BitShares is a blockchain platform designed to assist the unbanked. It offers both banking and exchange services. Bitshares was originally launched in 2014 by Dan Larimer, an influential blockchain developer that has also worked on EOS and Steemit. It is a community run open source project.
Bitshares' goal is facilitate greater access to financial services. The Bitshares exchange is a decentralized platform that was designed to be scalable and ensure low transaction fees.
Bitshares has a delegated Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm. Aside from a decentralized asset exchange, it also offers users the ability to issue their own assets, price-stable digital currencies, and flexible crypto payment options.
The Bitshares decentralized exchange and banking ecosystem is powered by the BTS token.

PancakeSwap is a decentralized exchange built on the Binance blockchain. It allows users to stake their funds in return for the protocol’s tokens, and uses an automated market maker (AMM) model to enable users to trade BEP-20 tokens on the platform without an order book. PancakeSwap is similar to Uniswap and SushiSwap, and rewards users for depositing funds to the liquidity pool with PancakeSwap tokens that entitle holders to a portion of the trading fees generated on the platform.

The Bakery Token fuels the Bakery Swap ecosystem, which offers liquidity pools for a variety of altcoins. Users can earn BAKE tokens by providing liquidity on Bakery Swap's platform in exchange for a portion of the trading fees generated. Bakery Token holders can also use their tokens to participate in governance voting and to receive transaction fee dividends. Bakery Swap uses a decentralized automated market-making (AMM) protocol that is built on the Binance Smart Chain. It was created by an anonymous group of developers and is governed by a DAO structure.