A major piece of the puzzle when it comes to exchanges, assets, and trades is liquidity. Without that, the appeal of what is being sought diminishes. When there is a premium paid to acquire something due to a lack of liquidity, that can be frustrating. The bid-asked starts to widen, causing people to pay more.

Just reading this paragraph reminded me of Ionomy. I believe it was one of the first exchanges to list Hive after the fork from Steem if my memory serves me right.

Right now there is very little volume of Hive and the HBD market is basically dead.

Both tokens are listed on Ionomy.

I used to use Ionomy quite a bit but when Hive got listed on other exchanges, namely Binance, almost all Hive/HBD action dried up.