Looks like SegWit and CSV may well activate on Christmas day.Peter has added the ElectrumX nodes to BarterDEX and tested, seems to work well.
He has now created a pull request for BarterDEX to add those nodes to their system. This makes using XBC on BarterDEX straightforward as no local client needs to be setup.
This is good news and makes XBC top coin with the best but will there be the smart contract spoken of earlier in the works?
Yes after SegWit and CSV activates that can be worked on along with many other ideas that weren't previously possible.