Guys, when this new exchange is finally up and tested we can then have our coinage off of counterparty forever. Make it so, devs! Then I want to see what this ANX Int'l has in store for heavy growth PR.
Finger crossed. It can be a catch22, The Ethereum token economy is huge and it's much easier for exchanges to add an Ethereum token than a separate blockchain.
In fact the irony is that ANX who specialise in creating customised blockchains have a project you can invest in, OpenANX (OAX)... but guess what... it's an Ethereum token like everyone else
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/oax/#chartsEven EOS which will be a direct competitor to ETH is tradeable as an ETH token
EOS could have created a tradeable token on BTS which does 100x more volume than Counterparty DEX btw (Daniel Larimer, created BTS & EOS) but he knew the market and value of EOS would be massively higher if tradeable as an ETH Token.
Even if you're creating your own blockchain it still makes a lot of sense to have your main token tradeable on Ethereum.