TL;DR - Check out this decentralized exchange that's always 100% liquid (thru use of an automated market marker) and focused on the tokenization of conventional (equity / debt) assets and companies.
https://stealthexchange.io There are 5 companies listed on their to start, each with their own ERC20 token; the site is up and running, but has not yet been promoted to the public. Now is your chance to get in early and buy a few of these very interesting, non-traditional assets - with a guarantee that you can close your positions at any time in the future. Have a look at the Exchanger smart contracts associated with each token: they buy and sell in real time and automatically price assets based on supply vs demand. The concept is similar to Bancor, but is much more flexible and transparent.
I would love to get your feedback on the architecture we are using and the experience of trading on the exchange. REQUIRES METAMASK, MIST, TRUST, OR ANOTHER WALLET / BROWSER COMBO.
I am not the owner or operator of the exchange - this is something that I built for a client to provide bootstrap funds for my own company. See below for the story.
https://stealthexchange.io Dear BitcoinTalk,
You're probably used to a startup life cycle that's something like: idea -> company -> hype -> token crowdsale -> working product (maybe)
The organization which I founded and which created the product discussed here is a little different.
Originally we came up with an idea for a fully decentralized ERC20 token exchange that offers continuous liquidity, is immune to manipulation, and is faster / cheaper / easier to use than other existing offerings. And along with that, we were going to build a Gig platform that lets companies offer bounties for tasks in their own native currency, with on-chain escrow and dispute resolution. The combination would be the holy grail of cryptocurrency - all of a sudden, even the most obscure tokens would be liquid and tradeable, workers would therefore accept them as payment for work done, and the resulting usefulness would therefore give the token some kind of "intrinsic" value.
While we were getting comments on an early draft Whitepaper, we were introduced to a European gentleman in the world of traditional finance. His specialty has always been helping small caps / startups go public (by issuing shares of "penny stocks" on exchanges that allow small cap stocks). He was very excited by our decentralized exchange platform and realized that instead of getting companies listed on small cap stock exchanges, he could help them to issue tokens and list on a decentralized exchange, which would offer complete transparency without the burder of regulatory compliance.
So we negotiated to build him a white label version of our own exchange platform. As a result, we now have a working decentralized Token exchange platform (and I've built up a strong team in the meanwhile) and we don't even know the name of our company yet!
Enjoy!