Bitshares is a platform for Decentralized Trading. It is a protocol that allows users to create assets and post limit orders. One way of trading on the DEX is through a gateway like OpenLedger or Crypto-Bridge. Both use the Bitshares user interface and offer IOUs that can be traded for anything else on the DEX.
The Bitshares community would benefit from connecting and scaling the different trading pairs on DEX. Below are the order books for OL & CB.
The OL limit order book offers superior liquidity. CB is the more immature organization – although they do offer an innovative profit-sharing mechanism. Both market maker subsidies and dividends from the transaction fees on the CB network. There must be potential for the core BTS protocol to capture the value from consolidating and scaling all the .BTC trading pairs on DEX.