The DEX is definately the way crypto needs to go to beat government interference and to further dis-empower their control matrix.
There are many excellent DEX's coming online. The one I am looking at to take the reigns is from bitfinex, but others not to be overlooked (still in early stages) are Infinidex and Moondex. Bitshares is a great base, but with the launch of eos, I think we will start to see more decentralised dapps being built on the network like DEX which will make bitshres look very slow and congested.
Required KYC and AML regulations are criminal invasions of my financial privacy.
What I choose to spend my money on is no ones business, most of all the banks and governments.