xGate update - made a full round trip today (on testNet, between two of my own accounts).
It works, but the internal logic needs to be ruggedized a bit. But we will get there!
more soon!
By the way: To trade on xGate you will of course need an NFD account and and NXT account also! - Sure - where else to send your otherCoin to when you don't have the other account
Very nice!
Yes, very nice!

But I suggest taking advantage of the fact that NFD is now a well-kept "open secret" of sorts, what stock market guys call a "sleeper." You have lots of time to test, debug, test and test again - just like good ol'
MaWo.

The upside to the bulk of the BTT community seeing NFD as a big yawn, is that there's no real need to be hasty.
This way, the "big surprise" will be (cumulatively) bigger...