# Other decentralized exchanges?

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/other-decentralized-exchanges/1742>\
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**Created:** [March 22, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/other-decentralized-exchanges/1742 "2017-03-22T16:40:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![shrike](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/shrike/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@shrike](https://bisq.community/u/shrike)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/other-decentralized-exchanges/1742/1 "2017-03-22T16:40:48Z")

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apparently there are a few others around.what are they? have you used them? how do they work? what software?  
what are they like compared to bitsquare… and do you need to have a new/coin token to use it? (is it a scam?)  
do they do fiat as well as crypto?

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**Author:** ![marc](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/marc/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@marc](https://bisq.community/u/marc)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/other-decentralized-exchanges/1742/2 "2017-03-22T21:17:03Z")

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I haven’t come acroos a single one that accomplishes the same as Bitsquare does.

There’s one I remember - Coinffeine - that was close, but still inferior and different. The project was abandonned right after beta release and their ceo (they founded a company and received seed funding from bbva) went to work for a bank if I remember that correctly.  
They only had a single fiat payment processor (OkPay).

One that I found on on Github was Mercury but i think nothing came out of it as well. Don’t click the link to their website. Seems infested.

Bitshares has a decentralized exchange but doesn’t trade fiat, just IOUs like BitUSD and BitEUR. Didn’t study that one and neither did research about the stuff built on Ethereum and pure Crypto-Crypto.

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**Author:** ![ManfredKarrer](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/manfredkarrer/32/26_2.png) [@ManfredKarrer](https://bisq.community/u/ManfredKarrer)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/other-decentralized-exchanges/1742/3 "2017-03-22T21:54:15Z")

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The only solid other decentralized exchange/markets are OpenBazaar and BitMarkets IMO.  
MercuryEx is interesting for crosschain tx but I have not followed their state.  
MultiSigna might be interesting but as well I have not followed it and it is not much decentrlized with servers (same for MercuryEx).  
There are plenty of asset/altcoin only exchanges. Though IOU is not Fiat.

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**Author:** ![shrike](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/shrike/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@shrike](https://bisq.community/u/shrike)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/other-decentralized-exchanges/1742/4 "2017-03-23T13:11:47Z")

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thanks guys! sounds like i dont need to look elsewhere, happy here anyways! i may use bisq tho 🙂  
i think openbazaar can be very disruptive too. we have to convert more people!