It's definitely getting annoying with the high network fees whenever you want to trade BTC or ETH. The gas fees on the ETH network is getting very high, and you see everyone complain about it lately.
There's a solution for that, second layer trading.
Stakenet’s Layer 2 DEX just went into open beta to try and solve this issue with onchain congestion and fees. By operating on Layer 2 tech offchain using Lightning Network you can have cheap instant trades and as the DEX is built into a Multicurrency wallet you don’t have to move your coins anywhere. They are currently integrating Raiden Network to bring ETH and ERC20 support to the DEX.
If you want to learn more and try it out yourself, you can download and run the DEX on your own here:
https://link.medium.com/I4OWLvJRg9On the Stakenet Youtube channel, there are short video tutorials explaining how it all works:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBG54qN4O3uT6D5h3WE_7AABeen playing around with it a lot as of lately, and it's VERY fast to trade between BTC / LTC / XSN. It's pretty much instant.
This could easily become the next big thing, thoughts?