Is anyone working on a Bitshares equivalent of localbitcoins.com? This would be really useful to get money into BTS directly, bypassing BTC.

I was thinking such a site could list the bid/asks for the shares itself which will go up and down depending on demand, as well as showing prices for BitUSD etc, which should remain fairly constant. This has the advantage over BTC in that you always know a fixed amount of fiat you need to get into BTS crypto.

I havent yet read a confirmed time line for when Invictus will release a separate chain for stocks. How soon after BTS X will this happen? If not then I might just attempt this myself - I think it would just be a case of forking the code and renaming the asset enums (and initializing the genesis block to AGS/PTS holders of course).

Also, are we certain that 16 different assets is the practical upper limit before overloading the blockchain, or is this another variable that will have to be experimented with? It would be great if you could fit the entire Nasdaq on one chain, and the NYSE on another.

Given that we definitely are going to have multiple Bitshares chains, can someone confirm whether cross chain atomic trading will definitely be supported by each chain and the client? As I understand it, it requires a number of steps to setup a contract for cross-chaining with someone else, so this would require some work to support. See here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_cross-chain_trading#Solution_using_revealing_secrets_of_contract

And are we agreed that this is how users will manage multiple chains - a BitUSD asset will exist in each one, and users can swap their BitUSD 1:1 to get into another chain that they are interested in?

Also, I am assuming that some kind of meeting place (such as a website) will be required to find other users who want to do a swap. Is anyone working on that?