Good stuff!

SmartCoins backed with real-world collateral is happening right now on OpenLedger!

The possibilities for innovation are near limitless with OpenLedger offering the option for each and every user to add their own Coin by creating simple IOU's, SmartCoins that are backed with real-world collateral and/or deploy your own graphene-powered blockchain.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/smartcoins-backed-real-world-collateral-ronny-boesing?published=u

Updated

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/smartcoins-backed-real-world-collateral-ronny-boesing

The article has typos that Ronny will correct this evening.  I think it does a good job of simplifying the uses of Bitshares.  The community needs more articles like this to help people understand what Bitshares is and how to use it.

This project has been too complex and too confusing for people to grasp quickly.  Thus we have lost a large number of backers over the years.  The multiple changes in direction has contributed to lack of confidence as well.