# Trading altcoins directly with other altcoins

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/trading-altcoins-directly-with-other-altcoins/10469>\
**Category:** Altcoins\
**Created:** [February 21, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/trading-altcoins-directly-with-other-altcoins/10469 "2021-02-21T14:16:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![knuprig](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/knuprig/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@knuprig](https://bisq.community/u/knuprig)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/trading-altcoins-directly-with-other-altcoins/10469/1 "2021-02-21T14:16:29Z")

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Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to trade altcoins vs. altcoins directly, e.g., Ethereum against DAI stablecoin. I found some old posts like

> [@Network of exchanges: Other Altcoins as base currency](https://bisq.community/t/network-of-exchanges-other-altcoins-as-base-currency/2117):
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> Bitsquare will become: The decentralized exchange network This will be our new slogan when we start our re-branding in a few weeks. But it will not only shift the focus on the network aspect of Bitsquare but also can be read as network of exchanges. This will get a new meaning with our plans how to deal with the problem of higher transaction fees in Bitcoin. As many of our traders have experienced, the explosive increase of tx fees and the huge block chain backlogs caused a lot of disruption…

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> [@Can we trade altcoins directly with fiat (without BTC)?](https://bisq.community/t/can-we-trade-altcoins-directly-with-fiat-without-btc/4296/11):
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> A nice video on how the escrow/multisig works with burstcoin [https://youtu.be/nxQSeXkOEzw](https://youtu.be/nxQSeXkOEzw)

but I can’t find any setting to change the base currency in version 1.5.6. Has it been removed? Or did the setting move somewhere else?

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**Author:** ![Pazza](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/pazza/32/2703_2.png) [@Pazza](https://bisq.community/u/Pazza)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/trading-altcoins-directly-with-other-altcoins/10469/2 "2021-02-22T00:51:48Z")

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Currently BTC always has to be one of the trading pairs. It would be nice to use others but I do not think this is on any roadmaps at present.

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**Author:** ![MnM](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/mnm/32/257_2.png) [@MnM](https://bisq.community/u/MnM)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/trading-altcoins-directly-with-other-altcoins/10469/3 "2021-02-22T08:51:27Z")

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A few BTC forks were implemented for trading when the x2 and BCH attack, but they never got used very much. Setting different trading protocols for different currencies takes a lot of effort.