Hi everyone,
We are shutting down the BlockTrades gateway (not our bridge, just our gateway). We created it originally mainly as a prototype for the technology used by OpenLedger, and we think the OPEN assets adequately serve the community. I've left the TRADE assets operational just so there was a backup gateway, but it's really hardly ever used, so it requires us to maintain an entire gateway for little purpose.
Note that we will be continuing the operation of our bridge, which is actively used by the Bitshares community.
We'll be shutting down the gateway in stages. In the first stage, which has just begun, we've disabled deposits to the gateway. Inevitably, someone may still use one of their old deposit addresses, in which case we'll manually refund them. We also request in this stage that anyone who holds TRADE assets to perform a withdrawal on those assets.
Eventually, we will also disable withdrawals as well, but I will leave in place a 1-1 market order on
https://bitshares.openledger.info/market/OPEN.BTC_TRADE.BTC for a while after that to allow users to exchange any remaining TRADE.BTC for OPEN.BTC. I'll place similar orders for any other TRADE assets that remain outstanding after withdrawals are disabled.
best regards,
Dan Notestein