BitShares is mainly an open source and blockchain-based software that shields its users via cryptography with the aim of sustaining a ledger of transactions. This platform allows for a decentralized asset exchange that is very much alike to New York Stock Exchange, but this time, it is for cryptocurrencies and it is devoid of the need to put any trust in a central authority to oversee the handling of funds. This decentralized asset exchange improves trading by making use of computers that are internationally networked.