how should a new exchange help right now? as stated before the most liked ann in q1 2019 was the abcc listing one. much like much volume? no.
and what does an exchange right now add to the value? from my perspective it would make dumping easier, cause why should it pump right now? because of private beta 100%?
because we won't see the wallet in action for at least another week. and as it seems there are more than one options to go for why it wont be released soonish.
there is the trezor firmware update one, which is not even within the devs hands.
there is the new feature discussion, which could bring forward new ideas, which then need to be implemented even before testnet, so this could take some time
there is at least one whale stating, that he
expressed to the devs that i wish they wait releasing the wallet until Dex is ready. Thats gonne bring the biggest attention. I dont think many will pay attention if we just release with TPoS. ALL Bitcoiners will just look and see another shitcoin project releasing another wallet doing something that is of no use to them. Same with most others in coins that are PoW and dont care about PoS. But if we release with DEX, then suddenly there is something that could tempt them to look closer and then we may attract a whole lot of new people that we would otherwise not get until much much later. Just my fear at least.
which is not a bad argument at all, but i would add a testnet wouldn't hurt that idea, show us the wallet and make discussions how to improve it less into the blue. i am also not sure if xsn really has much of an active community left, people may still be reading(else many might just leave the groups), but many stopped posting, and even though starting disucssions is part of reactivating one of the most important marketing tools - the community -, i guess i am not the only one, who wants to see and work with the thing to be discussed first.
so all in all i think there is not too much volume because - surprise surprise - not too many people are interested in buying xsn at the moment. and even some who are interested might just try - would be good for them to some extent - to push the price down to a good entry point from their perspective. and how should a new exchange turn that around instead of making it even easier, or most probably get used like abcc?