So has BCH (which is the proper symbol for Bitcoin Cash, please do not fuck this up since BCC already stands for BitConnect) been activated and ready to trade on DEX?

Tidex.com allow purchasing WAVES with either ETH or BTC. Bittrex.com also can do WAVES but only using BTC.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wavesplatform/

It's the top one on this list. Not very high at the moment, but leasing just started a few months ago and profits increase as WAVES is used more: http://dev.pywaves.org/generators/

Here are all of the valuable tokens on the WAVES platform: http://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/waves-dex/

The list updates automatically every few minutes. Everything that isn't on it is pretty much worthless.

There's also this one that uses https: https://myaltcoins.net/login.php

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I just tried out this website that tracks how much your WAVES and other coins are worth without having to set up a spreadsheet. No registration is required. It was quick and easy!

Go to any of the sites listed here under Generators: http://dev.pywaves.org/generators/

Open your WAVES wallet and under the "L" tab it will allow you to input an address for leasing to one of the generators.

Once per week the amount of fees and tokens you have collected from leasing will be sent to your WAVES wallet.

There is no minimum number for leasing.

Earnings will be based on how many WAVES you leased and the amount of transaction fees that users are spending.

The number in the bottom right-hand corner of the link posted above shows an estimation of revenue per day for every thousand WAVES leased.

WAVES is still a very small network in relation to other cryptocurrencies that have been running for much longer. Over time it is expected that as more users get on board and pay more fees the revenue you make from leasing will increase accordingly.

I hope this answers some of your questions.

Easiest way to solve the issue of copycat spam tokens like "Ethereum" is to reserve the name by creating it in the blockchain and burning it by sending them all to a random address with no key. It costs $5 to create one, and that means all of the top 100 cryptos could have their possible copycats burned for just $500 or $1000 if ticker symbols are included.

HEAT is shit. They only trade HEAT/BTC/GNT and their trading platform sucks. http://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/heat-wallet/

Right now there aren't a lot of matcher nodes on WAVES because the project is still very early in development. As it starts to integrate more fiat and cryptocurrency trading pairs and the volume rises there should be a correlating increase in both leasing and matcher nodes. I wish that I could provide more info about some of the other exchanges I mentioned but their volume is just too low. I don't care who wins so long as we eventually get high-volume/low-spread decentralized exchange where some bullshit like Mt. Gox can never happen.

I didn't see Bitsquare in the list: https://bitsquare.io/

I just saw Openledger DEX here: https://openledger.io/create-account

They seem to have the most volume out of all the decentralized exchanges with WAVES in a close second place.

WAVES matcher (DEX) nodes can be run by anybody. There is a list here along with other stats: http://dev.pywaves.org/nodes/

I'm coming here from the WAVES thread. Thanks for pulling this list together!

There are a couple of decentralized exchanges I didn't see listed:

Maker Market: https://oasisdex.com/

EtherOpt: https://etheropt.github.io/

Sorry but I don't know much about them other than they were listed at /r/ethtrader on reddit.

The differences in what tools they will offer to traders is not clear. WAVES plans on doing margin trading and lending in addition to straight buys and sells. The real difference between the two will come from the underlying technology. Komodo sends its blockchain onto the bitcoin blockchain using special types of transactions. They do this through a system of notary nodes but exactly what type of transactions these are is unclear. They will be using the Equihash algorithm which is the one ZCash employs while WAVES is using Scorex. Komodo is also borrowing the zero-knowledge proofs from ZCash for anonymous transfers. I haven't seen any documentation on how their trading engine is supposed to operate.

From the looks of it Komodo doesn't seem to have much transparency. They've promised some things that sound good but when you go their website it seems very, very sketchy. The lead developer was working on the SuperNET project which did an ICO in 2014 and has yet to deliver anything functional. The lead GUI dev is some guy named "Boogieman" and I can't tell who he is from the cartoon drawing of him. Who is he? You can't make this stuff up. https://komodoplatform.com/#tab-id-2

The whole project looks like a joke or a scam. Though WAVES development has been far from perfect at least I know who in the hell is working on it. They have a real team in a real office that is really working on something. Komodo presents as though it could be pulled off by a single lead developer who hired a graphic artist for a couple days to make some logos and a website before paying for a few articles and ads on some cryptocurrency news site. The ideas behind it sound intriguing but the track record of the one person attached to it whom I can actually identify plus the total lack of transparency is really bad. I'm certainly not ready to get cozy and go all in with WAVES, but at the same time I won't be touching any Komodo with a ten foot pole.

