# When does the Exchange go live?

**URL:** <https://forum.safex.org/t/when-does-the-exchange-go-live/254>\
**Category:** Uncategorized/Archive\
**Created:** [April 2, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.safex.org/t/when-does-the-exchange-go-live/254 "2016-04-02T05:58:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dlux](https://forum.safex.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@dlux](https://forum.safex.org/u/dlux)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.safex.org/t/when-does-the-exchange-go-live/254/1 "2016-04-02T05:58:34Z")

</div>

Relative noob here. I searched the forum but couldn’t seem to find anything fsr.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![DavidMc0](https://forum.safex.org/user_avatar/forum.safex.org/davidmc0/32/340_2.png) [@DavidMc0](https://forum.safex.org/u/DavidMc0)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.safex.org/t/when-does-the-exchange-go-live/254/2 "2016-04-02T07:24:51Z")

</div>

Safex will run on top of the Safe network, which is currently in testing.

I don’t have inside info, but;

Nobody can say when the Safe network will go live running from people’s individual computers instead of rented servers, but it sounds like at least a few weeks / months work until that happens, with just a minimal feature set (see weekly dev updates on Safe forum to find out more).

It’ll then be a while longer for SafeCoin (Safe network’s internal currency), Structured Data (editable data on Safe network), and compute ability to come to the network, and I think some or all these may be required for Safex to function.

So, from my uninformed perspective I’d say don’t expect anything live & stable for a good while, but keep in touch for updates & you’ll see as it gets nearer.

Could be 3, 6, 12, 18 months? Who knows 😃

Now Daniel / others can give you a much more informed answer 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dlux](https://forum.safex.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@dlux](https://forum.safex.org/u/dlux)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.safex.org/t/when-does-the-exchange-go-live/254/3 "2016-04-02T08:40:46Z")

</div>

Thanks man – this makes sense.