To use Crypto-Bridge:

1. Register an account. It will generate you a password. Your account, unless you're going to get a 'premium' BTS address (Crypto-Bridge is run on top of the Bitshares blockchain, making it a decentralized exchange, so it is a little different than centralized exchanges.) will need to have a hyphen (-) or a number (0123456789) in the account name.

2. Create your account name with a hyphen or a number (or both)

3. You will get an auto-generated secure passphrase. Backup this passphrase in a passphrase manager (or encrypted text file saved in multiple locations.)

4. You can then log in with that account and password.

5. When you see the lock icon at the top, it means your account is saved in your browser, but you're not logged in to the point you can actually make transactions.

6. You need to unlock your account in order to do anything other than see your balances and make deposits. The system will automatically ask you to unlock your account whenever you are executing a transaction that requires unlocking your account. So it is pretty straight forward.


NOTE - you DO NOT NEED TO DOWNLOAD THEIR CLIENT. YOU CAN ACCESS EVERYTHING VIA THE BROWSER WITHOUT THE CLIENT, JUST LIKE A NORMAL EXCHANGE.


Decentralized Exchanges are the FUTURE, so being listed here is better than ANY centralized exchange, in my opinion. We won't see the issues like what we've been seeing with coinsmarkets for the last freaking 2 weeks. There will NOT be downtime like this. With this DEX, all the team that runs it has to worry about is managing the individual wallet nodes for their 'gateway service'.

Another thing to notice, is that since this DEX is built on top of BTS, no matter what, you can ALWAYS trade to BTS and get your BTS out, since BTS is directly part of the chain, it requires no gateway service for deposits and withdrawals (in BTS), this means that your money is never 'stuck' in the exchange, even if the gateway service fails. (if there is support on the BTS pairing, that is. Which I am sure will happen in the future. BTC will usually be the main pairing, but BTS pair exists as well.)


I for one, am very excited to be one of the first wave of coins listed on this newer DEX. I think it will see BIG growth over the course of the year, and beyond. Hope you all enjoy as much as I do!