I think this would be a cool feature for Bitshares, and it would tie in nicely with the Bitshares DEX and Bitshares' overall "business plan" of offering financial services.  I don't think that it would be something that would be too hard to implement too:

Create a new smartcoin asset class called "prisms" and allow them to be created much cheaper than normal smartcoins/UIAs.

Since the price feeds already exist, it would be easy to get the value of each prism without having to publish a price feed for each and every random prism that was created. For instance, the price feed for Bitcoin, Gold, and USD could be used as-is in an infinite amount of prisms as long as the prism's contents were published on the blockchain like:

Prism1 has 90% bitcoin, 5% gold, and 5% USD
Prism2 has 10% Bitcoin, 80% gold, and 10% USD
... etc.

The same price feeds that already exist can be used to calculate each prism's value autonomously because the values and proportions of each asset in the Prisms are known to all nodes.

Then, separate Prisms from the rest of the Smartcoins/UIAs on the DEX under their own tab or page and allow Bitshares shareholders to be the counterparty of any Prism they want. Just like with Shapeshift's prisms, people can go short or long on any Prism that someone has created, thus people can "copy" the portfolio of seasoned investors or popular well performing portfolios or bet that Bitshares will outperform the Prism.

This would be much more decentralized than the way Shapeshift is doing it, as they are the one and only counterparty to all Prisms that are created. The smart contracts they run their Prisms through are a smoke screen so they can label a centralized service as being decentralized. Furthermore, since everything is done autonomously, I think that Bitshares could kill Prism on the fee aspect of things.

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Quote from: DMo09 on October 18, 2015, 09:27:14 pm

Has any one heard of Sovereign Man?  They have 100,000 subscribers...

Perhaps a qualified person from this community can reach out to this group? 

http://www.sovereignman.com/
admin@sovereignman.com

I am one of those subscribers. 

They specialize in techniques and tools for internationalizing your life.  BitShares would be an excellent tool in their locker, although it might take some cold-call skills that exceed my own abilities to make it happen.  I'll forward this to four guys you know who have such skills and see which one lands the 100,000 members referral fee first. 

Feel free to engage if you have special connections with Doug Casey's organization.

If we could make it really easy for him to do so...i think i could get jim willie to accept our crypto to subscribe to his newsletter.  If we get that done...it wont be nearly as difficult to get others in that demographic to join up.

Wouldn't it be in his self interest to get the referral credit, at least in theory?

Nope... because if i get them onboard, all they are going to do is buy the premium membership and id gain 80 dollars.

Then you're not selling them the right deal!  Don't teach them how to refer their customers, teach them how to host a Cryptonomex product like Exchange-in-a-Box and get a percentage of our deal.

You need to think bigger, Pinky! 

Quote from: DMo09 on October 18, 2015, 09:27:14 pm

Has any one heard of Sovereign Man?  They have 100,000 subscribers...

I'll forward this to four guys you know who have such skills and see which one lands the 100,000 members referral fee first.