on March 01, 2016, 04:40:26 pm

...this is depressing

naw, the more capital in cryptocurrencies, the better off we'll be in time.

Yhea .. moving stuff over to bts is quite simple and we only need to educate people and create some buzz ..

Also, with the rather thin markets .. only little volume is needed to boost the bts price big time ..

yup and i think only a matter of time. every successful crypto project, whether bitcoin, ethereum, or whatever, boosts our credibility by association. Ethereum is exploding on the smart contracts thing, but we also do it with our MPAs in a smaller, but still very clever way. there should definitely be spillover effects that benefit us.

and in the meantime...

blocktrades.us

Was great to see some new faces and to have some action on the dex. Looking forward to the next...

Thank you @JonnyBitcoin for organizing this event and thank you to everyone that showed up. This is truly an amazing platform we have here.

yes, we have an amazing platform. i'd like to add that a big way to support the platform is to use some of your excess BTS to borrow some of the key smartcoins into existence and put them up for sale on the DEX. any kind of trading is obviously good for the DEX, but the fundamental nature of our liquidity comes from first borrowing smartcoins into existence. our markets tend to have more buy side demand than sell side supply, so contributing to the supply would be most beneficial.

One reason i only recently started voting is bc i didn't really understand the different work proposals that were out there. Better descriptions, sort of advertisements from the workers, in the wallet voting section would be easier to follow, maybe get more people excited to vote. Proxies could be our version of politicians

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too bad that couldn't be maintained.

Why not? Actually I am going to keep most of my open orders

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I think today went well.

theres still lots of depth on usd:btc

Yeah... this could give us additional information, how long Liquidity Event Effect could last. We will see. Maybe, even longer than we expecting right now?

ah, i just meant the tight spread being maintained specifically this afternoon when it widened. for sure we can keep up the volume and continue converging the spread...that's definitely my intention every day