BitShares is a decentralized platform that offers a
wide variety of financial services, including Exchange and banking based on the Blockchain.
The Bitshares platform is maintained
by the BitShares Community : an open consortium of individuals and organizations committed to providing universal access to the power of intelligent contracts.
Working together, this community has designed and developed the BitShares platform to include numerous features, which are not available in any other project within the smart contract industry.
A SmartCoin is a cryptocurrency whose value
is linked to that of another asset such as the dollar or gold. SmartCoins always have 100% of their value backed by the BitShares base currency (BTS), which can be converted at any time to the asset exchange rate, fixed by a trust price feed .
BitShares offers a high-performance decentralized
market, with all the features expected from a trading platform. It can handle the volume of operations of the NASDAQ, and place orders the second of being issued.
BitShares 2.0 is designed from its base to process
every second more transactions than VISA and MasterCard together . With Delegated Proof of Stake, the Bitshares network can confirm transactions at an average of only 1 second, limited only by the speed of light.
For more information about Bitshares you can visit its official site .