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https://beyondbitcoin.org/poloniex-proves-its-solvency-on-the-bitshares-blockchain/

Poloniex just proved us they don't run a fractional reserve for BitShares at least. What if the exchange you used could do this for whatever coins/assets you hold? Wouldn't you feel more safe and have more trust on their service?

Other exchanges can do the same. There are currently a few projects and exchanges working with OpenLedger to bring a better service to their costumers, this includes speed, safety, more market depth and overall performance.

Wouldn't you like if exchanges were more transparent and you could own the private keys to your funds? More info here if you're interested:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2015/10/10/openledgers-crypto-financial-platform-officially-launching-as-central-bank-interest-revealed/
https://openledger.info/

Now, will other exchanges follow?

I absolutely love this step forward that they've taken to prove that they are not scammers. Hopefully, other exchanges will follow and those who do not will find themselves with little to no users.

Forbes also talked about the surge of the price of BitShares after the announcement:

Indeed, it's an important step and they just proved themselves! Now it's finally possible to have transparent exchanges while the users own their private keys, meaning their funds can't be stolen by the exchange itself.

Unfortunately, Polo hasn't joined OpenLedger, they might not need that at the moment since they have plenty of volume, meaning they still have all of their user's funds, but at least, now, they proved themselves and there's a way to prevent exchanges theft and manipulation as they're fully transparent. If any exchange wants to have the competitive edge at the moment they might join. The costumers only have to gain from this.

Getting Goxxed is not longer possible!  ;)

We now know btc38 doesn't hold all BitShares it was supposed to hold. Another example of how we can change the transparency of exchanges. They don't seem to want to upgrade from bts to 2.0 and that might be a sign they act on a fractional reserve. Beware everyone, if they do this to one asset, they probably do for all the others.

I hope this becomes standard.

Poloniex is one of the gems out there. really appreciate their decision!

Mostly exchanges service turn into "verify account", kill the privacy, anonymously, and not recommend to storing all amount on the exchanges.

OpenLedger is different, you actually own your private keys, not the exchange.

We need more transparency, some of us don't like saving bitcoins on exchanges because we don't feel secure with them. If the exchange hasn't the private key, our bitcoins will be more secure.

Ofcourse we careabout transparency, since it's our own funds that are at stake every time when we are leaving them or depositing to an exchange.
There should be a regular audit of exchanges, but sadly that's not the case, just look at btc-e for example, they said over a year ago to "publish publicly
 available statements certified by external auditors." but til this date, no further development on their part.

That's what I liked always about btc38 exchange. They have all of their coin addresses, cold and hot storage shown publicly. You can't get better than this.

Are you have been used this service? how it works? it's secure? anyway it basically exchange, with decentralization features, looks promising.

Many exchanges claim to be the most transparent, but unfortunately, there’s no single one-fits-all to this. Ideally, the crypto-asset must need to have an integration plan with several exchanges with adequate information about its commercial purposes, in this way it will be possible for users to easily transact with it without compromising their security. After this, market prices will be the determining factor on the crypto-asset price without interference or manipulation.