This is the right way to do it. Perhaps you could add this to the official or the future announcements regarding WCT? All it says it that people with WAVES that are not on exchanges will not get voting tokens. The ICO wallet is technically not on an exchange, right?

You say that WCT will only be distributed to holders with WAVES in a non-exchange wallet. Does that also include those who haven't bothered to move their coins from the ICO wallet? If they can't be bothered to even do that then it shows the same lack of involvement, perhaps even more so, as those who haven't taken a few minutes to move coins off of an exchange. It requires maybe a few minutes to move coins into long term storage and if you are too lazy to do that then I wouldn't want you to vote.

Distribution of a voting token is a way to target the specific portion of investors who are engaged enough to care about the issues surrounding WAVES. Many have never actually made a transaction to or from a wallet. Lots of coins have been purchased on exchanges without being sent anywhere. The people who own those WAVES are much less likely to follow news or have any interest in the goings on around the ecosystem. By issuing tokens to active members of the community you will have a bigger chance of them being used by informed individuals who can make better decisions in the voting process. Somebody who just buys a few and leaves them sitting in an account somewhere probably isn't the type whose votes would be very beneficial. This is a simple method of doing vote qualifications which will positively impact the effectiveness of the electorate.

Don't listen to the trolls who have no idea what they are talking about in this thread. They said full nodes would never be released. Price was supposed to be around $0.01 by now. Nobody involved has a clue about advertising even though they got more initial funding than Ethereum. Financials supposedly look horrible even with 20,000 BTC still provably sitting in reserve with about $5million in liquid cash and a burn rate of barely over $100,000/month. They talk crap for one of three reasons: 1) They are paid to shill against WAVES for the benefit of a competing crypto 2) They own some altcoins and want the money invested in WAVES to flow into other blockchains or 3) They are slowly accumulating for themselves and want the lowest buy-in price possible. Even the most deranged troll wouldn't waste time coming to a boring site like bitcointalk unless money was involved.

There are really just two bad things that have happened thus far in the project. One is a minor issue that is being blown way out of proportion and the other is actually a problem. Sasha sent out two tweets about Poloniex, one critical and another rude, about them not taking on WAVES yet. Trolls are treating it like he was throwing around racial slurs and calling for murder. Since then he has apologized and not repeated the mistake. As much as some would like us to judge people and companies by one or two inappropriate tweets it is my choice to not let social media control my decisions to such a degree.

The other bad move has been the announcement of deadlines that were not upheld. I can forgive the initial road map being changed because I've been around long enough to see how unpredictable the development of this type of technology can be at times. What makes this a serious issue is that new deadlines were set and also not upheld. When I first looked into WAVES there was a big question about whether or not anything would ever come to fruition. Was this all just a scam? Are they going to take the BTC and head for the Caribbean like some were saying? We found out that wasn't the case and there is actually a team of employees in Russia and other countries working to build what was promised.

Why do I care about any of this? Because I decided to start trading crypto four years ago and knew right from the start that the biggest missing piece of the puzzle was decentralized exchanges. Luckily I didn't lose any coins in Mt.GOX but unfortunately lost some due to other hacked exchanges. It is preposterous that we are forced to hold in online wallets just to be able to trade what is supposed to be a decentralized digital asset. There have been previous attempts to make a DEX but all have failed thus far. Sasha had a great idea in that you can have a centralized matching engine with decentralized settlements. Not only does this mean your coins can't be stolen out of their wallet but it is also a way to avoid the extremely tight limits on withdrawals. Right now the largest altcoin exchange, Poloniex, has a $25,000 per day maximum limit and that is only if you give them your ID and SSN. That's absolutely ridiculous considering there are whales on there right now putting up buys and sells for thousands of BTC at a time. It would take you over a month just to get 1,000BTC out of there and possibly several months for some of the larger whales.

Decentralized exchanges are badly needed if bitcoin or any cryptocurrency is ever going to make good on the concept of a worldwide decentralized economy. Is WAVES going to be the platform to do it right? I don't know, but they have the best approach so far. I couldn't give a damn about a couple tweets and some non-critical scheduling blunders. Go take a look at the competition. BitSquare or the DEX running on Ethereum are plain awful which is why their volume is just a few thousand dollars per day even though they've been operating for months already. I'd love to be able to use them but they just don't offer the tools that traders want. Hopefully WAVES or something else can pull through. Either way, don't let whiny, vitriolic trolls affect your decisions.

So that puts us at what, around $100million VC funding in the first 1/10th of the year?