ark is potentially a very good project.
ark, blocknet and komodo will be the dex leaders I think. Blocknet and komodo are a little further ahead at this point.
But what about Bitsquare? It's been around for a while now but it hasn't really become the 'go to' exchange despite all the hacks, theft and the rest of the bs happening in the centralized exchanges.
Are we then scamming ourselves into thinking that one of those platforms will become the pinnacle of DEX's? I had high hopes for NXT and BTS 3 years ago, but look where they are now. They're still scrounging for users.
I am not familiar with bitsquare.
Is it an atomic exchange? i mean do the coins never need to leave your local machine until the point of instant atomic swap?
For me the User experience is key.
I think blocknet and komodo are ahead in terms of reaching this goal....i have not followed closely ark but perhaps they are near too.
In the future atomic dex will be the way for free decentralised trustless trading.
Nxt and token based trading is not the same and can never provide the same experience.
It will perhaps take a while for all centralised exchanges to get pulled down by gov or hacked before we see a huge shift to using dex.
A true trustless decentralised end to end arena needs atomic dex there is no other way.
The goal is to decentralise and remove the need of trust of single point of failure that is what will happen.