It's been some time he is thinking about getting out of cryptostocks. Getting listed on Havelock is very expensive, transactions are taxed and it is still a centralised exchange that can suffer from attack. For me it is a no.
I told him about decentralised exchange solutions like Nxt.
I know some people like Nxt or not but it has a working decentralised asset exchange that does exactly what Cryptostocks does except that it is completely decentralised : No attack, no stealing, no service interruption.
Right now, you can only do transactions in NXT coin but soon coloured coin will be added so any currency can be used (even USD, EUR, Doge,...).
I'm now in the situation that I've dreaded. Do I sell all my stuff on Cryptostock? Or do I trust them once more, although I KNOW that the next one is possibly the big one. Damn.
There could be an attack any time that could steal everything and make the exchange goes bankrupt. This is the problem of all centralised exchange.
It has not yet been released, but the ETA is relatively soon and the platform would fulfill all our needs.
I have doubts about NXT, because of how centralised it is; it does not seem much better than Cryptostocks. Coloured coins would be a necessity for me to consider this option.