Does Anybody Here Know What’s Up With WAX?

I read a post by Hive account@taskmaster4450 a few days ago that referred to Steem as “a top 5 blockchain” and my first thought was that’s an odd way to refer to it.

A few months ago I would have been checking Block'tivity every couple of days to see which Hive account@dan blockchain was in the lead. Some days it was Steem, some days EOS, some days BitShares. After checking several dozen times over the course of 6-8 weeks I finally got bored of it.

But “top 5” seemed a little odd, so I went back and looked at Block'tivity again. It was an eye-opener:

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Steem’s in 5th place? Behind TRON??

And what the heck is that first place blockchain? WAX? Never heard of it. Coinmarketcap.com lists it as 62nd in market capitalization, down there with a bunch of wannabe coins. How can it possibly be the busiest blockchain? The WAX website for the Worldwide Asset eXchange™ says that “WAX is designed to serve the 400+ million online players who already collect, buy and sell in-game digital items”.

Their blockchain is a “variant” (fork?) of EOS and most transactions are VGO skins.

They’ve got Bryan, whose title is Director of Awesome:

But looking through their site, it seemed to me that it had a vaporware feel to it. Okay, so I’m not a computer gamer. I was a table-top and hex map gamer back in the day when I still had brown hair rather than grey. So I’m maybe out of my league.

Does anyone here use WAX? Is it anywhere near as popular as the Block'tivity stats seem to indicate?

In other news,
You Really Need to Follow @donallogue