You are correct about that, things are getting interesting. I'm using my position as prominent Steem witness and co-founder of Hive account@buildteam and Hive account@steemvoter to engage with exchanges one at a time and offer them marketing and revenue opportunities on the trending page as per this post:

https://steemit.com/steemvoter/@steemvoter/steemvoter-guild-quoinex-promotion-for-strategic-alliance

My goal is to help list Steem on as many exchanges as I can in 2018.