i saw somebody is asking this:
"sorry. I am confused.
if mosaic is going to create customized assets.
then what will ppl do with mosaic assets? any built-in exchange to help buy/sell or distribute them? like nxt or bts did in their system?"
It is a token. You can do a lot with a token. Like ticketing, loyalty points etc
You can request your token to be traded in an exchange.
AE has taken a back seat. In any case there is too much scam in an AE and thus should be avoided.
How scam is prevented in mosaics? How are mosaics different from nxt assets in scam point of view? Both are decentralized systems and scammers can do what they want with them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but i'm not seeing big difference.
Scaming is harder because there is no marketplace. No buy/sell-orders. Which imho has more downsides than upsides but I'd rather see it implemented in an improved manner later than right now and it's just the same as in NXT and all the other AEs that are basically copies of NXTs.
Even if there was a marketplace scaming would be harder because of namespaces. They are unique. So no more NEMStake with the id 1241254215151 and then another NEMStake with the id 5436262467427247. Noone reads those ids (as proven by all the people that got scamed with that one) and they shouldn't have to.
Once you're established as a trustworthy person you have a well known namespace.
Let's stick with a NXT example.
James could have jl777 as a namespace. 90% of people would trust all assets that belong to that namespace with their life.
There could be jl777.projects:supernet, jl777.projects:pangea and what not.
Noone would be able to scam anyone with similar assets like jl7777.projects:pangea because people can see that the namespace-paths aren't the same (and they can without looking up some id that noone can remember). I mean you can still have a bad day and not see that 4th 7 but it's imho still a big improvement over having to look-up ids because you can't trust the name anyway.
I'm sure NXTs AE has improved a lot since i last checked it out so I'm not trying to trash it. Just taking it as a reference as it's prob the most well known one.