A fork of Bitshares by the most famous Bitshares evangelist
icoage.io is one of the most famous ICO platforms in the whole world, and it has helped a lot of blockchain projects get fund through ICO, including TENX, STATUS, EOS, OMISEGO,YOYOW, etc.
The founder of icoage.io and chainb.com, James Gong, has just announced that they are initiating a new decentralized exchange project founded by themselves---Cybex, and will start an ICO late July. James Gong is one of the earliest Bitshares evangelists who introduced bitshares(called protoshares at that time) into China.
According to the introduction on http://cybex.io/ , cybex is also a Graphene based decentralized exchange, it will aim to liquidize the tokens from all the ICO projects on icoage, more specifically, it is a forked version of Bitshares DEX. It will have all features of Bitshares---smartcoin, UIA, witness, commitee, etc.. Also, it is said that they will probably move to EOS after the launch of EOS.
Should we welcome Cybex?
It's kind of ironical that the earliest Bitshares evangelist abandoned bitshares but to initiate a brand new DEX. People might think that a fork of Bitshares will hurt Bitshares itself and wonder why he doesn't use Bitshares.
James explained that due to that Bitshares have been highly decentralized, it's very difficult to push any change on Bitshares. For example, the bottom layer bitshares wallet haven't been updated for more than one year. Decentralization means low efficiency---similar case as to Bitcoin. Therefore, they would rather initiate a brand new one, and maintain it in the form of half-decentralization.
Personally, I think we should welcome Cyber, even there will be competition between BTS DEX and Cybex.
Firstly, it has enriched the ecosystem of Bitshares/Graphene, icoage.io and chainb.com have over 300,000 registered customers, all of them will know Bitshares via Cybex.
Secondly, Cybex is half decentralized, therefore it will have a more organized group for no matter development or marketing. Their experiments ahead will help Bitshares to evolve somehow, anyway, it is easier for a decentralized organization to turn over, compared with a decentralized organization. If Cybex make a big success, Bitshares will never be forgot, just like the fork of Bitcoin will only add more credit to Bitcoin. However, if Cybex fails, it will prove the mode of Bitshares is more right.
I think Bitshares is like Linux, decentralized but not the best, and Cybex or other forks are like ChromeOS or Android, made by centralized corps and have better features.
Disclaimer
I don't take part in Cybex in any way, and my comments only represent myself.
摘录一下微信群里网友的言论：
“为什么linux桌面端这么久了还这么难用，而基于linux改出来的ChromeOS 和android却好用的很，就是因为去中心化的东西虽然好，然不一定是最好的。”
“都是为了ICO,为了钱”
"虽然嘴上说无所谓，心里还是有些苦苦滴"
“BTS在走BTC的老路，没人主导，没人运营，但价值越来越被认可。去中心化的东西本来就是无政府主义者喜欢的东西。不需要运营就是最大的特点。所以偏运营的cybex其实对BTS只有好处，没有坏处，因为ICOAGE上的代币本来也不在BTS DEX上交易”