Greg -- take a look at Hive account@jerrybanfield and the p2p exchange project hes funding alongside Hive account@jo3potato.

This definitely needs to happen on a larger scale, and as we can see from the hack rumors of Binance today, in addition to the SEC regulation nonsense, a p2p exchange is the inevitable trajectory.

Bitshares is good, but it simply doesn't have enough liquidity. Plus, its still not possible to convert to/from fiat in that system. Thats the key weakness in crypto right now. There's only a few (not an accident) entrances and exits for fiat.