the idea is brilliant and in the longrun i even think that there is much more demand for exchanges as crypto is growing
in the short term there will be the issue with volume, there are trading sites that just fight with low volume and i dont really have seen an "easy" way to get volume fast
I think liquidity will come from being the only exchange on SAFEnet when it launches, no?
If SAFE works then it seems like a given that it will be popular and get a lot of attention - censor-resistant internet with no servers, decentralised farming so free access to any user with spare resources, and the first crypto that's a ubiquitously useful utility that you have to burn/destroy to store or serve data on the network (everyone needs to store or serve data). It scales, has zero tx fees, no confirmations so instant txs, PoR so no wasteful mining, it's private by default, secure, and it has a fixed supply.
Let's face it, SAFE might not work, but
IF it does then we can pretty sure it will be the most popular crypto currency fairly quickly - no barrier to entry as you don't have to 'buy' it, plus it has HUGE utility appeal/demand (Tor, bittorent and bitcoin have many millions of users, SAFE will be more robust and easier to use than any of them, with a whole lot more to offer besides).
I think SAFE projects like NVO and PDC have great potential. They will start off with no competition on the network. First mover advantage for a social network or exchange on a new, decentralised internet could be pretty huge.
All these crypto bets are risky, but the risk/reward ratios make a lot of decisions quite easy
