Coinopinions has recently issued a Buy rating on decentralized exchange Bitshares, as its value has almost doubled in the last 4 weeks.The recent increase in value while most other cryptocurrencies have been trending lower for the year has generated a lot of interest in determining why the sudden move. BTS (BTS-X) is trading at $0.20 USD as of July 16th, 2018 and trending higher. 

Bitshares offers financial services including decentralized exchange and banking on top of the blockchian. The project is based in Berlin, Germany and has been active for 5 years.

The BitShares platform itself is run and maintained by the BitShares community–an open consortium of individuals and organizations committed to providing universal access to the power of smart contracts. Working together, this community has designed and developed the BitShares platform to include numerous innovative features which are not found elsewhere within the smart contract industry:

The features include:

• Price stable cryptocurrencies (smartcoins)
• Fast decentralized exchange
• Industrial performance and scalability 
• Recurring & scheduled payments 
• Referral rewards program 
• User issued assets 
• Stakeholder approved project funding 
• Transferable named accounts 
• Delegated proof of stake consensus