1. All of the named solutions are still based on centralized clearing servers, which means they can be taken down by will. This also means that actions and personal data of their users can be affected by the service administrators. Finally, the UI/UX is greatly falling behind modern standards.
2. We are well aware of 0x and Raiden and we're not competing with them, instead our solution is based upon the existing work made by cool people behind these projects.
3. xChainge team is the first team who set out to get rid of the "servers" in a traditional way, where they are under control of one single organization.
We are also embedding all the needed cryptocurrency services into a single application. No longer will a user's workflow remind shuffling a deck of cards: wallet - switch - exchange - switch - contract builder - switch - wallet - switch, etc. xChainge puts everything close together within one window.
Our team boasts professional UI designers of financial applications, who know to make an app that anyone could and would want to use.
Thank you for your question
As i know all of this project are decentralized or named decentralized by devs. They are p2p platforms/protocols.
About user friendly UX/Ui - its not most important thing in decentralized exchange (take a look at etherdelta with terrible interface).
The problem of decentralization of the exchange operation itself is long solved both in theory and in practice by various solutions. Which is good, and you may call such solutions decentralized. But a complete exchange platform actually has three elements: storage, the exchange operation and transaction clearing. In order to be truly decentralized, all of the elements have implemented in such way, which is what no one has done before. All the projects at this moment ignore the last part - transaction clearing. It's still done on one or multiple servers under control of one single entity, which means the operations can be compromised, blocked, rolled back, tampered with, fed to a dog, call it whatever - it's still not acceptable and not inherently secure.
We are working on making the last piece of the decentralization puzzle in form of Arianda Network, which is specifically designed to do decentralized transaction clearing.
A long-time blockchain enthusiast may cope with the interface of EtherDelta, but try explaining how to use it to your former not-so-wise classmate Joey. If we, as a community, want more people in the cryptocurrency world, we desperately need a solution which is accessible and familiar to anyone. Joey doesn't need to know how an engine works to drive a fancy car, and neither he has to know how cryptocurrencies work to use them.
The time has come.
