DCEX, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced Monday that XRP will be the ‘base currency’ of the trading platform.

In an unprecedented move, DCEX becomes the first exchange where all cryptocurrencies are traded on the platform against XRP, the token from fellow San Francisco-based tech company Ripple.

The crypto-to-crypto marketplace is set to launch “in the coming weeks”, beginning with 15 available coin pairs; XRP, Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Ethereum classic (ETC), OmiseGo (OMG), EOS (EOS), DASH (DASH), Tron (TRX), Monero (XMR), VeChain (VEN), IOTA (IOTA), ZCash (ZEC), and TrueUSD (TUSD). They also plan to add Neo (NEO), Cardano (ADA), and additional coins in the coming months.

Highlighted features of the DCEX marketplace are:

–Arbitrage among currency pairs on different exchanges

–Faster execution times with lower latency

–High frequency crypto trading

–Increase of overall liquidity in cryptocurrency space, using the XRP protocol

–Lower transaction fees

–Margin trading

The DCEX exchange will run on AlphaPoint’s proprietary distributed ledger platform. The secure, scalable, and customizable platform allows for nearly 1 million transactions per second.

Customers can register now at https://dcex.com/, with trading beginning upon launch.